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SPORTS
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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Sunday, January 4,2009
Johnson: What else do we have to prove?’
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best for final
year’s volley
Safe Boating class
begins Saturday
perfect.
Brian Johnson and seventh-ranked Utah
came down from the mountains to SEC
A look at local athletes
and their collegiate careers.
Alabama in the Sugar Bowl on Friday
night.
Johnson, a Crosby native who played his
and two scores.
The Cardinals went 9-7 to
win a weak NFC West and make
The Falcons, who rebounded
from a 4-12 season to make the
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grad and Louisiana Tech senior Philip
Beck, Lee grad and Brigham Young
senior Michael Reed and Lee grad and
University of Utah senior Brian
Johnson.
Rebels restart with
win at Coastal Bend
They toiled for four years. In this
first of a series of stories highlighting
college seniors from the area who
wound down their college careers in
the fall semester, we feature two
Baytown Lee grads. Savannah Powers
(University of Texas-Dallas) and
Kendall Jackson (McMurry
University) were both volleyball play-
ers.
Kendall Jackson
Kendall Jackson took a two-year
break from volleyball.
For most athletes, the time away
from the sport would have prevented
any chances of returning. But, not for
this Baytown Lee grad.
After taking two years off, Jackson
became a member of the McMurry
University team. In her first year as a
player, 2007, she finished with 259
assists, 131 digs and 42 kills. Even
though she is a 5-foot-9 setter, she fin-
ished with a .390 hitting percentage at
the net.
She improved on those stats one year
later. Her 366 assists were second-best
on the team. She tallied 131 digs and
23 kills.
“Even though I took a break and did
not play collegiately, I played recre-
ationally and will continue to do so,”
said Jackson. “It has been a part of my
life for a long time. I wish I would have
played four years at McMurry.”
The coaches at McMurry probably
wish she would have played four years
as well. The year before Jackson joined
the team, McMurry struggled to a 7-25
mark. In 2007, McMurry posted a 19-
10 overall mark and an 11-7 record in
the American Southwest Conference.
In 2008, it was 19-8 overall and 13-5 in
the American Southwest.
“I loved the fact that I could play
right away and make an immediate
impact,” said Jackson. “We did not get
as far as we wanted this year. We lost in
the first round of the conference tour-
nament and we should have gotten fur-
ther than that. Playing against my sister
(Concordia-Texas’ Kevyn Jackson)
this year was the high point of my
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deserve that consideration.” he added W I
later. “Somebody has to explain to me /r> „
why they wouldnt. There is only one
undefeated team in the United States of Utah quarterback Brian Johnson (3) kisses
America right now in Division I football, his Sugar Bowl MVP trophy after his NCAA
football game in the Sugar Bowl in New
Orleans, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2009. Utah
defeated Alabama 31-17.
KNKKHM
Other senior articles
will feature William
Penn University soc-
cer players Fernando
Sanchez and
Armando Irias, cross
country runner
Cheto Cerda at
Wayne State (Neb.)
College and Sam
Houston State
University football
player Patrick
Robinson. All are
Lee grads as well.
The final article will
feature the three
senior football play-
ers that competed in
bowl games, Crosby
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) —
The Arizona Cardinals were no
playoff pretenders.
Kurt Warner opened with a
42-yard touchdown pass to
Larry Fitzgerald and connected
with Anquan Boldin on a 71-
yard scoring play as the
Cardinals beat Atlanta 30-24
Saturday before a raucous,
white towel-waving crowd in
their first home playoff game in
61 years.
Atlanta rookie Matt Ryan was
intercepted twice, was tackled
in the end zone for a safety and
fumbled the ball away on a
botched handoff. The fumble
was returned 26 yards by Antrel
Rolle 52 seconds into the sec-
ond half to put Arizona ahead
for good.
The Cardinals’ Edgerrin
James outgained Atlanta’s
Michael Turner, the NFL’s No. 2
rusher.
James, who has made it
known he will not be back with
the Cardinals next season, car-
ried 16 times for 73 yards.
Turner, who rushed for 1,699
yards in the regular season, had
42 yards in 18 attempts.
Warner, in the playoffs for the
first time since leading St.
Louis to a second Super Bowl in
Pro football
• Playoffs, Baltimore at
and Power Squadron is pre- Miami> CBS noon
senting a safe boating course
beginning Saturday and run-
ning for four consecutive Minnesota, 3:30 p.m., Fox
Prep foot ba II
• Arif-America Game,
ESPN, 7 p.m.
BEEVILLE - Lee College’s seven-school South Zone.
Rebels started the new way the Lon Morris and Jacksonville
same way they closed the old, begin the new year tied for the
winning 89-83 in overtime South Zone lead at 3-0.
over Coastal Bend College Angelina and San Jacinto are
Saturday. tied for third at 2-2.
v---- r-----Blinn is also 1-2 in confer-
ence and Lamar State-Port
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Out of their ningest quarterback (26-7). It was the sec-
element, out of their league — and still ond bowl MVP for Johnson, who won the changes to the BCS system, because Utah
honor at the 2007 Poinsettia Bowl. showed it could do more than just hang
Utah became the first team from a non- with the big boys, it could dominate one
BCS conference to win two BCS bowls.
country and established themselves as the The Utes beat Pittsburgh in the 2005
Falcons fall
to Cardinals,
30-24
the NFL 5-yard scoring pass to Roddy
Minnesota and New England in championship victory over
the two weeks preceding their Philadelphia in 1947. That was
. . regular-season finale victory the franchise’s last home playoff
son, losing 27-23 at Carolina on over Seattle. game before Saturday.
Atlanta (11-5) finished a
Ryan, the AP Offensive tough NFC South and
Saturdays at the Eddie Gray
Wetlands Center.
The class meets from 8:30
a.m. to 1 p.m. each day.
For additional informa-
tion, call Charles Cody at College basketball
281-424-7060, or Janet TT<-T *
Boemer at 281-842-8970. • UCLA at Oregon,
See the Web site at FSNH, 2:30 p.m.
www.gbps.org. . Kentucky at
Louisville,CBS, 3:30 p.m.
• Boston College at
North Carolina, FSNH,
4:30 p.m.
• Virginia Tech at Duke,
ties? Cortact sports erftor^DaMB FSNH, 6:45 p.m.
• Arizona at Stanford,
FSNH, 9 p.m.
of them.
„ a “I know where I’m voting us. I’m vot-
best of the BCS busters, finishing 13-0 Fiesta Bowl under coach Urban Meyer, 'n§ us No. 1. End of story,” Utah coach
with a convincing 31-17 win over No. 4 going for his second BCS national title Kyle Whittingham said afterward.
with Florida when his Gators play T * '
Oklahoma on Thursday in Miami.
Yet, after winning the Mountain West
final high school season at Baytown Lee in Conference, the Utes were left out of the
2002, threw for 336 yards and three BCS national championship game in
touchdowns on his way to being selected favor of perennial powers Florida and
the game’s most outstanding player, a fit- Oklahoma, even though both have one
ting finish to the career of Utah’s win- loss.
Xavier Francis led the
Rebels in scoring with 19
points as Lee improved to 9-4 Arthur brings up the rear at 0-
overall in the non-conference 4.
game. Navarro College leads
Lee closed the 2008 portion Region XIV’s North Zone with
of its 08-09 season with a 68- a 3-0 record, with Tyler next at
67 win over Angelina College. 3-1, followed by Paris and
The Rebels resume confer- Kilgore, both at 2-1.
ence play in Region XIV The Rebels host Jacksonville
Wednesday night when they in their first 2009 home game
play in Brenham against Blinn next Saturday. They play at
College. Lamar State-Port Arthur next
Lee College is 1-2 in confer- Wednesday before traveling to
ence, tied for fifth place in the Kilgore Jan. 17.
1 winner of five of its last six. But
26 of 40 passes for 199 yards from the start Arizona showed
that, at least on this afternoon, it playoffs, made it close after
belonged in the postseason. that. On fourth-and-6, Ryan
The Cardinals’ 30 points were connected with Jerious
the playoffs for the first time in their most in the playoffs, break- Norwood for 28 yards to
a decade. After clinching the ing a record set by the then- Cardinals 26. That led to Ryan’s
division, they were blown out by Chicago Cardinals in the NFL 5-yard scoring pass to Roddy
“■-----—J XT.... i-—i—j:_ championship victory over White that cut it to 30-24 with
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But Warner completed passes
to Fitzgerald, Steve Breaston
Antonio Smith’s tackle of and Stephen Spach, then the
game behind Carolina in the Ryan for a safety put Arizona
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The Arizona Republic, David Kadlubowski
Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald, center, catches the ball for a touchdown as
Atlanta Falcons' Lawyer Milloy (36) and Chris Houston (23) defend during the first quarter of an
2001, was 19-of-32y 13-for-17 NFC wild card playoff football game at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Ariz, on
in the second half, for 271 Saturday,
yards. He was intercepted once.
I hope this gives us a lot of Rookie of the Year, completed
confidence,” Warner said. “I — - —
knew we thought we could win
this game. Hopefully we can
parlay this into some more con-
fidence and know we can win
wherever we have to go.”
Arizona will play at either the
New York Giants or Carolina
Panthers next weekend. Arizona
has played both teams this sea-
Oct. 26, and 37-29 at home to
the Giants on Nov. 23.
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