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Lee looks to solve teetering Titans
By Dave Rogers
The Baytown Sun Published November 6, 2009 Port Arthur at Lee
Tonight, 7 p.m.
Stallworth Stadium
With their status in or out of the playoffs decided, Baytown football teams are in position to play spoilers in tonight’s regular-season finales.
But for Lee there’s much more at stake than maybe sticking a pin in another school’s playoff balloon.
Despite being outscored 94-2 by District 21-5A’s top two teams, the Ganders have a chance to finish third in the league. And it’s as simple as winning their 7 p.m. game against Port Arthur Memorial.
Both teams carry 2-2 district records into the game at Stallworth Stadium, though they came in different ways.
The Titans, who are 5-4 overall, lost 13-7 to district leader West Brook, which beat Lee 45-0, and they hung a 7-6 defeat on North Shore, which, in turn, whipped Lee 49-2 last week.
Yet Port Arthur could find itself missing the playoffs entirely if it loses tonight and Channelview (1-3 in district) beats Sterling (0-4) when those two teams play at 7 p.m. at Channelview’s Maddry Stadium.
Those outcomes would leave Port Arthur and Channelview tied for fourth and Channelview would own the tiebreaker, by virtue of its 36-30 win over Port Arthur last week.
“I don’t know so much we’re trying to play spoiler,” Lee coach Marvin Sedberry, Jr., said Thursday. “We’re trying to get better and get some momentum going into the playoffs.”
The Ganders, 3-6 overall, can determine their bidistrict playoff opponent with the outcome of their game tonight.
A win would put Lee into the playoffs as the No. 1 small school team from 21-5A and bring about a rematch with La Porte, the No. 2 small school from 22-5A.
A Lee loss means that Pasadena Memorial, 22-5A’s top-finishing small school, would be the Ganders’ opponent next week.
Pasadena Memorial went into its final regular season game Thursday night against Deer Park with a record of 8-1 overall and 6-0 in 22-5A. La Porte, which hosts 2-7 South Houston Friday, is 5-3 overall, 4-2 in district.
And Lee already owns a 27-14 win over La Porte this year, that coming in the Ganders’ season opener the first week of September in a game played on Lee’s home field at Stallworth Stadium.
Sedberry said that if Lee winds up playing La Porte, the two team’s coaches would flip for home and home, giving the Ganders a chance to again play La Porte in Stallworth in a Saturday game.
If Lee loses tonight and has to play Pasadena Memorial, that game will be played Friday at Galena Park ISD stadium, the Lee coach said.
But the Ganders’ focus this week has been taking positives from last week’s blowout loss to North Shore and using them against Port Arthur.
“We found some good things we could take away from it,” he said of the North Shore game. “I used the same old speech, we’ve got to find things to improve on from every game and when you play a team that deep and talented, you’ll find something.
“They exposed us all around – offensively, defensively and special teams-wise.”
Port Arthur could be still reeling from a loss to an 0-8 Channelview team that had played only one team close in 21-5A, that being a 7-6 loss to Lee, prior to last week.
“We don’t know what Port Arthur is going to be doing, because they’re playing to get in the playoffs,” Sedberry said, allowing the Ganders have tried to prepare for all possibilities.
The Titans have rushed for nearly twice as many yards as they’ve passed this season, behind running backs Ronzell King and Daleon Stinnett and quarterback Corwin Keal.
Their defense allowed only 19 points to West Brook and North Shore on sloppy fields, but yielded 42 points to Sterling (in a 63-42 win) and last week’s 36 to Channelview.
“Our big deal is we’re going out there to try to get better,” Sedberry said. “We want to try to stay healthy, improve and be ready for that first-round (playoff) game.”
The Baytown Sun Published November 6, 2009 Port Arthur at Lee
Tonight, 7 p.m.
Stallworth Stadium
With their status in or out of the playoffs decided, Baytown football teams are in position to play spoilers in tonight’s regular-season finales.
But for Lee there’s much more at stake than maybe sticking a pin in another school’s playoff balloon.
Despite being outscored 94-2 by District 21-5A’s top two teams, the Ganders have a chance to finish third in the league. And it’s as simple as winning their 7 p.m. game against Port Arthur Memorial.
Both teams carry 2-2 district records into the game at Stallworth Stadium, though they came in different ways.
The Titans, who are 5-4 overall, lost 13-7 to district leader West Brook, which beat Lee 45-0, and they hung a 7-6 defeat on North Shore, which, in turn, whipped Lee 49-2 last week.
Yet Port Arthur could find itself missing the playoffs entirely if it loses tonight and Channelview (1-3 in district) beats Sterling (0-4) when those two teams play at 7 p.m. at Channelview’s Maddry Stadium.
Those outcomes would leave Port Arthur and Channelview tied for fourth and Channelview would own the tiebreaker, by virtue of its 36-30 win over Port Arthur last week.
“I don’t know so much we’re trying to play spoiler,” Lee coach Marvin Sedberry, Jr., said Thursday. “We’re trying to get better and get some momentum going into the playoffs.”
The Ganders, 3-6 overall, can determine their bidistrict playoff opponent with the outcome of their game tonight.
A win would put Lee into the playoffs as the No. 1 small school team from 21-5A and bring about a rematch with La Porte, the No. 2 small school from 22-5A.
A Lee loss means that Pasadena Memorial, 22-5A’s top-finishing small school, would be the Ganders’ opponent next week.
Pasadena Memorial went into its final regular season game Thursday night against Deer Park with a record of 8-1 overall and 6-0 in 22-5A. La Porte, which hosts 2-7 South Houston Friday, is 5-3 overall, 4-2 in district.
And Lee already owns a 27-14 win over La Porte this year, that coming in the Ganders’ season opener the first week of September in a game played on Lee’s home field at Stallworth Stadium.
Sedberry said that if Lee winds up playing La Porte, the two team’s coaches would flip for home and home, giving the Ganders a chance to again play La Porte in Stallworth in a Saturday game.
If Lee loses tonight and has to play Pasadena Memorial, that game will be played Friday at Galena Park ISD stadium, the Lee coach said.
But the Ganders’ focus this week has been taking positives from last week’s blowout loss to North Shore and using them against Port Arthur.
“We found some good things we could take away from it,” he said of the North Shore game. “I used the same old speech, we’ve got to find things to improve on from every game and when you play a team that deep and talented, you’ll find something.
“They exposed us all around – offensively, defensively and special teams-wise.”
Port Arthur could be still reeling from a loss to an 0-8 Channelview team that had played only one team close in 21-5A, that being a 7-6 loss to Lee, prior to last week.
“We don’t know what Port Arthur is going to be doing, because they’re playing to get in the playoffs,” Sedberry said, allowing the Ganders have tried to prepare for all possibilities.
The Titans have rushed for nearly twice as many yards as they’ve passed this season, behind running backs Ronzell King and Daleon Stinnett and quarterback Corwin Keal.
Their defense allowed only 19 points to West Brook and North Shore on sloppy fields, but yielded 42 points to Sterling (in a 63-42 win) and last week’s 36 to Channelview.
“Our big deal is we’re going out there to try to get better,” Sedberry said. “We want to try to stay healthy, improve and be ready for that first-round (playoff) game.”