2010 Silsbee Bee Fall Sports Special Section

Page 20, Section 4

THE SILSBEE BEE FALL SPORTS SPECIAL SECTION 2010

LADY REBS

district schedules never shying away from putting her 1A squad up against 2A and even 3A competition. Hollyfield said of her method of getting better by playing better teams approach, “Some years the team is very competitive from the start of the season while in other years they take some time to get out of the gate, this team will be competitive throughout the season, but our goals are to get better, win our district and to make our way back into the playoffs”.

The Lady Rebels are hoping to reverse last years playoff absence after finishing tied for

third in district and falling in a match to determine the district’s final playoff spot.

The competition in their district will be stiff as the Colmesneil Lady Bulldogs are ranked as high as No. 9 in at least one state-wide pre season poll, other district foes include Burkeville, Chester and Spurger. Hollyfield continued, “Colmesneil is one of the larger 1A schools in the state and they spent a couple of years as a 2A team, so their older players have faced good teams in the past and competed well, we will have our work cut out for us

when we face them.”

The Lady Rebels hosted their annual tournament the weekend before school started as both the varsity and junior varsity teams participated.

While neither team advanced out of pool play they did gain valuable experience against high caliber teams that will benefit both teams as the season progresses.

Hollyfield said, “We were disappointed we did not advance out of pool play, but this team is a work in progress.

I told the team you have to come ready to play every game,

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

but for this team I believe that it will just be another motivational experience and they will be ready to go to work in the gym once school starts.”

The Lady Rebels continue on their path to district play for the next month before they have their first match that counts toward the playoffs on Sept. 21 against Spurger.

If Hollyfield’s the “on the job training” has the desired effect then the Lady Rebels should be punching their playoff ticket near the middle of October.

When they hope to begin teaching other teams a lesson.

Continued from Page 16

Evadale’s Billy Nichols

Lumberton’s Ryan Hughes

HALEIGH CONNER

Touch Down With

Silsbee Cellular

2010 Hardin-Jefferson Hawks

Ready to serve the area with the latest phones and accessories!

Samsung Reality USB760 Mobile Broadband Modem

$

99 mail in

29

rebate debit card

$79.99 - $50 mail-in rebate debit card.

With new 2 year activation on a Mobile Broadband Plan.

$

TM

99

49

after rebate with a $59.99 or greater plan Samsung Reality for $49.99 after $50.00 mail-in rebate debit card with new 2 yr activation on voice plan with data pak $9.99 or higher req’d

Quick Store Access, Friendly, Fast & Easy Service No Long Waits Open Mon - Fri 10 - 7pm Sat 10 am - 4pm Located by Walmart Supercenter in the Silsbee Plaza

Our Surcharges (incl. Fed. Univ. Svc. of 13.6% of interstate & int’l telecom charges (varies quarterly), 13¢ Regulatory & 83¢ Administrative/line/mo., & others by area) are not taxes (details: 1-888-684-1888); gov’t taxes & our surcharges could add 5% - 39% to your bill. Activation fee/line: $35 ($25 for secondary Family SharePlan lines w/2 yr Agmts) Subject to Cust Agmt, Calling Plan, [rebate form & credit approval. Up to $175 early termination fee ($350 for advanced devices), [up to] 45¢/min after allowance & add’l charges apply for data sent or received. Add’l $20 upgrade fee may apply. Device capabilities: Add’l charges & conditions apply. Offers & coverage, varying by svc, not available everywhere. Network details & coverage maps at vzw.com. Nights 9:01 pm - 5:59 am M-F. Limited time offer, if applicable. Rebate debit card takes up to 6 wks & Reality TM is a trade mark of Samsung Electronics America, Inc. and is related entities, expires in 12 months. 2010 Verizon Wireless

Good Luck Area Sports Teams

It has Been Fun Putting This Special Edition Together for You. Weeach Really Enjoy About UIL Events.

Read The Bee week for Writing sports results from across the county Serving the Readers of Silsbee, Texas Since 1919

The Silsbee Bee Call 385-5278 to Ask About a Subscription

DISTRICT 20-4A FOOTBALL PREVIEW

Page 2, Section 4

THE SILSBEE BEE FALL SPORTS SPECIAL SECTION 2010

RHINESTONE BOUTIQUE G “You’ve officially been Rhinestoned!”

ALL ITEMS IN STORE ARE UNDER $89!!!

Brand Name “Miss Me” Jeans Only Store In Lumberton That Carries Miss Me Jeans!

Check Us Out On Facebook @ Rhinestone Boutique

409-227-4696

(Next to Brookshire Bros. Pharmacy)

O O D L U C K

Raiders ready for return to 4A playoffs

No other discounts or benefits apply.

Dr.’s prescription required. Must present coupon at time of purchase.

Lumberton

Section 4, Page 19

With most of the talk in Beaumont centering on one highly paid superintendent, it was nice to see the buzz turn to Central’s surprise run deep into the Class 4A state football playoffs.

Can the Jaguars do it again?

Perhaps.

Central finished in second place but advanced to the third round of the playoffs before falling 44-22 to Friendswood.

What makes it tough this season is that just three starters return on offense. The backfield is the biggest question with no real quarterback candidate figuring into the scheme as the season nears.

On defense, four starters return including top defender, lineman Kewan Alfred.

The Port Neches-Groves Indians needed a kick in the pants and got it from new coach Brandon Faircloth. The results was an 11-1 season and undefeated district championship.

Brennan Doty leads a cast of five starters from last year’s offense. He had 1,900 yards and 16 touchdowns for the Tribe.

Three starters are back from a defense that allowed just 14 points a game in 2009.

The big game last year for PNG was a 25-22 win in overtime over the Jaguars. Count on that matchup to be key again this year.

The Lumberton Raiders had an odd down season last year, winning just two district games in finishing fifth in 20-4A. Don’t expect the same in 2010.

The Raiders return eight starters on offense, including quarterback Ryan Hughes, who completed 103 of 198 passes for 1,644 yards and 13 touchdowns a year ago.

Ryan Asher added 442 yards on 120 carries with 11 touchdowns and will be back in the backfield

1. Central Jaguars: Second place in district in 2009 but one of the best in the state. These guys will shine in 2010.

2. Lumberton Raiders: It’s been too long since Credeur’s Raiders have made a run deep into the playoffs. Now’s the time.

3. Port Neches-Groves Indians: First-year coach wins district championship. Can he make it two in a row?

4. Nederland Bulldogs: The Dogs finished third last year. Do that have something more in store in 2010?

5. Livingston Lions: These guys could sneak in and take one of those playoff spots if the front-runners aren’t careful.

6. Little Cypress-Mauriceville Bears: Offense could sing this season, but there’s a chance the defense will be totally off-key.

7. Vidor Pirates: Thin on experience means wins will be hard to come by when facing the top-runners this year.

8. Ozen Panthers: No depth, no real returning experience. No way these Panthers will battle for the title.

Lumberton quarterback Ryan Hughes threw for 1,644 yards last season.

again.

Seven starters return on defense, which is where the Raiders will win or lose games in 2010.

The Nederland Bulldogs were successful in reaching the first round of the 4A playoffs but fell short in what most would consider good season with a 5-5 overall record in 2009.

Dionte Forney will lead the Dogs at quarterback with Brent Salenga and Stephen Schlett offering capable hands at receiver.

Seniors Trevin Sonnier and Jake Kemp lead a list of six

$

Includes one routine eye exam for eye glasses. Dilation not included. No other discounts or benefits apply. Must present coupon at time of service.

THE SILSBEE BEE FALL SPORTS SPECIAL SECTION 2010

Pick ’ems

Back to School Specials!!

Disposable Contact Lens Exam $ 00 15% off EXAM 148 Complete Pair of Glasses Minimum Purchase $99

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Who can stop the Jaguars?

Therapeutic Optometrist

6400

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Includes one contact lens exam. 1 trial pair, 1 follow up & 3 months supply or 2 boxes. No other discounts, coupons, or insurance benefits apply. Must present coupon at time of service.

(Across from Lumberton Early Childhood School & Crazy Jose’s)

looking sharp in one of the latest styles from the children’s new eyeware selection

9:00am - 5:30pm

returning starters on defense.

Perhaps picking Livingston to finish fifth after ending up seventh a year ago is a lofty prediction. Or perhaps they will finish higher and steal away with a playoff spot.

The Lions return five starters on offense, including quarterback Blake Burman. On defense, five starters are back to try to improve after giving up 29 points a game a year ago.

Little Cypress-Mauriceville finished 4-6 overall and 2-5 in district for sixth place in 20-4A. Just a touchdown here or another tackle there would have meant a completely different situation for the Bears, who played close to PN-G and Lumberton.

Seven starters on offense will concentrate on putting the ball into the end zone at a more vigorous clip. Hunter Gonzales is back after throwing for 1,400 yards and 12 touchdowns last year. His top receiver was Zach Sonnier with eight TDs. Defense is where the Bears will struggle this year unless someone steps up and takes over. LC-M gave up nearly 30 points a game last year.

The Vidor Pirates jumped off into the playoffs last year after a nine year absence. Now they will be hard-pressed to repeat as the rest of the district field improves.

It will be tough with just two starters returning on offense for the Pirates, though one of those starters is quarterback Nick Dozhier.

Likewise, the defense returns just two starters from last year’s squad.

Hopes for the Ozen Panthers hinged on a new head coach, but for the fourth year in a row, the Panthers were left disappointed with a last-place finish in district.

Unfortunately for the Ozen fans, more of the same will be in store in 2010. Five starters are back but it will be new junior quarterback David Green who will lead the offense.

Last year’s defense surrendered 30 points a game. Three starters return on that side of the line. Any more success will rely on a muchimproved defense early in the season.

Members of the 2010-2011 Varsity Cheerleading squad include BreAnna Moses, Emily Henkel, Becky Grohn, Brandi Griffin, Tyler Weems, Jauqulyn Richard, Jordan Breaux, Abby Maxwell, Abreanna Fontenot, Kristin Hamons, Adrienne Bourque and Madeline White. Mascost this season are Shelby Smith and Alana Williams. Cheer manager is Jamie Courville.

HAWKS

position. He has a strong arm and can run as well. His talents give the coaching staff the option to put him in the quarterback position and place Gustafson in another slot, adding flexibility to the lineup.

Will Anderson is an inside linebacker and a wide out. He is a big kid. He can run and he can jump. He’s very athletic. Martel is looking for him to be a leader in he linebacker spot because he is a senior.

“He has a nose for the football,” said Martel. “He can catch. He can run. He is an allaround athlete. I think he is going to be a Division One prospect this year.”

Sadion Vallery is a wide receiver who also plays as defensive back. “He is a big bodied kid,” said Martel. “He is strong, strong, strong. He is just a very good athlete. We’re going to get the ball in his hands as well.”

Three other players on the offensive line that will be vital to the team this year will be Joe Pershon, Jacobi Mitchell and Jamie Albers.

“Joe Pershon is going to be a junior this year and he has already made a verbal commitment to play at Lamar University,” Martel said. “He has two more years left in this program. He is a big kid an strong as an ox. He will get after your rear end. I call him Mr. Nasty because he is nasty. He is our starting left tackle and he will play some defensive tackle for us as well.”

“Jacobi Mitchell started last year as a sophomore in the guard position,” he continued. “We are going to move him to some center. He is, by far, pound for pound, the strongest kid on this football team. He is also the quickest, as a big kid.”

Jamie Albers will be playing a lot of defense. He won’t play very much offense because of a knee injury last year, so you will see him mostly on the defense.

There are a lot of new faces on the Hawks team. There are five sophomores who are going to play varsity for the first time.

The Hawks also have a big junior class with 15 juniors. Out of those, 10 are returning from last

Go Hawks!

Hardin County Commissioner Pct 3

Members of the 2010 Hardin-Jefferson varsity volleyball team include sophomore Taylor Thomas, senior Alex Harrington, sophomore Corlee Means, senior Kelsey Perry, senior BreAnna Moses (captain), junior Abby Moses, senior Jami Courville, junior Harli Evans, junior Ashley Leon, sophomore Allie Roby, senior Caitlin McFarland, and senior Rachel Wilson. Team managers are Sara Dickerson and Brittney Poole. Trainer is Jessica Joosten. Coaches are Shawn Shackelford, Michael Martin and Jamie Hansen.

year. There are 19 seniors who will complete the roster, about eight of them played both sides of the ball last year.

Martel said that he is pleased with his coaching staff. This is the first year that he didn’t have a turnover in his high school coaching staff.

“My offense coordinator, Rob Kirkland, has an unbelievable mind in the game of football,” said Martel. “He loves the kids and is a great guy. He helps me take care of things. Mark Humplik, who came here with me, will be calling the defense this year. I am just going to be a head coach, but I am going to

Continued from previous page

coach the inside linebackers.”

“Coach Kent is starting his 15th year coaching here,” he continued. “He coaches the offense line. What a heck of a coach to teach the offense line.

He is hard on those kids but he loves them to death. Coach Fogo is my defense line coach. He came to me from Kelly. He is a wonderful man. He is hard on those defensive players but at the same time he likes to pick around and have fun with them.”

“All of my coaches have class and character,” Martel concluded. “They do what’s right. I couldn’t do my job without them. They make the program

run. I have a good team of coaches and a good team of players.”

The entire Hawks team has worked hard during the summer to prepare for the coming year.

Each of them has the same expectation as the coaching staff - to get past the first round of the playoffs.

“The parents have been great,” Martel said. “The community has been great. Every year is a new year. I just hope these kids rise to the challenges that we have given to them, that we stay healthy and continue to go forward.”

Good Luck in 2009 To All Area Teams

WEST HARDIN

EVADALE

SILSBEE

LUMBERTON

Ed Cain,

KOUNTZE

HARDIN JEFFERSON

Sheriff

and the Hardin County Sheriff’s Department

Page 18, Section 4

THE SILSBEE BEE FALL SPORTS SPECIAL SECTION 2010

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

2010 Hardin-Jefferson Hawks Varsity Football

LUMBERTON FOOTBALL PREVIEW

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

THE SILSBEE BEE FALL SPORTS SPECIAL SECTION 2010

Experience key to teams’ top goal

Section 4, Page 3

Raiders’ priority: Make playoffs

By DAVID LISENBY david@silsbeebee.com

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Garrett Gustafson ........Sr. ..........WR/DB Caleb Modzelewski ......Sr. ..........SR/DB Shannon Grantham ......Sr. ..............QB Ike Nash ..................Sr. ..........WR/DB Tylar Yates ................Sr. ..........WR/DB Jackie WIlson ............Sr. ..........WR/DB Will Anderson ............SR.......WR/LB/DE D.J. Hall ..................So. ..........SR/DB Austin Orrenmaa ........Jr. ..........DB/WR Dylan Vannoy ............So. ..........SR/DB Sadion Vallery ............Sr. ........WR/OLB Travis Stevens............So. ........WR/OLB

20 21 22 24 25 31 34 41 50 51 52 53

Quade Robertson ........So. ..............K/P Devon Cooper ............So...........DB/WR Jeremiah Richard ........Jr. ..........RB/DB Brandon Taylor............Jr. ..........RB/LB Jarrod Leaven ............Jr. ..........RB/LB Trevor Christopher ......Sr. ..............LB Colten Hendrix............Sr. ..............DL Johnny Lively ............Jr. ..........LB/WR Brandon Butcher ........Sr. ..........OL/DE Matthew Burleson........Sr. ..........OL/DE Joe Persohn ..............Jr. ..........OL/DE Cameron Fontenot ......Jr. ..........LB/RB

HARDIN-JEFFERSON FOOTBALL PREVIEW

54 55 58 60 70 72 74 75 77 79 84

Layne Walker ............Jr. ..........LB/OL Greg Ames ................Sr. ......DE/OL/LB Jacobi Mitchell ..........Jr. ..........OL/DL Adam Lewis ..............Jr. ..............K/P Jamie Albers..............Sr. ..............DL Shelby Roland ............Jr. ..........OL/DL Zach Smith ................Sr. ..........OL/DL Jonathan Ralph ..........Sr. ..........OL/DL Cody Carr ..................Sr. ..........OL/DE Matthew Moses ..........Sr. ..........OL/DL Jake Miller ................Sr. ..........DB/WR

Close call in 2009 has Hawks hungry this season

By DAVID LISENBY david@silsbeebee.com

After falling one game short of the playoffs last year, the Hardin-Jefferson Hawks are getting ready for a winning season.

“My expectation this year is to get back in the playoffs and get past the first round,” said Coach David Martel. “We have the team to be able to do it. We have to stay healthy. We can’t lose anyone.”

In his sixth year as head coach, Martel has only 80 players in the program, down from every previous year. Of those players, only 18 are freshmen.

There are usually 30 freshmen vying for the team.

“The good thing is that the eighth grade class has 66 in it,” said Martel. “Next year I am going to have more freshmen than I know what to do with.

That group is very talented.

Sometimes you have up years

and sometimes you have down years in the numbers. With this eighth grade class coming up it will balance things out.”

There are several returning players on this years team.

Players like wide receiver and defensive back Caleb Modzelewski.

“Garrett Gustafson is going to be the leader on offense and defense,” said Martel. “He is a little-bitty fellow, but he is strong and quick. We are going to lean to him. He is going to be getting the all a lot. He is an allaround guy. He is very quick and very athletic.”

“At quarterback he is very good in the pocket,” the coach continued. “He has a good arm on hm. He gets a little skittish sometimes because he can run. too. It’s hard to see over those linemen when you’re in the pocket, so he likes to look outside and throw it. If he sees grass, though, he is gone.”

Shannon Grantham is also fighting for the starting position at quarterback. Grantham was the starting quarterback on the JV team last year and is a strong prospect for the varsity team this year.

D. J. Hall is a sophomore who is also vying for the quarterback See HAWKS, next page

Following a year where the Lumberton Raiders failed to make the playoffs, Coach Alvin Credeur is confident that his team is ready to take on other teams in the district and return to the playoffs once again.

“We’re looking for big things,” Credeur said. “Our No. 1 goal is to make the playoffs this year.

Our goal going into the season is to not only make the playoffs but to be district champions. That’s what we want to do. That is the way that we’re working it, to be district champs, then we’ll go on from there.”

The team has a host of experienced players returning this year.

Quarterback Ryan Hughes is a returning starter. This will be his third year to start. He started at quarterback when he was a sophomore on that team in 2008 that was co-district champions, so Credeur expects high quality leadership from him because of that experience. That is going to be an important part of the Raider season.

“Backup quarterback, Mark Purks, on any other year at Lumberton High School would be an easy starter,” Credeur said.

“He has really come along as a quarterback. He understands our system. I wish I could red shirt him. He’s going to be important.

He’s always one play from being the starter, so he’s an important part of our team.”

Both Raider running backs from last year are returning, Ryan Asher and Taylor McDonald. The team has several receivers returning from last year; Lance Pace, who is a junior, Chase McDonald, a senior, Cody Cowart, also a senior, and Jordan Granato, a junior. Credeur feels good about the experience we

LUMBERTON RAIDERS SCHEDULE 2010

2009 NON-DISTRICT Lumberton 40, H-Fannett 14 Lumberton 35, Barbers Hill 29 Lumberton 20, Silsbee 14 DISTRICT Lumberton 42, Livingston 35 Central 14, Lumberton 7 Ozen 22, Lumberton 17 PN-Groves 39, Lumberton 6 Lumberton 21, LC-M 14 Nederland 31, Lumberton 21

have in our skill positions.

“On our offensive line we are having to replace some but we feel good about the progress that the young guys have made,” Credeur said. “Hunter Goins is a returning starter in the group. He should be our leader in that group because he did start every game last year.”

“Defensively we’ve got to replace our middle linebacker, Anthony Beard, who graduated,” he continued. “That is going to be a big key. We feel really good about some of the guys that are coming in.”

The teams defensive ends look like a strong position for the Raiders. There are three players that are rotating at defensive end who have all done a good job, Garrett Lindsey, Dylan Mouton and John Patterson.

Defensive tackle, Mason Archer, is a three year starter. He offers experience at the position.

Outside linebacker, Clay Choate, is a returning starter who was honorable mention all district last year as a sophomore.

“He is a really smart player and understands our defensive scheme,” Credeur said. “He is

RELAX! WITH A

Built for a lifetime of relaxation

• Always hot and ready to use, 24 hours a day.

• State-of-the-art hydrotherapy

729 Hwy 96 (Main)

• Peaceful Moments • Intimate Conversation • Stress Relief

Lumberton

Aug. 27 vs. Jasper Sept. 3 vs. Barbers Hill Sept. 10 at Silsbee Sept. 17 OPEN Sept. 24 at LC-Mauriceville* Oct. 1 vs. Vidor* Oct. 8 at PN-Groves* Oct. 15 vs. Livingston* Homecoming Oct. 22 at Nederland* Oct. 30 at Central* Nov. 5 vs. Ozen* *-District 20-4A Games

really physical for a guy that is not real big. He pretty much typifies what Lumberton football is about in the sense that we may not be the biggest, may not be the fastest, but we’re going to do it every Friday night. We are glad to have him coming back.”

The team is also pretty experienced in the secondary. Two of the corners that played a lot last year, Logan Pace and Cody Cowart, are back. Chase McDonald, safety, played a lot last year. Logan Cunningham is changing positions. He was an outside linebacker last year but is moving to safety this year. The team should have a strong secondary this year.

Credeur said that the philosophy of the team began long before the season began. “Every day of the off-season the players wore a shirt that had ‘I’m In’ printed on the back of it,” he said.

“I told them that if they weren’t in, don’t put the shirt on because See RAIDERS, next page

Owner/Operator

THE T-SHIRT JUNCTION a ls i vidu • Ind Raisers d • Fun s m a e T roups • ool G • Sch nizations a • Org

Call: (409) 755-4321 Fax: (409) 755-1863

• T-S • Ca hirts p • Cu s • Gifts s • So tom Scre c enin • Le cer g tteri ng

Location: 1230 S. Main Mailing: 363 Church Loop Lumberton, Texas 77657

Page 4, Section 4

LUMBERTON VOLLEYBALL PREVIEW

THE SILSBEE BEE FALL SPORTS SPECIAL SECTION 2010

SAY IT WITH FLOWERS FROM...

Lumberton Flower Shop • Circle E Candles • Lampe Berger • Custom Made Silks • Fresh Bouquets

• Weatherland Chimes • Funeral Arrangements • Homecoming • Prom

Weldon & Linda Flowers- Owners 540 S. Main Lumberton www.lumbertonflowershop.com

Your GLASS Specialist

www.a1glass.com

Auto • Home • Commercial

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

By DAVID LISENBY david@silsbeebee.com

Lesley Baker is excited about the future of the Lady Raiders of Lumberton High School.

“This year is starting off really good,” said Baker. “We’re looking a whole lot better than we did last year. We’re excited.”

Baker scheduled tough competition for her team early on in the season. “We started off with our scrimmages and they went really well,” Baker said. “We were in the Cy-Fair Tournament trying to get some bigger competition. We played really well in the pool play. We didn’t win matches but it was great competition. We faced it really well.”

“One of those teams that we played really strummed us, but we were expecting it,” she continued. “You need to see what that next level of play is like. The

girls looked like they were on Mars. They had never seen a school that big. The team was so awesome. They are a team that we want to be. We didn’t win, but we really played well.”

Baker said that by stepping up the preseason and playing against some of these bigger schools the team will be better prepared for local teams. “We don’t want to be intimidated,“ she said. “Now we’ve seen the best that the state of Texas has to offer, so now we aren’t intimidated. We are better prepared for the season.”

In the same district as the Lady Raiders are four teams that usually win at volleyball every year, LC-M, PN-G, Nederland and Ozen. Each year that passes may find one or the other team at the top, but it is usually one of the four.

“It’s tough around here,” Baker said. “This year we are going to go in knowing that we can compete. We respect the ‘Big Four.’ They are who we are aiming at. That’s where we want to be. We’re expecting to give them a run for their money this year. We’re going to knock a couple of them off that pedestal this year.”

The team this year has some returning players and some new starters. The outside hitters will be Kyndall Johnson and Jenna Worth, both returning varsity players. Middle blockers will be Bret Peveto, returning varsity player who is over six feet tall this year, and Paige Jannise, who is a high jumper.

“Our senior returning Libero this year is Randi Owens,” Baker said. “She is doing a great job for

See LADY RAIDERS, next page

Allied Fence Company 409-755-4934 Raymond & Frankie Jones, Owners

what’s written on that shirt means a whole lot. If you’re not

committed to it, don’t put the

B

2 3 6 7 8 11 12 14 18 21 22 24 28

Brandon Bruce ..........Jr. ............RB/DB Dustin Potts..............Sr. ..........REC/DB Wes Williams ..........So. ..........QB/DB Billy Nichols ............Sr.............QB/DB Kip Rawls ................Jr. ..........REC/DB Dalton Cravy ............Fr. ..........REC/DB Troy Lutz..................So...........REC/DB Braiden Burford ........So...........REC/DB Devon Murphy ..........Jr...........QB/DB/P Tanner Hawthorne ......Jr. ..........REC/DB Skylar Smith ............Jr. ............RB/DB Matthew Totten..........So...........REC/DB Chase Franklin ..........Sr.............RB/DB

AYLESS INSUR ANCE

Home • Auto • Life

! s r e d i a R Go 755-0623

34 40 42 44 50 54 55 56 60 65 66 68 70

Jacob Conner ............Fr. ............RB/LB Ryan Freeman ..........Sr. ..........RB/OLB Gage Galvez ............Sr.............RB/DB Adam Stark ..............Sr. ............TE/DL Eli Loar ..................Sr. ..........OL/OLB Chris Harvey ............Sr. ............OL/LB Trey White ..............Sr. ............OL/DL Kyle Taylor ..............Jr. ............OL/LB Corey Byrum ............Fr. ............OL/DL Brandon Harvey ........So. ............Ol/DL Dustin Sirmons..........Fr. ............OL/LB Josh Swift ................Sr...........OL/DL/K Matthew Ackridge ......Fr. ..........OL/DL

Rebels Sophomores

Section 4, Page 17

71 74 76 77 78 79 80 81 84 85 86 87 88

Jacob Freeman..........Fr. ............OL/DL Matthew Conner ........Jr. ............OL/DL Daniel Kilpatrick ........Jr. ..........OL/OLB Brandon Midkiff ........Jr. ............OL/DL Colton Cotton ............Fr. ............OL/DL Tristan Reeves ..........Fr. ............OL/DL Blane Dunigan ..........Sr. ..........REC/DB Dylan Guzman ..........Sr. ..........REC/DB Tyler Tucker..............Sr. ............TE/DL Hunter Jackson..........So.............TE/DL Jacob Johnson ..........So...........REC/DB Lane Walker ............Fr. ............TE/DL Shawn Totten ............Jr. ..........TE/OLB

Good Luck Evadale Rebels!!

Rebels Freshmen

Bee file photo

RAIDERS

Rebels Juniors

Rebels Seniors

Lumberton’s Chase McDonald stretches out for a pass thrown by quarterback Ryan Hughes this past season. McDonald finished the year with 15 catches for 304 yards and a touchdown. He figures to make a bigger impact this season.

Hwy 96 • Lumberton

THE SILSBEE BEE FALL SPORTS SPECIAL SECTION 2010

2010 Evadale High School Football

Future bright for Lady Raiders

1850 Calder

871 S Main

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Continued from previous page

shirt on. If you wear it you are telling me that you are in all the way.”

Every player wore their shirt and practiced through the heat with the philosophy on full display.

The Raider coaching staff has been together for the past five years, without much change.

Credeur has only had to replace two coaches in that time. That continuity has helped the staff a lot because they have seen a lot of things together under their schemes and systems. That continuity in coaching helps in preparation for their district opponents.

There is only one new addition this year. Lane McKeler is going to coach the defensive tackles.

Cris Babin has come back as the offensive coordinator.

“We are very fortunate to have Coach Darwin Davis at the middle school,” Credeur said. “He’s been our defensive coordinator the entire time that I’ve been here. He pretty much runs their defense. He puts in the study

time and does all the work necessary to have our kids prepared. I believe that is why we’ve won the games that we’ve won, because out kids are prepared.

Coach Davis is a big reason that they are. It is nice to have somebody that you trust in that position. He runs the show and does a great job with the defense. He is a big reason that our program has become successful.”

Credeur is looking forward to the upcoming season. “Our schedule is pretty tough,” he said. “We’re going to facing some speed and that will help us for that district race. We start out with Jasper, a lot of speed and a lot of tradition. Then we have Barber’s Hill, a lot of tradition.

They’re always in the playoffs.

Then we finish up with Silsbee, so it will be speed, speed, speed.

That is what we’ll see in our district season. too.“ The Lumberton Raiders will begin their season at 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 27 with a home game against the Jasper Bulldogs.

Photos Courtesy Scott Loar

JEFF’S PAINT & BODY All Insurance Claims Welcome

Good Luck Rebels!

We are proud of you!

Metco

Machine and Repair Hwy. 96

276-1345

Evadale

Voted Best BODY SHOP 2009-2010

Lifetime Warranty

386-1400

EVADALE VOLLEYBALL PREVIEW

Page 16, Section 4

THE SILSBEE BEE FALL SPORTS SPECIAL SECTION 2010

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

LUMBERTON VOLLEYBALL SCHEDULE

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

THE SILSBEE BEE FALL SPORTS SPECIAL SECTION 2010

Aug. 31 at East Chambers Sept. 3 at Crosby Sept. 7 at Beaumont Central* Sept. 9 YMBL Tournament Sept. 10 YMBL Tournament Sept. 11 YMBL Tournament Sept. 14 Port Neches-Groves* Sept. 17 Beaumont Ozen* Sept. 21 at Livingston* Sept. 24 at LC-Mauriceville* Sept. 28 Nederland*

Lady Rebs deal with on the job training This year’s Lady Rebel volleyball team is a very young team with only one starter returning from last year team and she has changed positions.

Coach Debbie Hollyfield said “Our three seniors have stepped up to provide the on the court leadership that will be necessary to get the team ready for district play later this season”.

The seniors are Ashton Clark, Haleigh Conner, the lone

returning starter, and Kayla Peevey. All three played on the varsity squad last season but there are only a couple of other players who even suited up last year for the Lady Rebels.

Juniors on the team are Briann Doyan, Hope Richardson, Holly Stringer and Brooke Tanton. Three sophomores round out the squad Shay Rashall, Britnee Rawls and Jessica Seago.

Hollyfield is known for playing one of the most difficult pre See LADY REBS, Page 20

INDOOR GUN RANGE

Members of the 2010 Evadale Lady Rebels volleyball varsity team are Holly Stringer, Brittnee Rowls, Hope Richardson, Jessica Seago, Kayla Peevey, Haleigh Conner, Shay Rashall, Brianne Doyen, Brooke Tanton and Ashton Clark. Coaches are Debbie Hollyfield and Tosha McAdams.

REBELS

Good Luck To All Area Teams!

Continued from previous page has had some facility upgrades this past year including a new weight room with double the space and equipment as the old one. The new weight room also brings restrooms to the visitor’s side of the field.

Renovation of the press box including a coach’s box and the addition of a visiting coach’s box and filming area on top of the press box. The home stands have been expanded including a new handicapped elevated platform. The concession stand has been enlarged and added additional serving windows.

The entire stadium will benefit from an improved sound system and the field is in the best shape it’s been in years.

Success breeds success is an adage often said pertaining to sports. It is the reason that teams upgrade facilities and it is the reason that certain teams show up in preseason polls year in and year out. The Rebels are beginning to have that kind of reputation and receive that kind of recognition as this year they have appeared in a couple of preseason, top 20 polls.

The Rebels know that reputation does not win games or gain respect from opponents. That only comes from hard work and execution on the field. The Rebels believe that they have the depth and they mean to put all the pieces together in 2010 with their eyes firmly set on the prize. Well it could be said “prizes”; another undefeated season, a district 14A D2 championship, success in the playoffs and who knows maybe another trip to a different state championship game?

Root your team on as they make a break for the champsionship this year.

The (409)246-3600

Law Firm

1035 S. Redwood Kountze

Gary Butler • Stewart Butler

Members of the Lumberton High School Varsity Volleyball Team include Brett Peveto, Ashley Braddock, Kacy Combest, Kindell Johnston, Paige Jannise, Randi Owen, Rachel Kemp, Danielle Stewart, Jenna Worth, Jodi Sheffield, Erin Miller, Hailey Zampini and Shelbi Pickering.

LADY RAIDERS

us. I think she is, if not the best, one of the best back row players in this area right now. She was great last year and even better this year. She spent all summer going to lots of camps and to different colleges trying out.”

“Randi Owens has already had several offers,” she continued.

“She is thinking about going to Harding. It is a private school on the east coast. There are a lot of places that want her to come and play where she can start. She lives for volleyball. That kid loves volleyball and her parents are very supportive, so she will be going on to play college ball somewhere.”

Captains this year will be Randi Owens and Danielle Stewart.

“Erin Miller came up from varsity last year,” she said.

Continued from previous page

“She’s been filling in any front row position that we need. She goes in there and does a great job wherever we put her. She is just a sophomore. New on the varsity is Hailey Zampini. She is a sophomore. She is a sitter, a front row player. She is doing a great job.”

“Shelbi Pickering is a junior who is on varsity for her first year,” she continued. “She just stepped up this year out of nowhere and became everybody’s inspiration. Every time she comes of the bench everybody shouts ‘it’s Shelby time.’

She’s awesome.”

Baker said that this was the easiest year for her to choose her varsity team due to the quality players that she had to choose from. With the growth in Lumberton continuing, there are more and more athletes available

who specialize in one sport, including volleyball.

“We’re going to be much improved everywhere,” she said.

“We have a really strong back row. All of our defensive specialists are seniors. We expect to be really good. Our front row is all juniors and they are all really tall.

This is the best team that we’ve had around here in a while.”

“We are looking to go to the playoffs,” she continued. “We’re looking for big things. We are preparing for big things. We’ve had flashes of brilliance in the past. We’re looking forward to a brilliant season this year. We want to go to the playoffs, that is our goal. We are going to start a new tradition this year. This is a good year and more is coming.”

4940 Hwy 69 S

Lumberton

Hours: Mon-Sat 10-7

1326 Hwy 96 • Lumberton Terri Fuller, Owner & Operator

Auto • Home • Life • Renters • Business • Flood • Boat

Insurance Agency 1051 Hwy 327 E Silsbee

Insurance to meet your needs, at a price you can afford.

Auto • Home • Life • Renters • Business • Flood • Boat

Auto • Home • Life • Renters • Business • Flood • Boat • Mobile Home

strong safety while Rawls and Bruce will roam at free safety. The cornerbacks include Hawthorn, Galvez, Dunigan, Guzman and Potts.

The defense which shut out half of the teams the Rebels played in 2009 looks even more impressive this season. The Rebels will look to be one of the state’s stingest defenses in 2010 and will depend on the unit to shut opposing offenses down.

Rebel’s special teams look to be in good shape as Swift returns for his third year as the place kicker and Murphy will be the Rebel punter. Speed from return men like Bruce, Galvez, Potts and Rawls will be looking to place the Rebel’s in great field position or game breaking plays when the Rebels are on the receiving end of kicks.

Head Coach Mark Williams is entering his fifth year at Evadale and he has been pleased with the progress of his team in summer workouts. Williams said, “We have a veteran club with a few entering their fourth year on varsity. The coaches have seen the team’s intensity in workouts and this the is type of team we work towards every year. The experience and leadership are there, we just have to execute on the field week in and week out”.

Williams has preached to the Rebels that the target on their back only gets bigger as the program continues to be successful. In the past four years the Rebels have only lost 4 district games a fact that is not lost on Rebel opponents.

The Evadale athletic program

Evadale, Texas

Oct. 1 Vidor* Oct. 5 Beaumont Central* Oct. 8 at Port NechesGroves* Oct. 12 at Beaumont Ozen* Oct. 15 Livingston* Oct. 19 Little CypressMauriceville* Oct. 22 at Nederland* Oct. 26 at Vidor* *-District 20-4A Match

LONE STAR

Auto • Home • Life • Renters • Business • Flood • Boat • Mobile Home

By SCOTT LOAR Special to The Bee

Section 4, Page 5

Score Big Savings at...

421 S. Main • Lumberton, Tx 77657

People you know, the service you expect

Page 6, Section 4

THE SILSBEE BEE FALL SPORTS SPECIAL SECTION 2010

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Lumberton Junior Varsity Volleyball

EVADALE FOOTBALL PREVIEW

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

THE SILSBEE BEE FALL SPORTS SPECIAL SECTION 2010

Section 4, Page 15

Rebels seeking fifth straight playoff appearance

By SCOTT LOAR Special to The Bee

The 2010 edition of the Evadale Rebels football team is loaded and ready to take aim at a third straight district championship and the higher goal of a long run in the playoffs. The Rebels will be seeking their fifth straight playoff appearance and with the new divi-

S U C

CA

M O T

BI N

S T E

DISTRICT 14-A, DIV. II PREVIEW

Dewaine King

Evadale shoo-in for district title

Owner www.dewainekingcustomcabinets.com dkingcustomcabinets@yahoo.com

2552 Hwy 69 S Lumberton

Lumberton Freshman Volleyball

For All Your Building & Remodeling Needs!

ORANGE COUNTY BUILDING MATERIAL Located in the Villlard Plaza

Go Raiders 2010!

900 South Main Lumberton www.ocbm.net

sion format in Class A the prospects for a Rebel playoff run look as promising as last years baseball playoff run that ended in the state championship game, since the Rebels will be facing similar sized teams once the playoffs arrive.

On offense the Rebels return eight starters including six seniors.

The offense will be lead at quarter-

409-751-6000 Fax: 490-751-6100

Connie Anderson All Properties

Each Office Independently Owned and Operated

R E A LTO R ®

837 North Main, Suite 108 • Lumberton, TX 77656 connieanderson01@sbcglobal.net

Let’s Go

Pick ’ems

Evadale Rebels: 1.

District champs last year, district champs this year.

2. Burkeville Mustangs: Returning to a spot near the top, just like old times.

3. High Island Cardinals: Defense early will give offense to catch up. Could be a dog fight with the Mustangs.

4. Sabine Pass Sharks: No offense means no chance.

Five offensive returning starters will be led by senior running back James Lupeheke, who had 12 rushing and seven receiving TDs last year.

Seven starters are back from a stingy Cardinals defense that allowed just 17 points a game a year ago.

Sabine Pass returns 15 starters from 2009, including eight on offense. But this squad averaged just eight points a game, which means it could be a long season again in 2010 unless they find someone to pull the trigger.

Always a fresh supply of Catfish and Shrimp and Shiners and Bait

The (409)246-3600 1035 S. Redwood Kountze

Gary Butler • Stewart Butler

EVADALE REBELS SCHEDULE

2009 2010

NON-DISTRICT Evadale 55, Legacy 0 Evadale 41, Deweyville 14 Evadale 29, Kountze 14 DISTRICT Evadale 32, Sabine Pass 0 Evadale 14, Hull-Daisetta 7 Evadale 18, Burkeville 0 Evadale 15, High Island 0 Evadale 15, West Hardin 0 Evadale 1, Chester 0 (forfeit) Evadale 21, Colmesneil 18 PLAYOFFS Mart 60, Evadale 7

Aug. 28 at Woodville Sept. 4 Bridge City Sept. 11 Evadale Sept. 18 Hull-Daisetta Sept. 25 at Warren* Oct. 2 Buna* Oct. 9 at Deweyville* Oct. 16 Hardin* Oct. 23 at Anahuac* Oct. 30 East Chambers* Nov. 6 OPEN *District games

Entry Fee: Box $50/No Box $40 Adults $15 • Children $5 Test & Tune $20 First Round Buy Back $10

Payout GUARANTEED w/ 8 car field in each class Foot Brake & Box IHRA Summit Super Services BRKT Races

You’re The Best

Evadale, Texas Mike Bruce, owner

See REBELS, next page

Go Rebels!!

G & S Fish Market

Raiders!

Law Firm

If there was an argument against three teams advancing from a district into the playoffs, this would be it.

The Evadale Rebels are the only legitimate playoff contender here and they’ll do that with nine offensive starters from last season. Billy Nichols steps back in at quarterback after picking up 10 rushing and four passing touchdowns in 2009.

Eight starters return on defense for a team that allowed just 11 points a game last year. If you take out the 60-point performance by Mart in the first round of the playoffs, Evadale allowed less than six points a game through its first 10 games.

Count on another perfect 10-0 run in 2010 for the Rebels.

The Mustangs finished in fifth place in 23-A last season, winning just two games all season, all in district showdowns. This year, in this district, the Mustangs could find their way to near the top of the rankings and back in the playoffs for the first time in several years.

High Island had a respectable showing with three straight wins to open 3-0 last year. But they would win just three of their next seven to finish fifth in district.

back by senior Billy Nichols who was the district MVP a year ago.

In the backfield is senior fullbacks Chase Franklin and Ryan Freeman. Tailbacks are junior Brandon Bruce, senior Gage Galvez and junior Tanner Hawthorne. Senior Dustin Potts is at the wingback position with junior Kip Rawls as a back up.

Seniors Adam Stark, Tyler Tucker and Dylan Guzman will switch out at tight end with wide receivers including junior Shawn Totten, senior Blaine Dunigan and junior Devon Murphy.

The offensive line returns 4 of five starters from a year ago.

Senior tackle Josh Swift and junior Matthew Conner with senior Trey White also seeing action. Guards are senior Chris Harvey and junior Kyle Taylor with senior Eli Loar and junior Daniel Kilpatrick also available. Junior Brandon Midkiff will be the Rebel center.

The team’s familiarity with the system and depth across the chart will allow the Rebels to open up their formations and the play book this season which should increase their points per game average from last season.

On defense the Rebels are equally stacked with returning starters having eight players who started last season. The defensive line returns intact with Tucker and Starks at tackles and White at nose guard. Swift, Conner, Midkiff will also see action along the line.

Linebackers include returning starters Harvey and Franklin in the middle and Freeman at one outside spot. Other outside backers include Loar, Totten and Kilpatrick. Taylor will fill in at the inside spots. In the secondary the Rebels have the most personnel to replace but Nichols moves from linebacker to

FM 2246

Evadale

276-2497 or 276-2281 8:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Travel with care as you attend the game.

And, please don’t drink and drive.

2580 Nerren Silsbee

Silsbee Beaumont -

BEYOND THE GAME: Lynn Carney ... A Lady With Taste

Page 14, Section 4

THE SILSBEE BEE FALL SPORTS SPECIAL SECTION 2010

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

THE SILSBEE BEE FALL SPORTS SPECIAL SECTION 2010

Section 4, Page 7

What would Friday night be without nachos?

By DAVID LISENBY david@silsbeebee.com

There is nothing like a Friday night at Lumberton Raider Stadium. The lights, the sounds, the smells.

For the past eight years Lynn Carney has been Coordinator of Athletic Concessions. She has had the responsibility of filling the concession with enough staffing to ensure that every fan has the opportunity to enjoy a snack while watching the game

and the halftime festivities.

“I’ve finally got it where there are some school organizations coming in and raising money for organizations,” Heinz said.

“The band, different campuses like the Middle School, Early Childhood, and the Intermediate staff have come in and manned and worked in the concession stand during various different Friday night football games.”

People from Project Graduation work in the concession stand to raise money for

“Mike & Mike” Regina, Bobbie, Johnnie, Sherrie, Tim & JoAnn are behind you all the way...

939 S. Main • Lumberton

Good Luck Lumberton Raiders “Where something Fresh is Always Cooking”

948 S. Main

755-3632

Lumberton

Mon. - Sat. 10 a.m. - 8 p.m. • Closed Sundays

104 South Main

Lumberton

their graduating seniors. Parents of juniors also work for their student. Boosters and other groups serve customers to raise funds. Some students even come in and work for themselves.

The concession stand sells items such as candies, soft drinks, nachos, frito pie, corn dogs, fries, cheese fries, boudin links, and other items.

A shift is about four hours a night. The different people come in and serve. Some people take orders at the window. Some people do the cooking. Some of the child nutrition staff takes care of the sanitation and makes sure that things run properly in the concession stand, sanitationwise.

Some school board members come in and work. The assistant superintendent has worked the concessions a few times. There is a city council member, Lynette Barks, who works every Friday night. A few people from the central office staff come in and help with the money.

“Friday night is usually a blur to everybody,” Carney said.

“It’s crazy. Chaotic. Hot. The workers definitely earn their money. There are usually three servers at each window. Each year, as people that have worked there come back, they know how to keep the chaos in a flowing situation. For Friday night games we have to have 30-40 people working concessions.”

When a new person starts, Carney has them come in on a Tuesday or Thursday night game, where the crowds aren’t quiet as large. If a new person works on Friday nights, it tends to slow things down. She said that, for the most part, everybody picks up pretty quickly.

“I have always told the workers that they need to have fun while they are working in the concession stand,” she said. “It is too hot to be serious all the time. For the most part, in the eight years that I’ve been doing this, I’ve seen maybe two confrontations, and those were minor.”

Some of the funds, other than what the organizations earn, have been used to purchase items like the score table and chairs for the volleyball and basketball games. The funds help support the banquets held at the end of each sports season.

The funds are used for athletic causes in general, other than what the people working for other organizations earn.

Depending on what school comes here to play, the concession stand can bring in between $8,000 and $10,000 per night.

Granted, that is when one of the bigger schools come in, like PN-G. “It’s come a long way,” said Carney. “I’ve tried to improve some of the equipment that we

have in there. When I took over it was really antiquish. They’ve allowed me to improve somewhat on that. A lot of the visiting teams have let us know how much they appreciate our concession stand. Compared to their prices, ours are cheap.”

Carney said that things are very hectic in the concession stand. “On Friday night, when there is a home football game and there is also a home volleyball game, I have everybody that I can find for the football game and I have nobody left over for the volleyball game,” she said. “There are times when I have to be on the middle school side of town and on the high school side of town. There are times during the season when I have three events going on at one time.”

If anybody is interested in coming in and helping out or in

Kountze Lions

helping a senior, email Lynn Carney at lkcarney@lumberton.k12.tx.us or give her a call at 923-7495. If you don’t reach her by phone, leave a message.

Lumberton Raiders

Hardin-Jefferson Hawks

Hardin Hornets

Bridge City Cardinals

Silsbee Tigers

LYNN CARNEY

LHS Mascots

“I Wish All the Teams of My District the Very Best This Season. I hope to team up with every one of you to make Texas and especially Southeast Texas a better place to live and work. Thank You for Your VOTE”

Lumberton High School mascots for the 2010 football season are, from left, Abby Wolford and Paityn Thorn.

LHS Color Guard

Members of the Lumberton High School Color Guard include, front from left, Captain Caroline Hall and Lt. Rebecca Byars; middle from left, Katelyn Childress, Shelby Whitehead, Carly Olliff, Ashlyn Parks, Rebekah Falb, Faith Harkrider, Ashley Shipherd, and Cheyenne Wilson; and back from left, Regan Shannon, Tyler Henderson, Courtney Johnson, Kaylon Talley, Lindsey Sorrell, Whitney Stoker, and Desiree Cavaretta. Not pictured are Morgan McManus and Bethany Lisenby.

LC-M Bears

West-Hardin Oilers

Vidor Pirates

Orangefield Bobcats

West Orange-Stark Mustangs

Deweyville Pirates

BEYOND THE GAME: Buffy Miller and Justin Potter

Page 8, Section 4

THE SILSBEE BEE FALL SPORTS SPECIAL SECTION 2010

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

BEYOND THE GAME: Carl Stucker, New Voice of the Raiders

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

THE SILSBEE BEE FALL SPORTS SPECIAL SECTION 2010

Section 4, Page 13

Mother, son battle heart problem together Following in the footsteps of a Lumberton legend

By DAVID LISENBY david@silsbeebee.com

It is shaping up to be a picture perfect year for the students at Lumberton ISD. It will be if Buffy Miller, photographer for Provine School Photos, has anything to do with it.

Miller has been taking pictures of all of the school activities in the district since 2002. “I’ve always taken pictures of the kids at home,” explained Miller. “I was offered a business opportunity. That’s what got me into it.

Provine has been around for a very long time and I feel they’re going to be around a lot longer. I decided to get into it.”

“It was just a business opportunity and when I got into it I found that I enjoy working with the kids a lot more than the early mornings,” she continued. “It is really the kids that keep me

going. I get to see them become the men of our future. It’s a lot of fun. I remember having my pictures taken when I was a kid going to school. It was a Provine photographer who took our pictures. Not much has changed since then. You still get good, quality service from the contractor that is servicing the school, good, quality pictures.”

Miller has lived in Lumberton all her life, so she knows the community and the people who make it up. She has spent countless hours photographing students in school pictures, sports pictures, dance pictures and any other school event imaginable.

Miller is married to, as she describes, a wonderful man, Todd Miller.”We have a wonderful relationship,” she said.

“We’re best friends. It works.

Photographers have a crazy schedule and he has understood

Good Luck To All Area Teams

Mexican Restaurant 351 S. Main St

Lumberton

my schedule and has actually helped a lot. I’m very fortunate in the fact that he understands my job. He does well with it.”

She has a daughter, Amber Potter, who recently turned 26.

Amber graduated from high school in Lumberton. She was a cheerleader from the seventh grade until she graduated. She currently lives in Beaumont.

“Amber is a really, really good kid,” Buffy said. “I like both of my kids. You have to love your kids, but I actually like both of mine, too. They are very good kids.”

Her son, Justin Potter, is 18. He is in his senior year at Lumberton High School and plays on the football team. “Football is his passion,” Buffy said. “With his health problems, I hope that he gets to play some games his senior year and the community comes together and he has a great senior year.”

Last year Justin had super-ventricular tachycardia and had to have two surgeries. They went in and did ablations on the nerves that fire in his heart. He got to play about three games last year at the end of the season. About a month ago he was in the hospital and developed a staph infection and had to be taken out of football practice.

“He stayed in the hospital for about a week before he was released,” Buffy said. “The week after two-a-days started this summer his heart started skipping beats and actually stopping and starting back up. We know that there is some sort of arrhythmia

By DAVID LISENBY david@silsbeebee.com

Buffy Miller, right, has been the team photographer for Lumberton High School for the past nine years. This year should have been a special time for her and her senior son Justin Potter, who is a member of the Raiders football team. Instead, the family is struggling with a critical medical problem.

that needs to be corrected. We’re hoping for a good season for him and the entire Raider team.”

Miller loves to be outside. “I am definitely an outdoor person,” she said. “I like a little bit of fishing, hunting and fourwheeling. I think I might be a little bit of a country girl. I’m definitely not a foo-foo girl. Thats the way I was brought up, and I think it’s a good way of life. I’ve had a lot of fun times and a lot of good memories. There have been some great opportunities here in Lumberton.”

Miller’s mom and dad, Deloris and Petey Baker, are still married and still live down Cooks Lake Road, where she grew up. It is her grandmother, Annie Bradberry, who Miller said is the glue in her family.

“She is the person who holds my family together and keeps us all focused,” Miller said. “She is 88 years old and happens to be my favorite people in the world. I think Justin is one of her favorites. It is fortunate that my kids are getting to enjoy her as their great-grandmother.”

Miller was on the job last week, taking pictures of the freshman, junior varsity and varsity football teams on the same

day that Justin was scheduled for a doctors’ appointment to find out if he would have to undergo another heart surgery before the football season started. She remained focused on her job and offered words of encouragement to the players and the coaching staff.

“I am hoping, since it’s my sons senior year, that our football team is going to have a winning year and go far into the playoffs,” she said. “I am a huge Lumberton Raider fan. We’ve got a pretty good team this year.

We’ve got some size on the offensive line. The coaches have made some good decisions in the boys coming up. The boys are qualified and ready for the positions they are going to be in and are going to step up to the plate and bring Lumberton some wins.

We’re going to have a good season.”

“We’ve got an outstanding coaching staff,” she continued.

“I’ve had the opportunity to work with them. I’m not the most favorite person on picture day.

Picture day is very stressful. It’s all in the way of practices and I’m messing everything up.

They’ve got schedules and rou-

Football season is about to begin again at Raider Stadium.

For the past several years there has been a familiar voice over the public address system telling the fans who did what on the field and letting everyone know when there was another Lumberton Raider first down. On Friday night there will be a new voice of the Raiders.

Carl Stucker is a 1986 graduate of Lumberton High School.

During his days as a student he played on the Raider team. While in high school and during his time as a student at Lamar University he worked in radio.

Today he works for Conex, International and owns a restaurant, Lone Star Buffet, in Jasper.

He has been married to his wife, Nicole, for nine years. He has two step-daughters, Chelsea and Carli Thibodeaux. Chelae is now a Lamar cheerleader. She was a cheerleader in Lumberton. Carli is a sophomore at Lumberton High School and is on the JV cheerleading team. His son, Carl,

CARL STUCKER

goes by Bo. He is seven years old and plays PeeWee tackle football.

“I remember when I was a kid playing in Lumberton and and the feelings I got listening to Marcus Bowman announce the games,” Stucker said. “Mr. Bilberry was my counselor. Dr. Sims was my World History teacher. I remember those people

as the rock of the community and now I am growing up and becoming one of them. It is ironic, a great honor.”

“I was very shocked at even getting offered this honor,” he continued. “I moved away from Lumberton for a little while and then I moved back to raise my family here. This is like one more step in the puzzle of being part of the community.”

Stucker said that his inspiration is Marcus Bowman.

“He announced my games when I was playing high school football,” Stucker recalled. “My heart would really start beating when I could hear the band doing their cadence and then when I could hear Marcus Bowman open up the microphone.”

“Honest to goodness, not to be corny, but he was an inspiration to me when I did broadcasting,” he continued. “To me he was the Lumberton Raiders. I just hope to be able to do for the fans what he did. Marcus Bowman was awesome. He even taught my mother in high school, that’s how long he’s been around. He was really

2010 Mighty Raiders Band

fun and did a great job.

Whenever I heard his voice I knew it was time to play football.”

Stucker said that he aspires to be like Marcus Bowman but knows that the shoes Bowman walked in are some big shoes to fill. He just hopes to keep the fans excited and informed and to be able to give them an exciting play-by -play show.

“I’d like to thank Coach Credeur for the opportunity and to thank Mike Bayless for bringing my name up to him,” Stucker said. “I’d also like to thank Lumberton, more than anything,

Jimmyʼs

for being a community that supports their athletics. Not just football, but all of the kids’ athletics.”

“When I was growing up we had support, but it wasn’t like the community support that the kids have now,” he concluded. “Just drive by the high school on a Friday night during football season and you will see how the community supports the football team. I am proud of the community of Lumberton for stepping up and supporting these kids who are practicing hard and doing the best they can to give them a good show.”

WRECKER SERVICE

Damage Free Towing 24 Hour Service In Business Since 1981 Were Proud Raider Fans (409) 755-4275 Brady Harris - Owner 1 (877) 755-4273

290 FM 421 Lumberton, TX 77657

11ʼ Wx10ʼHx30ʼL Storage Units

LHS Junior Varsity Cheerleaders

Jimmy Priest Owner

See HEART, Page 12

Bobby Franklin Hardin County Commissioner Precinct 4 100 Southland Dr.

Lumberton

(409) 755-4584

Toll Free 866-999-1665 Jasper 489-1496 Beaumont 899-1665 Orange 883-9902

Go Raiders

Members of the Lumberton High School Junior Varsity Cheerleading squad are, back from left, Carli Thibodeaux, Sarah Gracedel (Co-Captain), Jordan Knight, Madi Peiffer (Co-Captain), Maci Noonkester, Amber Moore, Brittany Kight; and front from left, Lyndsey Landry, Lyndi Stanley, Addie Richardson, Ashlyn Phillips, Leslie Tevis, Natile Orr, Kyndall Boykin, and Summer Koch.

Signs/Banners • Auto Decals • Magnets • Logo Design

751-6686

Store Hours: M-F 9 - 6pm

BEYOND THE GAME: Jackie Heinz, Athletics Secretary

Page 12, Section 4

THE SILSBEE BEE FALL SPORTS SPECIAL SECTION 2010

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

BEYOND THE GAME: Mighty Raiders Band 2010 Majors

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

THE SILSBEE BEE FALL SPORTS SPECIAL SECTION 2010

Section 4, Page 9

If you want Credeur, you gotta go through her LHS band trio keeps music clicking in time

By DAVID LISENBY david@silsbeebee.com

Behind every great man is a great woman. For the coaching staff of the Lumberton Raiders, the old saying should be behind every great coaching staff is a great secretary.

Jacki Heinz is the secretary for Coach Credeur. She started her year early this year, as she usually does, by coming in to sell season reserve tickets for home football games. That is only one of her many duties.

“I take care of purchasing for all sports in the middle school and high school,” Heinz said. “I keep up with the accounts for Coach Credeur. If he needs to know any amounts at any time I know the balance. I keep my coaches informed.”

“All of my kids get fitted with shoes, pants, pads, helmets, etc.,” she continued. “I do that after Coach Credeur has met with a vendor and decided what he wants. I do all the paperwork on it. I follow-up on it. I am the purchasing agent. He decides what he wants and then I do all the computer work to make it happen. I don’t do anything without his approval and knowledge. I keep his schedule.”

During the season she does the UIL eligibilities for each sport.

JACKIE HEINZ

She communicates with District 20-4A on all UIL issues. Before Coach Credeur goes into his meetings, it is her job to do the legwork so he can be prepared for the meeting. She does the preliminary on any forms so Coach Credeur can focus strictly on football and personnel.

If there are any clinics to be attended, Heinz notifies her coaches. They have to make their own reservations, but she makes sure they have their meal money and makes sure everything is approved through Central Office.

She is the liaison between the

Go Raiders in 2010!

Head Head to to Toe Toe Family Family Healthcare Healthcare

735 N 5th St, Silsbee • 385-6500

Especially Our Lumberton Raiders!

Lumberton Chamber of Commerce 826 N. Main 755-0554 Lumberton www.lumbertoncoc.com

coaches and transportation. She makes sure that the team is going to have buses. She makes sure that the times are turned in. She mothers them.

“I am lucky in my job,” Heinz said. “The kids that I deal with have been structured. They are well behaved. They are well mannered. I refer to the coaches by their title, not by their first name, because I want the kids to have the same respect for them. I try to lead by example.”

Heinz has great respect and admiration for her boss. “Coach Credeur is one of the most patient, understanding men that I have ever met,” she said. “This is a business, but when I make a mistake and own up to it, he doesn’t chew me out. That is why I want to do whatever it takes to make his job easier, out of respect for him. He treats me with respect. All of my coaches do, but he sets the example.”

“The key to the whole thing is a good relationship with my boss,” she continued. “He is a gentleman and then a coach. He is a gentleman always. I highly respect him because of his values and his principles. That is why I strive to make his job easier. The thing that he is doing that I am most proud of is that he is building school spirit in the community and in the kids. I have sold more tickets in the last three years than I did the entire time I have been here.”

“It is a two way street here,” she concluded. “It is a great partnership. I pay the bills. I make sure there is food on the table.

Coach Credeur takes care of the players and coaches. It is a wonderful partnership because there is mutual respect. My job is to do the work in the background so he

HEART

tines, but they are very receptive here and they are nice about it. I appreciate that. They are all my friends, but when it comes picture day I am not the most liked person in the coaches eyes. They do let me do my job, though, to preserve the memories that the boys and the families want.”

“I’m so fortunate that we’ve got such a good group of kids here,” Miller concluded. “The parents have done such an exceptional job of raising them.

It takes a village to raise them and I am just one of those villagers when they are out here.

They seem to respect me like they respect their parents. That makes me feel good.”

Since picture day, Justin has visited with his doctor and learned that he didn’t have to have surgery right away. He is currently waiting for a heart monitor that he will wear to give the doctors a better idea of exactly what is causing the arrhythmia in his heartbeat. He

doesn’t have to worry about it, whatever it takes for my coaches to just coach. I’ve raised four sons in this district and I treat these coaches and players like they are my children.”

Heinz has been married to her husband, Gary, for the past 38 years. Together they have four sons, David, Cory, Josh and Jacob. She also has five new grandchildren. “I was a tomboy growing up,” she said. “I started doing girly things when I was 50.

I got my first pedicure after I turned 50. I played soccer until I was 49.”

In December, 2011 Heinz will retire. She will enjoy spending time with her husband and with her grandchildren. Until then she will relish each and every moment she spends with the players and coaches at Lumberton High School.

“When the coaches greet me with a smile, or open the door for me, when they show me respect, that is my accolades,” Heinz said.

“When they smile at me or they laugh with me, that lets me know that they care. I have been at the bottom and now I am on the top of the world.”

LHS Athletic Trainers

Lumberton High School athletic trainers and student athletic trainers are, back from left, Chad Miller, Clayton Johnston, and Evan Gumpert; and front from left, Erin Mitchell and Ethan Escagne.

likely won’t be able to play football right away, but he is receiving the full support of his

Continued from Page 8

family and teammates.

By DAVID LISENBY david@silsbeebee.com

Each sports team has its leaders. Of course, there are coaches, sponsors and directors who are paid to teach and train their teams. There are also student leaders in each team. The Mighty Raider Marching band has three leaders on the field when they perform their halftime routine. They are the drum majors.

Jillian Hanson is a junior who plays the alto saxophone.

Brittany Mays is a senior who plays the clarinet. Riley Banker is a senior who plays the french horn. All three started playing in the band when they were in the sixth grade.Together they are the drum majors who lead the band on the field.

“Drum majors are the leaders of the band when they are on the field, and in rehearsal at times,” said band director Ross Boothman. “These three ladies have done an outstanding job so far. I anticipate it will stay that way all year. They were among about nine people who auditioned for the position of drum major in the spring. Judges judged them, while directors were present. I believe this is as strong of a group of drum majors as we have ever had.”

During rehearsals, when Mr. Boothman is in his office or doing something else, the drum majors run the rehearsals and tell the band what they need to be doing at a certain time.

The trio went to a drum major camp for a week this past summer. They learned a lot. Things like conducting patterns and the responsibilities of a drum major, how we should act, how to control a band - not with harshness but with the right tone of voice but still be effective at teaching and everything else.

“Being the drum major you have to keep the time of the band,” Banker explained.

“Conducting is our main thing during the football show. The band has to follow our hands.

Our hands are what guide them to play the right notes in the right rhythm. If we’re wrong, the band is wrong. It’s a lot of weight on

our shoulders. It holds a lot of responsibility.”

“We understand that the band is out there and that they are the ones who are marching,” she continued. “That is physically tiring and they have to put so much effort into that. Being a drum major is a different kind of responsibility within the group. I have done both. I have done the marching and also been a drum major. I understand the responsibility with both. Being a drum major is more mental.

Sometimes it can be more exhausting because you’re in charge of everything. If you mess up, the band messes up. It’s all on your shoulders.”

Boothman said that if you’ve got pride in what you do and you happen to make a mistake, you’re going to take it personal but you are going to make it better the next time. The band has already had one or two instances when something wasn’t as good as it should be. They acknowledged that and then talked about it. They understand that they have a job to do and when an instance is done, it’s done.

“Sometimes when we are out there and we want it to go well and everybody is on the same page, sometimes time is a factor and I am direct with instructions,” Boothman said. “I think that everybody understands that it is all about the group doing the best it can do. I truly believe that if you have fun while you are working, the product that you deliver will be better. If they are not enjoying what we are doing, you will not get the full potential of what they are capable of doing. I truly believe that.

It is a team effort in every aspect and ultimately it is their performance. It is their band. They are going to do a super job, there is no doubt in my mind.”

“When things go right, that is one of the best feelings you can ever have,” Banker said.

“Whenever you are in the middle of a performance or after you perform and you realize that we just pulled that through and made it the best that we could, all the rehearsals don’t matter anymore. All of the hours that you put into it don’t even phase

Napoli’s Italian Restaurant NOW OPEN IN LUMBERTON!

Family Owner from Joe’s Pizza & Pasta in Silsbee and Beaumont.

409-755-BATS (2287) or 409-782-2177

835 S. Main Street, Lumberton 409-227-4611 • 409-227-4612

Leading the Lumberton High School Mighty Raiders Band this year are, from left, Co-Drum Major Brittany Mays, Head Drum Major Riley Banker, and Co-Drum Major Jillian Hanson.

us because it all added up to that one moment and that’s all that matters.”

“It’s fun,” Boothman added.

“It’s the best legal drug you can have. If you do it right , you can get it every Friday night. It’s addictive.”

“It’s all worth it,” Banker concluded. “Especially when you know you’ve done your best. It’s not even about the score you get or the rating or applause.

Knowing that you did the best that you could and that every rehearsal added up to that point and that it was the best that it could have been, that’s the one thing that matters. It’s cool. It’s all about pride.”

Blessing & Prayers for all Hardin County teams.

In Need “Ministering to All Your Needs Since 2003” • Teen & Adolescent “1 Day at a Time” • Sexual Abuse Problems Drug and Alcohol Program • Eating Disorder • Marriage & Family Individual Counseling • Grief Counseling Intervention

www.inneedcc.org

1015 S Main • Lumberton

Specializing In

Adult & Geriatric Rehabilitation and Long-term Care Services • IV Therapy • Physical Therapy • Occupational Therapy • Speech therapy • Short-Term Rehabilitation Stay • On-Site Podiatry Services • On-Site Ophthalmology Services • Hospice • Psychological Counseling • Pain Management and More

Rehabilitaion & Nursing Center 705 North Main Street • 755-0100 • Lumberton

Page 10, Section 4

THE SILSBEE BEE FALL SPORTS SPECIAL SECTION 2010

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

THE SILSBEE BEE FALL SPORTS SPECIAL SECTION 2010

Section 4, Page 11

Lumberton Raiders 2010 Varsity Football

Lumberton Junior Varsity Football

Lumberton Freshman Football Pictured, front from left, Mackenzie Shirley, Mikayla Carter, Kaitlyn Cooper, Lauren Swisher, Michelle Butler; second row from left, Abbie Jackson, Naleigh Stafford, Taylor Roberts, Katy Chase, Amanda Duvall, Macie Humble, Jordyn Hopson;, third row from left, Julie Cascarellie, Megan Goode, Brittany Schneider, Kali Whitehead, Cortney Pickens, Tara Byrd, Jessica Koch, Katie Chambers. (Not Pictured Meagan Lindeman) On Derrick: (left) Katie Deaton, (bottom) Malerie Domingue, (top) and Kayla Maclean, (right) Emily Daigle.

Lumberton Varsity Cheerleaders Members of the Lumberton High School varsity cheerleading squad include, back from left, Brianna Boutwell, Lindsey Beard, Tara King, Brittany Broussard, Heather Gracedel, and Karli Noonkester; and front from left, Haley Moore (Co-Captain), Somer Meyers (Captain), Jesse Young, Madison Carter, Jessi Mitchell, Danielle Evans, Lacy Smith (Co-Captain), Beverlee Smith, Kara Conway. Not pictured is Kelly Bingham.

Lumberton Raiders 2010 Homecoming

Friday, Oct. 15 vs. Livingston, 7:30 p.m.

Score Big With a Winning Line-Up

385-3796 • 1-877-473-6215

2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 12 14 15 17 20

Troy Soileau ............Sr. ........RB/LB Chase McDonald ......Sr. ........WR/DB Tyrrell Furlow ..........Sr. ........WR/DE Ryan Hughes ..........Sr. ........QB/DB Garrett Bourque........So.........WR/DB Jordan Granato ........Jr. ........WR/DB Lance Pace..............Jr. ........WR/DB Clay Choate ............Jr. ........RB/LB Cody Gutierrez..........Sr. ........WR/DB Blake Thibodeaux ....So. ........RB/LB Dylan Hunley ..........Sr. ........SR/DB Mark Purks ..............Sr. ........QB/DB Cody Cowart ............Sr. ........WR/DB Ty Smith ................Sr. ........RB/DB

22 23 25 27 33 34 35 39 40 42 45 49 50 52

Logan Cunningham ....Jr. ........RB/DB John Patterson ........Jr...........TE/DE Garret Lindsey..........Sr. ........TE/DE Travis Kelley ............Jr. ........RB/LB Taylor McDonald ......Sr. ........RB/LB Daniel Whitworth ......Sr. ........TE/DE Brandon Mikes ........Sr. ........RB/LB Ryan Asher..............Sr. ........RB/LB Dylan Mouton ..........Jr...........TE/DE Everette Leger..........Sr. ........RB/DB James Richardson ....Sr. ........RB/LB Dylan Christisen ......Sr. ........TE/DL Colby Castillo ..........Jr. ........OL/DL Justin Potter ............Sr. ........OL/DL

55 59 61 62 64 65 67 68 72 75 78 82 84

Carter Howden ........Sr. ........OL/DL Edmund Horn ..........So. ........OL/DL Hunter Goins............Sr. ........OL/DL Cody Robinson ........Jr. ........OL/DL Bram Boteler............Jr. ........OL/DL Adam LaRocca ........Sr. ........OL/DL Brian Drake ............Jr. ........OL/DL Dakota Mosqueda ....n/a ........OL/DL Tim Burns ..............Sr. ........OL/DL Cameron Hughes ......Jr. ........OL/DL Truitt Jordan ............Sr. ........OL/DL Mason Archer ..........Sr. ........TE/DL Nate Webb ..............Sr. ........WR/DB

Page 10, Section 4

THE SILSBEE BEE FALL SPORTS SPECIAL SECTION 2010

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

THE SILSBEE BEE FALL SPORTS SPECIAL SECTION 2010

Section 4, Page 11

Lumberton Raiders 2010 Varsity Football

Lumberton Junior Varsity Football

Lumberton Freshman Football Pictured, front from left, Mackenzie Shirley, Mikayla Carter, Kaitlyn Cooper, Lauren Swisher, Michelle Butler; second row from left, Abbie Jackson, Naleigh Stafford, Taylor Roberts, Katy Chase, Amanda Duvall, Macie Humble, Jordyn Hopson;, third row from left, Julie Cascarellie, Megan Goode, Brittany Schneider, Kali Whitehead, Cortney Pickens, Tara Byrd, Jessica Koch, Katie Chambers. (Not Pictured Meagan Lindeman) On Derrick: (left) Katie Deaton, (bottom) Malerie Domingue, (top) and Kayla Maclean, (right) Emily Daigle.

Lumberton Varsity Cheerleaders Members of the Lumberton High School varsity cheerleading squad include, back from left, Brianna Boutwell, Lindsey Beard, Tara King, Brittany Broussard, Heather Gracedel, and Karli Noonkester; and front from left, Haley Moore (Co-Captain), Somer Meyers (Captain), Jesse Young, Madison Carter, Jessi Mitchell, Danielle Evans, Lacy Smith (Co-Captain), Beverlee Smith, Kara Conway. Not pictured is Kelly Bingham.

Lumberton Raiders 2010 Homecoming

Friday, Oct. 15 vs. Livingston, 7:30 p.m.

Score Big With a Winning Line-Up

385-3796 • 1-877-473-6215

2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 12 14 15 17 20

Troy Soileau ............Sr. ........RB/LB Chase McDonald ......Sr. ........WR/DB Tyrrell Furlow ..........Sr. ........WR/DE Ryan Hughes ..........Sr. ........QB/DB Garrett Bourque........So.........WR/DB Jordan Granato ........Jr. ........WR/DB Lance Pace..............Jr. ........WR/DB Clay Choate ............Jr. ........RB/LB Cody Gutierrez..........Sr. ........WR/DB Blake Thibodeaux ....So. ........RB/LB Dylan Hunley ..........Sr. ........SR/DB Mark Purks ..............Sr. ........QB/DB Cody Cowart ............Sr. ........WR/DB Ty Smith ................Sr. ........RB/DB

22 23 25 27 33 34 35 39 40 42 45 49 50 52

Logan Cunningham ....Jr. ........RB/DB John Patterson ........Jr...........TE/DE Garret Lindsey..........Sr. ........TE/DE Travis Kelley ............Jr. ........RB/LB Taylor McDonald ......Sr. ........RB/LB Daniel Whitworth ......Sr. ........TE/DE Brandon Mikes ........Sr. ........RB/LB Ryan Asher..............Sr. ........RB/LB Dylan Mouton ..........Jr...........TE/DE Everette Leger..........Sr. ........RB/DB James Richardson ....Sr. ........RB/LB Dylan Christisen ......Sr. ........TE/DL Colby Castillo ..........Jr. ........OL/DL Justin Potter ............Sr. ........OL/DL

55 59 61 62 64 65 67 68 72 75 78 82 84

Carter Howden ........Sr. ........OL/DL Edmund Horn ..........So. ........OL/DL Hunter Goins............Sr. ........OL/DL Cody Robinson ........Jr. ........OL/DL Bram Boteler............Jr. ........OL/DL Adam LaRocca ........Sr. ........OL/DL Brian Drake ............Jr. ........OL/DL Dakota Mosqueda ....n/a ........OL/DL Tim Burns ..............Sr. ........OL/DL Cameron Hughes ......Jr. ........OL/DL Truitt Jordan ............Sr. ........OL/DL Mason Archer ..........Sr. ........TE/DL Nate Webb ..............Sr. ........WR/DB

BEYOND THE GAME: Jackie Heinz, Athletics Secretary

Page 12, Section 4

THE SILSBEE BEE FALL SPORTS SPECIAL SECTION 2010

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

BEYOND THE GAME: Mighty Raiders Band 2010 Majors

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

THE SILSBEE BEE FALL SPORTS SPECIAL SECTION 2010

Section 4, Page 9

If you want Credeur, you gotta go through her LHS band trio keeps music clicking in time

By DAVID LISENBY david@silsbeebee.com

Behind every great man is a great woman. For the coaching staff of the Lumberton Raiders, the old saying should be behind every great coaching staff is a great secretary.

Jacki Heinz is the secretary for Coach Credeur. She started her year early this year, as she usually does, by coming in to sell season reserve tickets for home football games. That is only one of her many duties.

“I take care of purchasing for all sports in the middle school and high school,” Heinz said. “I keep up with the accounts for Coach Credeur. If he needs to know any amounts at any time I know the balance. I keep my coaches informed.”

“All of my kids get fitted with shoes, pants, pads, helmets, etc.,” she continued. “I do that after Coach Credeur has met with a vendor and decided what he wants. I do all the paperwork on it. I follow-up on it. I am the purchasing agent. He decides what he wants and then I do all the computer work to make it happen. I don’t do anything without his approval and knowledge. I keep his schedule.”

During the season she does the UIL eligibilities for each sport.

JACKIE HEINZ

She communicates with District 20-4A on all UIL issues. Before Coach Credeur goes into his meetings, it is her job to do the legwork so he can be prepared for the meeting. She does the preliminary on any forms so Coach Credeur can focus strictly on football and personnel.

If there are any clinics to be attended, Heinz notifies her coaches. They have to make their own reservations, but she makes sure they have their meal money and makes sure everything is approved through Central Office.

She is the liaison between the

Go Raiders in 2010!

Head Head to to Toe Toe Family Family Healthcare Healthcare

735 N 5th St, Silsbee • 385-6500

Especially Our Lumberton Raiders!

Lumberton Chamber of Commerce 826 N. Main 755-0554 Lumberton www.lumbertoncoc.com

coaches and transportation. She makes sure that the team is going to have buses. She makes sure that the times are turned in. She mothers them.

“I am lucky in my job,” Heinz said. “The kids that I deal with have been structured. They are well behaved. They are well mannered. I refer to the coaches by their title, not by their first name, because I want the kids to have the same respect for them. I try to lead by example.”

Heinz has great respect and admiration for her boss. “Coach Credeur is one of the most patient, understanding men that I have ever met,” she said. “This is a business, but when I make a mistake and own up to it, he doesn’t chew me out. That is why I want to do whatever it takes to make his job easier, out of respect for him. He treats me with respect. All of my coaches do, but he sets the example.”

“The key to the whole thing is a good relationship with my boss,” she continued. “He is a gentleman and then a coach. He is a gentleman always. I highly respect him because of his values and his principles. That is why I strive to make his job easier. The thing that he is doing that I am most proud of is that he is building school spirit in the community and in the kids. I have sold more tickets in the last three years than I did the entire time I have been here.”

“It is a two way street here,” she concluded. “It is a great partnership. I pay the bills. I make sure there is food on the table.

Coach Credeur takes care of the players and coaches. It is a wonderful partnership because there is mutual respect. My job is to do the work in the background so he

HEART

tines, but they are very receptive here and they are nice about it. I appreciate that. They are all my friends, but when it comes picture day I am not the most liked person in the coaches eyes. They do let me do my job, though, to preserve the memories that the boys and the families want.”

“I’m so fortunate that we’ve got such a good group of kids here,” Miller concluded. “The parents have done such an exceptional job of raising them.

It takes a village to raise them and I am just one of those villagers when they are out here.

They seem to respect me like they respect their parents. That makes me feel good.”

Since picture day, Justin has visited with his doctor and learned that he didn’t have to have surgery right away. He is currently waiting for a heart monitor that he will wear to give the doctors a better idea of exactly what is causing the arrhythmia in his heartbeat. He

doesn’t have to worry about it, whatever it takes for my coaches to just coach. I’ve raised four sons in this district and I treat these coaches and players like they are my children.”

Heinz has been married to her husband, Gary, for the past 38 years. Together they have four sons, David, Cory, Josh and Jacob. She also has five new grandchildren. “I was a tomboy growing up,” she said. “I started doing girly things when I was 50.

I got my first pedicure after I turned 50. I played soccer until I was 49.”

In December, 2011 Heinz will retire. She will enjoy spending time with her husband and with her grandchildren. Until then she will relish each and every moment she spends with the players and coaches at Lumberton High School.

“When the coaches greet me with a smile, or open the door for me, when they show me respect, that is my accolades,” Heinz said.

“When they smile at me or they laugh with me, that lets me know that they care. I have been at the bottom and now I am on the top of the world.”

LHS Athletic Trainers

Lumberton High School athletic trainers and student athletic trainers are, back from left, Chad Miller, Clayton Johnston, and Evan Gumpert; and front from left, Erin Mitchell and Ethan Escagne.

likely won’t be able to play football right away, but he is receiving the full support of his

Continued from Page 8

family and teammates.

By DAVID LISENBY david@silsbeebee.com

Each sports team has its leaders. Of course, there are coaches, sponsors and directors who are paid to teach and train their teams. There are also student leaders in each team. The Mighty Raider Marching band has three leaders on the field when they perform their halftime routine. They are the drum majors.

Jillian Hanson is a junior who plays the alto saxophone.

Brittany Mays is a senior who plays the clarinet. Riley Banker is a senior who plays the french horn. All three started playing in the band when they were in the sixth grade.Together they are the drum majors who lead the band on the field.

“Drum majors are the leaders of the band when they are on the field, and in rehearsal at times,” said band director Ross Boothman. “These three ladies have done an outstanding job so far. I anticipate it will stay that way all year. They were among about nine people who auditioned for the position of drum major in the spring. Judges judged them, while directors were present. I believe this is as strong of a group of drum majors as we have ever had.”

During rehearsals, when Mr. Boothman is in his office or doing something else, the drum majors run the rehearsals and tell the band what they need to be doing at a certain time.

The trio went to a drum major camp for a week this past summer. They learned a lot. Things like conducting patterns and the responsibilities of a drum major, how we should act, how to control a band - not with harshness but with the right tone of voice but still be effective at teaching and everything else.

“Being the drum major you have to keep the time of the band,” Banker explained.

“Conducting is our main thing during the football show. The band has to follow our hands.

Our hands are what guide them to play the right notes in the right rhythm. If we’re wrong, the band is wrong. It’s a lot of weight on

our shoulders. It holds a lot of responsibility.”

“We understand that the band is out there and that they are the ones who are marching,” she continued. “That is physically tiring and they have to put so much effort into that. Being a drum major is a different kind of responsibility within the group. I have done both. I have done the marching and also been a drum major. I understand the responsibility with both. Being a drum major is more mental.

Sometimes it can be more exhausting because you’re in charge of everything. If you mess up, the band messes up. It’s all on your shoulders.”

Boothman said that if you’ve got pride in what you do and you happen to make a mistake, you’re going to take it personal but you are going to make it better the next time. The band has already had one or two instances when something wasn’t as good as it should be. They acknowledged that and then talked about it. They understand that they have a job to do and when an instance is done, it’s done.

“Sometimes when we are out there and we want it to go well and everybody is on the same page, sometimes time is a factor and I am direct with instructions,” Boothman said. “I think that everybody understands that it is all about the group doing the best it can do. I truly believe that if you have fun while you are working, the product that you deliver will be better. If they are not enjoying what we are doing, you will not get the full potential of what they are capable of doing. I truly believe that.

It is a team effort in every aspect and ultimately it is their performance. It is their band. They are going to do a super job, there is no doubt in my mind.”

“When things go right, that is one of the best feelings you can ever have,” Banker said.

“Whenever you are in the middle of a performance or after you perform and you realize that we just pulled that through and made it the best that we could, all the rehearsals don’t matter anymore. All of the hours that you put into it don’t even phase

Napoli’s Italian Restaurant NOW OPEN IN LUMBERTON!

Family Owner from Joe’s Pizza & Pasta in Silsbee and Beaumont.

409-755-BATS (2287) or 409-782-2177

835 S. Main Street, Lumberton 409-227-4611 • 409-227-4612

Leading the Lumberton High School Mighty Raiders Band this year are, from left, Co-Drum Major Brittany Mays, Head Drum Major Riley Banker, and Co-Drum Major Jillian Hanson.

us because it all added up to that one moment and that’s all that matters.”

“It’s fun,” Boothman added.

“It’s the best legal drug you can have. If you do it right , you can get it every Friday night. It’s addictive.”

“It’s all worth it,” Banker concluded. “Especially when you know you’ve done your best. It’s not even about the score you get or the rating or applause.

Knowing that you did the best that you could and that every rehearsal added up to that point and that it was the best that it could have been, that’s the one thing that matters. It’s cool. It’s all about pride.”

Blessing & Prayers for all Hardin County teams.

In Need “Ministering to All Your Needs Since 2003” • Teen & Adolescent “1 Day at a Time” • Sexual Abuse Problems Drug and Alcohol Program • Eating Disorder • Marriage & Family Individual Counseling • Grief Counseling Intervention

www.inneedcc.org

1015 S Main • Lumberton

Specializing In

Adult & Geriatric Rehabilitation and Long-term Care Services • IV Therapy • Physical Therapy • Occupational Therapy • Speech therapy • Short-Term Rehabilitation Stay • On-Site Podiatry Services • On-Site Ophthalmology Services • Hospice • Psychological Counseling • Pain Management and More

Rehabilitaion & Nursing Center 705 North Main Street • 755-0100 • Lumberton

BEYOND THE GAME: Buffy Miller and Justin Potter

Page 8, Section 4

THE SILSBEE BEE FALL SPORTS SPECIAL SECTION 2010

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

BEYOND THE GAME: Carl Stucker, New Voice of the Raiders

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

THE SILSBEE BEE FALL SPORTS SPECIAL SECTION 2010

Section 4, Page 13

Mother, son battle heart problem together Following in the footsteps of a Lumberton legend

By DAVID LISENBY david@silsbeebee.com

It is shaping up to be a picture perfect year for the students at Lumberton ISD. It will be if Buffy Miller, photographer for Provine School Photos, has anything to do with it.

Miller has been taking pictures of all of the school activities in the district since 2002. “I’ve always taken pictures of the kids at home,” explained Miller. “I was offered a business opportunity. That’s what got me into it.

Provine has been around for a very long time and I feel they’re going to be around a lot longer. I decided to get into it.”

“It was just a business opportunity and when I got into it I found that I enjoy working with the kids a lot more than the early mornings,” she continued. “It is really the kids that keep me

going. I get to see them become the men of our future. It’s a lot of fun. I remember having my pictures taken when I was a kid going to school. It was a Provine photographer who took our pictures. Not much has changed since then. You still get good, quality service from the contractor that is servicing the school, good, quality pictures.”

Miller has lived in Lumberton all her life, so she knows the community and the people who make it up. She has spent countless hours photographing students in school pictures, sports pictures, dance pictures and any other school event imaginable.

Miller is married to, as she describes, a wonderful man, Todd Miller.”We have a wonderful relationship,” she said.

“We’re best friends. It works.

Photographers have a crazy schedule and he has understood

Good Luck To All Area Teams

Mexican Restaurant 351 S. Main St

Lumberton

my schedule and has actually helped a lot. I’m very fortunate in the fact that he understands my job. He does well with it.”

She has a daughter, Amber Potter, who recently turned 26.

Amber graduated from high school in Lumberton. She was a cheerleader from the seventh grade until she graduated. She currently lives in Beaumont.

“Amber is a really, really good kid,” Buffy said. “I like both of my kids. You have to love your kids, but I actually like both of mine, too. They are very good kids.”

Her son, Justin Potter, is 18. He is in his senior year at Lumberton High School and plays on the football team. “Football is his passion,” Buffy said. “With his health problems, I hope that he gets to play some games his senior year and the community comes together and he has a great senior year.”

Last year Justin had super-ventricular tachycardia and had to have two surgeries. They went in and did ablations on the nerves that fire in his heart. He got to play about three games last year at the end of the season. About a month ago he was in the hospital and developed a staph infection and had to be taken out of football practice.

“He stayed in the hospital for about a week before he was released,” Buffy said. “The week after two-a-days started this summer his heart started skipping beats and actually stopping and starting back up. We know that there is some sort of arrhythmia

By DAVID LISENBY david@silsbeebee.com

Buffy Miller, right, has been the team photographer for Lumberton High School for the past nine years. This year should have been a special time for her and her senior son Justin Potter, who is a member of the Raiders football team. Instead, the family is struggling with a critical medical problem.

that needs to be corrected. We’re hoping for a good season for him and the entire Raider team.”

Miller loves to be outside. “I am definitely an outdoor person,” she said. “I like a little bit of fishing, hunting and fourwheeling. I think I might be a little bit of a country girl. I’m definitely not a foo-foo girl. Thats the way I was brought up, and I think it’s a good way of life. I’ve had a lot of fun times and a lot of good memories. There have been some great opportunities here in Lumberton.”

Miller’s mom and dad, Deloris and Petey Baker, are still married and still live down Cooks Lake Road, where she grew up. It is her grandmother, Annie Bradberry, who Miller said is the glue in her family.

“She is the person who holds my family together and keeps us all focused,” Miller said. “She is 88 years old and happens to be my favorite people in the world. I think Justin is one of her favorites. It is fortunate that my kids are getting to enjoy her as their great-grandmother.”

Miller was on the job last week, taking pictures of the freshman, junior varsity and varsity football teams on the same

day that Justin was scheduled for a doctors’ appointment to find out if he would have to undergo another heart surgery before the football season started. She remained focused on her job and offered words of encouragement to the players and the coaching staff.

“I am hoping, since it’s my sons senior year, that our football team is going to have a winning year and go far into the playoffs,” she said. “I am a huge Lumberton Raider fan. We’ve got a pretty good team this year.

We’ve got some size on the offensive line. The coaches have made some good decisions in the boys coming up. The boys are qualified and ready for the positions they are going to be in and are going to step up to the plate and bring Lumberton some wins.

We’re going to have a good season.”

“We’ve got an outstanding coaching staff,” she continued.

“I’ve had the opportunity to work with them. I’m not the most favorite person on picture day.

Picture day is very stressful. It’s all in the way of practices and I’m messing everything up.

They’ve got schedules and rou-

Football season is about to begin again at Raider Stadium.

For the past several years there has been a familiar voice over the public address system telling the fans who did what on the field and letting everyone know when there was another Lumberton Raider first down. On Friday night there will be a new voice of the Raiders.

Carl Stucker is a 1986 graduate of Lumberton High School.

During his days as a student he played on the Raider team. While in high school and during his time as a student at Lamar University he worked in radio.

Today he works for Conex, International and owns a restaurant, Lone Star Buffet, in Jasper.

He has been married to his wife, Nicole, for nine years. He has two step-daughters, Chelsea and Carli Thibodeaux. Chelae is now a Lamar cheerleader. She was a cheerleader in Lumberton. Carli is a sophomore at Lumberton High School and is on the JV cheerleading team. His son, Carl,

CARL STUCKER

goes by Bo. He is seven years old and plays PeeWee tackle football.

“I remember when I was a kid playing in Lumberton and and the feelings I got listening to Marcus Bowman announce the games,” Stucker said. “Mr. Bilberry was my counselor. Dr. Sims was my World History teacher. I remember those people

as the rock of the community and now I am growing up and becoming one of them. It is ironic, a great honor.”

“I was very shocked at even getting offered this honor,” he continued. “I moved away from Lumberton for a little while and then I moved back to raise my family here. This is like one more step in the puzzle of being part of the community.”

Stucker said that his inspiration is Marcus Bowman.

“He announced my games when I was playing high school football,” Stucker recalled. “My heart would really start beating when I could hear the band doing their cadence and then when I could hear Marcus Bowman open up the microphone.”

“Honest to goodness, not to be corny, but he was an inspiration to me when I did broadcasting,” he continued. “To me he was the Lumberton Raiders. I just hope to be able to do for the fans what he did. Marcus Bowman was awesome. He even taught my mother in high school, that’s how long he’s been around. He was really

2010 Mighty Raiders Band

fun and did a great job.

Whenever I heard his voice I knew it was time to play football.”

Stucker said that he aspires to be like Marcus Bowman but knows that the shoes Bowman walked in are some big shoes to fill. He just hopes to keep the fans excited and informed and to be able to give them an exciting play-by -play show.

“I’d like to thank Coach Credeur for the opportunity and to thank Mike Bayless for bringing my name up to him,” Stucker said. “I’d also like to thank Lumberton, more than anything,

Jimmyʼs

for being a community that supports their athletics. Not just football, but all of the kids’ athletics.”

“When I was growing up we had support, but it wasn’t like the community support that the kids have now,” he concluded. “Just drive by the high school on a Friday night during football season and you will see how the community supports the football team. I am proud of the community of Lumberton for stepping up and supporting these kids who are practicing hard and doing the best they can to give them a good show.”

WRECKER SERVICE

Damage Free Towing 24 Hour Service In Business Since 1981 Were Proud Raider Fans (409) 755-4275 Brady Harris - Owner 1 (877) 755-4273

290 FM 421 Lumberton, TX 77657

11ʼ Wx10ʼHx30ʼL Storage Units

LHS Junior Varsity Cheerleaders

Jimmy Priest Owner

See HEART, Page 12

Bobby Franklin Hardin County Commissioner Precinct 4 100 Southland Dr.

Lumberton

(409) 755-4584

Toll Free 866-999-1665 Jasper 489-1496 Beaumont 899-1665 Orange 883-9902

Go Raiders

Members of the Lumberton High School Junior Varsity Cheerleading squad are, back from left, Carli Thibodeaux, Sarah Gracedel (Co-Captain), Jordan Knight, Madi Peiffer (Co-Captain), Maci Noonkester, Amber Moore, Brittany Kight; and front from left, Lyndsey Landry, Lyndi Stanley, Addie Richardson, Ashlyn Phillips, Leslie Tevis, Natile Orr, Kyndall Boykin, and Summer Koch.

Signs/Banners • Auto Decals • Magnets • Logo Design

751-6686

Store Hours: M-F 9 - 6pm

BEYOND THE GAME: Lynn Carney ... A Lady With Taste

Page 14, Section 4

THE SILSBEE BEE FALL SPORTS SPECIAL SECTION 2010

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

THE SILSBEE BEE FALL SPORTS SPECIAL SECTION 2010

Section 4, Page 7

What would Friday night be without nachos?

By DAVID LISENBY david@silsbeebee.com

There is nothing like a Friday night at Lumberton Raider Stadium. The lights, the sounds, the smells.

For the past eight years Lynn Carney has been Coordinator of Athletic Concessions. She has had the responsibility of filling the concession with enough staffing to ensure that every fan has the opportunity to enjoy a snack while watching the game

and the halftime festivities.

“I’ve finally got it where there are some school organizations coming in and raising money for organizations,” Heinz said.

“The band, different campuses like the Middle School, Early Childhood, and the Intermediate staff have come in and manned and worked in the concession stand during various different Friday night football games.”

People from Project Graduation work in the concession stand to raise money for

“Mike & Mike” Regina, Bobbie, Johnnie, Sherrie, Tim & JoAnn are behind you all the way...

939 S. Main • Lumberton

Good Luck Lumberton Raiders “Where something Fresh is Always Cooking”

948 S. Main

755-3632

Lumberton

Mon. - Sat. 10 a.m. - 8 p.m. • Closed Sundays

104 South Main

Lumberton

their graduating seniors. Parents of juniors also work for their student. Boosters and other groups serve customers to raise funds. Some students even come in and work for themselves.

The concession stand sells items such as candies, soft drinks, nachos, frito pie, corn dogs, fries, cheese fries, boudin links, and other items.

A shift is about four hours a night. The different people come in and serve. Some people take orders at the window. Some people do the cooking. Some of the child nutrition staff takes care of the sanitation and makes sure that things run properly in the concession stand, sanitationwise.

Some school board members come in and work. The assistant superintendent has worked the concessions a few times. There is a city council member, Lynette Barks, who works every Friday night. A few people from the central office staff come in and help with the money.

“Friday night is usually a blur to everybody,” Carney said.

“It’s crazy. Chaotic. Hot. The workers definitely earn their money. There are usually three servers at each window. Each year, as people that have worked there come back, they know how to keep the chaos in a flowing situation. For Friday night games we have to have 30-40 people working concessions.”

When a new person starts, Carney has them come in on a Tuesday or Thursday night game, where the crowds aren’t quiet as large. If a new person works on Friday nights, it tends to slow things down. She said that, for the most part, everybody picks up pretty quickly.

“I have always told the workers that they need to have fun while they are working in the concession stand,” she said. “It is too hot to be serious all the time. For the most part, in the eight years that I’ve been doing this, I’ve seen maybe two confrontations, and those were minor.”

Some of the funds, other than what the organizations earn, have been used to purchase items like the score table and chairs for the volleyball and basketball games. The funds help support the banquets held at the end of each sports season.

The funds are used for athletic causes in general, other than what the people working for other organizations earn.

Depending on what school comes here to play, the concession stand can bring in between $8,000 and $10,000 per night.

Granted, that is when one of the bigger schools come in, like PN-G. “It’s come a long way,” said Carney. “I’ve tried to improve some of the equipment that we

have in there. When I took over it was really antiquish. They’ve allowed me to improve somewhat on that. A lot of the visiting teams have let us know how much they appreciate our concession stand. Compared to their prices, ours are cheap.”

Carney said that things are very hectic in the concession stand. “On Friday night, when there is a home football game and there is also a home volleyball game, I have everybody that I can find for the football game and I have nobody left over for the volleyball game,” she said. “There are times when I have to be on the middle school side of town and on the high school side of town. There are times during the season when I have three events going on at one time.”

If anybody is interested in coming in and helping out or in

Kountze Lions

helping a senior, email Lynn Carney at lkcarney@lumberton.k12.tx.us or give her a call at 923-7495. If you don’t reach her by phone, leave a message.

Lumberton Raiders

Hardin-Jefferson Hawks

Hardin Hornets

Bridge City Cardinals

Silsbee Tigers

LYNN CARNEY

LHS Mascots

“I Wish All the Teams of My District the Very Best This Season. I hope to team up with every one of you to make Texas and especially Southeast Texas a better place to live and work. Thank You for Your VOTE”

Lumberton High School mascots for the 2010 football season are, from left, Abby Wolford and Paityn Thorn.

LHS Color Guard

Members of the Lumberton High School Color Guard include, front from left, Captain Caroline Hall and Lt. Rebecca Byars; middle from left, Katelyn Childress, Shelby Whitehead, Carly Olliff, Ashlyn Parks, Rebekah Falb, Faith Harkrider, Ashley Shipherd, and Cheyenne Wilson; and back from left, Regan Shannon, Tyler Henderson, Courtney Johnson, Kaylon Talley, Lindsey Sorrell, Whitney Stoker, and Desiree Cavaretta. Not pictured are Morgan McManus and Bethany Lisenby.

LC-M Bears

West-Hardin Oilers

Vidor Pirates

Orangefield Bobcats

West Orange-Stark Mustangs

Deweyville Pirates

Page 6, Section 4

THE SILSBEE BEE FALL SPORTS SPECIAL SECTION 2010

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Lumberton Junior Varsity Volleyball

EVADALE FOOTBALL PREVIEW

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

THE SILSBEE BEE FALL SPORTS SPECIAL SECTION 2010

Section 4, Page 15

Rebels seeking fifth straight playoff appearance

By SCOTT LOAR Special to The Bee

The 2010 edition of the Evadale Rebels football team is loaded and ready to take aim at a third straight district championship and the higher goal of a long run in the playoffs. The Rebels will be seeking their fifth straight playoff appearance and with the new divi-

S U C

CA

M O T

BI N

S T E

DISTRICT 14-A, DIV. II PREVIEW

Dewaine King

Evadale shoo-in for district title

Owner www.dewainekingcustomcabinets.com dkingcustomcabinets@yahoo.com

2552 Hwy 69 S Lumberton

Lumberton Freshman Volleyball

For All Your Building & Remodeling Needs!

ORANGE COUNTY BUILDING MATERIAL Located in the Villlard Plaza

Go Raiders 2010!

900 South Main Lumberton www.ocbm.net

sion format in Class A the prospects for a Rebel playoff run look as promising as last years baseball playoff run that ended in the state championship game, since the Rebels will be facing similar sized teams once the playoffs arrive.

On offense the Rebels return eight starters including six seniors.

The offense will be lead at quarter-

409-751-6000 Fax: 490-751-6100

Connie Anderson All Properties

Each Office Independently Owned and Operated

R E A LTO R ®

837 North Main, Suite 108 • Lumberton, TX 77656 connieanderson01@sbcglobal.net

Let’s Go

Pick ’ems

Evadale Rebels: 1.

District champs last year, district champs this year.

2. Burkeville Mustangs: Returning to a spot near the top, just like old times.

3. High Island Cardinals: Defense early will give offense to catch up. Could be a dog fight with the Mustangs.

4. Sabine Pass Sharks: No offense means no chance.

Five offensive returning starters will be led by senior running back James Lupeheke, who had 12 rushing and seven receiving TDs last year.

Seven starters are back from a stingy Cardinals defense that allowed just 17 points a game a year ago.

Sabine Pass returns 15 starters from 2009, including eight on offense. But this squad averaged just eight points a game, which means it could be a long season again in 2010 unless they find someone to pull the trigger.

Always a fresh supply of Catfish and Shrimp and Shiners and Bait

The (409)246-3600 1035 S. Redwood Kountze

Gary Butler • Stewart Butler

EVADALE REBELS SCHEDULE

2009 2010

NON-DISTRICT Evadale 55, Legacy 0 Evadale 41, Deweyville 14 Evadale 29, Kountze 14 DISTRICT Evadale 32, Sabine Pass 0 Evadale 14, Hull-Daisetta 7 Evadale 18, Burkeville 0 Evadale 15, High Island 0 Evadale 15, West Hardin 0 Evadale 1, Chester 0 (forfeit) Evadale 21, Colmesneil 18 PLAYOFFS Mart 60, Evadale 7

Aug. 28 at Woodville Sept. 4 Bridge City Sept. 11 Evadale Sept. 18 Hull-Daisetta Sept. 25 at Warren* Oct. 2 Buna* Oct. 9 at Deweyville* Oct. 16 Hardin* Oct. 23 at Anahuac* Oct. 30 East Chambers* Nov. 6 OPEN *District games

Entry Fee: Box $50/No Box $40 Adults $15 • Children $5 Test & Tune $20 First Round Buy Back $10

Payout GUARANTEED w/ 8 car field in each class Foot Brake & Box IHRA Summit Super Services BRKT Races

You’re The Best

Evadale, Texas Mike Bruce, owner

See REBELS, next page

Go Rebels!!

G & S Fish Market

Raiders!

Law Firm

If there was an argument against three teams advancing from a district into the playoffs, this would be it.

The Evadale Rebels are the only legitimate playoff contender here and they’ll do that with nine offensive starters from last season. Billy Nichols steps back in at quarterback after picking up 10 rushing and four passing touchdowns in 2009.

Eight starters return on defense for a team that allowed just 11 points a game last year. If you take out the 60-point performance by Mart in the first round of the playoffs, Evadale allowed less than six points a game through its first 10 games.

Count on another perfect 10-0 run in 2010 for the Rebels.

The Mustangs finished in fifth place in 23-A last season, winning just two games all season, all in district showdowns. This year, in this district, the Mustangs could find their way to near the top of the rankings and back in the playoffs for the first time in several years.

High Island had a respectable showing with three straight wins to open 3-0 last year. But they would win just three of their next seven to finish fifth in district.

back by senior Billy Nichols who was the district MVP a year ago.

In the backfield is senior fullbacks Chase Franklin and Ryan Freeman. Tailbacks are junior Brandon Bruce, senior Gage Galvez and junior Tanner Hawthorne. Senior Dustin Potts is at the wingback position with junior Kip Rawls as a back up.

Seniors Adam Stark, Tyler Tucker and Dylan Guzman will switch out at tight end with wide receivers including junior Shawn Totten, senior Blaine Dunigan and junior Devon Murphy.

The offensive line returns 4 of five starters from a year ago.

Senior tackle Josh Swift and junior Matthew Conner with senior Trey White also seeing action. Guards are senior Chris Harvey and junior Kyle Taylor with senior Eli Loar and junior Daniel Kilpatrick also available. Junior Brandon Midkiff will be the Rebel center.

The team’s familiarity with the system and depth across the chart will allow the Rebels to open up their formations and the play book this season which should increase their points per game average from last season.

On defense the Rebels are equally stacked with returning starters having eight players who started last season. The defensive line returns intact with Tucker and Starks at tackles and White at nose guard. Swift, Conner, Midkiff will also see action along the line.

Linebackers include returning starters Harvey and Franklin in the middle and Freeman at one outside spot. Other outside backers include Loar, Totten and Kilpatrick. Taylor will fill in at the inside spots. In the secondary the Rebels have the most personnel to replace but Nichols moves from linebacker to

FM 2246

Evadale

276-2497 or 276-2281 8:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Travel with care as you attend the game.

And, please don’t drink and drive.

2580 Nerren Silsbee

Silsbee Beaumont -

EVADALE VOLLEYBALL PREVIEW

Page 16, Section 4

THE SILSBEE BEE FALL SPORTS SPECIAL SECTION 2010

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

LUMBERTON VOLLEYBALL SCHEDULE

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

THE SILSBEE BEE FALL SPORTS SPECIAL SECTION 2010

Aug. 31 at East Chambers Sept. 3 at Crosby Sept. 7 at Beaumont Central* Sept. 9 YMBL Tournament Sept. 10 YMBL Tournament Sept. 11 YMBL Tournament Sept. 14 Port Neches-Groves* Sept. 17 Beaumont Ozen* Sept. 21 at Livingston* Sept. 24 at LC-Mauriceville* Sept. 28 Nederland*

Lady Rebs deal with on the job training This year’s Lady Rebel volleyball team is a very young team with only one starter returning from last year team and she has changed positions.

Coach Debbie Hollyfield said “Our three seniors have stepped up to provide the on the court leadership that will be necessary to get the team ready for district play later this season”.

The seniors are Ashton Clark, Haleigh Conner, the lone

returning starter, and Kayla Peevey. All three played on the varsity squad last season but there are only a couple of other players who even suited up last year for the Lady Rebels.

Juniors on the team are Briann Doyan, Hope Richardson, Holly Stringer and Brooke Tanton. Three sophomores round out the squad Shay Rashall, Britnee Rawls and Jessica Seago.

Hollyfield is known for playing one of the most difficult pre See LADY REBS, Page 20

INDOOR GUN RANGE

Members of the 2010 Evadale Lady Rebels volleyball varsity team are Holly Stringer, Brittnee Rowls, Hope Richardson, Jessica Seago, Kayla Peevey, Haleigh Conner, Shay Rashall, Brianne Doyen, Brooke Tanton and Ashton Clark. Coaches are Debbie Hollyfield and Tosha McAdams.

REBELS

Good Luck To All Area Teams!

Continued from previous page has had some facility upgrades this past year including a new weight room with double the space and equipment as the old one. The new weight room also brings restrooms to the visitor’s side of the field.

Renovation of the press box including a coach’s box and the addition of a visiting coach’s box and filming area on top of the press box. The home stands have been expanded including a new handicapped elevated platform. The concession stand has been enlarged and added additional serving windows.

The entire stadium will benefit from an improved sound system and the field is in the best shape it’s been in years.

Success breeds success is an adage often said pertaining to sports. It is the reason that teams upgrade facilities and it is the reason that certain teams show up in preseason polls year in and year out. The Rebels are beginning to have that kind of reputation and receive that kind of recognition as this year they have appeared in a couple of preseason, top 20 polls.

The Rebels know that reputation does not win games or gain respect from opponents. That only comes from hard work and execution on the field. The Rebels believe that they have the depth and they mean to put all the pieces together in 2010 with their eyes firmly set on the prize. Well it could be said “prizes”; another undefeated season, a district 14A D2 championship, success in the playoffs and who knows maybe another trip to a different state championship game?

Root your team on as they make a break for the champsionship this year.

The (409)246-3600

Law Firm

1035 S. Redwood Kountze

Gary Butler • Stewart Butler

Members of the Lumberton High School Varsity Volleyball Team include Brett Peveto, Ashley Braddock, Kacy Combest, Kindell Johnston, Paige Jannise, Randi Owen, Rachel Kemp, Danielle Stewart, Jenna Worth, Jodi Sheffield, Erin Miller, Hailey Zampini and Shelbi Pickering.

LADY RAIDERS

us. I think she is, if not the best, one of the best back row players in this area right now. She was great last year and even better this year. She spent all summer going to lots of camps and to different colleges trying out.”

“Randi Owens has already had several offers,” she continued.

“She is thinking about going to Harding. It is a private school on the east coast. There are a lot of places that want her to come and play where she can start. She lives for volleyball. That kid loves volleyball and her parents are very supportive, so she will be going on to play college ball somewhere.”

Captains this year will be Randi Owens and Danielle Stewart.

“Erin Miller came up from varsity last year,” she said.

Continued from previous page

“She’s been filling in any front row position that we need. She goes in there and does a great job wherever we put her. She is just a sophomore. New on the varsity is Hailey Zampini. She is a sophomore. She is a sitter, a front row player. She is doing a great job.”

“Shelbi Pickering is a junior who is on varsity for her first year,” she continued. “She just stepped up this year out of nowhere and became everybody’s inspiration. Every time she comes of the bench everybody shouts ‘it’s Shelby time.’

She’s awesome.”

Baker said that this was the easiest year for her to choose her varsity team due to the quality players that she had to choose from. With the growth in Lumberton continuing, there are more and more athletes available

who specialize in one sport, including volleyball.

“We’re going to be much improved everywhere,” she said.

“We have a really strong back row. All of our defensive specialists are seniors. We expect to be really good. Our front row is all juniors and they are all really tall.

This is the best team that we’ve had around here in a while.”

“We are looking to go to the playoffs,” she continued. “We’re looking for big things. We are preparing for big things. We’ve had flashes of brilliance in the past. We’re looking forward to a brilliant season this year. We want to go to the playoffs, that is our goal. We are going to start a new tradition this year. This is a good year and more is coming.”

4940 Hwy 69 S

Lumberton

Hours: Mon-Sat 10-7

1326 Hwy 96 • Lumberton Terri Fuller, Owner & Operator

Auto • Home • Life • Renters • Business • Flood • Boat

Insurance Agency 1051 Hwy 327 E Silsbee

Insurance to meet your needs, at a price you can afford.

Auto • Home • Life • Renters • Business • Flood • Boat

Auto • Home • Life • Renters • Business • Flood • Boat • Mobile Home

strong safety while Rawls and Bruce will roam at free safety. The cornerbacks include Hawthorn, Galvez, Dunigan, Guzman and Potts.

The defense which shut out half of the teams the Rebels played in 2009 looks even more impressive this season. The Rebels will look to be one of the state’s stingest defenses in 2010 and will depend on the unit to shut opposing offenses down.

Rebel’s special teams look to be in good shape as Swift returns for his third year as the place kicker and Murphy will be the Rebel punter. Speed from return men like Bruce, Galvez, Potts and Rawls will be looking to place the Rebel’s in great field position or game breaking plays when the Rebels are on the receiving end of kicks.

Head Coach Mark Williams is entering his fifth year at Evadale and he has been pleased with the progress of his team in summer workouts. Williams said, “We have a veteran club with a few entering their fourth year on varsity. The coaches have seen the team’s intensity in workouts and this the is type of team we work towards every year. The experience and leadership are there, we just have to execute on the field week in and week out”.

Williams has preached to the Rebels that the target on their back only gets bigger as the program continues to be successful. In the past four years the Rebels have only lost 4 district games a fact that is not lost on Rebel opponents.

The Evadale athletic program

Evadale, Texas

Oct. 1 Vidor* Oct. 5 Beaumont Central* Oct. 8 at Port NechesGroves* Oct. 12 at Beaumont Ozen* Oct. 15 Livingston* Oct. 19 Little CypressMauriceville* Oct. 22 at Nederland* Oct. 26 at Vidor* *-District 20-4A Match

LONE STAR

Auto • Home • Life • Renters • Business • Flood • Boat • Mobile Home

By SCOTT LOAR Special to The Bee

Section 4, Page 5

Score Big Savings at...

421 S. Main • Lumberton, Tx 77657

People you know, the service you expect

Page 4, Section 4

LUMBERTON VOLLEYBALL PREVIEW

THE SILSBEE BEE FALL SPORTS SPECIAL SECTION 2010

SAY IT WITH FLOWERS FROM...

Lumberton Flower Shop • Circle E Candles • Lampe Berger • Custom Made Silks • Fresh Bouquets

• Weatherland Chimes • Funeral Arrangements • Homecoming • Prom

Weldon & Linda Flowers- Owners 540 S. Main Lumberton www.lumbertonflowershop.com

Your GLASS Specialist

www.a1glass.com

Auto • Home • Commercial

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

By DAVID LISENBY david@silsbeebee.com

Lesley Baker is excited about the future of the Lady Raiders of Lumberton High School.

“This year is starting off really good,” said Baker. “We’re looking a whole lot better than we did last year. We’re excited.”

Baker scheduled tough competition for her team early on in the season. “We started off with our scrimmages and they went really well,” Baker said. “We were in the Cy-Fair Tournament trying to get some bigger competition. We played really well in the pool play. We didn’t win matches but it was great competition. We faced it really well.”

“One of those teams that we played really strummed us, but we were expecting it,” she continued. “You need to see what that next level of play is like. The

girls looked like they were on Mars. They had never seen a school that big. The team was so awesome. They are a team that we want to be. We didn’t win, but we really played well.”

Baker said that by stepping up the preseason and playing against some of these bigger schools the team will be better prepared for local teams. “We don’t want to be intimidated,“ she said. “Now we’ve seen the best that the state of Texas has to offer, so now we aren’t intimidated. We are better prepared for the season.”

In the same district as the Lady Raiders are four teams that usually win at volleyball every year, LC-M, PN-G, Nederland and Ozen. Each year that passes may find one or the other team at the top, but it is usually one of the four.

“It’s tough around here,” Baker said. “This year we are going to go in knowing that we can compete. We respect the ‘Big Four.’ They are who we are aiming at. That’s where we want to be. We’re expecting to give them a run for their money this year. We’re going to knock a couple of them off that pedestal this year.”

The team this year has some returning players and some new starters. The outside hitters will be Kyndall Johnson and Jenna Worth, both returning varsity players. Middle blockers will be Bret Peveto, returning varsity player who is over six feet tall this year, and Paige Jannise, who is a high jumper.

“Our senior returning Libero this year is Randi Owens,” Baker said. “She is doing a great job for

See LADY RAIDERS, next page

Allied Fence Company 409-755-4934 Raymond & Frankie Jones, Owners

what’s written on that shirt means a whole lot. If you’re not

committed to it, don’t put the

B

2 3 6 7 8 11 12 14 18 21 22 24 28

Brandon Bruce ..........Jr. ............RB/DB Dustin Potts..............Sr. ..........REC/DB Wes Williams ..........So. ..........QB/DB Billy Nichols ............Sr.............QB/DB Kip Rawls ................Jr. ..........REC/DB Dalton Cravy ............Fr. ..........REC/DB Troy Lutz..................So...........REC/DB Braiden Burford ........So...........REC/DB Devon Murphy ..........Jr...........QB/DB/P Tanner Hawthorne ......Jr. ..........REC/DB Skylar Smith ............Jr. ............RB/DB Matthew Totten..........So...........REC/DB Chase Franklin ..........Sr.............RB/DB

AYLESS INSUR ANCE

Home • Auto • Life

! s r e d i a R Go 755-0623

34 40 42 44 50 54 55 56 60 65 66 68 70

Jacob Conner ............Fr. ............RB/LB Ryan Freeman ..........Sr. ..........RB/OLB Gage Galvez ............Sr.............RB/DB Adam Stark ..............Sr. ............TE/DL Eli Loar ..................Sr. ..........OL/OLB Chris Harvey ............Sr. ............OL/LB Trey White ..............Sr. ............OL/DL Kyle Taylor ..............Jr. ............OL/LB Corey Byrum ............Fr. ............OL/DL Brandon Harvey ........So. ............Ol/DL Dustin Sirmons..........Fr. ............OL/LB Josh Swift ................Sr...........OL/DL/K Matthew Ackridge ......Fr. ..........OL/DL

Rebels Sophomores

Section 4, Page 17

71 74 76 77 78 79 80 81 84 85 86 87 88

Jacob Freeman..........Fr. ............OL/DL Matthew Conner ........Jr. ............OL/DL Daniel Kilpatrick ........Jr. ..........OL/OLB Brandon Midkiff ........Jr. ............OL/DL Colton Cotton ............Fr. ............OL/DL Tristan Reeves ..........Fr. ............OL/DL Blane Dunigan ..........Sr. ..........REC/DB Dylan Guzman ..........Sr. ..........REC/DB Tyler Tucker..............Sr. ............TE/DL Hunter Jackson..........So.............TE/DL Jacob Johnson ..........So...........REC/DB Lane Walker ............Fr. ............TE/DL Shawn Totten ............Jr. ..........TE/OLB

Good Luck Evadale Rebels!!

Rebels Freshmen

Bee file photo

RAIDERS

Rebels Juniors

Rebels Seniors

Lumberton’s Chase McDonald stretches out for a pass thrown by quarterback Ryan Hughes this past season. McDonald finished the year with 15 catches for 304 yards and a touchdown. He figures to make a bigger impact this season.

Hwy 96 • Lumberton

THE SILSBEE BEE FALL SPORTS SPECIAL SECTION 2010

2010 Evadale High School Football

Future bright for Lady Raiders

1850 Calder

871 S Main

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Continued from previous page

shirt on. If you wear it you are telling me that you are in all the way.”

Every player wore their shirt and practiced through the heat with the philosophy on full display.

The Raider coaching staff has been together for the past five years, without much change.

Credeur has only had to replace two coaches in that time. That continuity has helped the staff a lot because they have seen a lot of things together under their schemes and systems. That continuity in coaching helps in preparation for their district opponents.

There is only one new addition this year. Lane McKeler is going to coach the defensive tackles.

Cris Babin has come back as the offensive coordinator.

“We are very fortunate to have Coach Darwin Davis at the middle school,” Credeur said. “He’s been our defensive coordinator the entire time that I’ve been here. He pretty much runs their defense. He puts in the study

time and does all the work necessary to have our kids prepared. I believe that is why we’ve won the games that we’ve won, because out kids are prepared.

Coach Davis is a big reason that they are. It is nice to have somebody that you trust in that position. He runs the show and does a great job with the defense. He is a big reason that our program has become successful.”

Credeur is looking forward to the upcoming season. “Our schedule is pretty tough,” he said. “We’re going to facing some speed and that will help us for that district race. We start out with Jasper, a lot of speed and a lot of tradition. Then we have Barber’s Hill, a lot of tradition.

They’re always in the playoffs.

Then we finish up with Silsbee, so it will be speed, speed, speed.

That is what we’ll see in our district season. too.“ The Lumberton Raiders will begin their season at 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 27 with a home game against the Jasper Bulldogs.

Photos Courtesy Scott Loar

JEFF’S PAINT & BODY All Insurance Claims Welcome

Good Luck Rebels!

We are proud of you!

Metco

Machine and Repair Hwy. 96

276-1345

Evadale

Voted Best BODY SHOP 2009-2010

Lifetime Warranty

386-1400

Page 18, Section 4

THE SILSBEE BEE FALL SPORTS SPECIAL SECTION 2010

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

2010 Hardin-Jefferson Hawks Varsity Football

LUMBERTON FOOTBALL PREVIEW

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

THE SILSBEE BEE FALL SPORTS SPECIAL SECTION 2010

Experience key to teams’ top goal

Section 4, Page 3

Raiders’ priority: Make playoffs

By DAVID LISENBY david@silsbeebee.com

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Garrett Gustafson ........Sr. ..........WR/DB Caleb Modzelewski ......Sr. ..........SR/DB Shannon Grantham ......Sr. ..............QB Ike Nash ..................Sr. ..........WR/DB Tylar Yates ................Sr. ..........WR/DB Jackie WIlson ............Sr. ..........WR/DB Will Anderson ............SR.......WR/LB/DE D.J. Hall ..................So. ..........SR/DB Austin Orrenmaa ........Jr. ..........DB/WR Dylan Vannoy ............So. ..........SR/DB Sadion Vallery ............Sr. ........WR/OLB Travis Stevens............So. ........WR/OLB

20 21 22 24 25 31 34 41 50 51 52 53

Quade Robertson ........So. ..............K/P Devon Cooper ............So...........DB/WR Jeremiah Richard ........Jr. ..........RB/DB Brandon Taylor............Jr. ..........RB/LB Jarrod Leaven ............Jr. ..........RB/LB Trevor Christopher ......Sr. ..............LB Colten Hendrix............Sr. ..............DL Johnny Lively ............Jr. ..........LB/WR Brandon Butcher ........Sr. ..........OL/DE Matthew Burleson........Sr. ..........OL/DE Joe Persohn ..............Jr. ..........OL/DE Cameron Fontenot ......Jr. ..........LB/RB

HARDIN-JEFFERSON FOOTBALL PREVIEW

54 55 58 60 70 72 74 75 77 79 84

Layne Walker ............Jr. ..........LB/OL Greg Ames ................Sr. ......DE/OL/LB Jacobi Mitchell ..........Jr. ..........OL/DL Adam Lewis ..............Jr. ..............K/P Jamie Albers..............Sr. ..............DL Shelby Roland ............Jr. ..........OL/DL Zach Smith ................Sr. ..........OL/DL Jonathan Ralph ..........Sr. ..........OL/DL Cody Carr ..................Sr. ..........OL/DE Matthew Moses ..........Sr. ..........OL/DL Jake Miller ................Sr. ..........DB/WR

Close call in 2009 has Hawks hungry this season

By DAVID LISENBY david@silsbeebee.com

After falling one game short of the playoffs last year, the Hardin-Jefferson Hawks are getting ready for a winning season.

“My expectation this year is to get back in the playoffs and get past the first round,” said Coach David Martel. “We have the team to be able to do it. We have to stay healthy. We can’t lose anyone.”

In his sixth year as head coach, Martel has only 80 players in the program, down from every previous year. Of those players, only 18 are freshmen.

There are usually 30 freshmen vying for the team.

“The good thing is that the eighth grade class has 66 in it,” said Martel. “Next year I am going to have more freshmen than I know what to do with.

That group is very talented.

Sometimes you have up years

and sometimes you have down years in the numbers. With this eighth grade class coming up it will balance things out.”

There are several returning players on this years team.

Players like wide receiver and defensive back Caleb Modzelewski.

“Garrett Gustafson is going to be the leader on offense and defense,” said Martel. “He is a little-bitty fellow, but he is strong and quick. We are going to lean to him. He is going to be getting the all a lot. He is an allaround guy. He is very quick and very athletic.”

“At quarterback he is very good in the pocket,” the coach continued. “He has a good arm on hm. He gets a little skittish sometimes because he can run. too. It’s hard to see over those linemen when you’re in the pocket, so he likes to look outside and throw it. If he sees grass, though, he is gone.”

Shannon Grantham is also fighting for the starting position at quarterback. Grantham was the starting quarterback on the JV team last year and is a strong prospect for the varsity team this year.

D. J. Hall is a sophomore who is also vying for the quarterback See HAWKS, next page

Following a year where the Lumberton Raiders failed to make the playoffs, Coach Alvin Credeur is confident that his team is ready to take on other teams in the district and return to the playoffs once again.

“We’re looking for big things,” Credeur said. “Our No. 1 goal is to make the playoffs this year.

Our goal going into the season is to not only make the playoffs but to be district champions. That’s what we want to do. That is the way that we’re working it, to be district champs, then we’ll go on from there.”

The team has a host of experienced players returning this year.

Quarterback Ryan Hughes is a returning starter. This will be his third year to start. He started at quarterback when he was a sophomore on that team in 2008 that was co-district champions, so Credeur expects high quality leadership from him because of that experience. That is going to be an important part of the Raider season.

“Backup quarterback, Mark Purks, on any other year at Lumberton High School would be an easy starter,” Credeur said.

“He has really come along as a quarterback. He understands our system. I wish I could red shirt him. He’s going to be important.

He’s always one play from being the starter, so he’s an important part of our team.”

Both Raider running backs from last year are returning, Ryan Asher and Taylor McDonald. The team has several receivers returning from last year; Lance Pace, who is a junior, Chase McDonald, a senior, Cody Cowart, also a senior, and Jordan Granato, a junior. Credeur feels good about the experience we

LUMBERTON RAIDERS SCHEDULE 2010

2009 NON-DISTRICT Lumberton 40, H-Fannett 14 Lumberton 35, Barbers Hill 29 Lumberton 20, Silsbee 14 DISTRICT Lumberton 42, Livingston 35 Central 14, Lumberton 7 Ozen 22, Lumberton 17 PN-Groves 39, Lumberton 6 Lumberton 21, LC-M 14 Nederland 31, Lumberton 21

have in our skill positions.

“On our offensive line we are having to replace some but we feel good about the progress that the young guys have made,” Credeur said. “Hunter Goins is a returning starter in the group. He should be our leader in that group because he did start every game last year.”

“Defensively we’ve got to replace our middle linebacker, Anthony Beard, who graduated,” he continued. “That is going to be a big key. We feel really good about some of the guys that are coming in.”

The teams defensive ends look like a strong position for the Raiders. There are three players that are rotating at defensive end who have all done a good job, Garrett Lindsey, Dylan Mouton and John Patterson.

Defensive tackle, Mason Archer, is a three year starter. He offers experience at the position.

Outside linebacker, Clay Choate, is a returning starter who was honorable mention all district last year as a sophomore.

“He is a really smart player and understands our defensive scheme,” Credeur said. “He is

RELAX! WITH A

Built for a lifetime of relaxation

• Always hot and ready to use, 24 hours a day.

• State-of-the-art hydrotherapy

729 Hwy 96 (Main)

• Peaceful Moments • Intimate Conversation • Stress Relief

Lumberton

Aug. 27 vs. Jasper Sept. 3 vs. Barbers Hill Sept. 10 at Silsbee Sept. 17 OPEN Sept. 24 at LC-Mauriceville* Oct. 1 vs. Vidor* Oct. 8 at PN-Groves* Oct. 15 vs. Livingston* Homecoming Oct. 22 at Nederland* Oct. 30 at Central* Nov. 5 vs. Ozen* *-District 20-4A Games

really physical for a guy that is not real big. He pretty much typifies what Lumberton football is about in the sense that we may not be the biggest, may not be the fastest, but we’re going to do it every Friday night. We are glad to have him coming back.”

The team is also pretty experienced in the secondary. Two of the corners that played a lot last year, Logan Pace and Cody Cowart, are back. Chase McDonald, safety, played a lot last year. Logan Cunningham is changing positions. He was an outside linebacker last year but is moving to safety this year. The team should have a strong secondary this year.

Credeur said that the philosophy of the team began long before the season began. “Every day of the off-season the players wore a shirt that had ‘I’m In’ printed on the back of it,” he said.

“I told them that if they weren’t in, don’t put the shirt on because See RAIDERS, next page

Owner/Operator

THE T-SHIRT JUNCTION a ls i vidu • Ind Raisers d • Fun s m a e T roups • ool G • Sch nizations a • Org

Call: (409) 755-4321 Fax: (409) 755-1863

• T-S • Ca hirts p • Cu s • Gifts s • So tom Scre c enin • Le cer g tteri ng

Location: 1230 S. Main Mailing: 363 Church Loop Lumberton, Texas 77657

DISTRICT 20-4A FOOTBALL PREVIEW

Page 2, Section 4

THE SILSBEE BEE FALL SPORTS SPECIAL SECTION 2010

RHINESTONE BOUTIQUE G “You’ve officially been Rhinestoned!”

ALL ITEMS IN STORE ARE UNDER $89!!!

Brand Name “Miss Me” Jeans Only Store In Lumberton That Carries Miss Me Jeans!

Check Us Out On Facebook @ Rhinestone Boutique

409-227-4696

(Next to Brookshire Bros. Pharmacy)

O O D L U C K

Raiders ready for return to 4A playoffs

No other discounts or benefits apply.

Dr.’s prescription required. Must present coupon at time of purchase.

Lumberton

Section 4, Page 19

With most of the talk in Beaumont centering on one highly paid superintendent, it was nice to see the buzz turn to Central’s surprise run deep into the Class 4A state football playoffs.

Can the Jaguars do it again?

Perhaps.

Central finished in second place but advanced to the third round of the playoffs before falling 44-22 to Friendswood.

What makes it tough this season is that just three starters return on offense. The backfield is the biggest question with no real quarterback candidate figuring into the scheme as the season nears.

On defense, four starters return including top defender, lineman Kewan Alfred.

The Port Neches-Groves Indians needed a kick in the pants and got it from new coach Brandon Faircloth. The results was an 11-1 season and undefeated district championship.

Brennan Doty leads a cast of five starters from last year’s offense. He had 1,900 yards and 16 touchdowns for the Tribe.

Three starters are back from a defense that allowed just 14 points a game in 2009.

The big game last year for PNG was a 25-22 win in overtime over the Jaguars. Count on that matchup to be key again this year.

The Lumberton Raiders had an odd down season last year, winning just two district games in finishing fifth in 20-4A. Don’t expect the same in 2010.

The Raiders return eight starters on offense, including quarterback Ryan Hughes, who completed 103 of 198 passes for 1,644 yards and 13 touchdowns a year ago.

Ryan Asher added 442 yards on 120 carries with 11 touchdowns and will be back in the backfield

1. Central Jaguars: Second place in district in 2009 but one of the best in the state. These guys will shine in 2010.

2. Lumberton Raiders: It’s been too long since Credeur’s Raiders have made a run deep into the playoffs. Now’s the time.

3. Port Neches-Groves Indians: First-year coach wins district championship. Can he make it two in a row?

4. Nederland Bulldogs: The Dogs finished third last year. Do that have something more in store in 2010?

5. Livingston Lions: These guys could sneak in and take one of those playoff spots if the front-runners aren’t careful.

6. Little Cypress-Mauriceville Bears: Offense could sing this season, but there’s a chance the defense will be totally off-key.

7. Vidor Pirates: Thin on experience means wins will be hard to come by when facing the top-runners this year.

8. Ozen Panthers: No depth, no real returning experience. No way these Panthers will battle for the title.

Lumberton quarterback Ryan Hughes threw for 1,644 yards last season.

again.

Seven starters return on defense, which is where the Raiders will win or lose games in 2010.

The Nederland Bulldogs were successful in reaching the first round of the 4A playoffs but fell short in what most would consider good season with a 5-5 overall record in 2009.

Dionte Forney will lead the Dogs at quarterback with Brent Salenga and Stephen Schlett offering capable hands at receiver.

Seniors Trevin Sonnier and Jake Kemp lead a list of six

$

Includes one routine eye exam for eye glasses. Dilation not included. No other discounts or benefits apply. Must present coupon at time of service.

THE SILSBEE BEE FALL SPORTS SPECIAL SECTION 2010

Pick ’ems

Back to School Specials!!

Disposable Contact Lens Exam $ 00 15% off EXAM 148 Complete Pair of Glasses Minimum Purchase $99

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Who can stop the Jaguars?

Therapeutic Optometrist

6400

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Includes one contact lens exam. 1 trial pair, 1 follow up & 3 months supply or 2 boxes. No other discounts, coupons, or insurance benefits apply. Must present coupon at time of service.

(Across from Lumberton Early Childhood School & Crazy Jose’s)

looking sharp in one of the latest styles from the children’s new eyeware selection

9:00am - 5:30pm

returning starters on defense.

Perhaps picking Livingston to finish fifth after ending up seventh a year ago is a lofty prediction. Or perhaps they will finish higher and steal away with a playoff spot.

The Lions return five starters on offense, including quarterback Blake Burman. On defense, five starters are back to try to improve after giving up 29 points a game a year ago.

Little Cypress-Mauriceville finished 4-6 overall and 2-5 in district for sixth place in 20-4A. Just a touchdown here or another tackle there would have meant a completely different situation for the Bears, who played close to PN-G and Lumberton.

Seven starters on offense will concentrate on putting the ball into the end zone at a more vigorous clip. Hunter Gonzales is back after throwing for 1,400 yards and 12 touchdowns last year. His top receiver was Zach Sonnier with eight TDs. Defense is where the Bears will struggle this year unless someone steps up and takes over. LC-M gave up nearly 30 points a game last year.

The Vidor Pirates jumped off into the playoffs last year after a nine year absence. Now they will be hard-pressed to repeat as the rest of the district field improves.

It will be tough with just two starters returning on offense for the Pirates, though one of those starters is quarterback Nick Dozhier.

Likewise, the defense returns just two starters from last year’s squad.

Hopes for the Ozen Panthers hinged on a new head coach, but for the fourth year in a row, the Panthers were left disappointed with a last-place finish in district.

Unfortunately for the Ozen fans, more of the same will be in store in 2010. Five starters are back but it will be new junior quarterback David Green who will lead the offense.

Last year’s defense surrendered 30 points a game. Three starters return on that side of the line. Any more success will rely on a muchimproved defense early in the season.

Members of the 2010-2011 Varsity Cheerleading squad include BreAnna Moses, Emily Henkel, Becky Grohn, Brandi Griffin, Tyler Weems, Jauqulyn Richard, Jordan Breaux, Abby Maxwell, Abreanna Fontenot, Kristin Hamons, Adrienne Bourque and Madeline White. Mascost this season are Shelby Smith and Alana Williams. Cheer manager is Jamie Courville.

HAWKS

position. He has a strong arm and can run as well. His talents give the coaching staff the option to put him in the quarterback position and place Gustafson in another slot, adding flexibility to the lineup.

Will Anderson is an inside linebacker and a wide out. He is a big kid. He can run and he can jump. He’s very athletic. Martel is looking for him to be a leader in he linebacker spot because he is a senior.

“He has a nose for the football,” said Martel. “He can catch. He can run. He is an allaround athlete. I think he is going to be a Division One prospect this year.”

Sadion Vallery is a wide receiver who also plays as defensive back. “He is a big bodied kid,” said Martel. “He is strong, strong, strong. He is just a very good athlete. We’re going to get the ball in his hands as well.”

Three other players on the offensive line that will be vital to the team this year will be Joe Pershon, Jacobi Mitchell and Jamie Albers.

“Joe Pershon is going to be a junior this year and he has already made a verbal commitment to play at Lamar University,” Martel said. “He has two more years left in this program. He is a big kid an strong as an ox. He will get after your rear end. I call him Mr. Nasty because he is nasty. He is our starting left tackle and he will play some defensive tackle for us as well.”

“Jacobi Mitchell started last year as a sophomore in the guard position,” he continued. “We are going to move him to some center. He is, by far, pound for pound, the strongest kid on this football team. He is also the quickest, as a big kid.”

Jamie Albers will be playing a lot of defense. He won’t play very much offense because of a knee injury last year, so you will see him mostly on the defense.

There are a lot of new faces on the Hawks team. There are five sophomores who are going to play varsity for the first time.

The Hawks also have a big junior class with 15 juniors. Out of those, 10 are returning from last

Go Hawks!

Hardin County Commissioner Pct 3

Members of the 2010 Hardin-Jefferson varsity volleyball team include sophomore Taylor Thomas, senior Alex Harrington, sophomore Corlee Means, senior Kelsey Perry, senior BreAnna Moses (captain), junior Abby Moses, senior Jami Courville, junior Harli Evans, junior Ashley Leon, sophomore Allie Roby, senior Caitlin McFarland, and senior Rachel Wilson. Team managers are Sara Dickerson and Brittney Poole. Trainer is Jessica Joosten. Coaches are Shawn Shackelford, Michael Martin and Jamie Hansen.

year. There are 19 seniors who will complete the roster, about eight of them played both sides of the ball last year.

Martel said that he is pleased with his coaching staff. This is the first year that he didn’t have a turnover in his high school coaching staff.

“My offense coordinator, Rob Kirkland, has an unbelievable mind in the game of football,” said Martel. “He loves the kids and is a great guy. He helps me take care of things. Mark Humplik, who came here with me, will be calling the defense this year. I am just going to be a head coach, but I am going to

Continued from previous page

coach the inside linebackers.”

“Coach Kent is starting his 15th year coaching here,” he continued. “He coaches the offense line. What a heck of a coach to teach the offense line.

He is hard on those kids but he loves them to death. Coach Fogo is my defense line coach. He came to me from Kelly. He is a wonderful man. He is hard on those defensive players but at the same time he likes to pick around and have fun with them.”

“All of my coaches have class and character,” Martel concluded. “They do what’s right. I couldn’t do my job without them. They make the program

run. I have a good team of coaches and a good team of players.”

The entire Hawks team has worked hard during the summer to prepare for the coming year.

Each of them has the same expectation as the coaching staff - to get past the first round of the playoffs.

“The parents have been great,” Martel said. “The community has been great. Every year is a new year. I just hope these kids rise to the challenges that we have given to them, that we stay healthy and continue to go forward.”

Good Luck in 2009 To All Area Teams

WEST HARDIN

EVADALE

SILSBEE

LUMBERTON

Ed Cain,

KOUNTZE

HARDIN JEFFERSON

Sheriff

and the Hardin County Sheriff’s Department

Page 20, Section 4

THE SILSBEE BEE FALL SPORTS SPECIAL SECTION 2010

LADY REBS

district schedules never shying away from putting her 1A squad up against 2A and even 3A competition. Hollyfield said of her method of getting better by playing better teams approach, “Some years the team is very competitive from the start of the season while in other years they take some time to get out of the gate, this team will be competitive throughout the season, but our goals are to get better, win our district and to make our way back into the playoffs”.

The Lady Rebels are hoping to reverse last years playoff absence after finishing tied for

third in district and falling in a match to determine the district’s final playoff spot.

The competition in their district will be stiff as the Colmesneil Lady Bulldogs are ranked as high as No. 9 in at least one state-wide pre season poll, other district foes include Burkeville, Chester and Spurger. Hollyfield continued, “Colmesneil is one of the larger 1A schools in the state and they spent a couple of years as a 2A team, so their older players have faced good teams in the past and competed well, we will have our work cut out for us

when we face them.”

The Lady Rebels hosted their annual tournament the weekend before school started as both the varsity and junior varsity teams participated.

While neither team advanced out of pool play they did gain valuable experience against high caliber teams that will benefit both teams as the season progresses.

Hollyfield said, “We were disappointed we did not advance out of pool play, but this team is a work in progress.

I told the team you have to come ready to play every game,

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

but for this team I believe that it will just be another motivational experience and they will be ready to go to work in the gym once school starts.”

The Lady Rebels continue on their path to district play for the next month before they have their first match that counts toward the playoffs on Sept. 21 against Spurger.

If Hollyfield’s the “on the job training” has the desired effect then the Lady Rebels should be punching their playoff ticket near the middle of October.

When they hope to begin teaching other teams a lesson.

Continued from Page 16

Evadale’s Billy Nichols

Lumberton’s Ryan Hughes

HALEIGH CONNER

Touch Down With

Silsbee Cellular

2010 Hardin-Jefferson Hawks

Ready to serve the area with the latest phones and accessories!

Samsung Reality USB760 Mobile Broadband Modem

$

99 mail in

29

rebate debit card

$79.99 - $50 mail-in rebate debit card.

With new 2 year activation on a Mobile Broadband Plan.

$

TM

99

49

after rebate with a $59.99 or greater plan Samsung Reality for $49.99 after $50.00 mail-in rebate debit card with new 2 yr activation on voice plan with data pak $9.99 or higher req’d

Quick Store Access, Friendly, Fast & Easy Service No Long Waits Open Mon - Fri 10 - 7pm Sat 10 am - 4pm Located by Walmart Supercenter in the Silsbee Plaza

Our Surcharges (incl. Fed. Univ. Svc. of 13.6% of interstate & int’l telecom charges (varies quarterly), 13¢ Regulatory & 83¢ Administrative/line/mo., & others by area) are not taxes (details: 1-888-684-1888); gov’t taxes & our surcharges could add 5% - 39% to your bill. Activation fee/line: $35 ($25 for secondary Family SharePlan lines w/2 yr Agmts) Subject to Cust Agmt, Calling Plan, [rebate form & credit approval. Up to $175 early termination fee ($350 for advanced devices), [up to] 45¢/min after allowance & add’l charges apply for data sent or received. Add’l $20 upgrade fee may apply. Device capabilities: Add’l charges & conditions apply. Offers & coverage, varying by svc, not available everywhere. Network details & coverage maps at vzw.com. Nights 9:01 pm - 5:59 am M-F. Limited time offer, if applicable. Rebate debit card takes up to 6 wks & Reality TM is a trade mark of Samsung Electronics America, Inc. and is related entities, expires in 12 months. 2010 Verizon Wireless

Good Luck Area Sports Teams

It has Been Fun Putting This Special Edition Together for You. Weeach Really Enjoy About UIL Events.

Read The Bee week for Writing sports results from across the county Serving the Readers of Silsbee, Texas Since 1919

The Silsbee Bee Call 385-5278 to Ask About a Subscription