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The Lutheran North High School football team fi nished 2-8 last season, but the Lions have a great chance to match that win total before mid-September.

They’ll open the season against a pair of TAPPS Division III oppo-nents — on Aug. 31 vs. Galveston O’Connell, which fi nished 3-7 last season; they’ll travel to Bay Area Christian, a squad that went 4-6 in 2011, on Sept. 7.

“I expect Bay Area to be a tough opponent for us this season,” Lu-theran North second-year head football coach Thump Phillips said. “It’s always crucial to start off with a victory. You want to get the momentum going.”

That will be key when the Lions open TAPPS Division II-District 4 competition on Sept. 28 at Second Baptist.

The Lions went 0-7 in TAPPS II-4, one of the toughest districts in the state that included Tom-ball Concordia Lutheran, the D-II state runner-up squad that has since moved up to TAPPS Divi-sion I. The top four teams in the seven-team district will advance to the postseason.

“I feel we will be able to com-pete with the teams at the top of our district this year, which tells you how confi dent I am in our young players” Phillips said. “Making the playoffs is our team goal this season, and all we have to do is not beat ourselves. If we eliminate the mental mistakes, we

will be fi ne.”Lutheran North returns four

starters, including three on of-fense. “Team strengths for us this season will be at the skill posi-tions,” Phillips said.

Leading the way will be senior wide receiver Brandon Slater, who played quarterback and wide re-ceiver last season, is a preseason nominee for the Greater Houston Touchdown Club Offensive Pri-vate School Player of the Year.

Slater will catch passes from sophomore quarterback Nelson Gunnell, who according to Phil-lips, “demonstrates every quality you look for in a quarterback.”

Senior offensive lineman Van Jones is a team captain and four-year varsity letterman, and “phys-ical run blocker”, junior Eric Hill, according to Phillips.

Junior defensive back D.J. John-son is a leader in the defensive backfi eld, and sophomore Nick Rangel, according to Phillips, is “a linebacker who is as tough as they come.”

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VARSITYLUTHERAN HIGH NORTH LIONS PROFILE: Toughest opponent for Lutheran North may just be itself

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Last season, the Reagan High School football team advanced to the postseason for the first time since 2004 and defeated fellow Houston ISD opponent, Worthing, in the first round of the UIL Class 4A, Division I playoffs. They lost to eventual 4A-I state runner-up Pearland Dawson in the second round but managed to finish with a winning record at 7-5.

Bulldogs fourth-year head coach Stephen Dixon is confident that things are just getting start-ed for a team that returns seven starters on each side of the ball. “Overall, we got better week-by-week last year as a team,” Dixon said. “This year, there’s a possibil-ity that we could be much better than we were (early in the season) last year. Even though they were younger kids, we had more talent than we had in previous years and a lot more dedication than we had in previous years.”

The Bulldogs will get tested im-mediately when they host Hous-ton Westside, the Class 5A-District 20 runner-up last season, at 7 p.m. Sept. 1 at Delmar Stadium.

“They’ll have some talented kids this year,” Dixon said. “I felt like we had to step up and play some bet-ter competition this year.”

Reagan will travel to Hous-ton Jones at 7 p.m. on Sept. 7 at Barnett Stadium. The Class 3A Falcons finished 3-6 last season. Those games should prepare the Bulldogs for the Class 4A-District 21 opener on Sept. 14 at North Forest, which finished 4-6 last fall.

“This year is wide open,” Dixon said. “I see everybody’s predictions and some people have predicted us second or third. The team that everybody’s overlooking is North Forest, and they’re not even picked to make the playoffs.”

Dixon, a former University of Houston defensive lineman, expects big things from junior quarterback Tyron Washington, who passed for 1,900 yards and

23 touchdowns last season, and is highly qualified to run the Spread Offense. “I think he could throw for well over 2,500 yards this year if we give him time to pass the ball,” Dixon said.

Freshman quarterback Rondle Johnson could also take some snaps this season for the varsity. “He’ll be one of the top quarter-backs in the state of Texas going forward,” Dixon said. “Mentally, he’s a tough kid. He gets better week by week...he’ll be a scholar-ship type quarterback very, very soon.”

The Bulldogs’ quarterbacks will have all-state offensive line Ge-white Stallworth blocking for them and anchoring a young, but talent-ed offensive line. Wide receivers include senior Joseph Dehn, who caught seven touchdown passes last fall, Malcolm LaFleur and Dixon’s son, Stephen Dixon Jr.

“It’s a joy coaching my own son,” Dixon said. “I’m a lot tougher on him than I probably am on every-body else.”

The Bulldogs run some I-for-mation, but Dixon expects more of a “running back by commit-tee” this season with Daniel Teal and defensive back Tavon Dodd among others getting carries.

Reagan’s 4-2-5 defense will be led by Dodd, and linebackers se-nior Jalen Wells, and junior Trevor O’Reilly. “At this point in time, the defense will be ahead of the of-fense,” Dixon said after the Bull-dogs’ scrimmage against Houston Furr on Aug. 18.

REAGAN HIGH BULLDOGS PROFILE:

REAGAN HIGH2012 SCHEDULE

Sept. 1 vs. Westside (Delmar), 7 p.m.

Sept. 7 at Jones (Barnett), 7 p.m.

Sept. 14 at North Forest, 7 p.m.

Sept. 22 at Wheatley (Barnett), 6 p.m.

Oct. 4 vs. Milby (Dyer), 7 p.m.

Oct. 12 at Sharpstown (Butler), 7 p.m.

Oct. 20 vs. Austin (Dyer), 7 p.m.

Oct. 25 at Lee (Delmar), 7 p.m.

Nov. 3 vs. Waltrip (Delmar), 6 p.m.

Nov. 10 vs. Davis (Delmar), 1 p.m.

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Reagan High School — one of Houston ISD’s most historic schools — will play one of the District’s newest schools, Westside High, for the first time ever at 7 p.m. Saturday at Delmar Stadium.

Westside, which opened in 2000, finished 8-3 for a second

place finish in competitive Class 5A-District 20 last season. “It’ll be a good measure for our program and where we’re headed,” Reagan football coach Stephen Dixon said. “We’re looking forward to a chal-lenge.”

Reagan finished 7-5 last season,

reaching the second round of the UIL Class 4A-Division I playoffs. They’ll likely start freshman quar-terback Rondle Johnson against Westside. “I believe in this kid, and he’s going to guide us to where we need to be,” Dixon said. “He’ll be a scholarship type quarterback very,

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On Sept. 7, the Scarborough High School team will trek down U.S. Hwy. 59 South to play Whar-ton, a UIL Class 3A regional semifinalist a season ago. They’ll get an up close look at “what true Friday Night Football is about,” said Spartans second-year coach Jayson Merren.

That’s exactly what Merren is hoping to build into the Scarbor-ough program.

“Wharton is going to be a tough challenge,” Merren said. “But you have to step back and look at what we are trying to accomplish at Scarborough as a school, and that is to try to turn a school around.

“As a coach I realize that and want our ‘Friday night par-ticipants’ meaning band, ROTC, dance, cheer (to experience Fri-day Night Football). Wharton is a small town school but will pack the stands. Our kids deserve to be a part of that.”

Scarborough, which will com-pete in Class 3A-District 23 this season, hasn’t won a game since it defeated fellow HISD opponent, Austin, 18-12, in 2009, but the Spartans, who return 10 starters, should be more competitive this year, said Merren.

Scarborough will be the first Leader-area school to play this season, with the season opener on Thursday, Aug. 30 vs. Class 4A Houston Lee at Dyer Stadium. It’ll be Lee’s first game at the varsity level since reviving its dormant football program.

“I feel we have a chance to com-pete with Lee, Jones, and Furr,” Merren said. “We have a long way to go and take nothing for granted, those schools have had programs in place and coaches

that know the game. We have a saying, “You cannot win a game on Friday night…..you can only lose it. You win on Friday nights by winning at practice Monday – Thursday.”

Merren took over the Spartans’ program last summer after serv-ing as an assistant coach at Class 5A Houston Westside.

“I feel now that the kids real-ize they have a coaching staff in place that is committed helps a lot,” Merren said. “There has been a new head coach here the previ-ous three years. Now that I have been here for a year I feel that they are starting to respond well to having the same faces here day in and day out.”

Merren said having a full off-season has helped the Spartans, who will begin 23-3A competi-tion on Sept. 28 at Kashmere, at Delmar Stadium.

“Coming over so late last year from Westside I did not have time to put anything new in place,” Merren said. “This year we have had a full summer of workouts and got to hit the ground run-ning with all the changes we have made on the field.”

Senior Charlie Everts is the Spartans’ returning rusher, while wide receiver/defensive back Wil-liam Dancy contributes on both sides of the ball. Wide receiver Keyone Polly is expected to con-tribute in the Spread Offense.

Everts and senior Onyx Ander-son will lead the new 3-4 defense. “I feel that our strength will be on the defensive side of the ball,” Merren said. The defense is new, but it fits our personnel better by moving to a 3-4 look. If we can manage the offense and not put our defense in tough situations they should give the offense room to work.”

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SCARBOROUGH HIGH 2012 SCHEDULE

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Sept. 7 at Wharton, 7 p.m.

Sept. 13 vs. Stafford (Delmar), 7 p.m.

Sept. 28 at Kashmere (Delmar), 7 p.m.

Oct. 4 vs. Yates (Delmar), 7 p.m.

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Oct. 20 at Jones (Barnett), 1 p.m.

Oct. 26 vs. Worthing (Dyer), 7 p.m.

Nov. 3 at Furr (Barnett), 1 p.m.

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If there’s a TAPPS football team with a tougher schedule than St. Pius X, it’d be diffi cult to fi nd them.

“Our slogan this year is ‘The Journey is the Reward,” St. Pius X second-year head coach Blake Ware said. “It’s about all of the moments put together.”

It should be a challenging regular season for the Panthers, who fi nished 5-7 last season but reached the TAPPS Division I state quarterfi nals. Each of their regular season opponents quali-fi ed for the postseason in 2011.

They’ll open the season against two-time defending SPC champi-on Kinkaid -- which has lost just one game over the past two sea-sons – at 7 p.m. Aug. 31 at Parsley Field. Then, they’ll make school history when they host Sealy – a UIL Class 3A team that went 8-3 last season – on a nationally televised game (ESPNU) at 8 p.m. Sept. 6 at Parsley Field.

“We want to get as prepared as we can to make a district run and an eventual playoff run,” Ware said. “The reason for the Kinkaid game is because they’ve done some great things in the SPC. We know that the game will make us better. Sealy will do the same thing. They’re well-coached, and they have a lot of skill and size.”

Ware said the Panthers, who return 15 starters, are very happy about the nationally-televised game but they’re not overlooking Kinkaid.

“While we’re excited about the ESPN game and that experience, we’re more excited for the expo-sure for our school,” Ware said. “We don’t spend a lot of time talk-ing about the game against Sealy.”

St. Pius X will visit La Marque, a UIL Class 4A state semifi nalist last season that has moved to 3A this year, on Sept. 28.

The top three teams in the Pan-thers’ four-team district will ad-vance to the postseason.

They’ll open district competi-tion against archrival and TAPPS D-I state semifi nalist St. Thomas on Oct. 5 at Parsley Field and face the Eagles on the road to close the regular season on Nov. 9

“It’s a game our kids and com-munity look forward to, and it’s the same thing for St. Thomas,” Ware said. “It’s a good, solid rival game. They’re looking to build on what they did last year. Last year was the fi rst time they beat St. Pius X since (2005). They’re prob-ably looking at it as two games they can win, and that’s good for us.”

St. Pius X is led by football and baseball prep All-American, quarterback Kohl Stewart, who passed for nearly 3,200 yards and 31 yards in just 11 games last sea-son. Stewart has verbally commit-ted to Texas A&M where he hopes to play both sports.

“He’s a kid that has all the di-mensions you want a quarterback to have,” Ware said. “A lot of things he checked at the line of scrim-mage, because now he knows how to read defenses.”

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ST. PIUS X2012 SCHEDULE

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St. Pius X will be the fi rst team to get a glimpse of the post-Ford Childress Kinkaid Falcons. Chil-dress, a record-setting quarter-back who led the Falcons to con-secutive Southwest Preparatory Conference championships now is a freshman quarterback at West Virginia University.

“Coach (Stephen Hill) and his coaching staff do a great job with their kids,” St. Pius X head coach Blake Ware said. “Kinkaid pres-ents a lot of challenges for us.” The Panthers, who fi nished 5-7 last season, will still have to worry about one of Childress’ favorite targets, senior wide receiver Ma-can Wilson, a Northwestern com-mit.

“Any time you play a player like him, it’s not a deal where you try to stop him,” Ware said. “You try

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Ware said the Panthers are pre-pared entering the game, follow-ing last Thursday’s scrimmage against El Campo.

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The St. Thomas High School football team returns 12 start-ers – six on each side of the ball – from a team that came within five points of a TAPPS Division I State Championship Game ap-pearance.

But the Eagles, who went 8-6 and lost to eventual D-I state champion Fort Worth Nolan, 7-3, in the state semifinals, will move from last year’s Spread Offense to more of a multiple set this year, including regular formations fea-turing a tight end and/or a full-back.

“We have some guys that played on last year’s team,” St. Thomas first-year head coach Tim Fitz-patrick said. “We’re going to rely on them, and their experience. But that was last year. We’re going to try to get better every week. If (our players) take care of the little things and do what we’re asking you to do, good stuff is going to happen for us as an end result.”

Fitzpatrick was the defensive coordinator last season and will retain those duties as head coach. The Eagles will still run the 4-2-5 defense.

Offensive line coach Tim Clark-son (run game coordinator) and wide receivers coach A.J. Johnson (pass game coordinator) will col-laborate as co-offensive coordi-nators. Last season, it was head coach Donald Hollas who called the plays on offense.

St. Thomas starts 16 seniors, including All-Greater Houston selections Parker White (defen-sive end), Alex Snyder (offensive line) and Pearson Garnett (strong safety).

Eagles junior Chris Zook Jr., who played quarterback for St. Thomas during the playoff run last season, will move to the run-ning back position. “Really, he was (like) a running back -- we snapped him the ball,” Fitzpat-rick said.

Senior Justin Sebo, who started the season in the pocket, is ex-pected to return there when the

Eagles open the season on Aug. 31 at Rice Consolidated, in Altair.

But he’s facing some competi-tion for the starting spot from Garnett and junior Michael Reul, who led the Eagles’ Junior Varsity squad to a 10-0 season last fall.

Senior wide receiver Cavan Biggio, the Eagles’ leading re-ceiver last season, has decided to focus on baseball this sea-son. Biggio, who played on two STH State Championship Teams in 2010 and 2011, has verbally committed to the University of Virginia and has a chance to get drafted by Major League Baseball next spring.

In addition to playing UIL Class 2A Rice Consolidated, the Eagles will travel to archrival, UIL Class 5A Strake Jesuit on Sept. 7. The Eagles haven’t defeated the Cru-saders since 1997.

“Certainly, it’s in the back of ev-erybody’s mind,” Fitzpatrick said. “But we’re going to treat them like every other opponent. If we take care of our business and do it for four quarters, we have a 50-50 chance.”

The Eagles will host UIL Class 4A Santa Fe in their home opener on Sept. 14 and welcome UIL Class 3A Huffman-Hargrave, a team that finished 9-3 last fall, on Sept. 21. “All four of those (non-district) teams are going to be good tests for us,” Fitzpatrick said. “We’re going to have to be ready to play and ready to execute.”

In district competition, St. Thomas will face a pair of TAPPS defending state runner-ups twice. They’ll meet Beaumont Kelly (last year’s D-I runner-up) and Tomball Concordia Lutheran (last year’s D-II runner-up).

And then there’s archrival, St. Pius X, a D-I state quarterfinal-ist that’s much improved from last season. “Kelly is unknown because they have a new staff,” Fitzpatrick said. “We know Pius has got a quarterback and receiv-ers. and Concordia Lutheran is a Wing-T team. Every week is go-ing to be preparing for a different look on offense and defense. We’re going to have to be adaptable.”

ST. THOMAS HIGH EAGLES PROFILE: So close in 2011,St. Thomas looksto take it all in 2012


ST. THOMAS2012 SCHEDULE

Aug. 31 at Rice Consolidated, 7 p.m.Sept. 7 at Strake Jesuit, 7 p.m.Sept. 14 vs. Santa Fe, 7 p.m.Sept. 21 vs. Huffman-Hargrave, 7 p.m.Oct. 5 at St. Pius X, 7 p.m.Oct. 12 vs. Tomball Concordia Lutheran,

7 p.m.Oct. 19 vs. Beaumont Kelly, 7 p.m.Oct. 26 at Tomball Concordia Lutheran,

7 p.m.Nov. 2 at Beaumont Kelly, 7 p.m.Nov. 9 vs. St. Pius X, 7 p.m.

St. Thomas High School’s artificial turf field was replaced over the sum-mer due to a defect in materials. The team moved their first scrimmage on August 17 to Crosby as the work crew finished up work at Hotze Field.

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The 2012 season represents a new era for the Waltrip High School football team, with a new head coach and strategic changes on both sides of the ball.

“The strength of the team is go-ing to be the offense,” Rams first-year head coach Milton Dailey said. “We’re running the Spread now and using the passing game more. Our primary goal is to re-establish Waltrip’s winning tra-dition in the community and to get on a winning track year after year. We want to go all the way to state.”

Dailey, who coached the WHS linebackers for the past decade, replaces longtime coach Anthony Zuccarini. All of Dailey’s assis-tants are new to Waltrip, includ-ing offensive coordinator, Searcy Thomas, who had previously served in the same role at Aldine Eisenhower.

The new defensive coordina-tor is Brandon Salinas, a former Waltrip assistant who had been coaching at McDonald Middle School in Katy ISD.

“We’re going to have a darn good defense,” Dailey said. “We’ve gone from a blitzing defense to a more contained defense, with more emphasis on linebackers and defensive backs.”

Waltrip returns 10 starters from a team that finished 5-6 last season, including 4-2 in district competition. They lost to fellow Houston ISD opponent, Wheat-ley, the past two years. Now, the Rams and Wildcats are Class 21-4A opponents and will face each other at 1 p.m. Oct. 27 at Delmar Stadium.

Due to University Interscho-lastic League re-districting, the Rams only have nine regular sea-son opponents this year. They’ll open the season at 6 p.m. Sept. 8 at Pasadena, a team that finished 5-5 last season. Then, they’ll visit defending district champion Sharpstown at 7 p.m. Sept. 13 at Butler Stadium in both teams’ 21-4A opener.

“We’ve started game-planning for the first two games already,” Dailey said. “If we can do what we’re capable of doing, we can finish as high as #1 or #2 in the district.”

Senior quarterback Cristian Rodriguez, who threw eight touchdown passes last season, will lead the Spread Offense, all-district wide receiver, senior Chris Molony (who caught six touch-down passes last season), return-ing as the top wide receiver. Junior Nate Washington will move from the quarterback position to wide receiver.

“We don’t have to change any-thing,” Dailey said. “We’ve got the quarterback in place, wide receiv-

WALTRIP HIGH RAMS PROFILE: New coach, new era for Waltrip Rams


WALTRIP HIGH SCHOOL2012 SCHEDULE

Sept. 8 at Pasadena, 6 p.m.

Sept. 13 at Sharpstown (Butler), 7 p.m.

Sept. 20 vs. Austin (Delmar), 7 p.m.

Sept. 27 at Lee (Delmar), 7 p.m.

Oct. 12 vs. Davis (Dyer), 7 p.m.

Oct. 19 at North Forest, 7 p.m.

Oct. 27 vs. W heatley (Delmar), 1 p.m.

Nov. 3 at Reagan (Delmar), 6 p.m.

Nov. 10 vs. Milby (Delmar), 6 p.m.

“We’re going to have a darn good defense. We’ve gone from a

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linebackers anddefensive backs.

• Milton DaileyWaltrip Head Coach

ers in place. All we do is adapt the blocking.”

Senior Joshua Helton is expect-ed to lead the running game, while Carlos Carreon, Alvaro Grimaldo and Shaquille Ashton return on the offensive line.

Defensively, Dailey expects big things from Kodie Y’Barbo, Micah Lemond, Stephen Mauzy, Daniel Zerangue and Reuben Washing-ton, who was an all-district defen-sive tackle last season.

Waltrip readies for an afternoon practice at the campus field under newly-promoted head coach Milton Daily (center, in tan hat), taking the helm from 21-year veteran Anthony Zuccarini, who retired. The Region III District 21-4A Rams travel to District 23 Pasadena for their opener at Pasadena Memorial stadium on Saturday, Sept. 8.

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