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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Thursday, September 22, 1988
Week of f may help
Ranger runners
By MIKE SIMMONS
Drew Dunlap regretted seeing
the cancellation of the Ross S.
Sterling Invitational cross coun-
try meet Saturday, but the unex-
pected time off has helped his
Ranger boys team become
healthier for this week’s La
Porte Invitational.
For the Robert E. Lee boys
and Sterling girls, however, last
week’s cancellation has placed a
shroud of mystery over Satur-
day morning’s competition.
As he prepared last week for
the Sterling Invitational, Dunlap
was facing the task of sending
out a team which was nursing
numerous injuries. This week,
those maladies have been reduc-
ed quite a bit.
“It helped us,” Dunlap said of
the weekend off. “We’ve gotten
back all but two of our injured
people. It gave some of the hurt
ones time to heal.”
Shawn Elliott, who had missed
the first two weeks of the season
after having wisdom teeth
removed, is back at full speed,
while Paul Reed and Tommy
Wood have recovered from knee
and leg injuries, respectively.
The team’s number grew as well
as three freshmen joined this
week.
Those healthy runners who
missed out on competition Satur-
day shouldn’t suffer too badly,
Dunlap feels.
“Any time you come back off a
layoff, it takes a few days to get
all the way back,” he said. “But
I don’t think it’ll hurt them that
much. The beneficial effect will
outweigh the lack of condition-
ing.”
Bosse isn’t so positive about
how his Lee squad will bounce
back from the inactivity,
especially since it will be com-
peting in its first three-mile
meet of the season. #
“I really don’t know what to
expect,” he said. “They haven’t
run a three-mile race yet and it’s
going to be a new experience for
a bunch of kids. You try to get
them ready, but there’s nothing
that takes the place, of competi-
tion.
“It’s going to be a learning ex-
perience for me as well as the
kids.”
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nature. “A couple of workouts
we’ve gone pretty well, then a
couple we didn’t do anything,”
he said.
One possible reason, he added,
might be the heat which has dog-
ged the team since workouts
began. “We just haven’t had a
break from it,” Bosse said.
“They may just be sweated
down and tired.”
One runner Bosse hopes will
be back in top form this week is
Eric Twardowski. The senior,
who won the La Porte meet two
years ago and placed third last
year, has been bothered by back
problems so far and has been
under a doctor’s care.
“His back hasn’t hurt him in
practice, it’s only hurt him in the
meets,” Bosse said. “He’s doing
some more stretching so maybe
it’ll come around.”
Mark Seale, the girls coach at
Sterling, will be getting his first
look at his varsity squad in ac-
tion during the La Porte meet.
The only other competition the
Lady Rangers have been in was
the junior varsity division of the
Pasadena Invitational two
weeks ago.
Because he hasn’t seen the full
squad run this season, Seale can
only wonder what effect the
weekend’s layoff will have.
“I don’t know if we’ve lost
anything because of it,” he said.
“I felt we needed to be working.
I’d like to have gotten them
together (for a workout), but I
didn’t think it would be ad-
visable since a lot of them were
leaving town.”
Two of Seale’s runners, An-
nette Joseph and Molly Pate,
will be seeing their first competi-
tion of the season at La Porte.
The rest of the squad will be out
to show signs of progress over
their opening action.
“I’m hoping to see improve-
ment over the first meet,” Seale
said. “We keep a chart with their
times on it and I want to see the
times get better each week.”
New look
to meet
Hurricane Gilbert may have
wiped out the 23rd annual Ross
S. Sterling Invitational cross
country meet Saturday, but it
will cause a meet with a^dlf-
ferent look to be unveiled Oct. 8.
Sterling will join Robert E.
Lee to hold a meet on that day at
the Sterling campus. Lee had
originally scheduled its own
meet for Oct. 8.
Thd^ combining of the two
meets was formulated by Drew
Dunlap, Sterling’s boys coach,
and Lee Coach Gene Bosse.
“I got together with Bosse and
we decided to combine the Lee
and Sterling meets,” Dunlap
said. “We’ll give our awards out,
but we’ll have the teams he in-
vited to his meet.”
Dunlap had already purchased
trophies for the Sterling Invita-
tional, while Bosse had only put
in an order for his trophies early
last week.
Sterling will provide the
trophies and dourse for the meet,
while Bosse will handle details
pertaining to the meet.
Running on the Sterling course
will be advantageous to the local
teams, since the District 22-5A
meet is scheduled to be held
there Oct. 22.
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Schedule
Last week: 6-3
Last week: 6-4
Last week: 7-2
Last week: 6-3
Last week: 6-3
Last week: 6-3
Overall: 16-13
Overall: 22-7
Overall: 18-11
Overall: 17-12
Overall: 13-16
Overall: 18-11
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Crosby at Ch’view
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Barbers Hill
Splendora
Barbers Hill
Barbers Hill
Splendora
Barbers Hill
Waller at Dayton
Dayton
Dayton
Dayton
Dayton
Dayton
Dayton
Hitchcock at Anahuac
Hitchcock
Hitchcock
Hitchcock
Hitchcock
Hitchcock
Hitchcock
A&M at Oklahoma St.
Texas A&M
Texas A&M
Texas A&M
Oklahoma State
Oklahoma State
Texas A&M
Baylor at Texas Tech
Baylor
Baylor
Baylor
Baylor
Baylor
Baylor
Patriots at Oilers
Oilers
Oilers
Oilers
Oilers
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Falcons at Cowboys
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Crosby, Channelview open district
By ALFRED VALDEZ
District play for two Sun-area
Class 4A football teams will
begin Friday, while two others
will attempt to get back on the
winning track after missing last
week’s games because of the
Hurricane Gilbert threat.
Crosby and Channelview will
open play in District 19-4A when
they face off Friday in Chan-
nelview. District 17-4A teams
Dayton and Liberty still have
one more game to prepare for
their respective district openers.
Liberty will play Beaumont
Kelly at home Friday and
Dayton is home against Waller.
All games will start at 7:30 p.m.
Crosby is the lone team com-
ing off a win, which came two
weeks ago against Conroe Oak
Ridge. Its scheduled game last
week against Bridge City was
canceled because of the hur-
ricane threat.
Assistant Head Coach Sam
Calton said the Cougars look to
open district play on a winning
note. Calton is guiding the team
in the absence of Head Coach
Ronnie Davenport, who is in
Houston’s St. Luke’s Hospital
recovering from surgery to-
remove a brain tumor.
“We’ve been talking to the
kids all week long on how impor-
tant it is to get started in district
ahead,” Calton said. “The last
few years, we’ve fallen behind
early and have had to fight our
way back into the race. We need
to have a good ballgame so we
can start out ahead.”
This will be Crosby’s first road
game, and Calton said he is not
sure how that will affect the
team, especially a young and in-
experienced team like the
Cougars.
“I don’t think it will hurt us
much,” Calton said. “We had to
travel to Mayde Creek for a
scrimmage earlier in the year.
The kids were kind^of off a little,
but they played better as they
went along and got more and
more confidence.”
Calton said the Cougars will
have to stop a Channelviewteam
that possesses some good skill
position players.
“They have some good
athletes there and have a real
good quarterback (Anthony
Lee),” Calton said. “The have
some very good skill people.”
Lee is among the top 20
CLASS 4A FOOTBALL
passers in the state in Class 4A,
having completed 16 passes in 38
tries for 318 yards.
Calton said it is hard to get a
grasp on just how good Chan-
nelview is this year.
“They jumped all over Huff-
man (Hargrave) two weeks ago,
but then Mayde Creek jumped
all over them the first week. But
then that was Mayde Creek, and
I know they are tough,” Calton
said.
The only problem Calton
forsees in the Cougars taking
time off last week may be that
the players have gotten a little
out of shape.
“We were concerned a little
about conditioning,” Calton
said. “But it looks like they all
came back in pretty good shape
and we’ve had some good prac-
tices.”
This will also be Crosby’s first
game since Davenport’s opera-
tion. Calton said he doesn’t think
that matter will be a distraction
to the team and may, in fact,
cause the team to bejpore focus-
ed.
‘‘They really want to win for
Coach Davenport,” Calton said.
“They are really concentrating
and working hard.”
CHANNELVIEW
Coach Jim Scible thought get
ting his team to play Cleveland
last Wednesday to beat the possi-
ble wrath of Hurricane Gilbert
would benefit his team. Now, he
cheerleaders or anything like
that. We didn’t charge anything
and there was hardly anyone
here to watch.”
Scible will have to wait until
Friday to see how his team is
able to bounce back from the
loss. Standing in the way is
Crosby.
“They (Crosby) have an awful
lot of speed,” Scible said. “Of
course, (James) Cartwright is
always a threat and the other
guy they have in the backfield
(Jerod Clark) isn’t too bad,
either.”
Clark rushed for over 100
yards in Crosby’s win over Oak
Ridge.
Scible said lie feels the Crosby
passing game has fallen off this
year, but the defense has im-
proved.
“I don’t think they throw as
well as they used to,” Scible
said. “But they are real ag-
gressive on defense.”
Scible said despite going into
the game 1-2, the Falcons are in
good spirits and should be able to
give a good effort Friday.
LIBERTY
For Liberty’s well-oiled offen-
sive machine, a week off could
hurt more than it would most
other teams.
“For the kind of offense we
run, timing is real important,”
Coach Mike Crowe said. “If you
miss a game, that timing gets
thrown off a little. We are going
to have to get that back and be
ready for district next week.”
Liberty was scheduled to play
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ly Sun-area team to play last
week.
“I don’t know if it helped,”
Scible said. “It’s always good to
go against someone and getting
that game experience is impor-
tant, but you don’t know if that
helps you more than losing hurts
you*”
Scible said the decison to play
Wednesday was made at the last
minute and everything was hur-
ried.
“We were trying to get the
game set up for Thursday, but
the superintendents decided it
would be better to play Wednes-
day,” he saidT“'“JFhey
(Cleveland) agreed and we got it
together in a hurry. It was a rush
job. There was no band or
thers open district play against
Livingston on Sept. 30.
Crowe also thought missing
the game may have hurt his
team’s motivation. But judging
from this week’s practices, that
should not be the case.
“They were ready to play and
were working all week to play.
When they come up and cancel it
like that? it’s kind of disappoin-
ting and you are afraid that will , have to get a consistent offense
hurt you.” he said. “But we had —*A--------‘-‘-i—
a real good practice (Monday)
and' the kids are real hungry to
play. I think we’ll be able to
comeback.” «
Crowe doesn’t knqw much
about Kelly, as he has only been
able to see the team on film.
However, with it being the state
Class 3A TCIL champion the
past two years, Crowe feels it is
a quality team.
“I don’t know a whole lot about
them,"' he said. “I know they
have a good program and they
look real good on film. They run
a multiple offense and defense.
Their biggest strength looks to
be their quarterback (Reid
Sweet). He is real fast. Also,
they have a good running back
(Patrick Henry). It’s really hard
to tell how they’ll play.”
Crowe said this game gains a
little more importance since it is
the last chance for the Panthers
to prepare for the district race.
“It’s our last chance to experi-
ment and really nail down who
our personnel will be and what
we are going to do in district,”
he said.
DAYTON
Coach David Hughes is not in a
position that makes him happy.
The Broncos are 0-2 on the year
and have only one more chance
to get a win before play in
district begins.
What makes the situation
more frustrating for Hughes is
that he feels the all-important
win was washed out last week
when Hurricane Gilbert forced
the cancellation of Dayton’s
game against Santa Fe.
“We felt like we could have
won that game and we really
need a win?” Hughes said. “It
really put us in a tough situation.
Our backs are against the wall
now. We have to get a win this
week before we start district. We
don’t want to go into district 0-
3.”
Dayton opens its district slate
on Sept. 30.
Hughes said Waller is a team
that lives on its opponents’
mistakes, and making mistakes,
is something the Broncos have
been guilty of a lot lately.
“They are your typical Waller
team. They play hardnose foot-
ball and make a living on your
mistakes, ’ ’ Hughes said.
Hughes said the Broncos will
going and cut down on mistakes.
“As coaches, we’ve been doing
some things that may help us cut
down on mistakes,” he said.
“We’re leaving out high-risk
plays and working hard on
eliminating them. But there is
only so much a coach can do.
You never know what a 16-year-
old is going to do.”
Davenport recovering from surgery
after suffering difficult weekend
Crosby Head Football Coach
and Athletic Director Ronnie
Davenport is still in Houston’s
St. Luke’s Hospital, recovering
from surgery last week.
Doctors successfully removed
a tumor from his brain on Tues-
day.
According to Crosby School
Superintendent Don Hendrix,
Davenport is improving after
suffering through a rough
weekend.
Doctors were scheduled to run
a catscan on Davenport Wednes-
day morning to decide whether it
would be neccessary to drain the
cavity left by the tumor.
However, Hendrix said late
Wednesday that no word was
given on the results of that test.
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Davenport*is in his eighth
season as head football coach
and has been at Crosby 14 years.
His team is scheduled to open
play in District 19-4A Friday
against Channelview.
Area notes: Hurricane Gilbert
not only confused matters for
Sun-area football teams, but all
other sports were affected as
well. At Barbers Hill, the cross-
country season was put on hold
as the Eagles’ first scheduled
meet was canceled. The team
was to have run at Houston C.E.
King.
According to Coach Jeannie
Meyer, the team will now open
at La Porte this weekend.
“In a way, I am kindof glad
wd didn’t run at King,” she said.*
“I really didn’t think we were
ready and I didn’t know what to
expect. I know more what to ex-
pect at La Porte.”
The six-girl, two-boy team has
been going through some good
workouts and Meyer feels they
will have a good season...
Liberty cross country coach
Tony Munson is also expecting a
good season for his boys team.
The Panthers are perennial
district champions and he sees
no reason for his team not to
take another crown, even though
it will compete in a new district.
“I don’t think we’ll have any
problem getting the district
championship again,” he said.
“Whether we send people* or a
team to state is another matter.
We’ll have to work real hard if
we want to do that.” *
The Panther team has five
seniors, and Munson said that
experience will help. The district
meet will be hosted by Liberty
Oct. 29...
Dayton volleyball coachJan
Smith said she is leading an ex-
perienced group into action this
season. The team has played er-
ratically early, but Smith
believes it should settle down by
the time play in District 19-4A
starts Tuesday.
“We should be in playing form
by then,” she said. “We’ve had
an unusual beginning, but we are
starting to play better. ” -
The Lady Bronco team has six
seniors. Smith said that ex-
perience will come into play
before the season is over.
“'We have a lot of experience
and that should help us in the
long run,” she said. “We need to
get in a good groove and stride.”
Smith sees the district race to
be a hotly-contested one, with
Liberty, Silsbee, Lumberton and
Dayton vying for the title.
“It should be a toss-up,” she
said. “We really don’t know how
googl some of the, new teams in
the district are. But we know
that Libery it good and the other
legitimate teams should be us,
Silsbee and Lumberton.”
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