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DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Demun Mercerforward, senior, La Marque
SPORTS Columnist Gean Leonard reports from the third round of the Houston Open
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Contact John DeLapp, [email protected] Sunday, March 31, 2013 | �e Daily News | Section B
PLAYER OF
THE YEAR
Louis Dunbarshooting guard,
senior, Clear Falls
ALL-COUNTY BASKETBALL
Story by JOHN DeLAPP | The Daily NewsPhotos by KEVIN M. COX | The Daily News
OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Jeff Beverlyforward, senior, Clear Springs
G: Louis Dunbar, senior, Clear Falls
District 24-5A MVP; 18.5 points per game
G: Quinton Mertz, senior, Friendswood
District 24-4A Offen-sive MVP; 11.2 points per game
F: Jeff Berverly, senior, Clear Springs
District 24-5A First Team; 20.5 points, 10.2 rebounds per game
F: Demun Mercer, senior, La MarqueDistrict 23-4A MVP;
Region III-3A All-Tour-nament
F: Mitchell Becker, senior, Clear CreekDistrict 24-5A First
Team; 12.8 points, 8.6
First Team
The 2012-13 boys basketball season was a heady one. Teams had Cinderella stories, previously unknown players bloomed, and es-tablished stars brought their games to new levels.
�e Galveston County Daily News’ All County Boys Basketball Team honors all of the county’s outstanding players.
Player of the YearLouis Dunbar, senior, Clear Falls
Clear Falls High School opened in the fall of 2010 and didn’t play varsity basketball until a season later. �e young team took its lumps, going 11-21 and winning only three District 24-4A games.
Dunbar is News’ Player of the Year
See Dunbar | B2
COACH OF THE YEAR
Dave MontanoLa Marque
ALL-COUNTY
Second Team
G: Dammon Johnson, junior,
Ball HighDistrict 24-4A First
Team; 12.6 points, 4.6 rebounds per game
G: Leonard Hill, senior, Clear Falls District 24-5A First
Team; 12.8 points, 6.8 rebounds per game
F: Alex Grimaldo, junior, HitchcockDistrict 26-2A First
Team; 16 points, 5.1 rebounds per game
F: Murquell Smith, junior, Texas CityDistrict 24-4A First
Team; 8.9 points, 6 rebounds per game
G: Derrick O’Brien, junior, Premier
Learning Academy District 26-A D-II MVP;
18.2 points, 5.4 rebounds, 3.8 steals per game
All-County Honorable Mention• Teddy Winston, senior, Premier Learning Academy
• Randy Trigo, senior, Hitchcock
• Paris Clayton, senior, La Marque
• Kwenten Griin, senior, La Marque
• KJ Boyd, junior, Clear Springs
• Carver Hardy, sophomore, Texas City
• Jordan Wood, senior, Friendswood
• Lane Grifon, senior, Friendswood
• Lawrence Montegut, senior, La Marque
• Anthony King, senior, Dickinson
• Kevin Batiste, sophomore, Ball High
• Jacoby Callier, freshman, Premier Learning Academy
First-year coach leads Cougars to regional finalBy JOHN DeLAPPThe Daily News
» LA MARQUEhe La Marque boys
basketball team had gone from the heights of a trip to the state championship game to the depths of a scandal and a lost season in one short year. hen David Montano became head basketball coach.
In 2011, La Marque advanced to the Class 4A title game and the future of the program seemed unlimited. A few months later, how-ever, the head coach was accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl. An interim coach was put in charge, and the team won just a handful of games that year.
David Montano re-versed the Cougars’ fortunes in 2012-13, leading his team to the Region III-3A champi-onship game, and that is why he is he Daily News’ Coach of the Year.
With the team in disarray, the irst thing Montano did was estab-lish a sense of structure.
“hey wanted some-body to set a direction and our job as educators — not just coaches — is to lead and instruct and teach them life lessons along with what we are doing,” he said.
he Cougars re-sponded.
“If you stay on track, kids will do what you ask them to, and that’s what they did,” Mon-tano said.
he coach also stressed the importance of team over individual.
“You had to get the kids to stop think-ing about how many points they scored or assists or rebounds and start thinking about the win and loss col-umns,” Montano said “It doesn’t matter who did what scoring, it was
about La Marque win-ning.
“We don’t have names on our jerseys, and I told them that the name on the front is a lot more important than the one on the back.”
But even when he got his charges to buy into his ideas, it took awhile for Montano to get La Marque going.
“Whenever you have a new coach, there is always a diference of philosophies, and our philosophy was inside
the paint irst before the perimeter and previ-ously it was a run-and-gun,” he said. “It was all a matter of making transitions.”
But things did start to click into place when the Cougars entered District 24-3A play.
“We were 13-10 at the time and I said we can go 23-10 because they were starting to get it,” Montano said.
And get it they did. La Marque went undefeat-ed in district play and
then roared through the playofs before getting derailed by Yates in the regional inal.
heir inal record was 26-11.
“It’s due to the hard work the kids and the coaching staf put in,” Montano said. “We made a commitment to some high expectations and achieved them.”
Contact Sports Editor John DeLapp at 409-683-5242 or [email protected].
Montano named Coach of the Year
KEVIN M. COX/The Daily News file photo
La Marque coach David Montano talks to Al Curry during the irst quarter of a game against Texas City on Dec. 18. In his irst year with the Cougars, Montano led the team to the Region III-3A inals and earned The Daily News’ Coach of the Year award.
his season, the Knights stepped up to 5A and went 20-14 and inished second in District 24-5A at 8-4. A large portion of that improvement is thanks to he Daily News’ Player of the Year, Louis Dunbar.
he senior guard was an ofen-sive force, averaging 18.5 points per game. He also pulled down 3.6 rebounds per outing.
Dunbar was always an outside threat and this season he showed he could drive to the hoop, too.
“I became more of a scorer and expanded my game more by going to the lane and getting to the foul lane,” he said.
Knights coach Darren Chan-dler noticed several areas where Dunbar upped his game.
“His biggest improvement was that he became much more ef-icient with his ofense, which played better with the team concept,” Chandler said. “He learned to take it to the basket more and his midrange game improved, too. He’s always had a 3-point stroke, but adding the midrange game and going to the basket was huge.”
Dunbar’s propensity for hit-ting free throws also made a dif-ference in the Knights’ fortune.
“Louis is a great free throw shooter,” Chandler said. “Late
in games, he was at the line a lot and he shot 90 percent, so that will win you a lot of close games.”
Aside from being a shooter extraordinaire, Dunbar also did a stout job on defense for the Knights, thanks to his high bas-ketball IQ.
“He understands the game, so he can anticipate a lot on de-fense,” Chandler said.
Dunbar also found a way to take the ball out of his oppo-nents’ hands.
“He took a lot of charges and he led us over the past two years,” Chandler said. “He sac-riiced his body to get us extra possessions.”
Taking charges did not come naturally for Dunbar. He had to learn how to do it.
“I worked on taking charges because that helps the team a lot, and coaches like it when you take a charge,” he said.
Dunbar credits a lot of his suc-cess to a strict workout regimen.
“Instead of going to the beach or parties, I was working out in the mornings and aternoons and go-ing to basketball tournaments.”
At the moment, Dunbar is un-decided about his college plans.
“All I know is somebody is go-ing to get a great player when they sign him,” Chandler said.
Contact Sports Editor John DeLapp at 409-683-5242 or [email protected].
DUNBAR
Continued from Page B1
KEVIN M. COX/The Daily News file photo
Clear Falls senior shooting guard Louis Dunbar is The Daily News’ Player of the Year. Dunbar was the District 24-5A Most Valuable Player and averaged 18.5 points per game for the Knights in their irst season of Class 5A play.
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MVP: Louis Dunbar, Clear FallsOFFENSIVE MVP: Alden Miles, Houston Clear LakeDEFENSIVE MVP: Davon West, Clear BrookNEWCOMER OF THE YEAR: Jordon Tolbert, BrazoswoodCOACH OF THE YEAR: Christian Thompson, Clear Brook FIRST TEAM• Mitchell Becker, Clear Creek• Jef Beverly, Clear Springs• KJ Boyd, Clear Springs
• Leonard Hill, Clear Falls• Chase Mason, Clear Brook• Chase Mullen, Clear Brook• Julian Shepard, Brazos-wood• Will West, Houston Clear Lake SECOND TEAM• Prince Albert, Clear Brook• Payton Barnes, Clear Falls• Parker Calender, Clear Springs• Jordan Davis, Houston Clear Lake• Drake Green, Houston Clear Lake• Tyquon Jordan, Clear Falls• Anthony King, Dickinson• Jovan Yancy, Clear Brook
DISTRICT 24-4A
MVP: Tony Upchurch, Pearland DawsonOFFENSIVE MVP: Quin-ton Mertz, FriendswoodDEFENSIVE MVP: De-Andre Durden, Baytown Goose Creek MemorialNEWCOMER OF THE YEAR: Trey Sumpter, Pearl-and DawsonCOACH OF THE YEAR: Mark Barre, Pearland Dawson FIRST TEAM• Darrow Adams, Galena Park• Kevin Batiste, Ball High• Jonathan Devaughn, Pearland Dawson• Bryce Ervin, Pearland Dawson• Lane Grifon, Friendswood• Carver Hardy, Texas City• Dammon Johnson, Ball
High
• Julian Powell, Baytown
Goose Creek Memorial
• Murquell Smith, Texas City
• Jordan Wood, Friendswood
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• Tolen Avery, Ball High
• Nick Bennett, Pearland
Dawson
• Louis Fernandez, Bay-
town Lee
• Jamari Gilbert, Baytown Lee
• Anthony Johnson, Texas
City
• Chase Jones, Texas City
• Greg Rollins, Ball High
• Kelby Schimming, Friend-
swood
• Edward Stoneham, Pearl-
and Dawson
• Santos Torres, Galena Park
• Todd Vasek, Santa Fe
DISTRICT 24-3A
MVP: Demun Mercer, La MarqueOFFENSIVE MVP: Korey Barron, Houston KIPPDEFENSIVE MVP: Darian Rouse, Houston KIPP SpiritCO-NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR: Jequan Millsap, La Marque, and Kabien Barron, Houston KIPPCOACH OF THE YEAR: David Montano, La Marque
FIRST TEAM• Marquis Beasley, Staf-ford• Jarius Kesee, Columbia• Greg Lemon, Sweeny• Lawrence Montegut, La Marque• Broderick Thomas, Columbia
SECOND TEAM• Paris Clayton, La Marque• Kwenten Griin, La Marque• Neek Mukoro, Staford• Trevon Raven, Staford• Kelci Rigsby, Houston KIPP
Honorable mention• Lance Byron, Staford• Ryan Griggs, Columbia• Brandon Harris, Colum-bia• Reggie Harris, La Marque• Jordan Limas, Sweeny• Dondre McKenzie, Houston KIPP• Dontaye McKenzie, Houston KIPP• Darian Pryor, Staford• Darian Rouse, Houston KIPP Spirit• Derrick Simpson, Hous-ton KIPP Spirit• Jerome Ward, La Marque
DISTRICT 26-2A
MVP: Kalvin Singletary, Van VleckOFFENSIVE MVP: Randy Trigo, HitchcockDEFENSIVE MVP: Spen-cer Seman, DanburyNEWCOMER OF THE YEAR: Grant Aschenbeck, East Bernard
FIRST TEAM• De’Drion Dennard, Van Vleck• Alex Grimaldo, Hitchcock• Everitt Grounds, Altair Rice• Kyle Kolafa, Wallis Brazos• Brannon Larson, Danbury• Daniel Stolte, Danbury• Alan Zapalac, Wallis Brazos• Mitchell Zimmerle, Danbury SECOND TEAM• Devin Anderson, Wallis Brazos• Marcus Brown, Van Vleck• Calvin Garner, Hitchcock• Jordan Johnson, Altair Rice
• Orrin King, Van Vleck• Cole Koeppen, East Bernard
• Jordan Minter, Wallis Brazos• Deven Molis, HitchcockJay Riley, Boling
DISTRICT 26-A
DIVISION II
MVP: Derrick O’Brien, Pre-mier Learning AcademyOFFENSIVE MVP: Jarvis Pittman, LeggettDEFENSIVE MVP: Ray Fisher, GoodrichNEWCOMER OF THE
YEAR: Xavier Bacon, LeggettCOACH OF THE YEAR: Ryan Kopp, Premier Learn-ing Academy FIRST TEAM• Jacoby Callier, Premier Learning Academy• Teddy Winston, Premier Learning Academy
• Joseph Criswell, Leggett• Aaron Ford, Spurger• Robert Hunt, Burkeville SECOND TEAM• Jentry Weisinger, High Island• Gabe Banks, Premier Learning Academy• Adam Miles, Burkeville• Basil Haamid, Leggett• Colyn Walding, Spurger
TAPPS
DISTRICT 8-III
FIRST TEAM• Cade Carr, Beaumont Legacy Christian• Mason Cruse, Bay Area Christian• Matthew Green, Bay Area Christian• Jimmie Briscoe, Beau-mont Legacy Christian• Brandon Coutee, Beau-mont Legacy Christian• Jimmy Frederick, Bay Area Christian• Cameron Gilmore, Bay
Area Christian• Cooper Hicks, Sugar Land Logos• Jeremy Mattox, Sugar Land Logos• Toby Pavlik, Sugar Land Logos• Jacob Ross, Sugar Land Logos• Aaron Valverde, Sugar Land Logos SECOND TEAM• Byron Durgin, Beaumont Legacy Christian• Jared Kemp, Beaumont Legacy Christian• David Kennedy, Bay Area
Christian• Blake Smith, Baytown Christian• Matthew Brady, Sugar Land Logos• Cody Brock, Sugar Land Logos• Collin Caraway, Baytown Christian• Jaquan Carter, Beaumont Legacy Christian• Jonathan Park, Sugar Land Logos• Trey Sykes, Bay Area Christian• Xeven Colbert, Bay Area Christian• Barrett Skeeter, Bay Area Christian
KEVIN M. COX/The Daily News file photo
La Marque senior forward Lawrence Montegut was a District 24-3A First Team All-District selection.
Clear Springs junior guard K.J. Boyd was a District 24-5A First Team All-District selection. KEVIN M. COX/The Daily News file photo
Texas City sophomore guard Carver Hardy was a District 24-4A First Team All-District selection. KEVIN M. COX/The Daily News file photo
KEVIN M. COX/The Daily News file photo
Hitchcock senior guard Randy Trigo was the District 26-2A Ofensive MVP.
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By KRISTIE RIEKENThe Associated Press
» HOUSTONhe Houston Astros
and their staf think they’ll be much better than they were last sea-son.
hey’re about the only ones with that opinion.
Prognosticators and pundits across the coun-try don’t see any way the Astros can avoid inish-ing last in the majors for the third straight year.
he odds are stacked against a Houston team that has just ive play-ers on the 40-man ros-ter with more than two years of major league ex-perience and the league’s lowest payroll. Add to that the move from the NL Central to the powerful AL West and things look even more daunting.
It will be tough, most igure, for this team to avoid becoming the irst to lose at least 106 games in three straight seasons since the expansion Mets did it from 1962-65.
First-year manager Bo Porter, the former Na-tionals third base coach, has worked to instill a winning attitude in the Astros all spring and has implored them not to listen to the critics.
“Ignore the noise,” he
said he tells the players. “It doesn’t matter what anybody has to say — at the end of the day, on March 31, it’s the Hous-ton Astros vs. the Texas Rangers. It’s us against the other team. All the predictions and other things go out the win-dow.”
Still, it’s diicult to en-vision this team being competitive with a pay-roll of $25.9 million, and that igure includes the $4.5 million Houston will pay Pittsburgh as part of the deal that sent pitcher Wandy Rodri-guez there last season.
Without that $4.5 mil-lion, the entire team will make about $6.5 million less than Alex Rodriguez alone will earn this sea-son.
“he one thing that you can never account for in competitive sports is what lies inside of a man,” said Porter, who was part of the recent turnaround in Wash-ington. “We’ve all seen enough baseball and we’ve seen enough com-petition to know that a lot of times that will and that desire and that pas-sion — a lot of times it wins out.”
“Now, is that going to translate over a 162-game season? Nobody has the answer to that,” he said. “None of us has a crystal ball. We don’t know.”
Opening day start-er Bud Norris is the highest-paid player on the team with a salary of $3 million. He’ll try to bounce back from a tough 2012 season where he went 7-13 with a 4.65 ERA. Following him in the rotation will be Lucas Harrell, who was Houston’s most suc-cessful starter last season with an 11-11 record
and 3.76 ERA. he Astros added
Philip Humber, who threw a perfect game last season with the White Sox, to pitch third in the rotation. he perfecto was the highlight of a disappointing season overall where he went 5-5 with a 6.44 ERA. Erik Bedard will be the ith starter, and Alex White and Brad Peacock are battling to round out the rotation.
Another new addition to Houston’s lineup is let ielder Chris Carter. Carter came to Houston just before spring train-ing in a trade that sent veteran shortstop Jed Lowrie to Oakland. he Astros like the potential for power of the 26-year-old, who hit 16 homers in 67 games last season for the A’s. He and third baseman Brett Wallace could also see time at DH.
Ater failing to see what they hoped for from either Tyler Greene or Marwin Gonzalez in spring training, the Astros recently signed veteran inielder Ronny Cedeno.
he 30-year-old Cede-no should be a good inluence on promis-ing 22-year-old second baseman Jose Altuve.
Astros face tough road in move to AL WestHouston has finished with the worst record in Major League Baseball the past two seasons
AP PHOTO/Evan Vucci
The Houston Astros’ Carlos Pena bats during the irst inning of an exhibition spring training baseball game against the Washington Nationals on Monday in Kissimmee, Fla.
Correa goes 3 for 4, Santana drives in two as spring training closesKristie RiekenThe Associated Press
» HOUSTONHouston’s prospects
got the best of the Chi-cago Cubs on Saturday.
Playing a lineup of mostly minor leaguers in their last exhibition game, the Astros beat the Cubs, 6-3. he Cubs be-gan the game with most of their regular starters.
Chicago second base-man Darwin Barney was shaken up ater taking a tumble into some rail-ing chasing a foul ball in the third inning. Barney fell to the ground before crashing into the rail-ing near Houston’s dug-out. He got up quickly and walked of the ield but was taken out of the game.
Cubs manager Dale Sveum said Barney re-ceived ive stitches on his let knee from the spill and that he deinitely wouldn’t play in Chica-go’s opener Monday. he cut is on his knee cap, and Barney said it was so deep he could “pretty much see my bone.”
Astros shortstop, 18-year-old Carlos Cor-rea, the top overall pick in the 2012 drat, went 3 for 4 with a sacriice ly.
“his is what you work for every single day of your life, and I felt pre-pared for the opportu-nity,” Correa said before packing up to head back to the minors. “It’s amaz-ing playing with these players and our new manager Bo Porter. It was really exciting.”
Houston right ielder
Domingo Santana was a home run shy of the cycle and drove in two runs.
“It was a good experi-ence, and I never knew that this would come so fast,” said Santana, who will start the season at Double-A. “Everything just went well. It gives me a little bit of conidence, and it will make me work
even harder so I can stay here.”
Cubs starter Travis Wood yielded ive hits and two runs with a spring-best seven strike-outs in 4 1-3 innings. It was an improvement from his last start, when he allowed seven hits and four runs in four innings.
Chicago began taking
out its starters in the third inning.
Houston starter Brad Peacock allowed two hits and no runs in three in-nings. He posted a 2.78
ERA this spring to nab the fourth spot in the As-tros rotation ater spend-ing the 2012 season at Oakland’s Triple-A aili-ate.
Cubs closer Carlos Marmol allowed two hits and a run in 2-3 innings to leave his ERA this spring at 6.10. He yield-ed four hits and six runs without getting an out in his last start.
Correa’s irst hit came when the normally sure-handed Barney grabbed the grounder but dropped it before he could throw it to irst base earlier in the third inning. He added another single when a ly ball dropped in front of diving right ielder Jae-Hoon Ha in the seventh and a third single in the eighth.
Santana hit a ground-rule double that bounced of the hill in center ield and over the wall to score a run for Houston in the second inning.
Santana singled in the ith and scored on a sac-riice ly by Correa. He added an RBI triple in the sixth inning.
Minor leaguers strut their stuff as Astros down Cubs
AP PHOTO/Pat Sullivan
The Houston Astros’ Carlos Correa connects for a single against the Chicago Cubs dur-ing the third inning Saturday in Houston.
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By DOUG FERGUSONThe Associated Press
» HUMBLE
Seven players within four shots of the lead at the Houston Open have never won on the PGA Tour. Twelve of them still aren’t in the Masters. One of them includes a journeyman who had to qualify Monday just to get a tee time at Redstone Golf Club.
In a tournament loaded with so many possibilities, one of the big surprises is a major champion.
Stewart Cink has not been heard from very much since that sum-mer day at Turnberry in 2009 when he beat Tom Watson to win the British Open. His highest inish since then was third, and that was in the four-man ield at the PGA Grand Slam of Golf. In 81 starts since becoming a major champion, he has missed the cut 30 percent of the time. He has plunged to No. 272 in the world ranking.
Cink inished of an-other solid round Satur-day by saving par form the bunker on the 18th hole for a 4-under 68, giving him a share of the
lead with Bill Haas.Haas, the co-leader af-
ter 36 holes at Bay Hill last week, made seven birdies over his last 13 holes for a 67 and joined Cink at 11-under 205.
Now comes the hard part, 20 players sepa-rated by four shots on a course where birdies are available, but the slightest miss can prove costly.
Steve Wheatcrot, who only got into this tour-nament through a Mon-day qualiier, got of to a good start and fell back with an embarrassing inish. Wheatcrot was tied for the lead when he shanked a shot from the greenside bunker on the 18th, the ball coming out
at a 45-degree angle, over the green and almost into the gallery. He made a 15-foot putt to salvage bogey for a 72.
Wheatcrot still was only one shot out of the lead, along with Ben Crane (67), D.A. Points (71) and Jason Kokrak (71).
“If you don’t catch it perfectly, it runs across the green into the water,” Wheatcrot said about his bunker shot. “I opened the club face just trying to hit a high sot one and obviously I missed most of the club face.”
Nine players were only two shots behind, a group that included former British Open champion
Louis Oosthuizen (65), former world No. 1 Lee Westwood (67), former PGA champion Keegan Bradley (67) two-time major champion Angel Cabrera (69) and Henrik Stenson (68), who is one round away from playing his way into the Masters through being top 50 in the world.
Phil Mickelson in-ished his round of 67 before the leaders teed of, and he closed with a wedge into 6 feet for birdie. He wound up ive shots out of the lead, still within range of trying to add another win before heading to Augusta for the Masters.
Rory McIlroy had a chance to join the mix. Swinging more freely, the world’s No. 2 player was poised to reach 6 under for the tournament with a superb bunker shot to 5 feet for birdie on the 13th hole. He missed the putt, and then missed the 3-footer he had let and wound up with a bo-gey. McIlroy short-sided himself on the next hole for bogey, and dropped another shot on the 18th with a tee shot into the water. He had to settle for a 71 and was at 214, nine shots behind.
Cink, Haas tied for lead in Houston
Those who attended the Wednesday
pro-am at the Shell Houston Open could have mingled with Pro Football Hall of Fame running back and Dancing With the Stars champion Emmitt Smith. Amus-ingly, on his walk to the range, he wasn’t asked for an autograph or a photo op.
Bill and Penny Ross had a ine view during their day at Redstone Golf Club, taking in play from high above the 18th green in climate-controlled comfort.
I became reacquaint-ed with Robert. I was introduced to him only a month ago by Paul, who is the uncle of MLB pitcher Jared Co-sart — that last name is the only one that matters in this story. Ruthie, Robert’s honey and a newbie golfer, was enjoying her irst look at big-time golf.
Melanie Hauser, the grand dame of Texas golf writers, moves about the course un-noticed by most, as does longtime chan-nel 13 sports guy Tim Melton, albeit there
are always lots of folks with quizzical looks on their faces when they see him as they try to put a name to the face.
Noted golf author Curt Sampson was inside the ropes with Rory McIlroy. He’s developing a piece for Golf World on the No. 2-ranked player.
Harris County S.O. sergeant R.W. Ras-berry, working security at the No. 1 tee box, used to work closely with my badge buddies assigned to the Gulf Coast Violent Ofend-ers Task Force. He introduced me to their head of Homeland Se-curity, who lives here in Galveston County.
We are never alone, even in a crowd of 30,000 or so.
You’re never alone in the SHO crowd
The Big SHOThe Daily News golf colum-nist Gean Leonard is at Redstone Golf Club
this week for the Shell Houston Open.
AP PHOTO/ Patric Schneider
Bill Haas waves to the crowd on the ninth hole during the third round of the Shell Houston Open on Saturday, in Humble. Haas is tied with Stewart Cink for the lead.
Competition fierce, tight near top of leaderboard heading into final round
Lin, Parsons, Garcia each score 15 pointsBy JORDAN GODWINAssociated Press
» HOUSTON
Jeremy Lin, Chandler Parsons and Francisco Garcia scored 15 points apiece to lead the Hous-ton Rockets to a 98-81 victory over the Los An-geles Clippers on Satur-day night.
Houston was playing without shooting guard and leading scorer James Harden, who missed his third game of the season with a right ankle sprain, but the Rockets had all the right answers in his absence.
Harden, who played 26 minutes and scored seven points in a 103-94 road loss to Memphis on Friday night, ranks ith in the league with 26.0 points per game.
Garcia had his best game as a Rocket, hitting 3 of 5 shots from beyond the arc as a spark of the bench to help Houston snap a two-game losing streak.
Lin and Parsons com-
bined for 13 points in Houston’s pivotal third quarter, when the Rock-ets outscored Los Ange-les 30-13. he rally gave Houston a 22-point lead heading into the fourth quarter, and Clippers coach Vinny Del Negro had seen enough.
Point guard Chris Paul was the only Clippers starter to play in the i-nal quarter, as Del Negro benched Blake Griin, DeAndre Jordan, Caron Butler and Willie Green.
For the second con-secutive game, the Clip-pers failed to secure their franchise-record 50th victory. he Clip-pers tied the 1974-75 team record for wins in a season by beating New Orleans on Wednesday.
Paul led the Clippers with 19 points, seven as-sists and three steals.
Los Angeles has lost three of its last four games, allowing at least 98 points in each loss.
Making his irst NBA start, Rockets guard James Anderson scored seven points and added ive re-bounds, two steals and two assists. Forward Greg Smith had nine points and eight rebounds in his irst professional start.
Trio helps Rockets blast past Clippers
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BASEBALL
AMERICAN LEAGUE
TODAY’S GAME
Texas (Harrison 0-0) at Houston (Norris 0-0), 7:05 p.m.
MONDAY’S GAMES
Boston at N.Y. Yankees, 12:05 p.m.Detroit at Minnesota, 3:10 p.m.Kansas City at Chicago White Sox, 3:10 p.m.L.A. Angels at Cincinnati, 3:10 p.m.Seattle at Oakland, 9:05 p.m.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
MONDAY’S GAMES
Miami at Washington, 12:05 p.m.San Diego at N.Y. Mets, 12:10 p.m.Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh, 12:35 p.m.Colorado at Milwaukee, 1:10 p.m.L.A. Angels at Cincinnati, 3:10 p.m.San Francisco at L.A. Dodgers, 3:10 p.m.Philadelphia at Atlanta, 6:05 p.m.St. Louis at Arizona, 9:05 p.m.
BASKETBALL
NBAEASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division W L Pct GBx-New York 45 26 .634 —x-Brooklyn 42 30 .583 32Boston 38 34 .528 72Philadelphia 30 43 .411 16Toronto 27 45 .375 182Southeast Division W L Pct GBz-Miami 57 15 .792 —x-Atlanta 41 33 .554 17Washington 26 46 .361 31Orlando 19 55 .257 39Charlotte 17 56 .233 402Central Division W L Pct GBx-Indiana 46 27 .630 —x-Chicago 39 32 .549 6Milwaukee 35 37 .486 102Detroit 24 49 .329 22Cleveland 22 49 .310 23WESTERN CONFERENCESouthwest Division W L Pct GBx-San Antonio 55 17 .764 —x-Memphis 49 24 .671 62Houston 40 33 .548 152Dallas 36 37 .493 192New Orleans 25 48 .342 302Northwest Division W L Pct GBx-Oklahoma City 54 20 .730 —x-Denver 50 24 .676 4Utah 37 36 .507 162Portland 33 39 .458 20Minnesota 26 46 .361 27Paciic Division W L Pct GBx-L.A. Clippers 49 25 .662 —Golden State 41 32 .562 72L.A. Lakers 37 36 .507 112Sacramento 27 46 .370 212Phoenix 23 50 .315 252x-clinched playof spotz-clinched conference
FRIDAY’S GAMES
Orlando 97, Washington 92Boston 118, Atlanta 107New York 111, Charlotte 102Philadelphia 97, Cleveland 87Toronto 99, Detroit 82Memphis 103, Houston 94Minnesota 101, Oklahoma City 93Miami 108, New Orleans 89San Antonio 104, L.A. Clippers 102Denver 109, Brooklyn 87Utah 105, Portland 95
SATURDAY’S GAMES
Dallas 100, Chicago 98Atlanta 97, Orlando 88Houston 98, L.A. Clippers 81Memphis 99, Minnesota 86Philadelphia 100, Charlotte 92Oklahoma City 109, Milwaukee 99Brooklyn at Utah, late.Indiana at Phoenix, lateL.A. Lakers at Sacramento, latePortland at Golden State, late
TODAY’S GAMES
Cleveland at New Orleans, 5 p.m.Toronto at Washington, 5 p.m.Detroit at Chicago, 6 p.m.Miami at San Antonio, 6 p.m.Boston at New York, 6:30 p.m.
MONDAY’S GAMES
Detroit at Toronto, 6 p.m.Cleveland at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m.Orlando at Houston, 7 p.m.San Antonio at Memphis, 7 p.m.Boston at Minnesota, 7 p.m.Charlotte at Milwaukee, 7 p.m.Portland at Utah, 8 p.m.Indiana at L.A. Clippers, 9:30 p.m.
ROCKETS 98, CLIPPERS 81L.A. CLIPPERS (81)Butler 2-10 0-0 5, Griin 5-11 2-2 12, Jordan 4-5 0-0 8, Paul 7-15 3-3 19, Green 2-6 0-0 6, Crawford 6-14 2-2 15, Hollins 2-3 2-2 6, Barnes 1-5 1-2 4, Odom 0-1 0-0 0, Bledsoe 1-4 0-0 2, Hill 1-3 0-1 2, Wayns 0-1 2-2 2, Turiaf 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 31-78 12-14 81.HOUSTON (98)Parsons 6-15 1-2 15, Smith 3-7 3-4 9, Asik 6-9 1-4 13, Lin 4-10 6-8 15, Anderson 2-8 3-4 7, Beverley 3-7 2-2 9, Motiejunas 2-4 0-0 4, Del-ino 4-8 1-1 11, Garcia 5-10 2-2 15, Ohlbrecht 0-0 0-0 0, Robinson 0-0 0-0 0, Brooks 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 35-80 19-27 98.L.A. Clippers 29 21 13 18—81Houston 28 27 30 13—983-Point Goals—L.A. Clippers 7-22 (Green 2-2, Paul 2-3, Butler 1-3, Barnes 1-5, Crawford 1-6, Wayns 0-1, Odom 0-1, Bledsoe 0-1), Houston 9-24 (Garcia 3-7, Delino 2-5, Parsons 2-5, Lin 1-2, Beverley 1-3, Anderson 0-1, Brooks 0-1). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—L.A. Clippers 42 (Hollins 8), Houston 60 (Asik 12). Assists—L.A. Clippers 15 (Paul 7), Houston 17 (Parsons 4). Total Fouls—L.A. Clippers 26, Houston 18.
BETTING LINE
GLANZ-CULVER LINE
FOR TODAY
MLBFAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG LINETexas -155 at Houston +145
MONDAY
National Leagueat Washington -230 Miami +210at New York -135 San Diego +125at Pittsburgh -135 Chicago +125at Milwaukee -165 Colorado +155at Los Angeles -150 San Francisco +140at Atlanta -115 Philadelphia +105St. Louis -110 at Arizona +100American Leagueat New York -135 Boston +125at Chicago -145 Kansas City +135Detroit -180 at Minnesota +170at Oakland -105 Seattle -105Interleagueat Cincinnati -120 Los Angeles (AL) +110
NCAA BASKETBALL TOURNAMENTRegional FinalsAt IndianapolisFAVORITE LINE O/U UNDERDOGLouisville 32 (137) DukeAt ArlingtonFlorida 22 (131) Michigan
MONDAY
CBI TournamentChampionship SeriesGame Oneat Santa Clara 72 (145) George Mason
NIT
TUESDAY
SemiinalsAt New YorkBaylor 3 (153) BYUIowa 22 (136) Maryland
NBAFAVORITE LINE UNDERDOGat Washington 32 Torontoat New Orleans 7 Clevelandat Chicago 82 Detroitat San Antonio 12 Miamiat New York 62 Boston
NHLFAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG LINEChicago -120 at Detroit +100Anaheim -135 at Columbus +115Los Angeles -115 at Dallas -105Boston -155 at Bufalo +135at Philadelphia -125 Washington +105
GOLF
PGA-HOUSTON OPEN LEADERS
SATURDAY
At Redstone Golf Club, Tournament CourseHumble, TexasPurse: $6.2 millionYardage: 7,441; Par: 72Third RoundStewart Cink 71-66-68—205 -11Bill Haas 68-70-67—205 -11Ben Crane 69-70-67—206 -10D.A. Points 64-71-71—206 -10Steve Wheatcroft 67-67-72—206 -10Jason Kokrak 66-69-71—206 -10Bud Cauley 68-74-65—207 -9Louis Oosthuizen 70-72-65—207 -9Lee Westwood 68-72-67—207 -9Billy Horschel 68-72-67—207 -9Keegan Bradley 70-70-67—207 -9Kevin Chappell 70-70-67—207 -9Henrik Stenson 69-70-68—207 -9Angel Cabrera 66-72-69—207 -9Cameron Tringale 65-73-69—207 -9Brian Davis 67-70-71—208 -8Greg Owen 68-73-68—209 -7John Merrick 68-72-69—209 -7Charley Hofman 68-71-70—209 -7Dustin Johnson 69-70-70—209 -7Phil Mickelson 72-71-67—210 -6Chez Reavie 72-70-68—210 -6Graham DeLaet 71-71-68—210 -6Josh Teater 74-67-69—210 -6Scott Verplank 72-68-70—210 -6John Rollins 65-74-71—210 -6D.H. Lee 72-71-68—211 -5James Hahn 74-69-68—211 -5Tim Herron 69-73-69—211 -5Matt Jones 68-73-70—211 -5Charles Howell III 69-72-70—211 -5Jef Overton 67-73-71—211 -5Brendon de Jonge 71-68-72—211 -5Steven Bowditch 73-70-69—212 -4Jin Park 69-74-69—212 -4Daniel Summerhays 72-71-69—212 -4Kevin Stadler 70-73-69—212 -4Brandt Jobe 69-73-70—212 -4Brendan Steele 70-71-71—212 -4Robert Streb 70-71-71—212 -4Steve Stricker 73-68-71—212 -4Scott Stallings 70-69-73—212 -4Justin Leonard 71-72-70—213 -3Charlie Beljan 71-72-70—213 -3Pat Perez 72-71-70—213 -3Chris Kirk 71-70-72—213 -3Aaron Baddeley 70-71-72—213 -3Nicholas Thompson 70-73-71—214 -2Chris Stroud 71-72-71—214 -2Cameron Percy 73-70-71—214 -2Rory McIlroy 73-70-71—214 -2David Lynn 72-70-72—214 -2Kelly Kraft 70-72-72—214 -2Ross Fisher 73-69-72—214 -2Doug LaBelle II 71-71-72—214 -2Nick Watney 71-71-72—214 -2Ricky Barnes 73-68-73—214 -2Bob Estes 71-69-74—214 -2Hunter Haas 69-71-74—214 -2Boo Weekley 70-69-75—214 -2George Coetzee 72-71-72—215 -1Henrik Norlander 74-68-73—215 -1Gary Woodland 72-70-73—215 -1Troy Matteson 71-71-73—215 -1Harris English 69-74-73—216 ERussell Henley 72-70-74—216 EJordan Spieth 72-70-74—216 EWes Short, Jr. 71-70-75—216 ECarl Pettersson 74-69-74—217 +1Chad Campbell 72-71-74—217 +1Jimmy Walker 68-71-78—217 +1Jerry Kelly 71-72-75—218 +2
TRANSACTIONS
SATURDAY’S SPORTS TRANSACTIONSBASEBALLAmerican LeagueTEXAS RANGERS—Optioned RHP Cory Burns and RHP Josh Linblom to Round Rock (PCL).National LeagueARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS—Agreed to terms with 1B Paul Goldschmidt on a ive-year contract.FOOTBALLNational Football LeagueMIAMI DOLPHINS—Signed CB Brent Grimes to a one-year contract.COLLEGEUCLA—Named Steve Alford men’s basketball coach.
SCOREBOARDSports on TV
BOWLING
1:30 p.m.ESPN — PBA, Tournament of Champions, at Indianapolis
COLLEGE BASEBALL
1:30 p.m.FSN — TCU at Texas Tech
GOLF
8 a.m.TGC — European PGA Tour, Trophee Hassan II, inal round, at Agadir, MoroccoNoonTGC — PGA Tour, Houston Open, inal round, at Humble2 p.m.NBC — PGA Tour, Houston Open, inal round, at Humble
MAJOR LEAGUE
BASEBALL
7 p.m.ESPN — Texas at Houston
MEN’S COLLEGE
BASKETBALL
1:20 p.m.CBS — NCAA Division I tourna-ment, regional inal, Michigan vs. Florida, at Arlington3:55 p.m.CBS — NCAA Division I tourna-ment, regional inal, Louisville
vs. Duke, at Indianapolis
NBA BASKETBALL
6 p.m.WGN — Detroit at Chicago
NHL HOCKEY
11:30 a.m.NBC — Chicago at Detroit6:30 p.m.NBCSN — Boston at Bufalo
TENNIS
10:30 a.m.CBS — ATP World Tour/WTA, Sony Open, men’s champion-ship match, at Key Biscayne, Fla.
WOMEN’S COLLEGE BAS-
KETBALL
11 a.m.ESPN — NCAA Division I tourna-ment, regional semifinal, Notre Dame vs. Kansas, at Norfolk, Va.1:30 p.m.ESPN2 — NCAA Division I tourna-ment, regional semifinal, Duke vs. Nebraska, at Norfolk, Va.3:30 p.m.ESPN2 — NCAA Division I tournament, regional semifinal, Oklahoma vs. Tennessee, at Oklahoma City6 p.m.ESPN2 — NCAA Division I tourna-ment, regional semifinal, Baylor vs. Louisville, at Oklahoma City
» LOS ANGELESWichita State is head-
ed to the Final Four, and these Shockers should be no surprise to any-body.
Not ater the way they held of mighty Ohio State in the West Re-gional inal.
Malcolm Armstead scored 14 points, Fred Van Vleet bounced in a big basket with 1 minute let, and ninth-seeded Wichita State earned its irst trip to the Final Four since 1965 with a 70-66 victory over Ohio State on Saturday.
Wichita State is just the ith team seeded ninth or higher to reach the Final Four since seeding began in 1979, but the second in three years following 11th-seeded Virginia Com-
monwealth’s improb-able run in 2011.
East RegionalNo. 2 Syracuse 55,
No. 3 Marquette 39 » WASHINGTON
Jim Boeheim calls this year’s Syracuse team his best defensive group ever. It’s hard to argue, based on the perfor-mances that put the Or-ange in the Final Four.
Using its trapping, shot-challenging 2-3 zone to perfect efect for 40 minutes, No. 4-seeded Syracuse shut down No. 3 Marquette, 55-39, Saturday to earn Boeheim his irst trip to the national semis since a freshman named Car-melo Anthony helped win the 2003 NCAA title.
Wichita State upsets OSU
AP PHOTO/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Syracuse players and coaches celebrate for photogra-phers Saturday after their 55-39 win over Marquette in the East Regional inal in the NCAA men’s college basketball tournament in Washington.
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YESTERDAYHigh | low ............74 | 64Normal high ............... 73Normal low ................. 60Record high ................ 81Record low .................. 39
UV INDEX
Today .................... 6 (high)
POLLEN
YESTERDAYTrees ..........................heavyWeed ............................. lowGrass ....................mediumMold .............................. low
74 | 66
73 | 65
74 | 65
76 | 65
75 | 65
77 | 64
76 | 64 76 | 65
76 | 65
75 | 65
74 | 65
ALMANAC
PRECIPITATIONPrevious day .......... traceMonth-to-date .......0.19Normal m-t-d .........2.99Year-to-date ............9.61Normal y-t-d ...........9.76
Temperatures shown are
today’s expected highs and lows
MARINE
FORECAST
Wind (a.m.) ............ S 5-10Wind (p.m.) ............ S 5-10Bays .......................smoothOfshore ................2-3 feetWater temp. ............66.0˚
Sunrise SunsetToday 7:08 a.m. 7:37 p.m.Mon. 7:07 a.m. 7:38 p.m.Tue. 7:06 a.m. 7:39 p.m.
Moonrise MoonsetToday prev. day 10:19 a.m.Mon. 12:28 a.m. 11:17 a.m.Tue. 1:26 a.m. 12:18 p.m.
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TODAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY
GALVESTON BAY High LowToday 9:36 a.m. 1:18 a.m. 5:46 p.m. 2:09 p.m.Mon. 10:53 a.m. 2:16 a.m. 6:02 p.m. 3:19 p.m.Tue. ——— 3:23 a.m. 12:11 p.m. ———
GALVESTON ISLAND High LowToday 8:03 a.m. 12:15 a.m. 4:13 p.m. 1:06 p.m.Mon. 9:20 a.m. 1:13 a.m. 4:29 p.m. 2:16 p.m.Tue. ——— 2:20 a.m. 10:38 a.m. ———
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Fronts PressureCold Warm Stationary Low High
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NATIONAL FORECAST
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NICE CATCH!
Emily Higgins with the largest trout she has caught, an 8-pound beauty.
Dean Leathers with a big drum he caught and released.
COURTESY PHOTOS
Hannah Sendejas with a big trout caught while ishing with her dad, Ralph Sendejas.
Chad Chambers, Denise Stallings and Dan Stallings with their 61 sand trout caught at Seawolf Park.
Chris Garcia with a huge sow snapper caught and released while ishing of-shore on Aqua Safari’s Island Girl.
Gracie Rambin of Santa Fe with a nice catch of West Bay trout ishing with her dad, Danny.
Brianna McAllister and Bri McAllister of Friendswood with a large black drum caught and released while ishing with 2 Fish’Aholics Charters.
David De La Garza Jr. and his brother Samual with a nice drum David caught near the Texas A&M at Galveston campus.
FISHING
REPORT
CoastalBOLIVAR: Trout are
fair to good on the south shoreline on soft plastics and plugs. Black drum and redish are good at Rollover Pass.TRINITY BAY: Trout are
good for wader work-ing the east shoreline on soft plastics. Catish are good around Long Island Bayou and shrimp. Redish are fair to good for waders around Rabbit Bayou.EAST GALVESTON
BAY: Trout are good on the south shoreline on Catch 5s, MirrOlures and
Catch 2000s. Whiting and sand trout are good on the edge of the Intra-coastal on fresh shrimp. Black drum are fair to good in the Ship Channel on crabs.WEST GALVESTON
BAY: Trout are fair to good for drifters work-ing shell on live shrimp and Gulps. Sheepshead, redish and black drum are good at the jetty on shrimp and crabs. Redish are good in the back lakes on shrimp and Gulps.TEXAS CITY: Black
drum are good in are channel on crabs. Trout are fair on the reefs on live shrimp on the incom-ing tide.FREEPORT: Sand
trout and sheepshead
are good on live shrimp on the reefs in Christmas Bay and Bastrop Bay. Black drum and redish are good at the jetties on cracked blue crabs.EAST MATAGORDA
BAY: Trout are fair to good while drifting deep shell with plastics and live shrimp. Redish are fair for drifters in the back lakes on live shrimp. Redish are fair to good on the edge of the Intracoastal on crabs and mullet.WEST MATAGORDA
BAY: Redish are fair to good on the edge of Oys-ter Lake on shrimp and crabs. Black drum and redish are fair to good at the jetty on crabs.
Texas Parks & Wildlife
Saturday, condi-tions for ishing were good, with
most of the activity coming from the jet-ties and surf. Overall, catches were down compared to the past several days; however, for anglers willing to be patient, there were ish to be caught.
Night ishing was the best bet for taking home some ish, and anglers willing to wait it out until 3 a.m. Saturday morning found a lurry of activity in the canals of Tiki Island and along Highland Bayou.
Saturday morning, Dr. Bruce Leipzig hosted a ishing trip for his family visiting from Houston and Atlanta. Leipzig’s grandchildren, Michael Baker and Ashley Baker, along with their dad, Rob, and Josh Burris of Atlanta ished the Bolivar surf and North Jetty where action inally popped open late morning on nice-sized sheepshead.
When nothing much
was going for the live shrimp as bait, they tried fresh dead shrimp, and that was the move that led to their catch.Jelly Hebert and
Misty Logan ished from a family member’s dock at Tiki on Friday night with not much to show for their ef-forts until they were just about to pull in the lines and call it a night. About 3 a.m., action busted open with trout hitting free-lined live shrimp one right ater another. By 3:30 a.m., the couple from Hous-ton had caught 11 trout — seven throwbacks
and four keepers.A similar report came
from Highland Bayou where Marty Hescock landed two slot reds and two keeper trout be-tween 5 a.m. and 6 a.m. Saturday.
he forecast for today and Monday calls for favorable conditions. his might be another window of opportunity before the next cold front hits early this week.
No reports of black drum catches were re-ceived; however, the big drum still are around and, hopefully, will be here in good numbers for Saturday’s big drum tournament at the yacht basin.
he 21st annual Bay Area Chapter CCA-Tex-as Banquet and fund-raiser is set for hurs-day at the Bay Area Community Center, 5002 NASA Road 1, in Seabrook. Doors open at 6 p.m. with good food and entertainment along with silent and live auctions.
Anglers catching in early hoursReel Report
Capt. Joe Kent is a columnist for The Daily News. To get your catch in the
Reel Report, call 409-683-5273 or email [email protected].
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