Other Sports Continued from page 8 - All Signs ... Continued from page 6 - Warriors ... always competitive,-three straight playoff appearances- ascending Park program. A program that before the La Marque loss, had risen up and moved into the “Sweet Sixteen”. Compared to the loss in Katy, one might call that kind of season- a better “sign” of the times.
Woodlands Historic Season Ends at the Hands of Number One Despite six three pointers by their leading scorer, Nolan Cass, and his own lead-taking threebie with just under three minutes remaining in regulation, The Woodlands High could not keep their school record victory- the most ever- and loss- the least ever- season going. It was 5A State Ranked Number One Garland Lakeview Centennial who used a winning three-pointer by Trelle Lewis with just over two minutes to go to grab an eventual 67-64 Region 2-5A Semifinal victory over the game Highlanders’ Boys’ basketballers. The game at Waco Midway High’s Gym was the last in 2011 for the 14-5A undefeated champs. TWHS finished 32-4 and 12-0 in the district. Lakeview’s Patriots rose to the State tourney one game later with a win over De Soto. The Garland ISD team goes to Austin with a 36 -1 record.
Wrestling the Hard Way Gets Fourth for KP’s Shewmake After losing his second round no classification UIL State Wrestling winner’s bracket match, Kingwood Park’s Cody Shewmake knew he was in for the grapple of his life. He also
“I came here this year from New Caney High because these guys were expected to win and I wanted to be a part of that (mix),” he says. Northeast ran their record to 35-2 with the win, a victory that was their 34th in a row. They were right in sync this season to make it a “three-peat” and six in ten years. Of course they were, after all, the “chemists” knew for sure.
knew that the highest he could finish was third place in the entire state, not just 4A, for there is no Class 4A or 5A or any A in Wrestling. Everyone is thrown into the same pot and everyone must fend for themselves at the Austin ISD’s Delco Center. It was something that was definitely done on February 25th and 26th by Shewmake as the 130,down to 126, pound-group athlete won all the way through three matches total against a pair of early winner’s bracket losers and one of the late winner’s round defeated competitors. Unfortunately, after stymying the latter performer, Josh Mendoza of the Panhandle town of Hereford, 12-6 in points, Shewmake lost a close encounter for the bronze medal, 5-3 with Arlington Martin’s Keith Sutton. Cody was able to get that far after he won a first round winners side match with San Antonio Reagan’s Justin Sanford, 6-3, before dropping a 12-3 match score to Greg Barrera of the Fort Worth area school, Northwest High of the Justin ISD. Relegated then to the consolation side, he rallied to pin Alex Scheer of Garland’s Lakeview Centennial High, in the second round of that bracket, and then knocked off Thaddeus Brown of New Braunfels in a close 5-4 match to set up the battle with Mendoza. The youngster finished the season with a record of 32 wins and only 4 losses, included in that was a 4-2 win-loss mark at State. In other State Wrestling, Conroe’s Alex Powell in the 128-120 pound group finished fourth on the female
side. The other girls were: Roshelle Zapiain of Oak Ridge- 111-119 pound category (1-2 with the win in the winners bracket), and Rachel Bates of ORHS in the 139-148 pound group (0-2). Joining the ladies were Humble’s man-mountain Markese Christian who went 0-2 in the heaviest 216-285 category and K-Park’s Will Lorenz who joined his brother Brandon Lorenz who went in 2010. Will finished a fine year 0-2 at State. And his grapplin’ Panther teammate Cody Shewmake finished as the fourth best wrestler in the State in his weight group. By coming through with three straight wins in the consolation bracket and just falling short of a medal, it’s pretty obvious that for the youngster, it could have been better with the final outcome, but not in the satisfaction he took in doing it the difficult way and almost landing a medal, and that’s hardly cause for total disappointment.
Sports with Brevity Congrats to Humble High’s FootballBasketball’sPaul “PBJ-Peanut Butter and Jelly” Boyette Jr. who is headed after next year’s Senior seasons to the University of Texas on a Football Scholarship. He is also HighPoints Versatile Athlete of the Fall-Winter Season-see next issue of HighPoints(Fall-Winter Wrap)in late March. The John Cooper School in The Woodlands has hired its first Head Football Coach, he’s Scott Holland who has been at the school coaching various sports since 1999. His associate Head Coach is current Varsity Head Baseball Coach Brent Landrum. The school will play a subvarsity schedule up until the 2013-14 season when they then will become a full-fledged varsity.
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