Area briefs highlight soccer playoff games and golf events
The Robert E Lee boys soccer team meets Spring Woods in a 7 p.m. Class 4A bi district playoff at Spring Woods High School Houston. Goose Creek Memorial girls face Northbrook at 5 p.m. at Kingwood Park High School. Crosby girls host Spring Woods at 6 p.m. at Cougar Stadium. The 19th Annual TeesNails golf tourney is April 1 at Newport Golf Club Crosby with two flights, meals, and awards. entry 75 includes green fees, meals, and giveaways. Baytown Christian Academy hosts Spring Swing on April 1 at Evergreen Point GC with a 12 noon shot gun start, 1st prize bonuses, and sponsor options.
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Robert E. Lee
Spring Woods
Spring Woods High School
Houston
Ganders
Goose Creek Memorial
Houston Northbrook
Lady Patriots
Kingwood Park High School
Crosby Girls
Houston Spring Woods
Cougar Stadium
Newport Golf Club
Crosby
American Legion Hall
Crosby-Huffman Chamber of Commerce
Baytown Christian Academy
BCA
Evergreen Point
Lisa Kay Woods
Friday and Saturday High School Sports Schedule Summary
Friday features boys baseball games across several schools including North Forest Lee PA Memorial Sterling GC Memorial Dayton C.E. King Barbers Hill North Shore Channelview Kountze Anahuac with 7 pm starts. Softball night shows Galena Park Lee Sterling Barbers Hill Crosby Channelview Deweyville Anahuac at 5 to 6:30 pm. Girls soccer hosts Class 4A district action GC Memorial Houston Northbrook and Spring Woods Crosby with a 5 to 6 pm window. Boys soccer 4A bi district Lee at Spring Woods 7 pm. Track events list Barbers Hill Wildcat Relays Crosby Cougar Relays. Saturday notes Rockhold Relays Lee and GC Memorial Sterling at 8 am.
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North Forest
Lee
PA Memorial
Sterling
Dayton
C.E. King
Barbers Hill
North Shore
Channelview
Kountze
Anahuac
Galena Park
la Porte
Crosby
Deweyville
Memorial
Houston Northbrook
Kingwood Park
Houston Spring Woods
Houston
Spring Woods
Wildcat Relays
Willis
Cougar Relays
Texas hunting accidents drop to low since 1966
Texas hunting mishaps declined to 25 in 2010 from 29 in 2009, the lowest since records began in 1966. Fatalities rose to four while training under the 1988 education mandate reached nearly 42,000 hunters by 3,000 volunteers. Terry Erwin notes preventable accidents stem from three factors. See Outdoors page 5B.
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Texas
TPWD
Terry Erwin
Intuition fuels Barbers Hill sisters in softball
Barbers Hill freshmen Sara and Randi Rupp form a twin sister battery that powers the Lady Eagle softball team. Randi pitches while Sara catches, their long familiar onfield connection boosting pitch-calling and defense. Coach Perri Smith notes their deep rapport and shared softball history.
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Barbers Hill
Sara
Randi Rupp
Lady Eagle
Randi
Sara Catching
Perri Smith
Baytown Sun
Nicki Evans
Lady Eagles
Twins find drive in softball amid family support and mentors
The 15-year-old twin sisters began playing softball at age five inspired by their mother and a camp mentor Nadia Taylor at the University of Texas. Taylor, a junior third baseman, influences their view of softball as life lessons, not just hitting and catching, while they also play for MC Elite in summers and falls. The siblings value family and friends when not on the field.
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Sara
Mom
Nadia Taylor
University of Texas
Randi
Taylor
Barbers Hill
MC Elite
Hale powers SNU with big week in softball
Southern Nazarene University outfielder Katie Hale, a Lee High School graduate, earned the Sooner Athletic Conference Player of the Week after a 9-for-12 stretch, boosting her week batting average to .583 and season marks to .430. Hale fueled two five-run wins over Ottawa and Texas Wesleyan with three multi hit games, two homers and six RBIs, while praising teammates for protection and team success as SNU pursues nationals.
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Southern Nazarene University
Robert E. Lee High School
Katie Hale
Hale
Sooner
Southern Nazarene
SNU
Ottawa University
Texas Wesleyan University
Ottawa
Robert E. Lee Grad
Sooner Athletic Conference
Texas Fishing Report North Sabine Through Galveston Bay
Texas fishing notes report fair to good trout along the Louisiana shoreline and Sabine jetty, with flounder and redfish at marsh drains and Rollover Pass. Sheepshead, black drum at jetty. various bays show solid trout activity on topwaters, Corkies, soft plastics, and live bait.
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North Sabine
Louisiana
Sabine
Lighthouse Cove
Bolivar
Rollover Pass
Trinity Bay
Galveston Bay
West Galveston Bay
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Rockhold
Erwin
BY Thomas Courtney
Lee High School
College Report
Texas Fishing Report
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