The Colony Courier-Leader (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 42, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 23, 2005 Page: 9 of 16
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Wednesday, November 23, 2005 — The Colony Courier-Leader — 1B
xtra points
Turkey Tourney,
Gobbler’s Clinic
The Colony High School
and head tennis coach Liz
Benoit will be hosting a
Thanksgiving-themed tennis
tournament and clinic for
youth ages 6-14.
The event will conclude
today from 9-11 a.m. at The
Colony High School.
The camp is for all youth
who would like to learn the
basic fundamentals of tennis
and for those interested in
improving their tennis skills.
The camp is for youth ages
6-14 while the Turkey Tourney
is for youth ages 10-14.
The cost for camp only reg-
istration is $35. For those
interested in attending the
camp and participating in the
tournament the cost is $50.
For those only interested in
participating in the tourna-
ment the cost is $15. There
will be no refunds.
For information, contact
Benoit at 214-797-8228.
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The Colony Public Library
6800 Main St.
The Colony, TX 75056-1133
FHS prevents
fourth-quarter
Cougar rally
BY JIM DONOVAN
- STAFF WRITER
Tennis stars
coming to Frisco
Former U.S. Open champi-
on Andy Roddick and ATP
Tour member Taylor Dent will
be two of the tennis players
featured at the Texas Tennis
Shootout at the Dr Pepper
StarCenter in Frisco on Dec.
17.
Roddick and Dent will play
in the event’s final and mar-
quee match-up at 7:30 p.m.
Fans will also be able to
see three shootout tiebreakers
to start the evening featuring
Dallas Pro Tennis Association
professionals fro Brookhaven
Country Club, T-Bar-M
Racquet Club, Canyon Creek
Country Club, and the Four
Season Resort.
This event will be followed
by the USTA Texas Section
Wheelchair Athletes tiebreak-
er shootout.
Ticket prices are $26.50,
$45.50, and $75.50 and are cur-
rently on sale. For ordering
information call 214-GO-
STARS. Beginning Friday tick-
ets will be available online by
logging onto tickets.com.
The Colony Cougars basketball team failed in its second
attempt to win its first game of the season, losing to the Frisco
Raccoons on Friday, 60-56.
Frisco and The Colony entered the game with identical 0-1
records. Frisco’s Mike Mitchell scored a game-high 18 points and
The Colony’s Michael Tomlin led all bench scorers with 10 points
as Frisco held off a fourth-quarter rally to claim the victory.
The Cougars struggled out of the gate and Frisco took a 6-0
lead thanks in part to three turnovers on The Colony’s first six
possessions.
Hoping to mix it up a little bit, Cougar head coach Cleve Ryan
put in backup point guard Geoffrey Criss. Criss came in only 2
minutes into the game and made an immediate impact. Not only
did Criss give the Cougars a little more ball security at the point,
but he consistently made passes that led to baskets and forced
turnovers to keep the Cougars within striking distance all game
long.
“The only thing [Criss] knows to do is play high-gear,” said
Ryan. “He is going to come in and give you all he’s got every
time.”
Down, 10-7, near the end of the first quarter, Ryan called a
timeout to calm his team down. Following the timeout Criss
made a steal and drove to the hoop where he found Justin Kotey.
Kotey was then fouled and made both free throws to close the
lead to a single point.
The Cougars went on a short run and baskets by Tomlin and
Kotey gave the Cougars a 14-10 lead at the end of the first quar-
ter.
The Colony then had some offensive struggles in the second
quarter. Although the defense forced six turnovers in the quar-
ter, the offense was only able to score five points as Frisco
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JIM DONOVAN/STAFF PHOTO
The Colony’s Justin Kotey (22) fades away from the basket on a shot during the Cougars 4-point loss to Frisco
on Friday, 60-56.
TCHS wins three at Texas Invitational
BY JIM DONOVAN
STAFF WRITER
Hoops Classic
holiday tournament
Texas Sports Inc. will be
hosting the TSI Holiday Hoops
Classic Tournament in Frisco
from Dec. 16-17.
First-year teams to select
teams may apply for the tour-
nament. Divisions will be
determined by experience and
classification. The tournament
will offer a three-game guaran-
tee along with referees, team
awards, and different divi-
sions.
The entry fee is $190 and
the deadline for all entries is
Dec. 9.
For information logon to
www.tsihoops.com
The Lady Cougars faltered against
South Oak Cliff on Saturday in their final
game of the Texas Invitational in
Pasadena, 57-27.
The Colony went into its game against
South Oak Cliff in the gold bracket by
virtue of a pair of wins in the round-robin
portion of the Texas Invitational.
In the first game of the tournament the
Lady Cougars matched up against
Channelview and won the game easily, 58-
35. To secure a birth in the gold bracket
The Colony needed to beat Pasadena
Dobie, one of the tournament’s host
schools. Although this game was closer in
the final score line. The Colony cruised to
its second-consecutive victory by beating
Dobie, 57-48.
In the gold round The Colony beat its
first opponent, Magnolia, 59-52, for the
right to play the Lady Golden Bears in the
gold-division semi-finals.
The Colony got off to a rocky start
against South Oak Cliff as the Lady
Golden Bears jumped out to a 10-point
first-quarter lead, 16-6.
South Oak Cliff began this season with
high hopes and an improved roster as they
had a few new players in school with the
move from Wilmer-Hutchins ISD during
that school district’s off-field struggles.
In the second quarter the Lady Cougars
got back in the game when they were
outscored by only a single point, 13-12.
After being outplayed in all areas of the
game in the opening eight minutes, The
Colony’s glimmer of hope lasted only for
the second quarter.
In the tim'd quarter the Lady Bears
defense stepped up its play, outscoring
The Colony 28-9 in the final half to win.
Casie Adams led the Lady Cougars in
scoring with 10 points.
The Lady Bears were able to best the
Lady Cougars with the help of senior
Ashley Proctor who scored a game-high
25 points. Proctor is one of the leaders on
a South Oak Cliff team that reached the
post-season in 2004. Before the season
started, the coaches in South Oak Cliffs
district picked the Lady Bears to have a
chance at a return trip to the post-season.
The loss cut The Colony’s tournament
life short as it came in the first round in
the single-elimination gold bracket.
The Colony was scheduled to play in a
pair of matches before the Thanksgiving
break. Monday the Lady Cougars matched
up with Newman Smith and Tuesday they
were set to host North Mesquite.
Scores for both games were unavail-
able as of press time.
The Colony’s next home game will be
Nov. 29 against Keller. Varsity tip-off is set
for 8 p.m.
100 kicks for the cause
CHL pounded by
L.D. Bell-Euless;
College showcase
tryout camps
The Dallas Baseball
Academy of Texas, D-BAT, will
be hosting a college showcase
and tryout camps.
Interested baseball players
will have the opportunity to be
evaluated by coaches from
five of the top junior colleges
in the state.
Camps will be held in
December at the University of
Texas from Dec. 3-4 and 10-11
and at Texas Tech on Dec. 17.
For information and regis-
tration call 972-387-3228 or
logon to www.dallasbat.com.
Upcoming TCHS
sports schedules
Boys basketball
Saturday, vs. Fossil Ridge
Nov. 29, vs. Hebron
Dec.
Tournament
Dec.
Tournament
1-3, Garland
8-10,
Wylie
Dec. 13, at R.L. Turner
Dec. 16, at Frisco
Centennial
Girls basketball
Nov. 29, vs. Keller
Dec. 1-3, varsity at Desoto
Tournament
Dec. 1-3, junior varsity at
Lewisville JV tournament
Dec. 6, at Frisco
Dec. 13, vs. Flower Mound*
Dec. 16, at Plano*
* — denotes district game
Wrestling
Dec. 1, vs. Lewisville*
Dec. 2-3, at Tri-State
Classic, Lake Highlands
Dec. 9-10, at Scots Super
Six, Highland Park
Dec. 16-17, at Paul Aubrey
Memorial
* — denotes district game
ose fifth straight
BY CHRIS ROARK
STAFF WRITER
SUBMITTED PHOTO
Master Juan’s Karate Studio recently hosted a Kick-a-thon to raise money for the Red Cross and
Salvation Army to help those affected by hurricanes Rita and Katrina. Students, as well as parents,
helped in the event as the parents kept count of the number of kicks each student performed. Each
Student performed 100 kicks. Students who took part in the event were Dylan and Jenna Brown,
Clint Griffin, Cassie Springer, R.J. Meza, Jason Foley, Jaron Powers, Megan Mayfield, Sean Breard,
Rebecca Carter, Alex Quian, Nicholas Jacobs, and Brayton Royall. A total of $540 was raised by all
the participants.
About the only good thing to come from Thursday’s 11-2 loss to
L.D. Bell-Euless was the intense play The Colony-Hebron-Lewisville
coach Greg Andrews saw from his team.
CHL’s loss was its fifth in a row and six on the season, but despite
being outscored by the biggest margin of the year, Andrews said he
saw a hard-fought game all night from his players.
“The team as a whole got its fire back,” Andrews said. “Even when
we were down, 11-2, our guys still wanted to get out there and play
hard.”
But the game was put away early. L.D. Bell-Euless (4-2-1) led, 7-0,
before CHL (1-7) got on the board with 5:39 left in the second period
off a goal from Ian Espada. Kelly Morgan added a goal early in the
third period to make it 7-2, but CHL gave up four straight after that.
For the game, CHL was out-shot, 29-9.
“They’re a great team,” Andrews said. “They have a lot of skillful
players.” v
Andrews did say, however, that he was pleased with the play of
Anthony Carducci and Ethan Stroud and that their hard work during
the week earned them a starting role in the game.
CHL played its next game against Birdville at 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday
at Dr Pepper StarCenter in Farmers Branch. Scores for the game were
not available as of press time.
Having
Don Zaidle, my editor at Texas Fish
and Game Magazine, knows about my
almost obsessive love for the literary
works of Robert C. Ruark.
Known as the Poor Man’s Hemingway,
Ruark wrote The Old Man and the Boy
and The Old Man’s Boy Grows Older. To
many these two outdoor classics about a
boy and his grandpa, The Old Man, are
almost the definitive works on coming of
age on the water and in the field.
Don asked me to explore the idea that
Ruark’s “boy” is still around and whether
he or she might still be the soul of our
future. I wondered if the Old Man’s boy
who lived in the novels still exists in
today’s world in some form.
Let me pause here and strongly urge
you to locate these titles in your library, or
local bookstore. This is the best time of
the year to settle next to the fire with a
glass of the Old Man’s medicine, a good
fire, and a dog and learn from a master
about being a gentleman hunter, a fisher-
real fine time
as a kid
man who respects and loves the very thing
he seeks, and about a world we’ll never
see again.
I envy that you
have the opportunity
to read these volumes
for the first time.
I first picked up
The Old Man and the
Boy as a senior in
high school and I’m
not ashamed to say
that one book
changed my life in
more ways than one.
From the very first
page, Ruark captured
my attention, because
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WORTHAM
Outdoor Humor
he grew up doing the same things as I did,
and in many ways, experienced the same
trials of life, thirty years earlier.
I found someone who shared a similar
world.
He was a “fat little kid,” a “bookish brat
who didn’t give a damn for ordinary
sports.”
I was a skinny little kid, the same book-
ish brat, and felt the same about competi-
tive sports. Neither of us were good at
playing those games, and we sought our
values elsewhere.
He wrote of spending weekends, sum-
mers and vacations on the Carolina coast,
fishing and hunting with his grandpa, who
taught him how to respect his sport, the
game he hunted, and the men who joined
him.
I lived in the city Monday through
Friday. My own weekends and vacations
were spent with my grandparents on the
northernmost edge of Lamar County, fish-
ing and hunting, and enjoying every
minute in the country.
In North Carolina, Ruark caught red-
fish, puppy drum, bluefish, speckled trout,
and crappie.
In north Texas I caught the cousins to
■ those same crappie, and sunfish and cat-
fish. In fact, I caught anything that would
bite my hook, including mossyback old
snapping turtles that dug their claws in
the mud and hissed at me when I finally
pulled them to the shore.
And so with Zaidle’s urgings and
shared the memories of Bob Ruark, I felt
it necessary one evening last week to
spend a little time researching my favorite
author’s works before starting on Don’s
assignment. A weak cold front pushed the
persistent November heat wave to the
south. The War Department and the girls
were elsewhere, doing female things, and
I plucked my worn, well-read copy from
the bookshelf and went outside.
I built a cedar wood fire in our little
backyard fireplace and when it was going
good and hot, I rattled the ice in my glass
and propped my feet beside the flames. I
placed a pen and a pad on the little table
beside my chair and opened the book,
intending to take a few notes and only
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