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Mount Pleasant Daily Tribune • www.dailytribune.net • Tuesday, February 10, 2015 • 7A
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Young Tigers improving under Windham
Lady Devils travel to Hughes Springs in final regular season game
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Mount Pleasant falls to Hallsville Lady Bobcats in extra period
Pace of play not expected to be rules issue in college football
Chapel Hill Junior High sweeps Pewitt
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By TANNER HOLUBAR
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penalty kicks, both team’s
exchanged points for
the first six shots. On
the fourth kick for the
Tigers, the goal started
to get fuzzy, as the Tigers
couldn’t find a way to get
the ball in the net. The
Bobcats took advantage
of the Tiger’s slump, and
made three straight points
and sealed the win with a
block to end the chances
The weather at Sam
Parker Field may have
been cold, but the field was
filled with intense defense
to add nothing but fuel
to the fire between the
Hallsville Lady Bobcats
and the Mount Pleasant
Lady Tigers in district
soccer play, as Hallsville
the Tigers however was
goalie April Gonzalez.
During the game Gonzalez
frustrated Lady Bobcat
players by rejecting three
crucial shots to extend the
game into extra periods.
It seemed as though every
time the Bobcats got a
crack at the goal, Gonzalez
was there to seal it back up.
The Tigers gave a hard
effort but came up a little
by Air Force coach Troy
Calhoun passed a proposal
that would have prohibited
offenses from snapping
the ball within the first 10
seconds of the 40-second
play clock.
Because the proposal was
considered a player-safety
measure, it was allowed
it to be passed during
a non-change year for
NCAA rules. Many coaches
claimed they were caught
off guard by the proposal.
The pushback was especially
strong from those who
run hurry up, no-huddle
offenses such as Arizona’s
Rich Rodriguez, Auburn’s
Gus Malzahn and Texas
A&M’s Kevin Sumlin.
Arkansas coach Bret
With the bulk of the
regular season schedule now
over, the Chapel Hill Lady
Red Devils sit near the top
of their district with a 10-1
record. With a potential one
game playoff against Mount
Vernon looming, the Lady
Red Devils travel to Hughes
Springs on Thursday looking
to take care of business.
Last Tuesday, the Lady
Red Devils lost a close game
to Mount Vernon, and
rebounded with a 59-29
win against Daingerfield
on Friday. In that game, the
Lady Red Devils were able
to come out and take control
of the game early. Head
coach David Schubert is
looking for the same out of
his team on Tuesday.
The Chapel Hill Junior
High basketball teams
took on Paul Pewitt on
Jan. 5, with all teams
coming away with wins.
The seventh grade
Lady Red Devils won
their game 37-6.
Rebekah Crane led the
team in scoring with 16
points. Katie Hernandez
scored seven, Athziry
Flores scored six, Jacey
McElveen scored four,
Rachel Crane scored
two and Xzaureya Evans
scored two points.
The seventh grade Red
Devils won their game
41-20. The Red Devils
pulled ahead early with
a 25-8 lead at halftime.
The NCAA coordinator
of college football officials
says he does not expect pace
of play to be a major topic
when the rules committee
meets this week.
Rogers Redding said
Monday the use of
technology on the sideline
Chauncey Droemer
scored 13 points to lead
the Red Devils while
Ryan Shaver scored 12.
The eighth grade
Lady Red Devils won
37-11. Kenley Windle
scored eight points,
Taylor Dillard scored six,
Ja’Mya Bishop scored six,
Madison Walley scored
six, Corrine Woods
scored five, Kaylyn
Tompkins scored four
and Savannah Lockler
scored four points.
The eighth grade Red
Devils won their game
43-14 after pulling away
early with a 21-2 lead
after the first quarter.
Byson Schubert scored
13 points to lead Chapel
Hill.
After making the playoffs
last season, the Mount
Pleasant Tigers baseball
team enters the 2015
season with a new coach,
a new mindset and new
expectations. The Tigers
graduated many players
from last year’s team,
including Michael Kopech,
a first round MLB draft
pick now in the Red Sox
organization.
The new head man is
Joel Windham, who begins
outlasted Mount Pleasant
5-4 in extra time.
The defense was so
intense the game went into
two overtimes, and after 20
extra minutes of play, the
game had to be decided in
penalty kicks, which was in
favor of the Lady Bobcats,
thanks to huge blocks and
huge kicks to help them
head home with a 5-4 win.
Early on, during the
of the Tigers extending the
penalty session.
The Tigers had a hard
time getting into Lady
Bobcats’ territory all
night. The Lady Bobcats
took more shots than the
Tigers, and also had more
opportunities to score
making it hard for the
Tigers to advance the ball
past midfield.
The one bright spot for
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short when they had
chances of their own, most
shots either went wide
right or Bobcat defenders
kicked the ball out of play
making the Tigers set
up their offense, instead
of using the fast-break
method of attack.
The Lady Tigers travel to
Marshall on Tuesday, and
take on Greenville at home
on Friday.
Contributed Photo
Eighth grader Kenley
Windle goes for a layup
against Paul Pewitt
on Feb. 5. All four of
the junior high teams
claimed wins against
the Brahmas.
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Chapel Hill’s Taylor Brown drives past a defender in the second half of the
59-39 win against Daingerfield on Friday. The Lady Red Devils travel to
Hughes Springs on Tuesday in the final game of the regular season.
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“At the same time, none
of them have anything
guaranteed to them. I’ve
made that point clear. I
don’t care if they’ve played
here for three years.
Nothing is given to them,
and they have to earn it just
like everything else.”
Both scrimmages are set
to start at 5:30 p.m., and
the Tigers will not play a
regular season home game
until March 16 against
Greenville, after playing in
tournaments starting on
Feb. 26.
a school with the same
colors as their own could
help the Lady Devils feel
right at home at Hughes
Springs.
The Lady Devils have
carried the mantra this
season of not taking any
team for granted. With the
possibility of having another
shot at Mount Vernon,
Schubert said his team is
focused on taking care of
business on Tuesday.
“After the Mount
Vernon game, we talked
about how we wanted
some redemption, and
how we wanted a chance
to play them again, but we
wanted to give ourselves the
chance,” he said. “That’s the
only thing on our minds.
We’re not thinking about
Mount Vernon.”
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to take every advantage
of it, and they’re doing an
outstanding job.”
With the team still a work
in progress, the Tigers’
defense and hitting are
currently ahead of pitching,
which Windham said is
due to a lack of depth and
experience. He said the goal
is for his pitchers to focus
on throwing strikes, as well
as pitching to contact to
allow the other eight players
on the field a chance to
make a play defensively.
The Tigers open the
season with scrimmages
the rules as a result of that.”
The NCAA football rules
committee does not usual
stir up much controversy,
but last year it made
headlines and talk-radio
fodder for weeks with its
proposal aimed at slowing
down the game and limiting
the number of plays for
safety reasons.
The committee chaired
his first season in Mount
Pleasant following stops in
Spring Hill, Paul Pewitt and
Maud. Windham said he is
still learning about his team,
but that the progress has
been steadily improving.
“Being the fact that I’m
still trying to get to know
some of the kids, I think
we’re progressing pretty
good,” Windham said.
“We’re real heavy into the
teaching, and getting it to
the way I’m used to doing
things. They’re handling
it real good, and I’ve got a
buy-in from almost every
“I think our defense has to
dictate what we do,” he said.
“If we can come out playing
strong defensively and
create some quick turnovers,
it can lead to some quick
offense. We’ve also got to hit
our shots. If we come out
and get some open looks,
we’ve got to be able to knock
down those shots.”
The Lady Devils will be
looking to come out with
the same intensity they
showed on Senior Night on
Friday, and were able to feed
off of a rowdy crowd in their
home gym. With his team
looking to show the same
intensity level on Tuesday,
Schubert said his team’s
focus does not change for a
road game.
He said his team comes
out with the same approach,
and a fact of playing against
single player that’s out
there.”
With some players in the
midst of other sports at the
moment, he said players
are doing what they can to
get the extra repetitions in
preparation for the season.
“The kids have been
doing an outstanding job
of coming in before and
after practice to get as much
in as they can,” he said.” A
lot of them see it as their
first opportunity to be on
the field, being that we
graduated so many seniors
last year. They’re trying
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artificially slowing it down.”
Officials were instructed
to use a brisk jog in between
plays and to be sure all
officials were in place before
the ball was made ready for
play.
“There was a sense that
the officials are the ones
who should be managing
pace of play and not either
of the teams managing the
pace of play,” Redding said.
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will be a focus during
committee meetings
Tuesday and Wednesday.
Redding said the
conversation about pace of
play has been “muted.”
“There hasn’t been an
awful lot of concern about
that this year,” Redding said.
“We’ll probably talk about
it in the meeting, but I don’t
anticipate any changes in
plays being run in games,
which has been on the rise
as fast-moving offenses have
become more common.
All the negative feedback
during the comment period
led to the proposal being
shelved.
Without a rule to tap
the brakes on fast-paced
offenses, officials took a
more organic approach that
would not necessarily target
certain offenses.
Redding said game
officials instituted pace
of play procedures that
were meant to appease the
hurry up offenses, while
still maintaining order and
control of the game.
“The officials were
counseled to do a better
against Pleasant Grove on
Tuesday, and Jacksonville
on Friday. Windham said
the two games are an
opportunity for players to
show what they can do in
game situations.
“Pretty much no kid will
be out there any longer
than another kid this week,”
he said. “It’s going to be
more of when they get their
opportunity, what can they
do with it to advance their
opportunities. There’s a lot
of those guys that are pretty
clear cut just because of the
experience factor that they
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