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From Page 1B a slew of layups to get off to a fast track. Orangefield even tually led 21-6 at the end of the first period. Nederland tried to scrap back in the second period but Orangefield still outscored the Lady Bulldogs to grab a commanding 35-18 cushion at intermission. Little and Riddick com bined for 10 second-quarter points. Guard Kelsey Pritchard, who led her team with nine points, scored six in the period for the Lady Bulldogs. Orangefield outpointed the Lady Bulldogs 14-8 in the third to grab a 49-26 advan tage heading to the fourth quarter. Wagner was able to bruise her way in the paint for eight points in the quar ter. The Lady Bobcat pressure continued to burn the Lady Bulldogs in the final eight minutes by forcing 13 turnovers in the quarter. Riddick put the finishing touches on the victory by tal lying eight of her points in the period. Orangefield held a strong CARR From Page 1B pay LSU $1.25 million. Gary DiNardo was in a simi lar situation when he was coaching at LSU and his alma mater contacted him about its opening a decade ago. “I told Notre Dame that I didn’t want to talk until the season was over, but each coach is different in how they handle that,” said DiNardo, who was in Arbor work ing for the Big Ten Network. “My advice to Les Miles would be to learn from the Nick Saban saga and to either tell the truth or don’t say any thing.” Saban said he had no inter est in the Alabama job when it became vacant nearly a year ago while he was coaching the Miami Dolphins, then declined comment the next month. After five weeks of denials and two days of deliberation, Saban bolted to coach the Crimson Tide. ZETAR — From Page 1B “He’s really had a good sea son but that Coldspring game, that is a heckuva highlight tape for him,” Thompson said. “He caused a lot of disruption and we're really going to need more of that on Friday against Giddings.” Zetar praised his teammates for his Coldspring effort. “My line mates deserve the credit,” Zetar said. “They were handling their guys pret ty well so that basically just put one guy on me. I felt like I was the stronger man and that helped me get on a bunch of plays. That’s the thing about our defense, there is no self ishness about us on things like who makes the most tack les it’s just all about flying to the football.” Zetar and the seventh ranked Mustangs are focusing hard this week for the top ranked Giddings Buffaloes in the area round of the Class 3A Region. IN Division I play offs The two teams will hook up Friday at 7:30 pm. at Pearland’s Oiler Stadium WOS defeat Gdldings 42. 21 in the Regional Finals in 2005 and the Buffaloes returned the favor by down ing the Mustangs 20-13 in the area round last season. Giddings has a ferocious running game, led by quarter back Brock Fitzhenry, who has rushed for more than 7,200 yards in four years rebounds while Zach Hayes had an oustanding all-around game with... 10..points, six rebounds and six assists. The Bobcats opened the game with a 17-7 spurt and used an 18-4 run in the second period to build a 35-11 half time cushion. Orangefield returns to action tonight when they trav el to Starks (La.) for a 6:30 p.m. game. — IdQO 49-36 rebounding advantage. Point guard Jessica Weldon had six points, six rebounds and six assists.Little, and Aimee Scales grabbed six rebounds apiece. While Marissa Wayatt chipped in with six points. Despite the loss, Nederland’s Alicia Thevis did a fabulous job on the boards, tying Riddick in game-high honors with 15 rebounds. Guard Bethany McCrary had eight points for the Lady Bulldogs while fel low guard Taylor Carlson added six The only struggle the Lady Bobcats had was from the free-throw line as they con verted just 7-of-19 from the charity stripe. Nederland went 9-of-20. Orangefield also committed 23 turnovers. The Lady Bobcats will return to action Thursday through Saturday when they compete in the prestigious Lovelady Tournament. In a little more that two weeks, the Lady Bobcats will play host to the longtime Orangefield Basketball Tournament, as all) Other candidates might include Kirk Ferentz of Iowa, where Michigan president Mary Sueleman was before coming to Ann Arbor, and major college coaches with Midwest ties such as Oklahoma’s Bob Stoops, a native of Youngstown, Ohio An Iowa spokesman said Monday that, Ferentz would not comment. Carr had a 121-40 record for a .752 swinnings percentage, seventh among active coaches behind Florida State’s Bobby Bowden and ahead of South Carolina’s Steve Spurrier. Michigan opened the season with a 34-32... loss to Appalachian state in one of college football’s — biggest upsets, and a loss to Oregon immediately followed. The Wolverines rebounded with eight straight wins and closed the regular season with two more Iduses — to Wisconsin*and Ohio State guys he Neus including almost 71,800 this season. sOrggA “This is a game we’ve been waiting for‘and now we've got it,” said Zetar “We know that they (Giddings) or bigger than us. That means we're going to have, to..find,,fat inner strength and use our quick ness to, our advantage. We really think we can slow them down but it’s going to take a team effort and that’s one thing we've been able to do all year” Zetar knows Thompson will have the defense prepared. “Coach Thompson, he’s so darn‘ tough,” Zetar said. “He can yell at us, and we deserve it sometimes. Tst thing about him is that ares for all of us. He may screaming at us one second but he’s right there to pat us on the back when we do something.good. I guess you can call it tough love and I respect that a lot.” Thompson has enjoyed an attitude this popace “He 3 our kid: toe YW . said. usually hanging right off my shoulder and is constantly in the game. It doesn’t seem that long ago when I was tearing his butt up trying to change his habits and now he’s a tendous assert to our tea sll be a kid I'll .certain next year, just for what he does around the fieldhouse and with his teammates.”
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