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TX RTS .COM FEBRUARY 10, 2016 THE ADVOCATE
Crunch Time For GHS, EV
East View’s Diamond Morrison battles Georgetown’s Dori Brown for the ball as her Patriots teammates Emily Daniel (21), Abby Holland (25) and Paighton Corley (10) look on, while Georgetown’s Taylor Green gets a unique view of the play during the Lady Eagles’ 35-32 victory on Friday night at Eagle Gym. Both East View & Georgetown battled for playoff seeding during the regular season finales on Tuesday. Photo Russell Rinn By Galen Wellnicki Sports Editor
No matter what happens on the final night of the District 25-5A race, Vista Ridge (13-0), Georgetown (12-1), Leander (8-5) and East View (7-6) are heading to the UIL girls basketball playoffs as the alignment’s representatives. Two games on Tuesday night can either solidify the seedings or muddle the picture. The Lady Eagles took to the road to play the Lady Rangers for first place, and the Patriots were at home, hoping to gain a share of third place with the Lady Lions. If No. 11 Georgetown (20-9) upsets fifth-ranked Vista Ridge (28-4), the two teams will be co-champions and will determine the playoff seeding with a coin flip, according to Lady Eagles coach Rhonda Farney. The Rangers claimed a 58-40 victory in the first meeting at Eagle Gym on Jan. 15. Should East View best Leander, the two schools will tie for third place. Asked how the Patriots and Lady Lions would determine such a deadlock, EV coach Dave Walla said he wasn’t sure yet. Leander claimed a 55-47 victory in the first meeting
East View coach Dave Walla vehemently disputes an official’s call during Friday’s game with Georgetown.
Photo Russell Rinn
at the Lions’ Den. The 25-5A champion will play the fourth-place team in 26-5A—probably Austin Crockett in bi-district. The sec-
ond- and third-place teams will go against either Bastrop or Bastrop Cedar Creek, pending the outcome of the 26-5A race. The fourth-place team will catch champion
Austin LBJ. The bi-district playoffs are scheduled to begin on either next Monday or Tuesday with area-round contests later in the week. Georgetown and East View arrived in their current positions as the result of the Lady Eagles’ 35-32 victory over the Patriots on Friday night at Eagle Gym. In a game that was truly a battle of missed opportunities. Leander used a 41-38 win over Cedar Park to edge ahead of East View into sole possession of third place. The Lady Eagles led 18-17 at the half and then outscored East View, 9-1, in the third period to go up by 9 at 27-18. A free throw by senior Abby Holland at the start of the period was the only EV score of the quarter, while GHS countered with a trey and two free throws by junior Brooke Elliott, a bucket by senior Dori Brown and two free throws by senior Kendrick Clark. However, East View began to work its way back despite a technical on Walla for dropping his clipboard in a non-decorous manner after what he felt was a disputable official’s call. A layup-and-1 by sophoGirls Basketball cont. on B3
Sometimes Expectations, Reality Don’t Jibe If it were possible to blame the opposing political party or an election opponent for certain decisions in the recent UIL realignment for the 2016-17 and 2017-18 school years, political invective would be spewing from the mouths of candidates. Critics would be yelling for a wall to be built around the UIL offices in Austin to keep such alien projections from the tender ears of the innocent. Merle Haggard could wail, “If you inconvenience or dis our football boys, you’re walkin’ on the fightin’ side of me.” The biennial announcement by the state’s ruling body of high school competition is awaited by most with bated breath and then reacted to by many like bad breath. How
can Class 2A Ozona be in a football district with Anthony, which straddles the Texas-New Mexico border north of El Paso – two schools 367.1 miles apart on I-10? That’s five hours and nine minutes of driving in a good vehicle under
optimal conditions and, quite probably much longer, in an old yeller dog from the motor pool. Of course, you don’t have to go to La Frontera to find unhappiness with Monday’s announcement. In fact just drop into Hays County where Buda Hays, a non-district opponent for both Georgetown and East View in the upcoming season, and Kyle Lehman have appealed their inclusion in District 25-6A. But it’s not hard to figure out why the two Hays CISD schools are unhappy with their new competitive playmates – Lake Travis, Austin Westlake, Leander, Vandegrift and Lapping cont. on B4
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