Baytown sports brief highlights youth tryouts and boating course
Lone Star Baseball announces a 10u tryout on February 3 at Baytown Christian Academy. Galveston Bay Sail and Power Squadron offers a February safe boating course starting February 2 at Eddie Gray Wetlands Center with four Saturdays of instruction and exams. Baytown USBC hosts the 50th annual Open City Bowling Championships from Saturday through February 17 at Max Bowl East with about 300 bowlers expected.
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Lone Star Baseball
Baytown Christian Academy
Kade Johnson
Galveston Bay Sail and Power Squadron
Eddie Gray Wetlands Center
Lee High School
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
Charles Cody
Janet Boerner
Baytown
USBC
Week's Games Highlights Local School Matchups
The week features BCA boys at St Thomas and BCA girls at Fort Bend. Junior high schedules include Gentry at Highlands and Highlands at Gentry with several time slots, plus Cedar Bayou against Baytown Junior and Woodland Acres visiting Horace Mann with multiple 4:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. starts.
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St. Thomas
BCA
Fort Bend
Gentry
Highlands
Cedar Bayou
Baytown
Woodland Acres
Horace Mann
Pro Basketball and Golf Schedule Tonight
On the air tonight includes Dallas at Boston on TNT at 7 p.m. San Antonio at Phoenix at 9 30 p.m. College hoops Boston College at North Carolina 6 p.m. Providence at Notre Dame 6 p.m. Stephen F Austin at Texas State 7 p.m. Indiana at Wisconsin 8 p.m. North Carolina State at Duke 8 p.m. Arizona at USC 9 30 p.m. FBR Open featured at 2 p.m. on Golf Channel.
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Dallas
Boston
San Antonio
Phoenix
Tnt
Boston College
North Carolina
Providence
Notre Dame
Stephen F. Austin
Texas State
Indiana
Wisconsin
North Carolina State
Duke
Arizona
USC
Contact Sports Editor Dave Rogers for Today’s Stories
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Baytownsun.com
Baytown coaches form team for Texas Independence Relay
Horace Mann and Cedar Bayou coaches join 12 Baytown area runners for the First Annual Texas Independence Relay from Gonzales to the San Jacinto Monument. Each runner completes three to four legs totaling four to nine miles. The roster includes Mike Contreras Collette Thomkins Truman McIntyre Kevin Jones and others with teachers and a pastor among the participants. The team trains daily with McIntyre aiming to balance fun and challenge as they prepare to sleep in Gonzales after the race.
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Cedar Bayou
Kevin Jones
Horace Mann Junior High
Truman McIntyre
Baytown Area
Gonzales
San Jacinto Monument
Jones
Truman
Baytown
Mike Contreras
Horace Mann
Collette Thomkins
McIntyre
Lisa Purifoy
Austin Elementary
Kelly Holland
Barbers Hill
Tommy Clements
Second Baptist
J.R. Hobbs
Ryan Hightower
Cayne Lebrue
Lent Rhoades
Clemens makes surprise Astros camp visit during Elite sessions
At Minute Maid Park Roger Clemens joined Nolan Ryan and Jeff Bagwell in Houston to mentor top prospects at the Elite Camps. J. R. Towles, Crosby native and Astros catching prospect, received tips as Clemens pitched about 30 minutes. Clemens avoided retirement questions and deflected SEE ASTROS to page 2B.
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Houston
J.R. Towles
Roger Clemens
Ryan
Clemens
Towles
Crosby
Astro
Nolan Ryan
Minute Maid Park
Spot Em Sports Management founders help area student athletes
Sterling graduates Taj and Ray Clark launched Spot Em Sports Management to guide high school athletes toward scholarships in extracurricular activities. Ray, a 1995 Sterling grad, earned a football scholarship to Iowa and graduated in 2000. Taj, a 1992 Sterling alum, faced earlier academic setbacks but earned a counseling degree and become a licensed chemical dependency and anger therapist in Texas.
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Sterling
Taj
Ray Clark
Spot
Raj
University of Iowa
Lee College
Houston
Texas
The
Brothers Ray
Taj Clark
Monteau on track for stellar year
Baytown San Lamar University distance runner Stacey Monteau, Anahuac grad, placed second in the 3,000 meters at the McNeese Indoor Invitational with 10:53.79, after opening the season at the Leonard Hilton Memorial. Northwestern State’s Galen Mudd, Barbers Hill grad, broke two minutes in the 800 at the Razorback Invitational with 1:58.40, and Prairie View A&M’s Brian Ezeh, Lee College grad, led PVAMU past Mississippi Valley State 55-53 with 17 points and top rebounds.
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Lamar University
Stacey Monteau
McNeese
Lamar
Anahuac
Monteau
Leonard Hilton
University of Houston
Northwestern
State University
Galen Mudd
University of Arkansas
Mudd
Louisiana State University
Brian Ezeh
Lee College
Prairie View A&m
Mississippi Valley State
Ezeh
Southwestern Athletic Conference
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