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Staff writer Randy Jennings reports from Austin:
The Plano West boys golf team won the 5A state title with a two-day total of 595. Spring Branch Memorial and The Woodlands were closed behind. Each finished at 597.
The Southlake Carroll girls had a little more cushion, winning state with a 631 total. Lubbock Coronado was second at 637.
Staff writer Randy Jennings reports from Austin at the 5A state golf tournament:
At the turn the Plano West boys appear to be in good shape. Plano West led by five shots entering the final round. Three Plano West players made the turn with under-par scores.
Two individual medalists from the area have finished their rounds with a flourish.
Lake Highlands' Brad Mason shot a 70, including seven birdies. He finished with a two-day total of 149.
Mansfield Timberview's Victoria Vela shot a 71 and finished at 150.
On the girls side, Southlake Carroll entered the final day just two shots behind College Station A&M Consolidated. Carroll coach Matt Glenn said his team was in good shape.
The teams should finish their rounds by 4 p.m. We'll update after final scores are posted.
According to weather.com, it's currently 94 degrees in Austin, and it feels more like 99.
When the evening session kicks off at 6 p.m. tonight, expect a temperature of about 93 degrees.
For the 5A, 1A and 2A events on Saturday, it'll be about the same: sunny and 97 degrees for the high.
Birdville senior Whitney Gipson notched a personal best 19-10 en route to second place in the 4A long jump. Her previous high, which she achieved at the Region I meet, was 19-6ΒΌ.
"It was a great day to jump," said Gipson, a TCU track signee. "I've been working on getting my knees up, stretching out and air motion."
Other news and notes:
* Kennedale junior Stacia Newton threw 133-8 in the discus for second place in 3A.
Newton came on strong toward the end of the season thanks to the helping hand of coach Jay Gallagher. Although Newton said she was a bit inconsistent today, she was nonetheless proud of reaching state and earning the silver medal.
"I just really wanted to improve so we could make it here," Newton said. "I guess it was just time."
* Anna senior Cody Hughes won the 2A 3,200 in 9:44.84. Hughes was the 2006 2A cross country champion and the 2005 and 2007 2A runner-up in cross country.
McKinney North senior Stephanie Ganter placed second in the 4A 3,200 race with a time of 11:06.52.
Ganter, a Stephen F. Austin signee, is a four-time state qualifier in cross country but was making her debut at the UIL state track meet. Her strategy turned out to be relatively successful.
"It was definitely going slow the first couple of laps, drafting off the wind and hanging on at the end, which worked out more or less," she said.
Ganter also competes in the 1,600 later today.
Other news and notes:
* Argyle's Blake Woolums won the 3A 3,200 in convincing fashion with a time of 9:23.0. He will compete in the 1,600 later today.
* Whitesboro's Hayden Ballio won the 3A discus (184-11)
* In the 4A 3,200, Pinkston senior Pinya Issa placed sixth (9:44.56) and Frisco Centennial senior Cole Reveal was eighth (10:21.77) in the boys race. Midlothian freshman Carly Kitts was seventh (11:45.41) in the girls race.
When is "early signing period" considered WAY too early? Perhaps now.
Michael Avery, an eighth-grader in California, has orally committed to play basketball for Kentucky and coach Billy Gillispie.
Thoughts?
From Randy Jennings in Austin ...
Led by senior Ryan Dagerman's 2-under-par 70, Plano West holds a five-shot lead after the first round in the Class 5A boys division of Thursday's UIL State Golf Championships.
Dagerman was the only player in the boys field to break par at the Jimmy Clay Course, despite almost windless conditions.
As a team, Plano West shot 292.
The teams are closely bunched, with only nine strokes separating second from eighth. Southlake Carroll is sixth at 302 and Jesuit is eighth at 306.
In 5A girls, A&M Consolidated leads Southlake Carroll by two, 319-321. Plano West is third at 324.
In Class 3A girls, Frisco Wakeland's Taylor Newlin and Kaufman's Chantry McMahan are tied for third after shooting 2-over-par 73 on the Roy Kizer Course.
Unfortunately, it wasn't any school around here. But Tyler Lee, which shares a district with our Mesquite schools, tied for the most alumni drafted with two.
This information comes courtesy of USA Football. Go to the jump to see which high schools produced multiple draft picks, where Texas ranks among the 50 states, and which Texas high schools had alums drafted in 2008.
Congratulations to North Crowley's Willie Warren, who recently was named Mr. Basketball for the state of Texas. The Mr. and Miss Basketball (Nneka Ogwumike of Cy-Fair) honors were decided by the Texas Association of Basketball Coaches.
Warren, SportsDay's Player of the Year in boys basketball, was announced Mr. Basketball at last week's TABC awards banquet in San Antonio. He was the TABC 5A Player of the Year and beat out several top players for Mr. Basketball, including Fort Worth Southwest's Kendall Timmons (4A Player of the Year), Arlington Oakridge's Chris Babb (Large Private School Player of the Year) and Ponder's Nathan McPherson (2A Player of the Year).
Warren will attend Oklahoma in the fall. He played in the McDonald's All-American and Jordan All-American games in March and April, respectively.
Staff writer Randy Jennings reports from the Class 4A state golf tournament at the Jimmy Clay Golf Course in Austin.
Highland Park's boys and girls teams have swept the 4A titles.
The Highland Park girls upended seven-time defending state champion Montgomery 641-650. Stanford signee Lila Barton led Highland Park with a 74-77-151.
The Highland Park boys shot a two-day total of 595 for a 19-shot victory behind the play of medalist Cody Gribble, who shot a 70-70=140. The course is a par-72.
The Lake Travis boys defeated McKinney Boyd in a one-hole playoff for second place. Both teams were tied at 614 shots after the conclusion of Tuesday's second round.
Congratulations to Plano West and Highland Park for earning victories at the UIL state tennis tournament in Lakeway, Texas.
Plano West seniors Sergio Antognelli and Chris Bell looked extremely impressive in a 6-1, 6-2 rout against Klein Collins' Ben Chen and Andrew Sumrall in the 5A boys doubles final. Antognelli and Bell allowed only nine games for the tournament, en route to the team's first-ever state doubles championship and first state title in spring tennis since 2003, when Andy Mack won boys singles.
Highland Park's Natalie Leitch and Anna Stainback downed New Braunfels' Alexandra Adams and Samantha Adams, 6-4, 7-5, to win the 4A girls doubles championship. Leitch, a senior, won a state doubles title in 2006 with Anna Stainback, Abby's older sister. Abby, a sophomore, won state last year with Taylor Schreimann. It only made sense to put the two champions together and form a superteam, which they ended up being.
Sidenote: Highland Park's win halted New Braunfels' efforts for a sweep. New Braunfels had entries in the boys and girls singles and boys and girls doubles championships and won all but the girls doubles title. New Braunfels did not have a mixed doubles representative at state.
The DFW area, in addition, had several silver medalists. Coppell's Carson Kadi lost in the 5A boys singles final. Highland Park's Rob Oberman and Franklin Davis lost in the 4A boys doubles final. Irving North Hills' Aarthi Kasilingam lost in the girls 2A singles final. Argyle's Marty Bowman and Eric Katzen lost in the 3A mixed doubles final.
Staff writer Randy Jennings reports from the Class 4A state golf tournament at the Jimmy Clay Golf Course in Austin:
UPDATE: Frisco Centennial senior John Darden shot a 1-under 71 and finished third among 4A individuals.
Carson Kadi's bid for a UIL state tennis tournament gold medal fell short Tuesday morning, as he lost to Laredo United's Bryan Welnetz, 7-6 (7-2), 6-0, in the 5A boys singles final at World of Tennis at Lakeway.
Kadi, a senior at Coppell, lost to Welnetz in last year's semifinal round. Kadi, this time around, led, 6-5, in the first set but couldn't put Welnetz away.
Congratulations to Kadi, who finished the year with a 40-2 record.
Because of weather delays at the UIL state tennis tournament, some of the Monday matches have been pushed back to Tuesday. Here is the revised schedule for Tuesday's tennis matches:
Penick-Allison (2A and 3A)
Semifinals
8 a.m.: Singles and Mixed Doubles
9:30 a.m.: Girls and Boys Doubles
Finals
11 a.m.: Singles and Mixed Doubles
12:30 p.m.: Girls and Boys Doubles
Lakeway World of Tennis (1A, 4A and 5A)
Semifinals
8 a.m.: Girls and Boys Singles (Continued), Girls and Boys Doubles
9:30 a.m.: Mixed Doubles
Finals
10 a.m.: Singles
12:30 p.m.: Doubles
Coppell senior Carson Kadi won twice Monday to advance to today's 5A boys singles final at the UIL state tennis tournament in Lakeway, Texas.
The senior beat San Antonio Reagan's David Pace, 6-2, 6-2, in a first-round match, then beat Klein Collins' Andy Erickson, 6-2, 6-3, in a semifinal. Kadi, 40-1 on the year, beat Erickson in a first-round match last year. He then fell to Laredo United's Bryan Welnetz, 6-2, 7-6 (7-4) in the semifinal round. Kadi will get a rematch with Welnetz at 10 a.m. today for the championship.
"Last year was a really hard match. I think he's gotten better, too," Kadi said, "but I've been playing well and have been practicing hard. [Monday] I was making my shots and playing really consistent."
For those who haven't seen Kadi play, imagine a human backboard with a tennis racket. He's not the biggest person in the world, but he's lightning quick, a la Michael Chang from the 1990s. Kadi will frustrate you by returning everything you throw at him. That's how he beat Pace and Erickson.
And if he has anything to say about it, that's how he'll contain and defeat Welnetz.
It's a little after 6:30 p.m., and we're a little past the halfway mark of Day 1 of the UIL state tennis tournament for the larger classifications in Lakeway, Texas.
Keep in mind that first-day coverage was scheduled to conclude around 6 p.m., but because of early rain, we're running behind. Way behind. Way, way behind.
Plano West and Longview announced their 5A-II area round playoff series information today:
Longview (13-13)5vs. Plano West (30-0)
Game 1: 7:00 Thursday at Longview HS
Game 2: 7:00 Friday at Plano West HS
Game 3 (if nec.): 6:00 Sat. at Duncanville HS
Other baseball playoff pairings information can be found here.
 Staff writer Randy Jennings reports from Austin:
The Highland Park boys lead the 4A state golf tournament by 16 shots after a dominating first round. Cody Gribble (shown at right) shot a 70 for the day's best score. HP's team score of 294 is followed by McKinney Boyd and Katy Seven Lakes, which each finished at 310.
On the girls side, Highland Park's Lila Barton, a Stanford signee, shot a 74 to help the team to a 323 total, two shots behind seven-time defending state champion Montgomery.
Carly Dear of Red Oak shot a 75.
Staff Writer Randy Jennings reports from the state golf tournament at the Jimmy Clay Golf Course in Austin.
Highland Park's boys are still on the course but McKinney Boyd's boys team shot a 310. Brian Benshoof led the way for Boyd with a 75. The course is a par 72.
We'll update on a Highland Park score shortly.
On the girls side, Patricia Holt carded an 81 to lead Frisco, which shot a 367.
Staff writer Randy Jennings reports that the golfers at the Class 4A, 2A and 1A state tournament were able to tee off this morning, despite showers in the Austin-area.
We'll update from Randy later this afternoon.
Inclement weather has forced a four-hour delay on the start of the UIL state tennis tournament for the larger classifications in Lakeway, Texas.
Tournament officials are trying to get athletes on the courts at 1 p.m., but it's still iffy whether or not that will happen. The first matches were scheduled for a 9 a.m. start. This could be a long day, folks.
I haven't heard about the status of the matches for the tournament for the smaller classifications, which takes place on the University of Texas campus. Lakeway and Austin are roughly 25 minutes away from each other.
Itching to know something about the spring football practices going on across the area? Well, I've got the scratch. Er, or something like that.
Post a question about spring football in the comments section below and I'll do my best to answer it in our weekly HS Gametime spring football section. We had some great questions the first time I posted a call for them - some of them were so good, I'm planning to turn them into notebook items for future sections.
Staff Writer Keith Whitmire reports that Rowlett's baseball team beat Plano East, 18-14, in Game 3 on Saturday to win their first-round playoff series, two games to one. Rowlett won Game 2, 7-6, earlier Saturday.
In other first-round baseball series, Southlake Carroll swept Hebron, Hurst L.D. Bell swept Duncanville, Arlington Martin swept Irving MacArthur, Midlothian swept Copperas Cove, North Mesquite swept Skyline, Jesuit swept Arlington, Kimball swept Woodrow Wilson and Arlington Lamar swept South Grand Prairie.
Scores are starting to trickle in. As they do, you can find them on the individual team pages for the school you are interested in. Just click on the team page and then go to the schedule for baseball.
One I know of:
Rowlett won a wild pair from Plano East to win the best-of-3 series. Rowlett rallied for two runs in the bottom of the seventh to win Game 2, 7-6, and it won an 18-14 slugfest in Game 3.
L.D. Bell also beat Duncanville, 5-0, and Arlington Martin put away Irving MacArthur, 10-0.
At McKinney Boyd, Plano West's three runs in the bottom of the sixth inning Saturday gave it enough cushion in a 7-6 victory over South Garland. Plano West, SportsDay's top-ranked 5A area team, swept the best-of-3 series.
Kale Kiser homered to lead off the sixth, and Plano West (30-0) added two more runs to take a 7-3 lead. Down to its last out, South Garland (15-15) rallied with a pair of singles before Craig Hayes smashed a Robert Huber pitch over the left-field wall to trim the lead to one.
Huber followed with a strikeout to end the game and advance West to the area round.
Congratulations to the Greenhill girls tennis team, which edged John Cooper, 3-2, in the SPC Championships Friday afternoon in Fort Worth. Greenhill beat Episcopal School of Dallas and Tulsa Holland Hall to make the finals. Hockaday beat Holland Hall, 3-2, to claim third place.
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