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st COUSINSWilson, Hackett and Ward addto proud John Tyler tradition

BY TRAVIS YOESTINGtyoesting@tylerpaper.com

One. A single line, a solitary tally.It signifies first or worst, the best or the loneliest. At John Tyler High School, the number 1 has a special

connotation, one of breathtaking athleticism and shatteredschool records.

Wearing the No. 1 jersey for the Lions football team thelast six years has carried significant weight and expecta-tions.

First Chris Hackett, the school’s all-time interceptionsleader. Then Greg Ward, who set countless passingrecords.

Now Jeremy Wilson, the diminutive running back who’schasing the biggest name of them all: Earl Campbell.

Hackett, Ward and Wilson — all bearers of the ‘1’ forCujo, all cousins.

Wilson, a 5-9, 170-pound dynamo, has 1,752 rushingyards through 14 games for John Tyler. He’s 284 yards shyof the legendary Campbell’s school record of 2,036.

Wilson has at least one more game to go. “Just him being the Tyler Rose, his name carries a lot of

weight around this school,” Wilson said. “Just to even be

NO. 1 >> PAGE 5C

Soccer star visits former TJC homeMAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER | DOM DWYER

HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL | JOHN TYLER HIGH SCHOOL

HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL | MINEOLA YELLOWJACKETS

BY CHRIS PARRYcparry@tylerpaper.com

Major League Soccer all-star DomDwyer was in town Wednesday after-noon to catch up with head coach SteveClements, converse a little with friendand former teammate Kyle Nicholls(now a TJC assistant) and play a littlepickup soccer with the national cham-pion Apaches.

Dwyer led Tyler Junior College to its

first two national titles in 2009 and 2010.The Apaches have since won threemore, most recently a month ago in Ari-zona.

“For him to come back and for theguys to be able to spend time withsomebody like that; someone they seeon television all the time and hear aboutall the time is (pretty special),” saidClements, who enjoyed the action of thepickup game held at Pat Hartley Soccercomplex.

“We love Dom as a player, but welove him more as a person. He’s just agood guy. He’s always fun and was apleasure to coach.”

It also helped that Dwyer was a pro-

lific goal scorer for the Apaches, andthat has continued in the MLS withSporting KC. Dwyer helped SKC win theMLS Cup last year and finished this sea-son as the league’s second-leadingscorer with 22 goals.

Sporting KC was knocked out of theplayoffs in the first round this year. Hewill fly back to the United Kingdomlater this week with Nicholls, also anEnglishman.

“It’s crazy; it’s kind of actually a per-fect time for me to come back rightnow,” Dwyer said about his return to theRose City. “I needed a break (following

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PRO FOOTBALL

Romo takesit easy withPhilly gamelooming

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IRVING — By now, TonyRomo is used to his abbrevi-ated workouts on Wednesdays.

He participated in the Cow-boys’ morning walk-throughbut did not take the field forthe afternoon practice. In-stead, the veteran quarterbackwent through a workout aimedat strengthening his surgicallyrepaired back.

The Cowboys will have 10days between last Thursday’svictory at Chicago and Sun-day’s showdown with the Ea-gles in Philadelphia. The teamsare tied atop the NFC East at 9-4, but the Eagles pounded Dal-las 33-10 on Thanksgiving,

Despite the extra days off— and the importance of agame that could determinewhether Dallas makes theplayoffs for the first time since2009 — Romo stuck with thepractice schedule he adoptedearly this season.

“I think just having a fewmore days off, and the ability totake the week like we’ve nor-mally been doing, I expect meand our team to be at our bestcome Sunday,” Romo said.

The win at Chicago im-proved Romo’s career record inDecember to just 13-17. Dallascould have reached the playoffsin any of the last three seasonsby winning the final game. WithRomo playing, the Cowboyslost 31-14 to the Giants in 2011and 28-18 to Washington in ‘12.Last year, an injured Romowatched Kyle Orton quarter-back the team during a 24-22loss to the Eagles.

“This team is completely dif-ferent than some of thoseteams in years past,” he said.“We’re much better up front.We’re probably blocking betterthan we have in some of thoseother times where it wasn’t asclean as it will be now. I thinkdefensively we’ll probably getan extra stop or two, specialteams will create another play.”

Dallas coach Jason Garrettbristled at a suggestion thatthe Cowboys would have torise to the occasion againstPhiladelphia.

“We don’t really talk muchabout rising to the occasion,”Garrett said. “We talk aboutbeing our best.”

Romo echoed his coach:

STAFF/AP FILE

TOP, JOHN TYLER STANDOUT Jeremy Wilson runs away from Nacogdoches’ Jamar Woodard for a touchdown during the 2013 regular season. Aboveleft, Baylor running back Lache Seastrunk (25) runs against TCU safety Chris Hackett (1), a former JT standout, during a 2013 college football game in FortWorth. Above right, Houston quarterback Greg Ward (1), a former star signal-caller for the Lions, runs with the ball against Rutgers in 2013.

Mineola orders‘extra large’for lineman twinsBY CHRIS PARRY

cparry@tylerpaper.com

MINEOLA — It has become aweekly ritual for Mineola coachJoe Drennon.

Before every game, he seeks outthe head referee to prepare him forwhat his two offensive tackles aregoing to do to the opposition.

“I always say, ‘You are going tosee somebody go by you and bedriven 10 yards down the field be-cause they are going to pin him,’”

Drennon said. “I still get a holdingcall every week because officialsare not used to seeing high schoolkids drive someone down the field

like that and then pancake them.They think it must be holding.”

Well, Riley and Austin Andersonare not your normal, everydayClass 3A offensive tackles. Thetwin brothers, both juniors, arelisted on the roster with Austinstanding 6-4 and 280 pounds andRiley at 6-4 and 270 pounds.

Drennon also believes neitherhas stopped growing. The two an-chor each side of Mineola’s offen-sive line, which has paved the wayfor the Yellowjackets to rush for

3,467 yards among their 4,547 totalwith 52 touchdowns.

Drennon said it’s easy to spotwhich side Mineola is running onbecause either Anderson will haveblocked his man at least 5 yardsdownfield. During pass plays, de-fensive ends rarely get around thetwo tackles to get to quarterbackJeremiah Crawford, although Dren-non said the size of the two Ander-sons creates another challenge.

MINEOLA >> PAGE 5C

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FORMER TYLERJUNIOR COLLEGEstar Dom Dwyer,now a Major LeagueSoccer all-star, visitedthe TJC campus onWednesday to seeSteve Clements, hisformer coach, andplay a pickup soccergame with the cur-rent Apaches’ soccersquad.

NAM Y. HUH/AP

DALLAS COWBOYS quarter-back Tony Romo (9) gets readyto throw a pass against theChicago Bears last Thursday inChicago.

ROMO >> PAGE 4C

n What: Class 3A Division I semifinaln When: 7:30 p.m. Fridayn Where: Gordon Wood Sta-dium, Brownwood

CLOSER LOOK

MINEOLA VS. SHALLOWATER

Dwyer led Apachesto 2 national titles

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TYLER MORNING TELEGRAPH | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2014

1949 — Johnny Lujack of theChicago Bears passes for 468 yardsand six touchdowns in a 52-21 rout ofthe Chicago Cardinals.

1971 — The Los Angeles Lakersset an NBA record with 21 straight wins by beating the At-lanta Hawks 104-95, breaking the record of 20 set by theMilwaukee Bucks the previous year.

1972 — Joe Namath of the New York Jets passes for403 yards and DonMaynard sets an NFLrecord for career re-ceptions in a 24-16loss to the OaklandRaiders. Maynard, with seven catches, breaks RaymondBerry’s record of 631 by one catch.

1999 — Rowan ends Mount Union's NCAA-record54-game winning streak, beating the Purple Raiders 24-17in overtime in a Division III semifinal game.

2006 — Jerry Sloan becomes the fifth coach in NBAhistory to win 1,000 games after Utah defeats Dallas 101-79.

2010 — Auburn quarterback Cam Newton wins theHeisman Trophy after a season in which heplayed brilliantly but was also the focus ofan NCAA investigation. Newton wins in alandslide vote with 729 first-place votes and

wins over runner-up Andrew Luck ofStanford by 1,184 points.

2011 — The Green Bay Packers go to13-0 after a 46-16 rout of Oakland. Going back to last sea-son and including the playoffs, they have won 19 straight,the second-longest NFL streak behind New England's 21.

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Records: Arizona Cardinals (10-3); St. Louis Rams (6-7)Favorite: Rams by 2½.Series record: Tied 35-35-2.Last meeting: Cardinals beat Rams 31-14, Nov. 9, 2014.Last week: Cardinals beat Chiefs 17-14; Rams beat Redskins 24-

0.AP PRO32 ranking — Cardinals No. 6, Rams No. 19.Cardinals offense — Overall (23), Rush (30), Pass (14)Cardinals defense — Overall (17), Rush (6), Pass (27)Rams offense — Overall (27), Rush (19T), Pass (26)Rams defense — Overall (11), Rush (10), Pass (14)Streaks, stats and notes — Cardinals are tied for best record

in NFC with Packers, have one-game lead over Seahawks, Eagles,Cowboys and Lions. ... Cardinals have double-digit wins for first timesince 1975-76 when franchise was in St. Louis. ... Cardinals are 7-0at home, most victories for franchise since 1925 when they were 11-2 at home, but have lost two straight on road. ... Rams have consec-utive shutouts for first time since 1941, outscoring Washington andOakland 76-0. They’re first team in NFL to do it since Cowboys in2009. ... Cardinals QB Drew Stanton passed for 239 yards and win-ning 26-yard TD pass to WR Jaron Brown in third quarter last week.... WR Larry Fitzgerald has 358 receptions for 4,697 yards with 38 TDsagainst NFC West since entering NFL in 2004, most of any playeragainst own division during that span. In 21 games against Rams,Fitzgerald has 131 receptions and 16 TDs, most against any oppo-nent. ... Rams also have won consecutive games, for first time thisseason, and have won four of six overall. ... Rams have 13 sacks inlast two games ... DT Aaron Donald had sack last week and leadsNFL rookies with seven. ... RB Tre Mason leads NFC rookies with 628yards rushing. In last three home games, he has 315 yards rushing,48 receiving and four TDs. ... TE Jared Cook had two TD catches lastweek. Cook caught seven passes for 141 yards and two TDs in lastmeeting vs. Cardinals at home in 2013 opener.

Staff Picks — Joe Buie, Rams; Travis Yoesting, Rams; Chris Parry,Rams; Jeff Schaffer, Rams; Eric Sullivan, Rams; Phil Hicks, Rams;Guest, Billy Hicks, Rams.

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FANTASY TAKEAWAY | CHRIS PARRY

Top performers deliver dudat worst time for fantasyO

n to Round 2, and for thoseof you still scouring rank-ings and dreaming of a fan-tasy football championship,congratulations on making

it this far.As for others, there are a couple of

big-name quarterback culprits who en-gineered many fantasy owners’ demiseslast week. In no particular order: PeytonManning, Phillip Rivers, Drew Brees.

Imagine the anguish Peyton Manningand Drew Brees owners felt on Sunday.If either were your starting quarterbackand you still won, I salute you.

You were the lucky ones.M o s t

used a Top7, or noworse thana first-roundpick onM a n n i n g .Well, he did-n’t pass very muchon Sunday. Manningfinished with awhopping 173 yards passing and two in-terceptions for zero points. I am willingto bet Manning hasn’t had a goose eggin fantasy ever.

Then there were the Drew Breesowners who began Sunday salivatingover the potential point production.New Orleans was playing Carolina atthe Superdome and the Panthers hadbeen brutal against the pass this season.

Well, Brees did at least get in the endzone, but 235 yards passing and an in-terception gave him 12 points. That isthe same number Philip Rivers pro-duced.

Neither of these were catastrophiclike Manning, but owners were lookingfor much more in the playoffs.

These words of empathy also go forunfortunate owners of TE Jimmy Gra-ham (three receptions for 25 yards), WRDeAndre Hopkins (four catches for 49yards), Andre Johnson (four catches for17 yards) and especially DemaryiusThomas (two catches for 11 yards).

Then there were the unfortunate in-dividuals that faced opponents whostarted Ben Roethlisberger, AaronRodgers, Andy Dalton and Matt Ryan.All three lit it up with Ryan giving anowner in my league the dream scenarioof 104 combined points thanks to himhaving Ryan and Julio Jones.

Before anyone rushed to the waiverwire to pick up Johnny Manziel and puthim in place of Brees or Manning,please take a deep breath and, asRodgers said earlier this year, “Relax.”

Start Brees and Manning with confi-dence this week for your semifinals be-cause there is no way either willduplicate that futility. Also start Thomasand Graham (who else are you going toplay at TE). They got you this far and

you were able to withstand a dud fromthem and are still playing, so betterthings await.

For those owners with Cam Newton,Andre Johnson, Brandon Marshall andTorrey Smith as their receiver, all threeshould be on your bench this week.Marshall is out for the season whileJohnson and Smith are big-time ques-tionable. Jones may also be a game-timedecision and Newton is out followinghis car accident, so be aware.

Always Be Working ReportMany leagues do not allow for transactions

during the playoffs, but for those that do, here area couple guys to target off your waiver wire.

Quarterback: Johnny Manziel, Cleveland —Johnny Football time has arrived. He is definitelyan all or nothing roll of the dice, but if you arescrambling because of Cam Newton or an inef-fective Jay Cutler, Manziel would not be a bad guyto pick up and play.

Running Back: Kerwynn Williams, Arizona —The Cardinals lost starter Andre Ellington for theseason and Williams stepped into the role lastweek and delivered 100 yards rushing. Thematchup is brutal this week at St. Louis, but if youare desperate, here he is.

Wide Receiver: Cole Beasley, Dallas — Don’tlook now but Beasley has caught three touch-downs in his past three games. Yes, he’s consid-ered the fourth option after Dez Bryant, TerranceWilliams and Jason Witten, but Tony Romo seemsto like him and he could be worth a flier if you’redesperate.

Deep Starts of the WeekThese are not normal starters, but rather play-

ers that should be able to take advantage of agood matchup

Quarterback: Kyle Orton, Buffalo (vs. GreenBay) — This guy has become the garbage-timemaster. Buffalo trailed 24-3 entering the fourthquarter last week against Denver until Ortonthrew a touchdown and ran in another score inthe game’s final five minutes to finish with 355yards and two scores. Expect more of the sameagainst Green Bay, which has jumped out to bigleads against Mark Sanchez (Philadelphia) andmost recently Matt Ryan (Atlanta) before allowingthose quarterbacks to rack up the yardage and

fantasy points in the second half.Wide Receiver: Steve Smith Sr., Baltimore (vs.

Jacksonville) — This has as much to do about op-portunity as matchup. The bottom line is whenTorrey Smith is not the main receiving weapon,Smith gladly takes those catches, yards andtouchdowns. In the first four weeks of the seasonwith Torrey and Joe Flacco not on same page,Smith Sr. exploded for games of 7-118-1, 6-71, 5-101 and 7-139-2. Torrey looks to be a game-timedecision, which means Steve is going to benefit.

Running Back: James Starks, Green Bay (atBuffalo) — This is a good option for two reasons:Eddie Lacy may not be able to handle his fullworkload and the Packers may blow out Buffalo,which gives Starks plenty of garbage-time oppor-tunity to rack up yards and possibly a touchdownor two.

How Did I Do Last Week?Quarterback: Eli Manning (at Tennessee) —

Manning delivered a serviceable 260 yards and ascore. I expected more.

Running Back: Carlos Hyde (at Oakland) —This matchup was tailor made for the rookie in ablowout game where Gore got his early and Hydedelivered big plays and touchdowns in the sec-ond half. The Raiders had been torched on theground a week earlier by St. Louis. Instead, Goreand really the whole SF offense struggled andHyde never got a chance.

Wide Receiver: Mohammed Sanu, Cincinnati(vs. Pittsburgh) — The Bengals rolled up 327yards passing in this game, but nearly all of itwent to A.J. Green. Sanu did not even get theobligatory TD pass, which went to Jermaine Gre-sham. When Green is putting up 224 yards receiv-ing, it doesn’t leave a lot for anyone else.

Last Action Heroes ReportThanks to big-time performacnes by De-

marco Murray and A.J. Green, LAH (11-3) pum-melled its first-round opponent Goodfellas166-89 in Dereliction League on CBS Sports. Nextup is a meeting with White Lines in the semfinalsafter that team scored 172 in its opening-roundwin.

A special acknowledgement to my wife. Herteam, WATTer Girl (big J.J. Watt fan) not only hasa 13-1 record, but she whipped me in the firstround of our playoffs in a Yahoo league. Her firstyear playing fantasy football and she’s eying achampionship with two more wins!

Good luck in Week 15!

AP

PEYTON MANNING needs to look away following arguably his worst fantasy weekever as an NFL quarterback. That it came for many owners in their playoffs’ openinground just makes it all the more tough to take.

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SPORTS BRIEFLY

Newton out Sunday against BucsAssociated Press

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Pan-thers coach Ron Rivera saysquarterback Derek Andersonwill start Sunday against theTampa Bay Buccaneers inplace of Cam Newton, who isrecovering from an automo-bile accident that left himwith two fractures in hislower back.

Rivera says it’s highly un-likely Newton will suit upagainst the Buccaneers.

Newton was dischargedfrom the hospital Wednes-day. He was not at the team’sfacility and Rivera says hewill be reevaluated nextweek.

The coach says he metwith Newton on Tuesday and“in true Cam fashion, he wasdisappointed for his team-mates.”

Rivera says he has confi-dence in Anderson, pointingout “he’s had some successin this league.”

Anderson started againstTampa Bay in the seasonopener and threw two touch-down passes, leading thePanthers to a 20-14 victory.

Ohio State QB Barrett, ex-girlfriend allege abuse

COLUMBUS, Ohio — In-jured Ohio State quarterbackJ.T. Barrett and his ex-girl-friend made 911 calls onTuesday morning allegingeach attacked the other.

A police report says Bar-rett and Alexandria Barrett-Clark were referred toprosecutors. Police say therewere no obvious signs of in-jury and both declined to filecharges.

The report quotes Barrettsaying Barrett-Clark refusedto leave his off-campus apart-

ment in Columbus, Ohio, andstruck him. It quotes Barrett-Clark saying he choked herand threw her across theroom. On the 911 tape, shetells the dispatcher she’spregnant.

“(There is) no investiga-tion. Both parties have theability to file a charge againstone another if they choose toat a later time through theprosecutor’s office,” Colum-bus Police spokesman Sgt.Rich Weiner said in a textmessage to The AssociatedPress. “Both parties statedthey did not want to filecharges at the scene.”

Ohio State football teamspokesman Jerry Emig saidWednesday he didn’t antici-pate coach Urban Meyercommenting on the situation.

“We are aware there wasan issue and we are gatheringmore information,” Emig saidin an email.

Barrett set Ohio Staterecords for touchdownpasses and total offense be-fore breaking his ankle in theBuckeyes’ regular-season fi-nale against Michigan.

Oklahoma judge to rule ondisputed football game

OKLAHOMA CITY — AnOklahoma County judge hasdelayed ruling on a requestby an Oklahoma City schoolto have part or all of a highschool football playoff gamereplayed.

Judge Bernard Jones saidafter hearing argumentsWednesday that he will handdown a ruling Thursdaymorning.

The controversy startedduring a state Class 3A quar-terfinal Nov. 28, when an im-properly enforced penaltyerased a touchdown that

would have put Douglassahead of Locust Grove with1:04 left.

The penalty, the secondsideline infraction against theTrojans, should have been en-forced on the extra point orthe kickoff instead of wipingout the long touchdown passand marking off the penaltyyardage from the previousspot. The Oklahoma Second-ary School Activities Associ-ation punished the officialsinvolved, calling the error “in-excusable at this level.”

Locust Grove held on towin 20-19, and Douglass ap-pealed to the OSSAA. The as-sociation's staff declined theappeal, then its board re-jected the replay options,prompting Douglass to go tocourt.

Douglass' representationbelieves Jones should rule inits favor without worryingabout the possible ripple ef-fects.

Oregon State hires Wisconsin’s Gary Andersen

Wisconsin coach Gary An-dersen unexpectedly steppeddown Wednesday to becomehead coach at Oregon State.

Andersen, the Badgers’coach for the past two sea-sons, informed the team ofhis decision Wednesday af-ternoon, the school said. Wis-consin finished 10-3 thisseason under Andersen andwill play in the Outback Bowlagainst Auburn on Jan. 1.

Wisconsin athletic direc-tor Barry Alvarez said thesearch for Andersen’s succes-sor had already started. Al-varez said he would considercoaching the team in thebowl game himself after sev-eral players asked him, buthad not made a final deci-

sion.Alvarez said Andersen

made the move for personalreasons.

Mike Riley left the Pac-12’sBeavers to accept the Ne-braska job after the dismissalof Bo Pelini. Oregon State fin-ished this season 5-7 and outof the postseason picture.

Oregon State will intro-duce Andersen as the 28thcoach in team history at anews conference Friday. Theannouncement of his hiringcame the same day OregonState announced extensiverenovation plans for its foot-ball facilities.

Andersen was 19-7 in histwo seasons as Wisconsin’scoach.

Owners approve new personal conduct policy

IRVING — NFL owners ap-proved changes to the per-sonal conduct policyWednesday, but Commis-sioner Roger Goodell will re-tain authority to rule onappeals.

A special counsel for in-vestigations and conduct willoversee initial discipline,Goodell said. The commis-sioner also may appoint apanel of independent expertsto participate in deciding anappeal.

The players’ union hassought negotiations with theNFL on any revamping of thepolicy, and said Tuesday itwould “reserve the right totake any and all actions”should the owners act unilat-erally. The union could con-sider Wednesday’s vote bythe owners as a violation ofthe collective bargainingagreement reached in 2011 toend the lockout of the play-ers.

COWBOYS SCHEDULEDec. 14 at Philadelphia 7:30 p.m. NBCDec. 21 Indianapolis 3:25 p.m. CBSDec. 28 at Washington noon FOX

TEXANS SCHEDULEDec. 14 at Indianapolis noon CBSDec. 21 Baltimore noon CBSDec. 28 Jacksonville noon CBS

Staff Reports

BROWNSBORO — The an-nual Great East TexasShootout, one of the biggestbasketball tournaments inthe Lone Star State, getsunder way today.

Nearly 100 games will beplayed in four gymnasiumsaround the Brownsboro areain three days. The Browns-boro Booster Club sponsorsthe big event with Bearettecoach Fred Griffin serving astournament director.

Thirty girls teams are en-tered, along with 18 boyssquads.

The first games begin at8:15 a.m. today and continuethrough the boys champi-onship game at 7 p.m. Satur-day. The girls title game is at5:45 p.m. Saturday.

The headquarters isBrownsboro High SchoolGym, which is located inback of the school, just offState Highway 31.

Great East Texas ShootoutBrownsboro High School

Girls TournamentThursday

Game 1: Kerens vs. Van, 8:15 a.m. (HS)Game 2: Chapel Hill vs. All Saints,

8:15 a.m. (JH)Game 3: Bullard vs. Lindale, 8:15 a.m.

(ELEM)Game 4: Whitehouse vs. Athens, 8:15

a.m. (INT)Game 5: John Tyler vs. Kaufman, 9:30

a.m. (ELEM)Game 6: Spring Hill vs. Bishop Gor-

man, 9:30 a.m. (JH)Game 7: Harmony vs. Canton, 11 a.m.

(INT)Game 8: Brownsboro vs. Grace Com-

munity, 11 a.m. (HS)Game 9: Crandall vs. Hallsville, 12:15

p.m. (INT)Game 10: Alba-Golden vs. Gladewa-

ter, 12:15 p.m. (JH)Game 11: Jacksonville vs. Palestine,

1:30 p.m.(ELEM)Game 12: Pittsburg vs. Maud, 1:30

p.m. (JH)Game 13: Fairfield vs. Mabank, 1:30

p.m. (INT)Game 14: Pine Tree vs. Liberty-Eylau,

3 p.m. (JH)Game 15: Winner Game 5 vs. Winner

Game 1, 3 p.m. (INT)Game 16: Winner Game 6 vs. Winner

Game 4, 3 p.m. (ELEM)Game 17: Winner Game 2 vs. Winner

Game 7, 4:15 p.m. (JH)Game 18: Winner Game 3 vs. Peaster,

4:15 p.m. (ELEM)Game 19: Loser Game 5 vs. Loser

Game 1, 4:15 p.m. (INT)Game 20: Loser Game 8 vs. Loser

Game 12, 5:45 p.m. (JH)Game 21: Loser Game 10 vs. Loser

Game 11, 5:45 p.m. (INT)Game 22: Winner Game 11 vs. Mar-

tins Mill, 7 p.m. (ELEM)Game 23: Winner Game 14 vs. Win-

ner Game 13, 7 p.m. (INT)Game 24: Winner Game 10 vs. Win-

ner Game 9, 7 p.m. (JH)Game 25: Winner Game 8 vs. Winner

Game 12, 7 p.m.(HS)Boys Tournament

ThursdayGame 1: Van vs. Bullard, 9:30 a.m.

(HS)Game 2: Palestine Westwood vs.

Gladewater, 9:30 a.m. (INT)Game 3: Pine Tree vs. Bishop Gor-

man, 11 a.m. (JH)Game 4: Martins Mill vs. Crandall, 11

a.m.(ELEM)Game 5: Brownsboro vs. Palmer,

12:15 p.m. (HS)Game 6: All Saints vs. Palestine, 12:15

p.m. (ELEM)Game 7: Grace Community vs. Arp,

1:30 p.m. (HS)Game 8: Gilmer vs. Hooks, 3 p.m. (HS)Game 9: Winner Game 6 vs. Royse

City, 4:15 p.m. (HS)Game 10: Winner Game 3 vs. Liberty-

Eylau, 5:45 p.m. (HS)Game 11: Loser Game 7 vs. Loser

Game 5, 5:45 p.m. (ELEM)

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Tyler Junior College held Jacksonville Col-lege to four points in the final eight minutesof the game as the No. 4 Apache Ladiesstayed unbeaten with a 69-50 win over theLady Jaguars on Wednesday at WagstaffGymnasium.

The Apache Ladies improve to 12-0 overalland 5-0 in Region XIV women’s basketballplay. The Lady Jags fall to 6-6 and 1-3.

TJC led throughout, but could not shakeJC. Finally, with 6:16 to go Brittny Norris hither fifth 3-pointer of the game as the ApacheLadies moved to a 54-46 advantage. The treyseemed to spark not only the Apache Ladies’offense, but also their suffocating defense.

Norris had a monster game, hitting 5 of 10long-distance attempts. She totaled 27 pointsand was one rebound short of a double-dou-ble.

Jasmine Prophet had a double-doublewith 17 points and 15 rebounds.

Jade Jones also helped control the glasswith 15 boards, while Victoria Kemokaipitched in 13 points and forced the LadyJaguars into seven turnovers.

TJC coach Trenia Tillis-Jones said it wasnot a textbook game for the Apache Ladies,but it was a good win considering Chelsi Wat-son was on the bench after suffering an in-jury against Paris on Dec. 3.

“The trainers wanted her to sit out onemore game; and I was concerned going intothis game with just one post, but the other

girls stepped up,” Tillis-Jones said.Kristina Smith was the only JC player in

double figures with 15 points. Libia Carmona led the Lady Jaguars with

10 rebounds and Christina Robinson addednine boards.

The Apache Ladies travel to Houston onSaturday to meet up-and-coming San JacintoCollege-North.

Tipoff is scheduled for 4 p.m.The Gators are ranked No. 15.The contest will be the final game of 2014

for the Apache Ladies.Jacksonville plays at Bossier Parish on

Saturday.SMOKE SIGNALS: In other Region XIV

women’s games, Bossier Parish defeatedCoastal Bend, 75-67; San Jacinto won overBlinn, 84-79; and Angelina downed Kilgore,62-47. … In men’s action, Lamar State-PortArthur topped Navarro, 95-89; Lee beat Trin-ity Valley, 86-78; Angelina downed Kilgore,71-58; San Jacinto won over Paris, 83-73;Blinn defeated Panola, 79-72; and CoastalBend won over Bossier Parish, 79-70.

———No. 4 Tyler Junior College 69,

Jacksonville College 50JACKSONVILLE — Breana Stoner, 2; Cecile Makakala, 0;

Shahd Abboud, 3; Brianna Wise, 9; Jamie Lamb, 3; Libia Car-mona, 5; Bria Freeland, 2; Joy Okeke, 3; Christina Robinson, 8;Kristina Smith, 15.

TYLER — Jade Jones, 7; Alexundria Sims, 3; VictoriaKemokai, 13; Erica Carson, 0; Amber Driver, 2; Princess Cole, 0;Brittny Norris, 27; Jasmine Prophet, 17; .

THREE POINT GOALS — JC: Smith (4). TJC: Norris (5).HALFTIME SCORE — Tyler 32-25.RECORDS — Jacksonville 6-6 (1-3), Tyler 12-0 (5-0).NEXT UP — Jacksonville at Bossier Parish, 4 p.m. Saturday;

Tyler at San Jacinto, 4 p.m. Saturday.

Norris’ 27 points help liftApache Ladies by Lady Jags

Unassuming Mariota puts upbragworthy season for Oregon

JUCO BASKETBALL

BY ANNE M. PETERSONAP Sports Writer

About the flashiest thing quarterbackMarcus Mariota has done off the field allseason is wear a T-shirt boldly embla-zoned with the word “Success.”

His showy moments have insteadcome during games for theplayoff-bound OregonDucks: His touchdown flip

against Wyoming, a creativeon-the-run shovel pass

against Michigan State,or a perfectly faked

handoff for a keeper inthe Pac-12 championship game againstArizona.

Spartans coach Mark Dantoniosummed it up: “Mariota is an outstandingquarterback. What he does is lead. Whathe shows is toughness. And what he doesis create.”

Like Dantonio, all of Oregon and Mar-iota’s opponents this season became bigfans.

“He’s tough to contain. You put pres-sure on him and he doesn’t feel it. He es-capes the pocket, throws the ball downthe field,” Stanford coach David Shawsaid after Mariota and the Ducks routedthe Cardinal 45-16 this season, summingup: “He’s special.”

Mariota goes into Saturday’s HeismanTrophy ceremony as the clear front run-ner. Here’s how he did it: Mariota set aPac-12 record this season with 53 totaltouchdowns, including a school-record 38via pass, 14 keepers and one TD recep-tion. He leads the nation with 10 games offour or more touchdowns this season. His38 touchdown passes are also an Oregonrecord.

Overall, Mariota has thrown for anOregon record 3,783 yards and just twointerceptions, and he’s the Ducks’ sec-ond-leading rusher with 669 yards.

The mobile junior from Hawaii hasthrown for at least one touchdown ineach of the first 39 games he’s played inat Oregon, an FBS-level record. He’s onlylost four games as Oregon’s starter.

He has set seven different career andseason Oregon records, and his 129 totaltouchdowns to date surpassed formerTrojan Matt Barkley’s previous Pac-12 ca-reer record of 122.

“He’s so good. Somebody was talkingto me the other day about how easy hemakes it look sometimes. What he’s doingis really difficult. His decision-making,competitiveness, his command of theteam is so outstanding,” Oregon coachMark Helfrich said. “It’s great to bearound him because he makes you wantto work harder as a coach. The other guysfeed off of him.”

Mariota, however, doesn’t take anycredit. The guys around him are whatmake him better, he says.

Soft-spoken, Mariota instead leads byexample. When a player is hurt on thefield, Mariota often lingers close by tooffer encouragement. Teammates havesaid they’ve never heard him raise hisvoice in anger.

“I don’t care what anybody says, be-cause he’s the best quarterback in the na-tion,” Colorado coach Mike MacIntyresaid after the Buffaloes were routed 44-10 at Oregon.

The Ducks (12-1) defeated Arizona 51-13 to win the Pac-12 championship on Fri-day. Two days later, Oregon was slottedNo. 2 in the final College Football Playoffrankings and will face undefeated FloridaState in the Rose Bowl on Jan. 1 for achance to play for a chance to play for the

national championship game.———

HE’LL WIN VOTES FOR: Three Heisman-worthy moments.

Among his four touchdowns in Oregon’s48-14 victory over Wyoming was an acro-batic second-quarter keeper where hesomersaulted over receiver Keanon Loweand a Cowboys defender for the touch-down.

Then there was a creative shovel passto freshman running back Royce Free-man that gave the Ducks a key first downin their 46-27 victory over then-No. 7Michigan State.

And although the Ducks would lose31-24 to Arizona back on Oct. 2, Mariotagot creative to start the second quarterwhen he handed off Freeman, wholobbed the ball back to Mariota for a 28-yard touchdown.

———HE’LL LOSE VOTES FOR:

It’s just not in Mariota’s nature to pro-mote himself.

So it really came as no surprise whenhe was consulted about a Heisman Tro-phy campaign — remember the Duckswent all out with the Times Square “JoeyHeisman” billboard for Joey Harringtonin 2001 — and he said he didn’t want Ore-gon to do anything. “I didn’t really wantall that attention,” he said. “I’m glad theywere kind of able to accept that and re-spect that decision.”

He may be downgraded for histurnover on what would turn out to beOregon’s final drive in the loss to Arizona.Pac-12 Defensive Player of the YearScooby Wright sacked Mariota andstripped him of the ball for a turnoverwith 2:11 to play to seal the Wildcats’upset.

———NFL PROSPECTS:

Most pundits say Mariota will beamong the first five players taken in thedraft, but it remains to be seen whetherMariota or Florida State’s Jameis Winstonwill be the first quarterback to be se-lected. Winston won last year’s Heismanbut was left out of the group of finaliststhis year. The main question is whetherthe success Mariota’s had in Oregon’s sys-tem can translate to the NFL.

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TYLER JUNIOR COLLEGE’S Victoria Kemokai (5) drives past Jacksonville College’s BreanaStoner during a Region XIV women’s basketball game on Wednesday at Wagstaff Gymna-sium. The Apache Ladies won 69-50.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL | HEISMAN TROPHY FINALISTS

HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL

Associated Press

HOUSTON — Arizona linebackerScooby Wright won the Lombardi Awardon Wednesday night as the nation’s bestlineman.

The sophomore edged Clemson seniordefensive end Vic Beasley, Washington

senior linebacker Hau’oli Kikaha andOhio State sophomore defensive endJoey Bosa for the award presented by theRotary Club of Houston.

Wright won the Bronko NagurskiAward on Monday night as the top collegedefensive player, and was the Pac-12 De-fensive Player of the Year.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL | LOMBARDI AWARD

Arizona’s Wright wins Lombardi Award

Great East Texas Shootout gets under way

the MLS season) and I come back hereand get to (visit) with people who reallycare about you.”

Clements said he received a textmessage from Dwyer prior to leadinghis team out on the field for the NJCAAChampionship match in November.

“I try to find out as much informationas I can and always keep up with theguys,” Dwyer said. “That’s why it’s sonice to come back here. And if I canhelp and attract (a few more players toTJC), then I always will.”

Dwyer played one year at SouthFlorida before being drafted in the firstround of the MLS SuperDraft in 2012 bySporting Kansas City. He made his prodebut on May 29, 2012, in a victory overOrlando City in the Lamar Hunt U.S.Open Cup.

Ironically, it’s Orlando City Dwyercredits for helping to save his career.

After seeing minimal playing time forSporting, he was loaned to Orlando Cityin 2013.

“When I went to Orlando, that reallyhelped me a lot because I neededgames, I needed to play and have somefun and remember what it was about,”Dwyer said. “Even though Orlando wasa league below us, it wasn’t easy. I hadto do well at that level because (if Istruggled) there was no way they weregoing to bring me back.”

Dwyer returned to Sporting KC laterin the year and scored the game-win-ning goal for his club in the EasternConference Finals to advance Sportingto the MLS Cup.

This year he played in 33 matches forSKC.

“I worked as hard as I could and gotback to Kansas City stadium and justhave kept working,” Dwyer said. “Thechances you sometimes get are verysmall and I was about maybe a monthaway from getting cut from the team;what a difference now.”

Dwyer had a loan move in 2013 to St.

Mirren of the Scottish Premier Leaguescuppered by SKC. He has hopes ofpossibly playing out a one- or two-month loan for an EPL or SPL team thisyear before returning back for the 2015MLS season, but understands it is up toSKC.

“It is something I definitely wouldlike to do,” Dwyer said. “I am hoping toget something sorted in the next coupleof weeks. It is a process that is up to KCand what they think. I am waiting to fi-nalize that (opportunity) and we’ll gofrom there.”

One team that is in need of strikingtalent at the moment is Liverpool,which has seen its goals dry up with thetransfer of Luis Suarez and injury toDaniel Sturridge.

Dwyer supported Liverpool growingup and admits he would love to walkout onto the pitch at Anfield and be ser-enaded by the fans with the team’s an-them “You’ll Never Walk Alone.”

“That would be a dream, but I am en-joying myself in MLS right now,” Dwyersaid.

SPORTS4C TYLERPAPER.COM THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2014

NBA TODAYSTANDINGS

EASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division

W L Pct GBToronto 16 6 .727 —Brooklyn 8 12 .400 7Boston 7 13 .350 8New York 4 20 .167 13Philadelphia 2 19 .095 13½

Southeast Division W L Pct GBAtlanta 15 6 .714 —Washington 15 6 .714 —Miami 10 11 .476 5Orlando 9 15 .375 7½Charlotte 6 15 .286 9

Central Division W L Pct GBCleveland 13 7 .650 —Chicago 13 8 .619 ½Milwaukee 11 12 .478 3½Indiana 7 15 .318 7Detroit 3 19 .136 11

WESTERN CONFERENCESouthwest Division

W L Pct GBMemphis 17 4 .810 —Houston 16 4 .800 ½San Antonio 16 6 .727 1½Dallas 17 7 .708 1½New Orleans 10 11 .476 7

Northwest Division W L Pct GBPortland 17 5 .773 —Denver 9 12 .429 7½Oklahoma City 8 13 .381 8½Utah 6 16 .273 11Minnesota 5 16 .238 11½

Pacific Division

W L Pct GBGolden State 18 2 .900 —L.A. Clippers 16 5 .762 2½Phoenix 12 11 .522 7½Sacramento 11 11 .500 8L.A. Lakers 6 16 .273 13

———Tuesday’s Games

Cleveland 105, Toronto 101Portland 98, Detroit 86New Orleans 104, New York 93Oklahoma City 114, Milwaukee 101Memphis 114, Dallas 105Miami 103, Phoenix 97Utah 100, San Antonio 96L.A. Lakers 98, Sacramento 95

Wednesday’s GamesWashington 91, Orlando 89L.A. Clippers 103, Indiana 96Charlotte 96, Boston 87Atlanta 95, Philadelphia 79Chicago 105, Brooklyn 80Dallas 112, New Orleans 107Minnesota 90, Portland 82San Antonio 109, New York 95Houston at Golden State (n)Miami at Denver (n)

Thursday’s GamesCleveland at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.Houston at Sacramento, 9:30 p.m.

Friday’s GamesPortland at Chicago, 6 p.m.L.A. Clippers at Washington, 6 p.m.Orlando at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m.Indiana at Toronto, 6:30 p.m.New York at Boston, 6:30 p.m.Philadelphia at Brooklyn, 6:30 p.m.Cleveland at New Orleans, 7 p.m.Charlotte at Memphis, 7 p.m.Oklahoma City at Minnesota, 7 p.m.Detroit at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

Miami at Utah, 8 p.m.L.A. Lakers at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m.

WEDNESDAY’S BOXES

Mavericks 112, Pelicans 107NEW ORLEANS (107)

Babbitt 2-7 0-0 5, Davis 11-20 9-9 31, Asik 2-6 2-4 6, Holiday 12-22 1-2 30, Evans 4-11 0-0 8, Cun-ningham 2-3 0-0 4, Anderson 3-8 7-7 13, Rivers 2-51-2 6, Mekel 2-6 0-0 4. Totals 40-88 20-24 107.DALLAS (112)

Parsons 8-13 1-1 20, Nowitzki 8-16 4-4 20, Chan-dler 4-7 1-1 9, Barea 1-7 0-0 2, Ellis 11-19 2-3 26,Aminu 0-0 3-4 3, Harris 8-13 1-1 20, Wright 2-2 1-15, Crowder 1-4 0-0 3, Jefferson 1-2 2-2 4. Totals 44-83 15-17 112.New Orleans 15 36 27 29 — 107Dallas 25 22 30 35 — 112

3-Point Goals—New Orleans 7-18 (Holiday 5-8,Rivers 1-1, Babbitt 1-5, Mekel 0-1, Evans 0-1, Ander-son 0-2), Dallas 9-21 (Parsons 3-6, Harris 3-7, Ellis 2-2, Crowder 1-3, Jefferson 0-1, Nowitzki 0-1, Barea0-1). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—New Orleans53 (Asik 15), Dallas 40 (Chandler, Nowitzki 6). As-sists—New Orleans 16 (Holiday 10), Dallas 17 (Ellis5). Total Fouls—New Orleans 20, Dallas 18. Techni-cals—Asik, Chandler. A—19,988 (19,200).

———Spurs 109, Knicks 95

NEW YORK (95)Hardaway Jr. 9-18 1-2 23, Acy 3-6 2-2 8,

Stoudemire 4-6 0-0 8, Calderon 1-4 0-0 2, Shumpert2-6 4-5 8, Dalembert 1-4 0-0 2, Ja.Smith 5-10 4-4 14,Larkin 2-3 2-2 6, Prigioni 3-7 0-0 8, Wear 3-5 0-0 6,Aldrich 4-7 2-2 10. Totals 37-76 15-17 95.SAN ANTONIO (109)

Anderson 4-5 0-0 9, Bonner 4-5 1-2 10, Baynes 1-4 8-8 10, Joseph 4-9 1-2 9, Green 3-10 6-7 13, Be-linelli 6-13 7-7 22, Diaw 5-9 0-0 12, Ayres 5-5 1-2 11,

Daye 4-11 0-0 10, Splitter 1-2 1-2 3. Totals 37-73 25-30 109.New York 26 26 21 22 — 95San Antonio 29 27 38 15 — 109

3-Point Goals—New York 6-15 (Hardaway Jr. 4-7, Prigioni 2-6, Shumpert 0-1, Wear 0-1), San Anto-nio 10-19 (Belinelli 3-3, Diaw 2-2, Daye 2-5, Bonner1-1, Anderson 1-2, Green 1-6). Fouled Out—None.Rebounds—New York 42 (Dalembert 6), San Anto-nio 40 (Ayres 6). Assists—New York 22 (Shumpert6), San Antonio 22 (Joseph 6). Total Fouls—NewYork 25, San Antonio 16. Technicals—Prigioni,Stoudemire. Flagrant Fouls—Belinelli. A—18,581(18,797).

NBA LEADERSTHROUGH DEC. 9

Scoring G FG FT PTS AVGBryant, LAL 22 192 146 562 25.5Harden, HOU 20 143 172 503 25.2Davis, NOR 20 194 108 496 24.8James, CLE 20 172 120 495 24.8Griffin, LAC 20 185 104 480 24.0Curry, GOL 20 160 83 462 23.1Anthony, NYK 21 180 89 480 22.9Aldridge, POR 20 173 89 446 22.3Bosh, MIA 21 166 96 460 21.9Butler, CHI 18 126 123 391 21.7Gay, SAC 20 150 114 432 21.6Thompson, GOL 19 140 67 402 21.2Irving, CLE 20 142 93 416 20.8Ellis, DAL 23 184 77 468 20.3Lowry, TOR 22 148 112 443 20.1Gasol, CHI 17 138 65 341 20.1Green, BOS 19 132 82 376 19.8Lillard, POR 21 136 87 412 19.6Jefferson, CHA 20 170 51 391 19.6Gasol, MEM 21 143 123 409 19.5

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL | WINTER MEETINGS

Associated Press

SAN DIEGO — Clayton Kershawis considered the top pitcher inbaseball, with three Cy YoungAwards in four years for the Los An-geles Dodgers, an NL Most ValuablePlayer award and a $215 million,seven-year contract.

Max Scherzer may be seeking aneven bigger deal as his talks on thefree-agent market move forward.

“I’m not sure Kershaw is rele-vant,” agent Scott Boras saidWednesday at the winter meetings,“because he’s not a free agent.”

Jon Lester became the first top-level, free-agent starting pitcher toreach an agreement this offseason,a $155 million, six-year deal withthe Chicago Cubs that came to-gether late Tuesday night.

Scherzer turned down an offerfrom Detroit last March that wouldhave paid $144 million from 2015-20. Kershaw has the largest con-tract for a pitcher in both totaldollars has the sport’s highest aver-age salary at $30.7 million.

“The prominent pitchers thathave signed, (Justin) Verlander or(Felix) Hernandez or Kershaw, werenot free-agent players,” Boras said.“And certainly if you put a perform-ance like Kershaw into a free-agentmarket, you’re going to get a much,much different calibration of value.”

Scherzer’s negotiations figure to

stretch on for weeks or even intonext year.

Sources: Astros add relievers Gregerson, Neshek

SAN DIEGO — The Houston Astroshave bolstered their bullpen by agree-ing to an $18.5 million, three-yearcontract with Luke Gregerson and a$12.5 million, two-year deal with PatNeshek, people familiar with the ne-gotiations said Wednesday.

The people spoke on conditionof anonymity because the dealswith the right-handers were subjectto physicals.

Gregerson, 30, spent five yearswith San Diego, then went 5-5 witha 2.12 ERA in 72 appearances forOakland last season. Neshek, 34,has pitched for Minnesota, SanDiego, Oakland and St. Louis. Hewas 7-2 with a 1.87 ERA for the Car-dinals this year, when he struck out68 in 67 1-3 innings and was pickedfor his first All-Star game.

Gregerson, who could take overas closer from Chad Qualls, re-ceives $6 million next year and$6.25 million in each of the final twoseasons.

Neshek gets $5.5 million nextyear and $6.5 million in 2016. Thedeal includes an option at $6 millionto $9 million, depending on his per-formance, with a $500,000 buyout.

Enberg wins Frick Awardfor baseball broadcasting

SAN DIEGO — Dick Enberg saidit was “certainly an ‘Oh my!’ mo-ment” when he got the phone callsaying he’d won the Ford C. FrickAward for excellence in baseballbroadcasting.

Enberg got the call from base-ball’s Hall of Fame, which an-nounced the selection Wednesdayat the winter meetings.

Famed for his exclamation of“Oh my!” Enberg has been callingMajor League Baseball games inSouthern California for nearly 20seasons, split by stints as one of themost recognizable voices on NBCand CBS.

Enberg said the call from theHall of Fame “took me to my knees.Baseball is part of my DNA. ... Thatwas certainly an ‘Oh my!’ moment.

“‘Oh my!’ came from my mother,in dismay of something I had doneor encountered,” he said. “It’s a niceMidwestern term, a term of ac-knowledgement.”

Enberg was the voice of the Cali-fornia Angels from 1968-78 beforeshifting to commentating on a na-tional level. He has been broadcastingPadres games on local TV since 2010.

Enberg, who will be 80 nextmonth, is the 39th winner of theFrick Award. He will be honored

during the Hall of Fame awardspresentation on July 25 in Cooper-stown, New York.

College BasketballWOMENNo. 9 Baylor 88, Idaho 70

WACO — Kristy Wallace scored24 points with six 3-pointers in herreturn for ninth-ranked Baylor afterthe Australian freshman missed fivegames to play for her homelandteam, and the Lady Bears beatIdaho 88-70 on Wednesday night.

Nina Davis added 21 points andNiya Johnson 15 points and nine as-sists for the Lady Bears, who havewon six games in a row.

Wallace had three 3s in the final6:25 of the first half, when the LadyBears (7-1) used a 20-12 run to fi-nally get some separation againstIdaho (4-4). The Australian guardhad an assist on the opening basketafter halftime for a 41-30 lead.

MENTexas Tech 73, Fresno State 56

LUBBOCK — DevaugntahWilliams scored 17 points to leadTexas Tech to a 73-56 home winWednesday against Fresno State.

The Red Raiders (6-1) used astrong second-half defensive per-formance to shut down the Bull-dogs. Fresno State scored just 25

second-half points and shot 9 of 25(36 percent) in the second half.

The Bulldogs (3-7) trailed by justthree points, 34-31, at halftime.

They scored their first second-half point on a free throw with 14:22remaining. Their first field goal did-n’t come until 7:42 remained in thegame. That just trimmed TexasTech’s lead to 55-39.

Incarnate Word 74, Nebraska 73LINCOLN, Neb. — Kyle Hittle hit

a contested baseline jumper afterNebraska’s Terran Petteway threwaway an inbound pass, and Incar-nate Word upset Nebraska 74-73 onWednesday night for the biggest vic-tory in the Cardinals’ one-plus sea-sons making the transition fromDivision II to Division I.

The Cornhuskers looked likethey might survive after ShawnJohnson made 2 of 3 free throws toleave Incarnate Word (6-1) down apoint with 6.7 seconds left.

But Petteway threw to no one onthe inbound play, and the ball rolledout of bounds near the half courtline. Mitchell Badillo inbounded toHittle, who took two steps and madehis 10-footer along the baseline.

Petteway’s desperation shot atthe buzzer was short, and IncarnateWord’s players ran onto the court tocelebrate while stunned Nebraskafans began heading to the exits.

Scherzer could be seeking more than Kershaw; Astros add relievers

LM OTERO/AP

PELICANS’ ANTHONY DAVIS (23) shoots against Maverickscenter Tyson Chandler (6) during their game Wednesday inDallas. The Mavericks won 112-107.

HS SPORTS | LATE TUESDAY

Bell helps Gorman grab overtime win, 55-52Staff Reports

Judah Bell poured in 20points to go with 12 re-bounds, five steals and threeassists and Bishop Gormanoutlasted Mount Pleasant-Chapel Hill 55-52 in overtimeon Tuesday.

Nic Vandiver added 14points while Nick Felix hadnine rebounds for the Cru-saders, who hit on 20 of 48shots, including 4 of 15 from3-point range..

Zach Shipp had 13 andKyle Tosh 11 for MP-CH,which shot 41 percent fromthe field but 2 for 11 from be-yond the arc.

Gorman held a 29-26 edgeon the glass, 11 of whichwere offensive rebounds.

———Bishop Gorman 55, MountPleasant-Chapel Hill 52, OT

MPCH 11 11 15 11 4 — 52Gorman 9 15 12 12 7 — 55

MOUNT PLEASANT-CHAPEL HILL —Zach Shipp, 13; Kyle Tosh, 11; Damen Jones,7; Ruston Jones, 8.

GORMAN — Judah Bell, 20; Nick Felix,5; Nic Vandiver, 14; Cartrell Freeman, 8; Jor-dan Morales, 8.

Winona gets past TroupTROUP — Josee Ross tal-

lied 31 points and 12 re-bounds for Troup but itwasn’t enough as Winonapulled out a 62-58 win onTuesday.

Paeton Nolan added 13points and eight assists forthe Lady Tigers.

———Winona 62, Troup 58

Winona 18 10 19 15 — 62Troup 5 14 22 17 — 58

Boys Box ScoresRains 36, Hawkins 24

Hawkins 6 9 6 3 — 24Rains 8 10 10 8 — 36

HAWKINS — Caleb Pair, 2; DemyrionFrancis, 3; Jason Ford, 7; Jeffrey Perkins, 6;Lavon Davis, 6.

RAINS — J. Richardson, 3; M. White, 2;J. Thomas, 10; N. Grell, 7; D. Miller, 9; C.Cobb, 5.

THREE POINT GOALS — H: Ford. R:Richardson, Grell, Miller.

NEXT UP — Hawkins vs. Jefferson, 6p.m. Thursday, Big Sandy Tournament

———Junior Varsity

John Tyler 58, Texas High 35John Tyler 17 18 17 6 — 58Texas High 7 8 12 8 — 35

JOHN TYLER — R. Hill, 13; G. Berry, 6;K. Key, 2; C. Lyles, 11; Z. Bueford, 3; A.Bridges, 4; K. Tate, 7; M. Moore, 9; Z. Wide-man, 3.

TEXAS HIGH — E. Sutton, 3; J. Perry, 9;R. James, 5; A. Gulley, 1; M. Tucker, 1; D.Hooper, 10; M. Martin, 4; C. Jones, 1.

THREE POINT GOALS — JT: Lyles,Wideman. TH: Sutton, James.

———All Saints 54, Wills Point 33

Wills Point 5 7 9 12 — 3All Saints 9 9 21 15 — 54

WILLS POINT — Crouch, 3; Mc-Connally, 4; Davis, 8; Reed, 2; Webb, 8; Love,8.

ALL SAINTS — Nathan Jasper, 5;Danny Cho, 2; Carter Baugh, 4; Logan Brad-bord, 17; Sam DeBoer, 6; Patrick Pulliam, 2;Lance Lee, 2; K.J. Bickham, 5; Will Sharkey,6; Christian Combest, 5.

THREE POINT GOALS — WP: Love. AS:Jasper, Bradford, Combest.

RECORDS — All Saints 4-4.NEXT UP — All Saints vs. Spring Hill in

the Van Holiday Tournament, 2:20 p.m.Thursday.

Brook Hill opens leagueplay with split at DC

MESQUITE — BullardBrook Hill opened TAPPS D-II District 2 soccer actionwith a win and a loss at Dal-

las Christian on Tuesday.The Lady Guard fell 4-3 on

penalty kicks after a score-less game through regulation.

The Guard rallied from agoal behind to win 4-3, withMichael Omini scoring a hattrick.

In the girls match, BrookHill goalie Heather McLarrymade 11 saves while the de-fense of Ari Assad andDanielle Adams kept theLady Chargers off the board.

Scoring on spot kicks forthe Lady Guard were Assad,Keren Wallace and McLarry.

The Guard trailed 2-1 athalftime but came on strongin the second half.

Kyle Regester scored theother goal for Brook Hillwhile Showa Domia had twoassists.

The Guard next play athome against Dallas Sheltonat 6 p.m. on Friday while theLady Guard are off until Jan-uary.

NBA WEDNESDAY

Associated Press

DALLAS — Monta Ellisscored 13 of his 26 points inthe final 5 minutes and theDallas Mavericks outlastedthe New Orleans Pelicans112-107 on Wednesday night.

New Orleans had a chanceto tie the game in the final 6seconds, but Ryan Anderson’s3-point attempt bounced offthe rim. Dallas’ Richard Jef-ferson grabbed the rebound,was fouled and made bothfree throws to seal the win.

Dirk Nowitzki, ChandlerParsons and Devin Harrisscored 20 points each for Dal-las. Ellis was coming off a 2-point game at Memphis onTuesday, his lowest outputsince he was a rookie in 2006.

Anthony Davis scored 31points and added 11 re-bounds before limping off thecourt in the fourth quarter forthe Pelicans, and Jrue Holi-day added a season-high 30points and 10 assists.

Harris had only sevenpoints until the final minuteof the third quarter, and thenscored 13 in a 6-minute spanto help the Mavericks turn aone-point deficit to a six-point lead. Ellis took overfrom there.

Harris had started threegames in November whenstarting point guard JameerNelson was out because ofback spasms. Nelson didn’tplay Wednesday because of asore right shoulder. J.J. Bareastarted while Harris re-mained in a reserve role.

Traling 25-15 after the firstquarter, the Pelicans pulled to27-23 with an 8-2 run, but 3-pointers by Dallas’ Jae Crow-der and Parsons bookendedan 8-0 run for a 35-23 lead.

New Orleans tied thegame at 43 on Ryan Ander-son’s tip-in and went ahead47-45 on a basket by Holiday.

The Pelicans led 51-47 at half-time.

TIP-INSPelicans: Mekel, a Maver-

ick last season, was back inDallas as New Orleans signedhim as a free agent Friday. ...The Pelicans shot 27 percentfrom the field (6 for 22) in thefirst quarter, but turnedaround to hit 60 percent (12for 20) in the second. . NewOrleans outrebounded Dallas45-29. Omer Asik led with 15.

Mavericks: Dallas is 10-1when Nowitzki scores 20points or more. . Ellis hadbeen a game-time decision atMemphis because of a soreelbow, and he made only 1 of11 field goals. He was clearedto play Wednesday, enteringthe game with a team-high20.3 points per game.

Spurs 109, Knicks 95SAN ANTONIO — Marco

Belinelli scored a season-high22 points and the short-handed San Antonio Spursrolled to a 109-95 victory overNew York on Wednesdaynight, handing the Knickstheir 10th straight loss.

San Antonio, playing with-out its Big Four, was 10 for 19on 3-pointers and shot 50 per-cent overall. The Spurs hadseven players in double fig-ures, getting 13 points fromDanny Green and 12 fromBoris Diaw.

San Antonio was withoutTim Duncan, Tony Parker,Manu Ginobili and KawhiLeonard. Parker (left ham-string) and Leonard (bruisedright hand) were both injured,but Duncan and Ginobili satout to rest on the secondnight of a back-to-back.

Tim Hardaway Jr. scored23 points on 9-for-18 shootingfor the hapless Knicks, whofell to 4-20.

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“We need to be the best version of ourselves this game.”Garrett was asked twice to compare preparing 10 days for

the Eagles now, when the team had just four days before theThanksgiving game.

“We are not talking about the last game and the prepara-tion leading up to that game,” he said.

To cornerback Orlando Scandrick, it doesn’t matterwhether the game was 17 days or 17 weeks ago.

“You’ve only got one week to prepare for each team,” he said.

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mentioned close to him is an unbeliev-able feeling.

“I’m shooting for a ring first, but be-sides that I’m shooting for the record.”

The Lions face Aledo in the Class 5ADivision I state semifinals at 2 p.m. Sat-urday in Mesquite. A win gives Wilsona 16th game to pass Campbell, the Heis-man Trophy winner and Pro FootballHall of Famer.

It would only be fitting for Wilson toclaim a school record given his cousinswho came before, cementing their sta-tus as the first family of John Tyler foot-ball.

Hackett snagged a record 15 inter-ceptions over his high school career, in-cluding 12 during his senior year in2010.

Ward owns JT records in careerpassing yards (7,963), career comple-tions (566), career passing touchdowns(77), single-season passing yards(4,190) and single-game passing yards(551). Ward also has a share of the sin-gle-game state completions record with48, set against Denton Guyer in the2012 state semifinals.

“That’s really crazy the way it fallslike that,” Hackett said. “I’m pretty surehe’s more worried about getting thewin and getting to state as a team.”

Added Ward: “He needs to keep it allin the family, so he needs to go aheadand get this record.”

Wilson has run for 125 yards pergame this year and needs to run for 142in the next two games to reach Camp-bell’s mark. That number is feasiblegiven that Wilson has averaged 168yards in four playoff games, including231 last week against McKinney North.

While Campbell was a bruiser wholeft defenders dazed, Wilson takes thesmallest opening and dashes through adefense, leaving opponents in the dust.

“Sometimes it’s crazy watching himrun,” JT quarterback Geovari McCollis-ter said. “Me and him grew up together,we’ve been playing football togetherfor a long time. Some of the things hedoes, it’s not normal.

“He’s fast; he’s strong. He can prettymuch take over a game by himself if weneed him to and I love that about him.He’s determined.”

Though cousins by name, the rela-tionship of Hackett, Ward and Wilson iscloser to that of brothers. Playing andcompeting with each other through theyears has helped all three excel at JohnTyler and beyond.

Hackett, a redshirt junior at TCU,was recently named Big 12 first-teamall conference as a safety. The 6-2 de-fender tied for the league lead in inter-ceptions with six, the seventh-best

mark in the nation. Hackett finishedfourth on the sixth-ranked HornedFrogs with 73 tackles.

Ward earned the starting quarter-back job at the University of Houstonas a sophomore this fall after perform-ing as a receiver, while also runningand throwing as a freshman. The 5-11quarterback threw for 1,736 yards andnine touchdowns while rushing for 643and six more scores during the regularseason.

“Every day that we worked out witheach other, we competed with eachother,” Ward said. “They alwaysworked hard, they never complainedabout anything, they always showed ef-fort regardless of the situation. They’reamazing to play with.”

“It was all about separating our-selves and showing each other that wewere going to make it.”

Wilson, the youngest and shortest at5-9, had the most guidance and themost to live up to.

In 2012 when Wilson was a sopho-more role player and Ward the starquarterback, Wilson said Ward gavehim constant advice.

“He was on me like I was a senior,”Wilson said. “I didn’t even really get toplay that much, but he was still on mewhen I made a mistake or made awrong step.”

All those years of competing with fu-ture Division I athletes had an effect onWilson, who has elevated his game in hisfirst year as the starting running backafter going for 442 yards as a junior.

“It was rough playing backyard foot-ball with them; it was rough,” Wilsonsaid. “They showed me tough love, butit’s all paying off now; and they alwaystold me it would be hard because of mysize, but they told me I could overcomeit and I’m waiting for my opportunityright now.”

Added Hackett: “Jeremy’s had agreat season and he’s showing that hecan be one of those top players that cango play Division I football. It’s comingfrom the help of his teammates and agreat coach, coach Ricklan Holmes.”

While Hackett, Ward and Wilson allhave different abilities, one commontheme is speed.

“They all can run,” said Holmes,who was Hackett’s secondary coachbefore being named JT head coach in2012. “Hackett is the biggest of thethree. Greg is the more football savvyone. Jeremy is just tough.

“He’s a tough little kid. He’s ablazer.”

Holmes said he thinks Wilson is thefastest of the three, to which Wilson un-surprisingly agreed. Hackett said Wil-son might be a little faster while Wardadmits it’d be one heck of a race be-tween the two.

“We’re all athletes; we basically dothe same exact things,” Hackett said.

Holmes has a special relationshipwith the No. 1 trio, knowing their par-ents and having watched them grow upin his neighborhood.

“Just seeing them mature into theguys that they have matured into — Je-remy having the success that he’s hav-ing his senior year, Greg being astarting quarterback for the Universityof Houston and Hackett being one ofthe best safeties in the country rightnow — seeing those guys go from thelittle snotty nosed kids that was run-ning up and down the street trying tokeep up with older guys like us, it’spretty unique I must say,” Holmes said.

According to Hackett, Holmes ispart of the reason he wears the No. 1jersey. Holmes wore the number atOklahoma State before going on to playin the NFL.

“It’s just been passed down,” Hack-ett said. “We’re basically like family toowith coach Holmes. From him wearingit, he passed it down to me. I wore it,then Greg, then as soon as Greg left, Je-remy was able to get it. Down the linewe just try to keep the generation goingwearing No. 1.”

Hackett had to wait a year at TCU toget his No. 1 jersey while Ward wasgranted the coveted number as a truefreshman at Houston.

“It’s just a family tradition,” Wilsonsaid.

Now there’s just one number left forthe family to attain — last one stand-ing.

Hackett’s John Tyler teams werestopped in the quarterfinals in back-to-back seasons in 2009 and 2010. Wardled the Lions to the state semifinals in2011 and 2012, though Cujo couldn’tquite get over the hump.

Wilson hopes to help JT reach thestate championship game for the firsttime since 2000. The Lions haven’t wona state title since 1994, Holmes’ fresh-man year.

He’ll have a couple of cousins root-ing for him and John Tyler to becomeNo. 1.

“I’m overjoyed because I just knowthat it’s the time right here,” Ward said.“They’re going to go out there and dosomething we weren’t able.

“They’re going to prove it to theworld now.”

LIONS TALES: Tickets for the JohnTyler-Aledo game at E.H. Hanby Sta-dium will be sold on campus to studentsand faculty today and Friday duringlunch. Additional ticket sales will be atthe TISD athletic office (807 W. Glen-wood) today and Friday from 8 a.m. to4 p.m.; and at Tyler Athletics (5201 S.Broadway) during regular businesshours today and from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.on Friday. Presale tickets are $8 foradults and $5 for students. Gate ticketscost $10 for general admission. JohnTyler is the designated home team.

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PRO FOOTBALLNational Football League

At A GlanceAll Times CST

AMERICAN CONFERENCEEast

W L T Pct PF PANew England 10 3 0 .769 401 267Miami 7 6 0 .538 314 260Buffalo 7 6 0 .538 281 241N.Y. Jets 2 11 0 .154 214 349

South W L T Pct PF PAIndianapolis 9 4 0 .692 407 307Houston 7 6 0 .538 314 260Tennessee 2 11 0 .154 220 374Jacksonville 2 11 0 .154 199 356

North W L T Pct PF PACincinnati 8 4 1 .654 281 289Pittsburgh 8 5 0 .615 362 319Baltimore 8 5 0 .615 356 255Cleveland 7 6 0 .538 276 270

West W L T Pct PF PADenver 10 3 0 .769 385 293San Diego 8 5 0 .615 293 272Kansas City 7 6 0 .538 291 241Oakland 2 11 0 .154 200 350

NATIONAL CONFERENCEEast

W L T Pct PF PAPhiladelphia 9 4 0 .692 389 309Dallas 9 4 0 .692 343 301N.Y. Giants 4 9 0 .308 293 326Washington 3 10 0 .231 244 346

South W L T Pct PF PAAtlanta 5 8 0 .385 328 342New Orleans 5 8 0 .385 333 359Carolina 4 8 1 .346 269 341Tampa Bay 2 11 0 .154 237 348

North W L T Pct PF PAGreen Bay 10 3 0 .769 423 304Detroit 9 4 0 .692 265 224Minnesota 6 7 0 .462 263 281Chicago 5 8 0 .385 281 378

West W L T Pct PF PAArizona 10 3 0 .769 275 238Seattle 9 4 0 .692 322 235San Francisco 7 6 0 .538 244 268St. Louis 6 7 0 .462 285 285

———Thursday’s Game

Dallas 41, Chicago 28Sunday’s Games

N.Y. Giants 36, Tennessee 7Carolina 41, New Orleans 10Minnesota 30, N.Y. Jets 24, OTPittsburgh 42, Cincinnati 21St. Louis 24, Washington 0Baltimore 28, Miami 13Indianapolis 25, Cleveland 24Detroit 34, Tampa Bay 17Houston 27, Jacksonville 13Denver 24, Buffalo 17Arizona 17, Kansas City 14Oakland 24, San Francisco 13Seattle 24, Philadelphia 14New England 23, San Diego 14

Monday’s GameGreen Bay 43, Atlanta 37

Thursday, Dec. 11Arizona at St. Louis, 7:25 p.m. (NFL Network)

Sunday, Dec. 14Oakland at Kansas City, noonPittsburgh at Atlanta, noonWashington at N.Y. Giants, noonMiami at New England, noonHouston at Indianapolis, noon (CBS)Jacksonville at Baltimore, noonGreen Bay at Buffalo, noon (FOX)Tampa Bay at Carolina, noonCincinnati at Cleveland, noonDenver at San Diego, 3:05 p.m.N.Y. Jets at Tennessee, 3:05 p.m.San Francisco at Seattle, 3:25 p.m. (FOX)Minnesota at Detroit, 3:25 p.m.Dallas at Philadelphia, 7:30 p.m. (NBC)

Monday, Dec. 15New Orleans at Chicago, 7:30 p.m. (ESPN)

PRO HOCKEY

National Hockey LeagueBy The Associated Press

All Times CSTEASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GADetroit 29 17 6 6 40 89 72Tampa Bay 29 18 8 3 39 101 77Montreal 30 18 10 2 38 77 77Toronto 28 16 9 3 35 95 81Boston 28 15 12 1 31 72 72Florida 26 11 8 7 29 58 68Ottawa 27 11 11 5 27 70 74Buffalo 28 10 16 2 22 48 85

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAPittsburgh 27 18 6 3 39 88 64N.Y. Islanders 28 19 9 0 38 90 79Washington 27 13 10 4 30 79 74N.Y. Rangers 26 12 10 4 28 77 76New Jersey 29 11 13 5 27 68 83Philadelphia 27 9 13 5 23 70 85Columbus 27 10 15 2 22 64 90Carolina 27 8 16 3 19 59 76

WESTERN CONFERENCECentral Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GAChicago 28 19 8 1 39 88 55Nashville 27 18 7 2 38 73 54St. Louis 28 18 8 2 38 80 65Winnipeg 29 15 9 5 35 69 66Minnesota 26 15 10 1 31 76 65Dallas 28 10 13 5 25 81 100Colorado 28 9 13 6 24 72 92

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAAnaheim 29 18 6 5 41 85 79Vancouver 29 18 9 2 38 88 81Calgary 29 17 10 2 36 90 76San Jose 30 15 11 4 34 86 81Los Angeles 28 14 9 5 33 72 60Arizona 28 10 15 3 23 66 90Edmonton 28 7 16 5 19 62 96

NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for over-time loss.

Tuesday’s GamesChicago 3, New Jersey 2, SOColumbus 3, Philadelphia 2, OTBuffalo 1, Los Angeles 0Toronto 4, Calgary 1Montreal 3, Vancouver 1Washington 5, Tampa Bay 3Minnesota 5, N.Y. Islanders 4Winnipeg 5, Dallas 2Nashville 3, Colorado 0San Jose 5, Edmonton 2

Wednesday’s GamesToronto 2, Detroit 1, SOEdmonton at Anaheim (n)

Thursday’s GamesChicago at Boston, 6 p.m.Calgary at Buffalo, 6 p.m.New Jersey at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.Columbus at Washington, 6 p.m.Los Angeles at Ottawa, 6:30 p.m.Carolina at Tampa Bay, 6:30 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at St. Louis, 7 p.m.Winnipeg at Colorado, 8 p.m.Nashville at Arizona, 8 p.m.Minnesota at San Jose, 9:30 p.m.

Friday’s GamesCalgary at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.Los Angeles at Montreal, 6:30 p.m.Florida at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.Anaheim at Edmonton, 8:30 p.m.

AREA GOLF

Men’s Nine-Hole Golf AssociationGame: Green, Gold, White

Hide-A-Way Lake Club, HideawayEast Course

1, Don Balcer, Donny Barnard, Bill Eaton,Chip Neel, minus 1; 2, Scotty Witherow, BobKelnhofer, Vernon Baker, Bob Wimberley,plus 1; 3, Sam Knox, Mike Miles, Gary Bring-man, Rick Bailey, plus 6.

Closest to the Pin — No. 2: Don Balcer.No. 5: Dean Arroyo.

Longest Putt — No. 6: John Fox. No. 9:Larry Shipman.

———Peach Tree Seniors

Format: Scramble; Field: 33Peach Tree Golf Club, Bullard

1, Jessie Dixon, Wayne Thigpen, Bob Craig,Ernie Gordon, minus 11; 2, (tie) Marc Rit-thaler, Gary Grover, Norris Buie, Will Hinkie,minus 10; Len Teague, Clyde Futrell, Jim Cor-bitt, Bucky Dean, minus 10; 4, Ron Ethridge,Jim Upton, Royce Jordan, Charles Sibley,minus 9; 5, (tie) Roger House, Eitel Hahn,James Carmack, Carl Weber, Al Baker, minus8; Jim Watkins, Randy Floyd, Charlie Rinehart,Eddie Smith, minus 8.

HOLE-IN-ONE

Jacke DavisJacke Davis made a hole-in-one on

Wednesday at Hollytree Country Club.Davis, using a 5-iron, aced the 156-yard

No. 13 hole.Witnesses were Jim Hurley, Jim O’toole,

Fred Woodruff and James Hardin.

HS FOOTBALLCLASS 6A DIVISION I

State SemifinalsAllen (14-0) vs. Dallas Skyline (14-

0), 6 p.m. Saturday, Dallas’ Ford Sta-dium

Cypress Ranch (12-2) vs. ConverseJudson (10-4), 3 p.m. Saturday, SanAntonio’s Alamodome

———CLASS 6A DIVISION II

State SemifinalsCedar Hill (12-2) vs. Spring West-

field (13-1), 2 p.m. Saturday, George-town ISD Stadium

Katy (13-1) vs. Cibolo Steele (13-1), 4 p.m. Saturday, Houston’s NRGStadium

———CLASS 5A DIVISION I

State SemifinalsAledo (13-1) vs. John Tyler (12-

2), 2 p.m. Saturday, Mesquite’sHanby Stadium

Temple (12-1) vs. Austin Vande-grift (12-2), 7:30 p.m. Saturday, SanAntonio’s Alamodome

———CLASS 5A DIVISION II

State SemifinalsCanutillo (13-1) vs. Ennis (12-2), 7

p.m. Friday, Lubbock’s Lowrey FieldCrosby (13-1) vs. Cedar Park (11-

3), 8 p.m. Friday, Austin’s Darrell KRoyal-Texas Memorial Stadium

———CLASS 4A DIVISION I

State SemifinalsGraham (12-2) vs. Argyle (14-0),

7:30 p.m. Friday, AledoNavasota (14-0) vs. Liberty Hill

(12-2), 7 p.m. Friday, Waco’s McLaneStadium

———CLASS 4A DIVISION II

State SemifinalsCelina (12-2) vs. Gilmer (14-0),

7:30 p.m. Friday, Dallas’ Ford Sta-dium

West Orange-Stark (12-2) vs. Sin-ton (11-3), 7 p.m. Friday, Rosenberg

———CLASS 3A DIVISION I

State SemifinalsShallowater (13-1) vs. Mineola

(11-3), 7:30 p.m. Friday, Brown-wood

Cameron Yoe (10-4) vs. Edna (9-5),7:30 p.m. Friday, Cypress’ Berry Cen-ter

———CLASS 3A DIVISION II

State SemifinalsSonora (11-2) vs. Waskom (13-

1), 7:30 p.m. Friday, Glen RoseNewton (11-3) vs. Blanco (14-0),

7:30 p.m. Friday, Waller———

CLASS 2A DIVISION IState Semifinals

Canadian (13-0) vs. Mart (13-0),7:30 p.m. Friday, Wichita Falls’ Memo-rial Stadium

Centerville (10-3) vs. Mason (13-0), 7:30 p.m. Friday, Georgetown ISDStadium

———CLASS 2A DIVISION II

State SemifinalsSeagraves (13-0) vs. Albany (13-0),

7 p.m. Friday, SnyderTenaha (11-1) vs. Bremond (13-

0), 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nacogdoches’Homer Brice Stadium

———CLASS 1A DIVISION IState Championship

Crowell (13-0) vs. May (12-2), 3p.m. Saturday, Arlington’s AT&T Sta-dium

———CLASS 1A DIVISION IIState Championship

Groom (13-1) vs. Throckmorton(13-0), noon Saturday, Arlington’sAT&T Stadium

SCOREBOARD

ScoresNon-District

John Tyler 30, Plano 12John Tyler 41, Longview 25Robert E. Lee 37, John Tyler 31

District 16-5AJohn Tyler 52, Whitehouse 17John Tyler 76, Lindale 13John Tyler 26, Lufkin 24Ennis 30, John Tyler 27John Tyler 33, Corsicana 3John Tyler 62, Jacksonville 7John Tyler 44, Nacogdoches 14

PlayoffsJohn Tyler 58, Texas High 23John Tyler 44, Mansfield Summit 27John Tyler 49, Rockwall-Heath 21John Tyler 64, McKinney North 40

Score By Quarters1st 2nd 3rd 4th OT Tot.

Opponents 67 73 96 57 0 —293JOHN TYLER 160 140 211 126 0 —637

———Team Statistics

ScoringJT Opp.

Rushing 246 132Passing 192 96PAT 78 26FG 33 21Defense/Special Teams 88 122 Pt Conversion 0 6Total 637 293

———First Downs

JT Opp.Passing 127 77Rushing 150 131Penalty 11 18Total 288 226

———

Third Down ConversionsJOHN TYLER 72-154 (47%)Opponents 57-180 (32%)

Fourth Down ConversionsJOHN TYLER 10-15 (67%)Opponents 12-26 (46%)

Field Goals Made/AttemptedJOHN TYLER 11-16 (69%) Opponents 7-8 (88%)

———PATs Made/Attempted

JOHN TYLER 78-87 (90%)Opponents 26-36 (72%)

Team YardageRushing

JOHN TYLER 2808 (200.6)Opponents 2444 (174.6)

Passing JOHN TYLER 3285 (234.6)Opponents 1943 (138.8)

Total YardsJOHN TYLER 6093 (435.2)Opponents 4387 (313.4)

Punts-Avg.JOHN TYLER 42-1556 (37.0)Opponents 64-2188 (34.2)

Fumbles-LostJOHN TYLER 34-15Opponents 41-21

Interceptions ThrownJOHN TYLER 6Opponents 19

Turnover RatioJOHN TYLER +19

Penalties-YardsJOHN TYLER 139-1091Opponents 106-762

———Individual Statistics

RushingPlayer No. Yds. Avg. TD Lg.Jeremy Wilson 228 1752 7.7 26 80t

Geovari McCollister 159 650 4.1 8 44Nick Cain 21 176 8.4 3 31tBryson Smith 16 88 5.5 1 37tDejuan Beal 25 77 3.1 0 15Martrevious Allison 12 39 3.3 0 13Pierre Leonard 6 32 5.3 2 13Cordarion Johnson 8 28 3.5 1 14Quaylan Brown 5 20 4.0 0 8Damion Miller 1 15 15.0 0 15Bryston Gipson 1 10 10.0 0 10Duntayviun Gross 2 -15 -7.5 0 -7Team 6 -61 -10.2 0 -1Totals 490 2811 5.7 41 80tOpponents 571 2444 4.3 22 75t

———Passing

Player Co. Att. Yds. TD INT Lg.Geo. McCollister201 310 3137 30 5 83tBryson Smith 14 19 148 2 1 30tTotals 215 329 3285 32 6 83tOpponents 125 263 1943 16 19 53t

———Receiving

Player No. Yds. Avg. TD Lg.Nick Cain 48 690 14.4 6 71tDuntayviun Gross 45 639 14.2 6 51tJeremy Wilson 33 348 10.5 3 57tRodney Bendy 27 457 16.9 6 51Damion Miller 23 567 24.7 8 83tBryson Smith 15 303 20.2 3 57tTommy Dyer 10 104 10.4 0 33Quaylan Brown 6 105 17.5 0 68Cordarion Johnson 5 39 7.8 0 14Pierre Leonard 2 26 13.0 0 15Dejuan Beal 1 7 7.0 0 7Totals 215 3285 15.3 32 83tOpponents 125 1943 15.5 16 53t

———Punting

Player No. Yds. Avg. N20 BK Lg.Luis Duran 42 1556 37.0 11 1 55Totals 42 1556 37.0 11 1 55

———Kicking

Player XPM/A FGM/A TB Lg.Luis Duran 71-80 9-13 30 74Luis Lizalde 7-7 2-3 0 35Totals 78-87 11-16 30 74

———Kickoff Returns

Player No. Yds. Avg. TD Lg.Deandre Williams 8 264 33.0 1 77Quaylan Brown 10 159 15.9 0 28Duntayviun Gross 9 119 13.2 0 23Jeremy Wilson 3 37 12.3 0 21Nick Cain 4 21 5.3 0 15Isaac Warren 2 15 7.5 0 15Bryson Smith 1 15 15.0 0 15Cordarion Johnson 1 12 12.0 0 12Totals 37 642 17.4 1 77

———Defensive Stats

Fumble RecoveriesPlayer No. TDBryston Gipson 6 3Tony Johnson 3 0Shaundrick Williams 2 0Pierre Leonard 2 0Isaac Warren 1 1Jaylon Watson 1 1Cordarion Johnson 1 0Damion Miller 1 0Decorian Blaylock 1 0Jordan Owens 1 0Jaylon Reese 1 0Quaylan Brown 1 0Totals 21 5

———Interceptions

Player No. TDJordan Owens 8 1Tony Johnson 3 1Shaundrick Williams 2 1Damion Miller 2 0

Bryston Gipson 1 1Jaylon Reese 1 1Isaac Warren 1 0Deandre Williams 1 0Totals 19 5

———Sacks

Player No.Pierre Leonard 12.0Braylon Jones 7.0Jassavia Reese 6.0DeAndre Benson 3.0Joshua Williams 3.0Rodney Bendy 2.0Tony Johnson 2.0Nick Cain 1.0Shaundrick Williams 1.0Tresdon Brooks 1.0Jaylen Tennyson 1.0Brandon Dade 1.0Bryston Gipson 1.0Totals 41.0

———Tackles

Player TOT TFL SAC QBP PBU FFJaylon Reese 103 0 0 0 0 1Pierre Leonard 91 15 10 6 0 1Braylon Jones 88 6 5 2 0 0Tony Johnson 78 2 1 0 3 0Shaundrick Williams 77 5 1 0 0 0Bryston Gipson 71 2 1 0 1 0Jordan Owens 60 0 0 0 2 0Isaac Warren 59 0 0 0 0 0Jassavia Reese 50 4 5 0 1 0Deandre Williams 46 0 0 0 2 0DeAndre Benson 32 3 3 0 0 0Joshua Williams 27 4 3 2 0 0Damion Miller 18 5 0 0 0 0Nick Cain 13 1 1 0 0 0Rodney Bendy 11 2 2 0 0 0Howard Hawkins 11 0 0 0 0 1Jaylen Tennyson 9 1 1 0 0 0

Jaylon Watson 9 0 0 0 0 0Brandon Dade 9 1 1 0 0 1Justin Session 8 0 0 0 0 0Joseph Gipson 6 0 0 0 0 0Ka’Darius Henderson 5 0 0 0 0 0Tresdon Brooks 5 1 1 0 1 0Grasean Whitlock 5 0 0 0 0 0Duntayviun Gross 3 0 0 0 0 0Luis Duran 3 0 0 0 0 0Martrevious Allison 3 0 0 0 0 0Kieran Freeman 2 0 0 0 0 0Thomas Boyd 2 0 0 0 0 0Quaylan Brown 2 0 0 0 0 0Jeremy Wilson 1 0 0 0 0 0Decorian Blaylock 1 0 0 0 0 0

———Scoring

Player TD FG PAT 2PT Tot.Jeremy Wilson 29 0 0 0 174Luis Duran 0 9 71 0 98Nick Cain 9 0 0 0 54Geo. McCollister 8 0 0 0 48Damion Miller 8 0 0 0 48Duntayviun Gross 7 0 0 0 42Rodney Bendy 6 0 0 0 36Bryston Gipson 4 0 0 0 24Bryson Smith 4 0 0 0 24Pierre Leonard 2 0 0 1 14Luis Lizalde 0 2 7 0 13Deandre Williams 2 0 0 0 12Isaac Warren 2 0 0 0 12Jordan Owens 1 0 0 1 8Cordarion Johnson 1 0 0 0 6Jaylon Reese 1 0 0 0 6Shaundrick Williams 1 0 0 0 6Jaylon Watson 1 0 0 0 6Tony Johnson 1 0 0 0 6Totals 87 11 78 2 637Opponents 40 7 26 3 293

JOHN TYLER FOOTBALL STATS

“It’s really good becausethey provide (good protec-tion), but then you try tothrow the ball out of thepocket and you can’t see overthe two (of them),” Drennonsaid. “Our offensive line ingeneral is really good. We’vegot Dalton Dupont, MattSmith and Luke Bowden.They are all pretty good sizedyoung men, but the twins area little bit extra large.”

Mineola will face Shal-lowater on Friday in theClass 3A Division I statesemifinals. It is the first timefor the program to advancethis far in the playoffs.

Riley believes extra workdone in the offseason is nowpaying off and said the com-petition between he and hisbrother also helps drivethem to be their best.

“We have competitions onwho can get the most pan-cakes and stuff like that.Right now it’s pretty closebetween me and Austin,”Riley said.

Added Austin, “Every dayis a competition for us. Whois stronger, who is faster,who practices better andwho plays better each andevery week.”

The Yellowjackets havebeen the beneficiaries of that

drive. Mineola is enjoying an11-game win streak afterstarting out 0-3.

Austin started for Mineolaas a freshman with Rileyjoining him on varsity when

they were sophomores.“I had always been by

Riley’s side, so it was a littledifferent not having him outthere with me,” Austin admits.

Riley and Austin could’veplayed side by side with oneat tackle and the other atguard, but Drennon and hisstaff saw two forces he couldplace on either side of his line.

“It’s a lot of fun because Iknow we can run it to bothsides,” said Riley, who is Mi-neola’s right tackle. “It’s coolthat if I pull, I know he’s overthere (and vice-versa).”

The two siblings are beingsought after by the likes ofTexas Tech, New Mexico,North Texas and others.

Austin said he would lovefor a potential scholarship tobe a package deal, but it’s nota deal breaker.

“We’ve talked about thatand have decided to go towherever fits each one of usthe most,” Austin said. “If ithappens to be the sameplace, that’s fine. If not, we’llbe OK with that and justmake an individual decision.”

The Yellowjackets havetaken out Pilot Point andPottsboro in the last tworounds. Next up for the twinsis Shallowater and a chanceto continue a magical run.

“It’s a one-of-a-kind expe-rience,” Austin said. “It is allwe ever talk about and thinkabout (and right now it’s hap-pening).”

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VICTOR TEXCUCANO/STAFF

MINEOLA TWINS Austin Anderson (50) and Riley Ander-son (51) have size and strength as standout blockers.

OUTDOORS6C TYLERPAPER.COM THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2014

he 2014 deer seasonhas been ... OK, you fill in theblank.

For the lucky fewwho have been in the

right place at the right time, therehave been some quality bucksscored.

For the remainder sitting inblinds overlooking feeders, it hasbeen so quiet even the hogshaven’t shown up.

“I would say that is fairly ac-curate,” said Sean Willis, TexasParks and Wildlife DepartmentWildlife biologist from Lufkin,when asked if there has been aslow start to the season in EastTexas. “Everyone I am talking tosaid nothing is eating corn be-cause the acorn crop is soheavy.”

The same is true in the HillCountry.

“I was at a landowner’s lastweek and he had corn piling upunder feeders. The corn was actu-ally growing under the feeders. Itold him it was time to turn themoff,” said Kevin Schwausch,TPWD technical guidance biolo-gist in Burnet. “We know the deerare there. About a month ago wehad three inches of rain and theforbs came up. Between the forbsand the acorns, corn is just notvery appealing.”

In the Pineywoods, a heavyacorn crop can especially createproblems for hunters on clubleases anchored to one or twostand locations.

“What I recommend is guys getaway from corn feeders and gointo the bottoms where the acornsare,” said Willis, who added he isstill hearing acorns fall at hishome.

The biologist said some EastTexans, who did move or werelucky enough to have a ruttingbuck run by, have seen and takensome good bucks this season.

“In some of these countiesthere are some new countyrecords. There is a lot of quality.There are a lot of good deer, butnot as many as last year. Last yearfor the Pineywoods, we had themost deer entered in the BigGames Awards since 2001-2002,”Willis said.

Overall, Willis added, the entireharvest appears to be down, andthat it will be difficult to catch upbefore the end of the year.

“The bulk of the harvest is be-

fore Thanksgiving. If you don’t getone before Thanksgiving, the oddsgo down. It is after the rut andwith all the activity on the ground,especially on lease land where

you have four-wheelers buzzingaround. They aren’t dumb. Thedeer get nocturnal,” Willis said.

Schwausch predicts the har-vest will also be down in the Hill

Country, but that is based more onhunter habits than deer visibility.

As far as deer movement, heexpects it to start increasing asthe acorns disappear.

“It has been slow because ofacorns, but the acorns have beenslowing down the last two orthree weeks. The ones that arestill falling are hollow,”Schwausch noted.

Like East Texas, the Hill Coun-try has produced some goodbucks this season, but Schwauschlooks back at the drought yearsfrom 2009 to 2011 and notes theirnumbers are limited because oflow fawn crops.

“We are starting to see a lot ofbucks in some places, but they areyoung bucks. Hopefully hunterscan lay off those deer for a year ortwo,” Schwausch said.

He said the overall impact ofthe drought on buck numbersvaries greatly from high fence tolow fence properties, and fromhighly managed low fence ranchesto those not managed.

Schwausch added that by let-ting 2 1/2-year-old bucks walk an-other year or two, hunters couldbe looking at trophy years downthe road.

The biologist said there is typi-cally a late-season push in the HillCountry because of the Christmasholidays and hunters finishing uptheir Manage Lands Deer permitquotas. With the slow start, therecould be even more hunters look-ing to take a deer in late Decem-ber.

During that time, hunters inSouth Texas should really be get-ting started. With a rut thatdoesn’t begin until mid-December,South Texas hunters won’t beplagued with acorn issues likehunters in other portions of thestate. They could see a slowdownof deer coming to feeders if thereis an abundance of wild forbsavailable.

The general season closes Jan.4 in most of Texas; Jan. 18 in the30 counties that make up SouthTexas.

Have a comment or opinion on this story?Contact outdoor writer Steve Knight byemail at outdoor@tylerpa per.com. FollowSteve Knight on Facebook at TylerPaperOutdoors and on Twitter @tyleroutdoor.

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3:003:504:355:206:006:407:258:05

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8:509:3510:2511:1011:5012:151:402:20

Table by Mrs. Richard Alden Knight ©

Below is a schedule of Solunar periods,during which there is maximum fishand wildlife activity. “Excellent” periodsbegin at the times shown and last for1.5 to 2 hours. “Good” periods areshorter.

9:1510:0510:5011:35——12:301:101:55

Au Naturel

STEVE KNIGHT/STAFF

SITTING IN A BLIND HAS NOT BEEN the most productive way to kill a deer this year in East Texas or the Hill Countrybecause of an above-average acorn crop.

TEXAS FISHING REPORT

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FRIDAY, Dec. 12 — Rainbowtrout stocking, Woldert Park Lake,Tyler.

SATURDAY, Dec. 13 — Hunter Ed-ucation class, Texas Freshwater Fish-eries Center, Athens, 903-676-2277.

SUNDAY, Dec. 14 — Closing daymule deer season Trans Pecos zone.

TUESDAY, Dec. 16 — Lone StarFly Fishers Club meeting, 7 p.m., TJCWest Campus Room 134, 1530 W.Loop 323.

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 17 — Rain-bow trout stocking, Pittsburg CityLake, Pittsburg.

THURSDAY, Dec. 18 — Rainbowtrout stocking, Bob Sandlin StatePark.

THURSDAY, Dec. 18 — Rainbowtrout stocking, Heritage Park Lake,Mount Pleasant.

FRIDAY, Dec. 19 — Opening daystatewide dove season.

FRIDAY, Dec. 19 — Rainbowtrout stocking, Elder Lake, Kilgore.

FRIDAY, Dec. 19 — Rainbowtrout stocking, Penick Park Pond,White Oak.

TUESDAY, Dec. 23 — Rainbowtrout stocking, Woldert Park Lake,Tyler.

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NORTHEASTATHENS: Water clear; 46-50 degrees; 1.68

feet low. Black bass are fair on Texas riggedworms and shakyheads as well as suspendingjerkbaits in shad patterns. Crappie are goodon white jigs. Catfish are fair on trotlines andcut shad.

BOB SANDLIN: Water clear; 47-51 de-grees; 2.86 feet low. Black bass are fair on softjerkbaits, Senkos and lipless crankbaits. Crap-pie are fair on minnows. White bass are fair onminnows. Catfish are slow on trotlines and cutshad.

BONHAM: Water stained, 46-50 degrees;3.31 feet low. Black bass are fair in the backsof creeks and along creek channels oncrankbaits, soft plastics and jerkbaits. Crappieare slow near the bridges. Catfish are slowalong the rocks on shrimp, chicken livers andstinkbait.

CADDO: Water stained; 47-51 degrees;0.40 high. Black bass are fair on liplesscrankbaits, bladed jigs and flipping jigs. Whiteand yellow bass are fair on minnows. Catfishare slow on prepared bait and trotlines.

CEDAR CREEK: Water clear; 46-50 de-grees; 6.12 feet low. Black bass are fair on spin-nerbaits, lipless crankbaits and bladed jigs.White bass are fair on slabs and minnows. Hy-brid striper are fair on slabs and minnows.Crappie are good on minnows and jigs. Cat-fish are slow on trotlines and cut shad.

FORK: Water clear; 46-50 degrees; 7.36feet low. Black bass are fair on Megabass WildHeader bladed jigs with Megabass SparkShad trailers. Megabass Vision 110 jerkbaits inthreadfin shad effective as well. Liplesscrankbaits in red or chrome/blue effective aswell. White and yellow bass are fair on slabs.Crappie are fair on minnows and jigs. Catfishare slow on prepared bait and stink bait.

LAKE O’ THE PINES: Water lightly stained;46-51; degrees; 0.03 feet low. Black bass areslow on lipless crankbaits, bladed jigs and flip-ping jigs. Crappie are slow on minnows andtube jigs. Catfish are slow on trotlines and pre-pared bait.

LAVON: Water lightly stained; 47-51 de-grees; 12.94 feet low. Black bass are fair on li-pless crankbaits and suspending jerkbaits.White bass are fair on slabs and minnows.Crappie are fair on minnows. Catfish are fairon trotlines and cut shad.

MARTIN CREEK: Water clear; 70-81 de-grees; 1.96 feet low. Black bass are good on

Texas rigged worms and creature baits. Crap-pie are good on minnows and jigs. White bassare fair on minnows and small crankbaits. Cat-fish are slow on trotlines.

MONTICELLO: Water clear; 50-54 de-grees; 0.35 feet low. Black bass are fair onTexas rigs, flick shake worms and finesse jigs.Crappie are slow on minnows. Catfish areslow on trotlines and prepared bait.

PALESTINE: Water clear; 47-51 degrees;0.74 feet low. Black bass are good on shaky-heads, weightless Senkos and drop shotsaround docks. Crappie are fair on minnowsand jigs. Hybrid striper are slow on slabs.White bass are slow on minnows. Catfish arefair on trotlines.

RICHLAND CHAMBERS: Water lightlystained; 47-51 degrees; 10.47 feet low. Blackbass are fair on green pumpkin shakyheadsand Senkos. White bass are fair on minnows.Hybrid striper are fair on slabs and minnows.Crappie are slow on minnows and jigs. Catfishare slow on trotlines.

TAWAKONI: Water stained; 46-50 de-grees; 12.08 feet low. No report available.Please call ahead to verify access at ramp ofyour choice. Lake access is severely limiteddue to low water.

WRIGHT PATMAN: Water lightly stained;48-52 degrees; 3.09 feet high. Black bass areslow on Texas rigged craws and flipping jigsnear shallow cover. Crappie are slow on min-nows and jigs. Catfish are fair on trotlines andcut shad.

SOUTHEASTCONROE: Water murky; 62-66 degrees;

0.47 feet low. Black bass are good on greenpumpkin soft plastics, Rat-L-Traps, andcrankbaits in 10-25 feet. Striped bass are goodon chartreuse striper jigs. Crappie are goodon minnows. Catfish are fair on stinkbait andshrimp.

GIBBONS CREEK: Water clear. Black bassare fair on perch colored spinnerbaits andcrankbaits. Crappie are fair on minnows. Cat-fish are good on hot dogs, shrimp, and liver.

HOUSTON COUNTY: Water stained; 60-64 degrees; 0.15 feet high. Black bass are slow.White bass are slow. Crappie are slow. Breamare slow. Channel and blue catfish are slow.Yellow catfish are slow.

LIVINGSTON: Water fairly clear; 64-68 de-grees; 0.23 feet high. Black bass are good onwatermelon soft plastics with chartreuse tails,

and on Rat-L-Traps. Striped bass are slow.White bass are slow. Crappie are good onminnows and white tube jigs. Blue catfish aregood on shad, shrimp, and prepared baits.Yellow catfish are slow.

SAM RAYBURN: Water murky; 64-68 de-grees; 2.90 feet low. Black bass are fair onpumpkinseed soft plastic worms and Rat-L-Traps in 20-30 feet. White bass are good onsilver spoons. Crappie are fair on live minnowsand white tube jigs. Bream are slow. Catfishare good on stinkbait and minnows.

TOLEDO BEND: Water murky; 63-67 de-grees; 3.70 feet low. Black bass are fair on wa-termelon red and chartreuse soft plasticworms and crankbaits in 20-30 feet. Stripedbass are good on silver spoons and striperjigs. White bass are good on minnows and sil-ver spoons. Crappie are fair on minnows andblue tube jigs. Bream are fair on night-crawlers. Channel and blue catfish are goodon minnows and stinkbait. Yellow catfish areslow.

COASTALNORTH SABINE: Trout are fair to good

under the birds when the wind allows. Red-fish are good in the marsh on plastics tippedwith shrimp. Trout and redfish are good whiledrifting shell and mud on plastics.

SOUTH SABINE: Sheepshead and blackdrum are good at the jetty on live shrimp.Trout are fair around the Reef on live shrimp.Trout are good for waders working slow-sinkers on the Louisiana shoreline.

BOLIVAR: Trout are fair to good on thesouth shoreline on soft plastics and plugs.Black drum and redfish are good at RolloverPass.

TRINITY BAY: Trout are good for driftersworking pods of shad and mullet on soft plas-tics and Gulps. Redfish are good at the spill-way on crabs and mullet. Trout are good overdeep shell and shad.

EAST GALVESTON BAY: Trout are fair togood on the south shoreline on topwatersand soft plastics. Whiting and sand trout aregood on the edge of the Intracoastal on freshshrimp.

WEST GALVESTON BAY: Trout are fair togood in the mud and shell on MirrOlures andCorkies. Sheepshead, redfish and black drumare good at the jetty on shrimp and crabs.

TEXAS CITY: Sand trout and croakers aregood from the piers on fresh shrimp. Redfish

are good in the holes in Moses Lake.FREEPORT: Sand trout and sheepshead

are good on live shrimp on the reefs. Redfishand black drum are fair to good in Cold Passand San Luis pass on cracked blue crabs.

EAST MATAGORDA BAY: Trout are fair fordrifters on live shrimp over humps and scat-tered shell. Redfish are good on the edge ofthe Intracoastal on crabs and mullet. Flounderare fair on Brown Cedar Flats on jigs tippedwith shrimp.

WEST MATAGORDA BAY: Redfish are fairto good on the south shoreline in the gutsand bayous. Redfish are good in the holes onthe north shoreline. Trout are fair on shell onsoft plastics.

PORT O’CONNOR: Trout and redfish arefair on Corkies over soft mud in waist-deepwater in San Antonio Bay. Trout and redfishare fair for drifters working the back lakes andthe mouths of drains with live shrimp.

ROCKPORT: Redfish are fair to good atCalifornia Hole on shrimp. Trout are fair on theedge of the channel on glow DOA Shrimpand Gulps. Redfish are fair to good in theholes along the Estes Flats on mullet andshrimp.

PORT ARANSAS: Redfish are fair to goodon the East Flats on Gulps and mullet. Sandtrout are good on shrimp in the channel.

CORPUS CHRISTI: Redfish are good inthe Humble Channel on crabs and tableshrimp. Trout are best on the edge of the flatson live shrimp and DOA Shrimp.

BAFFIN BAY: Trout are fair to good inmud and grass on Corkies and Gamblers.Redfish are good in the Land Cut and onthe edge of the channel on shrimp andGulps.

PORT MANSFIELD: Trout are fair to goodon DOA Shrimp under a popping cork aroundgrass holes. Redfish are fair to good whiledrifting pot holes. Trout are fair on muddyshorelines and on the edge of the channel onCorkies and MirrOlures.

SOUTH PADRE: Trout and redfish are fairto good on the edge of the Intracoastal onDOA Shrimp and Gulps. Redfish, black drumand mangrove snapper are fair to good in thechannel on shrimp.

PORT ISABEL: Trout are good overmud bottoms around the bars and drop-offs on Gulps and shrimp. Redfish are fairto good around the Drum Boats and Mex-iquita Flats.

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Reader upsetby husband’sinfatuation

ANNIE’S MAILBOX

DEAR ANNIE: I have been with myhusband for 10 years, and we have twochildren. Two years ago, I found outthat he was bothering a 19-year-old girl.He was 30 at the time. We separatedover this, but six months ago, we gotback together.

Now when I ask about this youngwoman, his story keeps changing. Hesays they were just friends, and then hesays he tried getting together with herafter we separated. He admits he stillcares about her.

Here’s the current problem: Thiswoman has a young child and uses thesame daycare center that I do. I see herwhenever I drop off my children. Ijump through hoops to make sure myhusband isn’t the one dropping off thekids, because I don’t want him to runinto her.

This situation is driving me crazy,but my family members tell me I shouldstay with my husband because we havekids and because he quit drinking. Sodo I stay and look the other way, orshould I leave? — ONLY QUESTIONS

DEAR QUESTIONS: You have an-other option. For your marriage to suc-ceed, you need to know that yourhusband will not pursue this youngwoman, and he hasn’t responded in away that merits your trust. Becauseyou have children, please make an ef-fort to work on this before giving up.Ask your husband to go with you forcounseling. If he refuses, go withouthim. Your doctor or clergyperson canrefer you.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Dec. 11, 2014:The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic;

4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult ARIES (March 21-April 19) ★★★★Holding back and thinking before you act might

not be as successful as you had hoped. Actually,you are better off being impulsive.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) ★★★Emphasis seems to be on your personal life. A

partner or loved one might make a suggestion thatcould affect your financial situation

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) ★★★★Be willing to break a standoff and make an im-

portant phone call. You might not be happy aboutmaking the first move, but it will be for the best.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) ★★★★You might want to take a hard look at your fi-

nances and decide what would be best to do. Lookat a situation more carefully.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) ★★★★Someone could be a little too contentious for

your taste. You might respond to this person’s moodwith a knee-jerk reaction, so be careful.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ★★★Be aware of your limits, and recognize that you

just might not be up to snuff. It happens to every-one.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) ★★★★★Zero in on what you want, and don’t allow some-

one to push you too far.SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) ★★★★You could be wondering what the best way to

handle someone would be. How you present whatyou want will make a big difference in the outcome.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ★★★★★You know where to head to get more informa-

tion. Don’t hesitate to go past that level and find anexpert.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ★★★★★You relate well to others, especially if they are

authentic and clear. You will want to consider whatyou are hearing before drawing any conclusions.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) ★★★★★Others are likely to have a lot to say. Keep an

open mind, and be willing to listen and learn fromthem.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) ★★★★You might be taken aback by all the possibilities

that surround you. Think about what would be thebest way to complete what you must do.

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The usual gang was doingbattle at the club’s Saturdaynight duplicate. When HardLuck Louie played today’s deal,he won the opening trumplead, led a club to the board’sking, and ran the queen of dia-monds. West won with his kingand led a second trump. Louiewon this in hand, discarded aclub from dummy on his dia-monds, then cashed the ace ofclubs and ruffed a club. Eastcorrectly discarded a diamondrather than over-ruffing. Louieplayed the ace and anotherheart. East won with his 10,drew dummy’s last trump, andcontinued with a high heart.South still had a club loser forthe fourth defensive trick.Down one!

Lucky Larry played thesame contract with the same

opening lead. He won the leadin hand and led a heart todummy’s jack. Had East re-turned a high heart, Larrywould have arranged to rufftwo hearts in his hand. On theactual return of a secondtrump, Larry won, crossed tothe king of clubs, and took thelosing diamond finesse.

West had no trump to play,so he led a heart. Larry wonwith dummy’s ace, discarded aclub on his good diamonds,then cashed the ace of clubsand ruffed a club. East couldnot profit by over-ruffing, so hediscarded a diamond. Larrythen ruffed a heart back to hishand and ruffed his last clubon the table. He conceded atrick to the outstanding trumpand claimed the balance. Welldone!

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DEAR DR. ROACH: I had tinnitus.I read a lot and found a research studyat the Mayo Clinic that tests the effec-tiveness of magnesium 500 mg daily formoderate to severe tinnitus.

I took a 500-mg tablet of magnesium(over the counter) and got relief fairlyrapidly from the tinnitus. I stayed onthe magnesium for about a year. Occa-sionally, it returned, and I went back onthat supplement. — Anon.

ANSWER: The results of the studyyou found are not yet available, but Ithink there has been enough publishedon the possible effectiveness and safetyof magnesium supplementation that itis reasonable to give it a try. Magnesiumdeficiency is common, especially inpeople taking diuretics (“water pills”)for high blood pressure. The major sideeffect of magnesium supplementationis diarrhea, which is unlikely at a lowdose.

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