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READY TO ROLL
Seguin starts
slow, ends fast
in scrimmage
WHERE ARE
THEY PICKED?
District 25-5A
1. Clemens
2. SEGUIN
3. San Marcos
4. Southwest
5. East Central
6. Highlands
7. Jefferson
By JASON ORTS
Gazette-Enterprise
SEGUIN — The 2005 Seguin Matadors finally got to hit someone wearing a different color
jersey for the first time Saturday morning, when
they lined up for a scrimmage with the San
Antonio MacArthur Brahmas.
The scrimmage was originally scheduled for
Friday evening, but lightning in the area forced
the postponement until 9 a.m., Saturday.
Seguin looked a little sluggish to start the
scrimmage on both sides of the ball, failing to do
much of anything with its first offensive possession and allowing MacArthur to find the end zone
twice — although one touchdown was called
back for a holding penalty — on the Brahamas’
first possession.
There was one highlight for Seguin on the first
defensive stand when Desmond Jackson cut in
front of a receiver at the goal line and intercepted
a pass, ending a Brahma march.
“It was early in the morning, and we’re pretty
tired and dead-legged a little bit,” said Seguin
head coach Jim Carson. “I think that as we
warmed up and got the blood flowing a little bit,
the Black Hole started to play like they’re going
to in the season. I was really pleased with the way
we finished the scrimmage.”
After MacArthur’s first possession, defensive
coordinator Clint Hartman pulled his players
aside and got onto them about poor tackling and
a lack of energy. While Hartman was trying to get
his defense in order, quarterback T.J. Hartwick
was leading the Matadors down the field for their
first touchdown.
Hartwick hit on a screen pass for 12 yards to
Isaiah Sneed and a 35-yarder down the sideline.
He then capped off a four-play, 65-yard march
with an 18-yard run of his own.
The Black Hole then took the field and began
to live up to its billing, forcing MacArthur to go
three-and-out twice, and Thomas Wright came up
with an interception after Noe Parra tipped the
ball in the air.
Wright said the scrimmage was good, but there
were plenty of things the team needs to work on.
“We always try to start fast and end fast,” he
said. “We missed that first tackle, and everything
kind of went down for us. But other than that, we
picked it back up, and it looked good after that.”
Seguin then got the ball back, and Hartwick
took the Matadors down the field once more, hitting on a 42-yard pass before capping the drive
with a 6-yard scoring toss. Hartwick was flushed
to the left on the play and began to run, but just
before he crossed the line of scrimmage and
with a Brahma defender bearing down on him,
Hartwick flipped a pass out to a wide-open
receiver in the end zone.
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District 28-3A
1. La Vernia
2. Poteet
3. MARION
4. Somerset
5. West Campus
6. Lytle
District 27-2A
1. Randolph
2. Blanco
3. NAVARRO
4. Comfort
5. Cole
6. Johnson City
Drew Engelke/G-E Correspondent
LOOKING AHEAD — Seguin running back Isaiah Sneed looks downfield and tries to beat the MacArthur defense to
the corner in a scrimmage Saturday.
Seguin hopes to hit new heights
By JASON ORTS
Gazette-Enterprise
SEGUIN — Many people in the
area are still talking about the 2004
Seguin football season — the most
successful campaign Matador fans had
seen since 1993.
But while the memories from last
season will always be there, it’s time
for fans to put them away and turn
their attention to this year’s team,
which is out to prove last season was
no fluke and make some memories of
its own.
Seguin head coach Jim Carson
often said last season that what he
will remember about last year’s team
was the voice of the seniors in the
locker room. Now, he’s looking for
this year’s senior class to pick up
where last years’ left off in the leadership department.
“I think the seniors understand they
are now the leaders of the football
team,” Carson said. “Some of them
had leadership roles last year. Others
are having to step up that weren’t in
the limelight as far as being the leaders
last year. I think the unity that’s going
to be necessary to make this a successful season is always — as it was last
year — a work in progress.”
Carson listed several seniors who
he said have elevated themselves into
leadership roles, some vocally and
some quietly.
“I think Caleb Ramos has taken
some of that, and Chris Wilson and
Aaron Ellis are good, vocal leaders
on the offensive line,” Carson said. “I
think Devin Sapenter, in his own
quiet way, has shown good leadership. Thomas Wright is a player that
people are always going to look at as
a role model because he plays hard
all the time. We’re definitely not void
of leadership, but we’ll see at crunch
time in games where we’re at there.”
Wright, a first-team all-district
safety a year ago after finishing with
51 tackles, eight for loss, three interceptions and a team-high 14 passes
broken up, has taken it upon himself
to be the vocal leader of the defense.
“To me, I have to be the leader of
the defense,” Wright said. “We have
lots of seniors on this team, and I’m
one of them, so it reflects on us.
Whatever we do, that’s what the
other guys are going to try to do
next year. We’ve got to keep everybody together.”
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2005 Seguin
Matador Schedule
Aug. 26 at McCollum
7:30 p.m.
Sept. 2 Canyon
7:30 p.m.
Sept. 9 at New Braunfels
7:30 p.m.
Sept. 16 Lee (Homecoming)
7:30 p.m.
Sept. 23 Southwest
7:30 p.m.
Sept. 30 at San Marcos
7:30 p.m.
Oct. 7 East Central
7:30 p.m.
Oct. 21 at Highlands
7:30 p.m.
Oct. 28 Jefferson
(Senior Parent Night)
7:30 p.m.
Nov. 4 at Clemens
7:30 p.m.
Home games in bold
TAPPS DIVISION II
1. Fredricksburg Heritage
2. Town East
3. LIFEGATE
4. Vanguard Institute
AMERICAN SOUTHWEST
CONFERENCE
1. Mary Hardin-Baylor
2. Hardin-Simmons
3. TEXAS LUTHERAN
4. East Texas Baptist
5. Howard Payne
6. Louisiana College
7. Mississippi College
8. Austin College
9. McMurry
10. Sul Ross State
SOUTHLAND CONFERENCE
1. Northwestern State
2. TEXAS STATE
3. Stephen F. Austin
4. McNeese State
5. Sam Houston State
6. Nicholls State
7. Southeastern Louisiana
— High school rankings are
according to Dave Campbell’s
Texas Football magazine and
eteamz.com . College ranking are
according to voting by the
league’s coaches.
Panthers struggle Navarro looks for another playoff berth
in final scrimmage
By SCOT KIBBE
G-E Correspondent
By SCOT KIBBE
G-E Correspondent
DEVINE — The Devine
Warhorses will not face the
Navarro Panthers in either the
regular season or the playoffs
in 2005.
For the Panthers, that might
be the best news to come out of
their preseason scrimmage with
the Warhorses on Friday night.
Devine looked every bit like
a team coming off an 11-2 season and a berth in the third
round of the Class 3A playoffs.
They scored at will on the
Panthers’ defense, with touchdowns on all six of their possessions. The attack was balanced as they ran for three of
the scores and passed for the
other three.
On the other side of the ball,
they kept Navarro out of the end
zone all night while snagging
five interceptions from the two
Panther quarterbacks. They controlled the line of scrimmage
and kept the heat on the quarterbacks from start to finish.
“They are huge and physical,” Navarro head coach Lin
Havron said of the Warhorses,
who are picked by most publications to repeat as champions of
their district.
Havron called the scrimmage
“a reality check” for his Panthers.
“Sometimes you have to be
conked in the head to learn a les-
son,” he said. “I think we got
kind of overconfident after our
scrimmage with Jourdanton last
week. That led to us having a
bad week of practice, and that
showed tonight.”
The Panthers can find some
positives from the evening.
Quarterback Jared Jaroszewski
and the first-team offense
moved the ball well at times,
both on the ground and through
the air. Their most serious scoring threat came on a crisp twominute
drill
drive
as
Jaroszewski found two targets
he is certain to look for frequently this year, Paden King
and Josiah Moneyhon.
Jaroszewski and running
back Noel Luna also made several nice runs behind their senior
offensive line. Each had plays
where he was one broken tackle
away from a long gain.
Defensively, the Panthers
made numerous impressive hits,
including Zann Schriewer’s
sack and forced fumble. Rene
Herrman also recorded a sack.
The Panthers appeared to be
worn down late, however, by
Devine’s superior size.
Best of all, the team leaves
its preseason schedule “healthy
and ready to go,” according to
Havron. And he promised they
will be more focused and have a
better week of practice leading
up to their regular season opener
next Friday at Stockdale.
GERONIMO — The Navarro Panthers
enter the 2005 season confronted with a
good news/bad news scenario.
The good news is they return seven
starters on offense and seven on defense
from last year’s bi-district championship
team.
The bad news is the starters lost were the
team’s most productive players. Offensively,
95 percent of the Panthers’ yards last year
were gained by players no longer with the
team. This includes the school’s all-time
leading passer, Jon Ochoa; the team’s leading rusher, Charles Major; and their leading
receiver, Sean Santarelli. Ochoa and Major
have graduated, while Santarelli has transferred to New Braunfels Canyon.
Defensively, they have lost most of their
secondary and all-state linebacker Rhett
“Hambone” Stuman.
Panthers’ head coach Lin Havron likes the
team he has coming back for his eighth season at Navarro. He is especially high on his
offensive line, which was his biggest concern at this time last year.
“Our biggest advantage is having five of
the six on our offensive line back,” said
Havron, whose 44 wins make him the winningest coach in school history. “That experience is why we’re more advanced in what
we’re doing this early in the year.
“They’re not overly big or tall but they
have good feet, they’re quick and they can
do a lot of things.”
Much of the team’s success offensively
may hinge on starting quarterback Jared
Jaroszewski. Last year’s starting signal
caller for the JV, Jaroszewski comes from
good bloodlines as his older brothers, Barry
and Chase, both had stellar careers at
Navarro.
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HARD RUNNING — Navarro fullback Rene Hermann runs the ball for the Navarro Panthers
in their annual Midnight Madness intrasquad scrimmage.
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Marion adjusting to new personnel
By JASON ORTS
Gazette-Enterprise
Rich, all first-team All-District
performers.
Vying to take over Balderas’
spot are Cody Zipp and Kyle
Brown. Karrer said Zipp will be
the starter, but Brown will get
some playing time.
“Cody’s the starter, and everybody on the team knows that,”
Karrer said. “When you’re in the
veer attack, there’s some opportunities for the quarterback to run
the ball. Cody’s size is better suited for that. But Kyle is shiftier,
and he throws a better ball.”
The Bulldogs are asking D.J.
Goudge to take over for
Luddeke at fullback, and they
are adding more Wing-T formations this season, which features more running opportunities for the fullback.
“We’re running our inside
veer, outside veer and mid-line,”
Karrer said. “The Wing-T is your
trap, sweep, boot series, which is
a little more fullback oriented.
Matt Luddeke was our fullback
last year, and he was our hoss last
year. So we’re expecting big
things from D.J. Goudge.”
PREACHING PATIENCE — Marion head coach Phil Karrer is teaching
his team to be patient in its learning of new offensive and defensive
philosophies.
MARION — Redundancy has
been the theme for Marion the
last few years.
The Bulldogs finished in third
place in 2003 and 2004, and they
have been picked to finish there
again this year.
Marion head coach Phil
Karrer hopes to end that trend and
send the Bulldogs to the top of
District 28-3A this season, but he
will have to do it with almost
entirely new personnel.
“La Vernia and Poteet are predicted to finish above us,” Karrer
said. “We’re picked third by our
coaches. We’re hoping we can get
above that third. Our goal is not
to be third, it’s not to be second.
Our goal is to be district champs.
Our district is going to be a tight
little race, and I think they’re
going to be four and maybe even
five teams in the race.”
The Bulldogs return only three
starters on offense and lost its
entire backfield, including quarterback Israel Balderas, fullback
Matt Luddeke and tailback Brad
15-minute scrimmage with a running clock. Neither team could
get it going offensively, with a 31yard run by MacArthur serving as
the longest play for either team.
The Matadors ended the
scrimmage on a sour note, as the
long snapper sailed the ball over
the punter’s head. MacArthur
picked up the ball and took it to
the end zone, but the play had
been blown dead.
“[Punter Arnold Gonzales] is
about 6-foot-1, and the ball was
about four feet over his head,”
Carson said. “We can’t have that.
That’s pretty normal early in the
year, but it’s not something I take
lightly. It’s something that will be
addressed to whatever is neces-
sary to get the job done.”
Overall, Carson said he
believed there were some things
to work on offensively, such as
timing, but he was pleased with
the way the scrimmage went well.
“The best thing about the
scrimmage was we were better at
the end than we were at the beginning,” he said.
against McCollum,” Carson said.
“But T.J. will get playing time.
He’s earned that in practice. He
had a good scrimmage, too.
We’ve got to establish ourself
there. The best thing about our
quarterback system last year was
that they worked well together.
I’d like to have one step up and
play every single play, but that’s
not the way it went last year. If
one steps forward and the other
one can’t keep up, he will be the
man. But until that happens, we’ll
play them both.”
The Matadors also return five
players who started at least one
game last season and seven who
saw playing time, as well as running back Isaiah Sneed, who
rushed for more than 500 yards a
year ago.
On defense, safety Thomas
Wright and defensive tackle
Michael Castillo are the marquee
names, along with cornerback
Desmond Jackson, who is listed
by Dave Campbell’s Texas
Football magazine as one of the
top underclassmen at his position
in the state.
Marcus Richardson has the tall
task of taking over at middle linebacker for Zach Abrameit, a first-
team All-State position. But
Carson said he already sees
Richardson stepping up and
becoming a leader.
“I think Marcus has stepped up
into that role because he’s the signal caller in the huddle on
defense,” Carson said. “I think
that has a lot to do with that.”
Along with leadership, Carson
said the experience of having
been in District 25-5A for a season will be a big help.
“We all grow up, and if we did
what our parents told us, we
wouldn’t make a lot of these mistakes. But we make a lot of mistakes on our own, and we only
learn by doing,” Carson said. “It’s
the same way with a football
team. We can tell them, but until
they’ve been in the fire and made
a mistake or done something right
and understand that, it’s always a
learning experience.”
Going into the season, the
Matadors have some injury concerns at the wide receiver position, and Carson is worried about
his depth at running back. Wide
receiver Devin Sapenter didn’t
play in the scrimmage, and running back Arnold Gonzales is a
little banged up.
Overall, Carson said the
team’s biggest strength is its work
ethic, while his biggest concern is
the Matadors are not very big as a
team.
“This team is small, but
they’re physical,” Carson said.
“We’re going to play some teams
that it’s their plan to line up and
run over you, so we’re going to
have to deal with that. Every time
you play San Marcos or
Highlands, they’re going to
attempt to mash you. You’ve got
to meet them blow for blow. We
also have to get our players in the
weight room and keep their
strength up so that they don’t get
worn down at the end of games
and the end of the season.”
Seguin kicks off the regular
season on the road against
McCollum on Friday night. Last
season, the Matadors opened the
season with a 21-0 win against
McCollum at Matador Stadium.
Felicia Frazar/Gazette-Enterprise
SEGUIN
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Hartwick was nailed after the
throw and had to be helped to the
sideline, but he returned to the
scrimmage.
One final 10-play series for
MacArthur netted just one first
down. The teams then played a
MATADORS
Continued from Page 1B
Offensively, the Matadors figure to be better than they were in
2004. Seguin averaged just better
than 25 points per outing in the
regular season and has plenty of
experience returning on that side
of the ball.
Quarterback Caleb Ramos
took about 40 percent of the snaps
last season, splitting time with
Drew Koenig. This season, he is
competing with T.J. Hartwick,
last year’s JV quarterback.
“Caleb will start the opener
Felicia Frazar/Gazette-Enterprise
HIGH EXPECTATIONS — Lifegate head coach John Rabon is
expecting the Falcons to post its first winning season and reach
the playoffs in the team’s third year of existence.
Falcons expecting
to soar this season
MARION, Page 3B
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By JASON ORTS
Gazette-Enterprise
SEGUIN — The Lifegate
Falcons are only in year three of
their building of a six-man football
program, but head coach John
Rabon is expecting big things.
Placed in a district with defending state champion Fredericksburg
Heritage and perennial power San
Antonio Town East, the Falcons are
expected to finish third, and only the
top two teams make the playoffs.
But Rabon doesn’t see it that
way. He said he expects Lifegate to
knock off one of those two teams
and advance to the playoffs. He’s
also expecting his Falcons, which
finished 2-9 and 3-7 in their first
two years of existence, to post the
school’s first winning season.
“We just have to play our best
games against those teams,” Rabon
said. “Our passing game has to be
on, and we have to play defense.
But we play some other really good
teams, too, like Bellville Faith and
Marble Falls Faith that we’re going
to have to step up to beat.”
Rabon believes the defense at
this point of the season is well
ahead of where it was a year ago,
and he hopes that will allow the
Falcons to stay in games and win
them at the end.
Last season, Lifegate lost its
game against Holy Trinity Catholic,
the Falcons’ opponent in the opening game this season, on the last
play of the game, while it blew a
fourth-quarter lead against Bellville
Faith by allowing 40 points in the
stanza. Rabon said there were only
two or three games the Falcons
were never in, but a lack of defense
and too many turnovers did them in.
“We didn’t have a very good
turnover ratio last season,”
Rabon said. “We’d score every
time we held onto the football,
but they would score every time
we turned it over. We just couldn’t stop anybody.”
In preparation for this season,
the Falcons hosted two scrimmage
sessions, with a total of seven teams,
not including Lifegate, attending.
“We went against three teams
that were about our level last
week, and we pretty much handled those guys,” Rabon said. “We
played one more that was better
than us. This week, we were all
about the same. Basically, one
team pretty well manhandled us,
and I wasn’t proud of that, but we
did come back and score.”
Lifegate wasn’t at full strength
in its scrimmage Saturday with pos-
2005 Lifegate
Falcon Schedule
Aug. 26 Holy Trinity Catholic
7:30 p.m.
Sept. 3 at Grace Christian
2 p.m.
Sept. 9 Annapolis Christian
7:30 p.m.
Sept. 16 Marble Falls Faith
7:30 p.m.
Sept. 23 at Bellville Faith
7:30 p.m.
Sept. 30 at Summit Christian
Time TBA
Oct. 14 Town East
7:30 p.m.
Oct. 21 at Fredericksburg Heritage
7:30 p.m.
Oct. 28 at The Winston School
7:30 p.m.
Nov. 4 Vanguard Christian
7:30 p.m.
Home games in bold
sibly its best player, Daniel Hall,
injured and on the sidelines. Hall
will be back for the regular season
opener Friday, but Rabon said playing without him forced some of the
other players to step up.
“Daniel’s a senior, and he’s the
only player who has played sixman football for four or five
years,” Rabon said. “He’s our
steady guy on the field, so it was
good for us to play without him
because it made a couple of guys
step up into a leadership role.
That’s what we have to have.”
But with only two seniors on the
roster, Hall and Dusty Corder, who
transferred to Lifegate this season,
Rabon said it was important for his
younger players to get some playing
time in the scrimmages to gain
some experience.
“I’ve got two guys that have
never played,” Rabon said. “I’ve got
one guy who this is his second year
to play. I’ve got one guy who has
played football, but he’s never
played six-man before. We’re just
real young, so every time we can
snap the ball against somebody else,
it helps us.”
Rabon feels he believes there’s
no quit in this team, and that is it’s
greatest attribute. But, on the
other hand, with only 10 players
on the team, it is imperative the
team stay healthy.
“I’m concerned about our
depth,” he said. “We actually only
go about seven players deep as far
as guys I can just stick in there
and feel good about it. The other
guys are still learning. But if we
can stay healthy, we’re going to
have a good year.”
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2005 Navarro Panther Football
Schedule
Page 3B
Texas State learning to deal with success
Special to the Gazette-Enterprise
Aug. 26
Sept. 2
Sept. 9
Sept. 16
Sept. 23
Oct. 7
Oct. 14
Oct. 21
Oct. 28
Nov. 4
at Stockdale
Marion
at Poth
at Luling
Natalia (Homecoming)
Blanco
at Johnson City
San Antonio Cole
Comfort
at Randolph
7:30 p.m.
7:30 p.m.
7:30 p.m.
7:30 p.m.
7:30 p.m.
7:30 p.m.
7:30 p.m.
7:30 p.m.
7:30 p.m.
7:30 p.m.
Home games in bold
NAVARRO
Continued from Page 1B
Barry was an All-District tight
end who helped turn the program
around in 1998, while Chase was
an All-District quarterback in 2001.
“Jared is very smart and
coachable,” Havron said of the
junior. “He is a tough kid and a
great runner. He has a chance to
be as good as any quarterback
we’ve had here.”
Fans probably won’t see as
pass-happy of a Panthers’ offense
as they did in 2004. But Havron
said he thinks this team can balance the run and pass effectively.
“We’ll spread the field and use
some shotgun and play action,” he
said. “We have a quarterback who
can run well, and that makes all
the difference.”
Defensively, Havron feels his
team is solid on the line. However,
he is concerned about his linebackers and his secondary, both of
which return very little experience.
He said those starting positions are
wide open, and he has several
players competing for them.
The Panthers will play the same
schedule as last year with the sites
reversed. That kicks off Aug. 26,
when they travel to Stockdale to
face the Brahmas. They will play
two Class 3A teams, Marion and
Luling, both of whom are potential
district opponents if Navarro
makes its expected move up from
Class 2A next year.
The district should be balanced again. Randolph and
Blanco are projected by preseason publications to again take the
top two playoff spots while the
Panthers finish third. That would
be good enough to get Navarro
its fifth playoff berth in the last
six years.
“The district should be pretty
even. It still comes down to who
stays healthy and who makes
plays,” Havron said.
SAN MARCOS — Two years
ago, the Texas State Bobcats hired
Manny Matsakis to run their football program as the head coach.
Thirteen months and 12
NCAA violations later, the Bobcat
football program was in disarray
and in need of an overhaul.
Enter David Bailiff.
The Bobcats hired Bailiff, a
Texas State alum, before the 2004
season and got immediate results.
The Bobcats had won just one
conference game in the two years
before Bailiff’s arrival and were
picked to finish last in the
Southland Conference, but they
finished with a 3-2 league mark
and a third-place finish.
Add to that an abundance of
returning starters for the 2005 season, and the Bobcats were picked
to finish second in the Southland
Conference this season and are
listed as a top-20 team in several
preseason polls.
Now the Bobcats are forced to
deal with success, something they
have not been expected to do
since the 2001 season, when they
were coming off a 7-4 season,
their only winning campaign in
nearly 15 years.
But not only has Bailiff turned
around Texas State on the field, he
has restored order to the program
with his commitment to doing
things the right way.
TLU hopes to remain ‘on target’
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SEGUIN — A 7-3 season and a
five-game turnaround can do wonders for a football program, and
Texas Lutheran has seen the
immediate benefits from a 2004
season that saw the Bulldogs
come within a game of an ASC trichampionship and a possible
NCAA DIII berth.
First, the Bulldogs have experienced the excitement among students, friends, family and fans that
comes with a winning season.
Second, the enthusiasm among
recruits out of high school has been
very encouraging, and 91 freshmen
reporting to campus for preseason
camp, including 2004 Seguin High
School graduates Zach Abrameit, a
first-team All-State linebacker, and
kicker Josh Spaw, is an indication
of a desire to be a part of a winning
TLU football team.
Third, alumni and donors have
given extensive interest to a team
that has inspired them of the glory
years of TLU’s past, like the 1974
and 1975 teams that won national
championships.
And fourth, the players themselves have sensed the difference that comes with winning —
what it takes to get things done
in the fourth quarter, how to
establish dominance over an
opponent from the get-go and
learning to be the intimidator
and not the intimidated.
“We no longer hope to win. We
expect to win” said head coach
Tom Mueller, starting his fourth
season with TLU. “Last year was
last year. This year is this year. Our
veterans have really stepped up a
year ago, and those same veterans
need to step up again and make a
statement for this season.”
A year ago, TLU learned how
to win those close games — clos-
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TOP DOG — Texas Lutheran head coach Tom Mueller addresses his
team after its first practice in full pads.
ing out narrow wins over
Mississippi College, Howard
Payne, East Texas Baptist and
Louisiana College.
In 2005, TLU knows it is no
longer the team under the radar,
the team another squad might take
lightly. The Bulldogs’ appearance
in the national polls (late last year
and
in
this
season’s
D3football.com preseason poll)
and the teams’ third-place showing
in the ASC preseason poll show
that the TLU secret is out.
Other teams have taken notice
and would love nothing more than
to exact a little revenge on the
Bulldogs in 2005. And most of
those teams that TLU vanquished
in ’04 will get their shots in their
home stadiums, given that TLU
plays six of its 10 games on the
road in 2005.
“We knew this was coming,”
Mueller said of the six road games.
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“If I had it to do again, I would do
it the same again. Last year had to
be a breakthrough year for our program. Having six home games was
good for that team. We’re a lot
more mature. We have won, and I
think we’re going to go on the road
and play well. I think this team can
handle six road games better than
last year’s team could have.”
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IMMEDIATE IMPACT — Texas State head coach David Bailiff
made an immediate impact for the Bobcats in his first season, taking a team that was picked to finish last in the Southland
Conference to a third-place finish.
Experience is a good thing and
Texas State’s offense has plenty
of it with nine returning starters.
But the question now is what the
Bobcat offense will add to its
game. One characteristic Texas
State strived to develop during the
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Marion returns All-District
guards Derrick Heckman and
Andrew Cage, and tight end
Cody Gainey is also back.
“I’d rather have some offensive linemen back and nobody in
the backfield than the other way
around,” Karrer said. “The complications come on the offensive
line because they’ve got to learn
all the defensive schemes we’re
going to face. If you’re experienced there, they’re going to
pick up the subtle changes
defenses make much quicker.”
Like last season when the
Bulldogs switched from a passoriented offense to a groundbased attack, Karrer is preaching
patience to his team.
“I’m always going to talk
about patience because you’ve
got to move on, and I was talking
to the team the other day about
how we’re a run-oriented team,
but we’re going to throw the
ball,” Karrer said. “We’re going
to start putting in more packages
to throw the ball. It’s a step at a
time, but you’ve got to get your
fundamentals down, and our
fundamental offense is running
the football. Defensively, it’s
your reads and keys and flying to
the football. It sounds easy, but
it’s getting to the spontaneous
part of it. Instead of delay, think,
go, it’s got to be see, go. We’re
getting there.”
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Aug. 26 Karnes City
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Sept. 2 at Navarro
7:30 p.m.
Sept. 9 Randolph
7:30 p.m.
Sept. 16 at Poth
7:30 p.m.
Sept. 23 Blanco (Homecoming)
7:30 p.m.
Oct. 7 at West Campus
7:30 p.m.
Oct. 14 Lytle
7:30 p.m.
Oct. 21 at Somerset
7:30 p.m.
Oct. 28 Poteet
7:30 p.m.
Nov. 4 at La Vernia
7:30 p.m.
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sooner than it did last year, when
it dropped its first three games
and then had a five-game winning streak in the middle of the
year to clinch a playoff berth.
“It’s always important to
win,” Karrer said. “Your whole
goal is to win the games. But it is
important to get off on the right
foot. If you can win your first
two or three ballgames, then you
can usually start rolling a little
bit. Unfortunately, it took us a
while to get going last year. But
we got on a roll and the kids
believed
in
themselves.
Hopefully, we can get going earlier this year and go into district
in great shape.”
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Another reason Karrer is
teaching patience is the team has
changed coordinators again this
season. Karrer, who also served
as defensive coordinator last
year, has moved over to the
offensive side of the ball, and
Mark Wrase has come in as the
defensive coordinator.
“The biggest change on
defense is the terminology and
some of his keys,” Karrer said.
“How we adjust to the offenses
is a little different. He’s been at
Texas City, and some of the
offenses you see at that level are
a little different, but that doesn’t
mean we’re not going to see
them. So his knowledge of
adjustments is great, and that’s
what the kids have to learn.”
Goudge
and
Michael
Andrade return on the defensive
line, and Heckman will also join
the fray this season. Simon Sosa
also returns at linebacker. The
entire secondary is new.
“We’ve got some talent back
there in the secondary,” Karrer
said. “They just didn’t play at the
varsity level. The front is solid,
and we feel very good about it.”
Brown will take over placekicking duties this season after
Heckman and Luddeke struggled on extra-point attempts.
Karrer said he feels a lot better
about that aspect of the game.
Zach Dean takes over as the
punter.
Overall, Karrer said he hopes
the team can get rolling a little
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spring and off season was becoming a more physical football team.
The Bobcats will look for balance from its running and passing
games but Miller said the Bobcats
would likely be heavy toward the
run. Still, the Bobcats will likely
run plays out of a shotgun formation more than half the time
because of the multiple opportunities the scheme presents.
“We’re going to have the ability to do a lot of different things,”
Miller said. “Last year we were
really predictable going run-runpass. We will have the ability to
get the ball down the field on first
down.”
Throughout the 2004 season,
offensive
tackle
Thomas
Keresztury was a constant for the
Bobcats. The New Braunfels
native was the only player to start
all 11 games on offense. In fact,
he is a three-year starter for the
’Cats who has the ability to play
at either tackle position. He started the first seven games of the
2004 season at right tackle before
being moved to left tackle for the
final four games of the season
because of injuries.
Texas State returns two quarterbacks who both saw time as a
starter last year.
Senior Barrick Nealy opened
the season as Texas State’s
starter but missed two games
completely and came off the
bench in a couple others because
of injuries during the year. As a
junior, he completed 84-of-143
passes for 1,202 yards and 10
touchdowns. His 144.03 pass
efficiency rating ranked 14th in
Division I-AA last year.
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But if ever there was a team
ready to handle the pressure of
six road games, a grueling
schedule loaded with top 25
teams and the expectations
that come with following a 73 season, the 2005 Bulldogs
have the ingredients to stay
“On Target.”
The targets for TLU, set
early in Mueller’s first season
with the team, were to prepare
the Bulldogs for national success. Mueller and his staff
know that shooting for a
national title, playoff berths
and conference titles is the
way to approach success in
these parts.
If you’re not committed to
winning titles, and don’t state
those titles as your goals, then
you’re not striving for the
same eventual goals that the
likes of Trinity, HardinSimmons and Mary HardinBaylor have set.
The Bulldogs face all three
of those teams, two of them —
Trinity and Mary HardinBaylor — on the road to open
the season.
The Bulldogs’ foundation
starts on offense with seven
starters returning from a unit
that averaged 37.5 yards per
game last season. The
Bulldogs ranked in the national Top 25 in NCAA DIII in
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Continued from Page 3B
Nealy was also the team’s thirdleading rusher, carrying the ball
111 times for 409 yards. For his
career, Nealy has completed 324of-616 passes for 4,331 yards and
31 touchdowns.
At tailback, Morris Brothers
and Douglas Sherman benefited
from additional playing time after
2004 senior starter Terrell Harris
suffered a broken leg that sidelined
him four games.
Sherman started the last five
games of the year and led the team in
rushing for the year. He had 128 carries for 622 yards and scored three
touchdowns. Brothers ranked fourth
on the team in rushing, finishing
with 60 carries for 325 yards and
also had three scores.
Wide receivers coach Travis
Bush will face a welcomed dilemma
this fall. Play after play, Bush will
have to make a determination of
which personnel to use.
Leading the cast is two-year
starter K.R. Carpenter who is listed
as the preseason starter at the slot
position. The senior has caught 85
passes for 1,205 yards and nine
touchdowns over the last two seasons and is coming off a strong
spring camp. Despite an ankle injury
which sidelined him part of the 2004
season, Carpenter led the Bobcats in
receiving yards catching 25 passes
for 425 yards.
In any relationship, there is a certain comfort level which comes from
familiarity. For a Texas State defense
that begins its second season using
the same 4-2-5 package, that idea
certainly holds true.
While every player on the Texas
State football team relies on one
another to make the Bobcats successful, it is a distinct proposition for
scoring, total offense and
passing.
Pulling the trigger for the
offense is senior quarterback
Sean Salinas, who holds 10
TLU records (mostly for passing and total offense) and is
on pace to break at least two
more school records.
He passed for 2,800 yards
and 26 touchdowns last season
and set the NCAA DIII season-high last year for most
passing yards in a game (519
in a home victory over defending ASC tri-champion East
Texas Baptist).
Salinas has improved his
completion percentage in each
of his three seasons (last year
hitting 56.7 percent of his targets) and has made the
Bulldogs an explosive team on
third down (46 percent conversion) and in the red zone
(second in the ASC).
“If Sean and our quarterbacks stay healthy, we’re
going to throw for a lot of
yards and a lot of touchdowns,” Mueller said. “But
we have to establish the run.
We’ll still have to run to be
successful. Controlling the
ball and controlling the clock
will be the best way for us to
have success.”
Salinas has most of his targets from a year ago, including Jason Trahan and Darrell
White, who combined for
1,195 yards and 12 touch-
linemen who have to work together
either on defense wrecking havoc on
opposing offenses; or offensive linemen who team to make the block to
free a back or protect a quarterback.
With that in mind, no unit of the
Texas State football team matches
the advantage the defensive line has
in 2005 as the Bobcats return a front
four that started all 11 games together last year.
Jeff Brown is a three-year letter
winner. David Simmons is a returning All-Southland Conference FirstTeam selection. Jeremy Castillo
begins his third year and has been in
the Bobcats’ starting rotation since
his freshman year.
The Bobcats made a significant
secondary move in the spring, shifting two-year starter Walter
Musgrove from safety to cornerback.
Also returning at the boundary
corner position is senior Edmond
Pringle. Derwin Straughter returns at
the other corner position after sharing
time as a starter last year as a junior.
When it comes to the starting secondary, there is plenty of returning
experience when you look at the first
player on the depth chart at any
given defensive back position. But
that experience tails off when it
comes to the players currently in
back up roles.
Texas State established some roles
during the spring for its younger players but will be looking to add playing
experience to each player’s résumé
early in the year.
The Bobcats’ expected starting
three at the safety positions have
extensive experience. Free safety
Epsilon Williams is a two-year starter.
Melvin Webber makes the move to
strong safety after playing primarily
at cornerback last year. Gary Shepard
started three games at cornerback but
will play at the KAT position in Texas
State’s defense this fall.
downs. Trahan had 779 yards
and eight scores, and his 98yard touchdown catch was the
longest play in NCAA DIII
last year and the longest play
in TLU history.
While the offensive line
returns three starters, the
Bulldogs must find someone
to replace All-America tight
end Matt Ross and running
back Kenny Gransberry, who
rushed for nearly 1,000 yards.
Michael Janak is the leading
candidate to step in for Ross,
while Bobby Lee gets the nod
at running back.
As powerful as the offense
was in 2004, the defense made
progress but still has improvement to be made. The
Bulldogs yielded 33.7 points
per game and 407.4 yards of
total offense per game.
“If we’re going to be better
as a team, we have to be better
defensively,” said Mueller.
“The defense is going to
determine the type of year we
have. We have great experience in some areas, but we’ll
be young in the secondary
again.”
The Bulldogs return the
players to make the needed
strides. Two-year starter and
team captain Jake Dearing and
sophomore Andy Puryear
anchor the linebacking position, while team captain Jake
Robbins takes over for AllAmerica free safety David
Sunday, August 21, 2005
Garcia, who was suspended
for the season.
The defensive line has
three returning starters — AllConference defensive tackle
Will Gavit, defensive end
Augustine Nwoko and defensive end Shaun Washington.
The special teams unit is
led by 2004 All-American and
2005 Preseason All-American
kicker Holt Storrie, who
missed just one kick (a field
goal) all of last season. Storrie
was easily the surprise of ’04.
He made 13-of-14 field goals
and made crucial field goals in
big games. His 44-yarder in
the waning moments of a road
win over Howard Payne gave
TLU the extra cushion it needed for victory.
Kickoff returns could be
another big strength for the
Bulldogs, as it was in 2004,
when Brandon Kyle was
among the nation’s leaders in
average
kickoff
return.
Receivers Chris Edwards, Coy
Schneider, Jason Trahan and
Darrell White may all figure
in the kickoff team at some
point. Schneider, the ’04 punt
returner, and Edwards are two
possibilities as punt returners
for 2005.
Overall, Mueller said his
definition of a successful 2005
season is very simple.
“Win the national championship,” he said.
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TRIGGER MAN — Texas Lutheran quarterback Sean Salinas, who
already owns 10 school records, returns to lead an optimistic Bulldog
team in 2005.
2005 Texas Lutheran Bulldog
Schedule
Sept. 10
Sept. 17
Sept. 24
Oct. 1
Oct. 8
Oct. 15
Oct. 22
Oct. 29
Nov. 5
Nov. 12
at Trinity
at Mary Hardin-Baylor
McMurry
at Austin College
at East Texas Baptist
Louisiana College
at Mississippi College
Howard Payne (Homecoming)
at Sul Ross State
Hardin-Simmons
7:30 p.m.
6 p.m.
6 p.m.
Noon
2 p.m.
Noon
2 p.m.
7:30 p.m.
1 p.m.
Noon
Four Big 12 South
teams find places in
preseason AP top 25
By JIM VERTUNO
Associated Press
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OFFENSIVE LEADER — Texas State is counting on senior quarterback Barrick Nealy to lead an experienced offense in 2005.
2005 Texas State Bobcat Schedule
Sept. 3
Sept. 10
Sept. 24
Oct. 1
Oct. 8
Oct. 15
Oct. 22
Oct. 29
Nov. 5
Nov. 12
Nov. 19
Delta State
Southern Utah
at Texas A&M
South Dakota State
at Southeastern Louisiana
Panhandle State
Northwestern State
at Nicholls State
McNeese State
at Stephen F. Austin
Sam Houston
6 p.m.
6 p.m.
TBA
6 p.m.
6 p.m.
6 p.m.
6 p.m.
6:30 p.m.
3 p.m.
1 p.m.
3 p.m.
DALLAS — The battle
for the Big 12 South is shaping up to be quite a doozy.
With four teams ranked
in The Associated Press preseason
poll
released
Saturday, the chase for the
division title could come
down to the last weekend of
the season when Texas travels to Texas A&M the Friday
after Thanksgiving.
The North? Well, let’s
just say respect has to be
earned.
After last season’s dismal
showing and little faith
among pollsters the North
can produce a team to challenge for the league crown,
no North teams are ranked
in the AP preseason poll.
Texas tops the league at
No. 2.
“We’re really excited to
be ranked second and feel
like it shows great respect
for our football program, the
way we finished last year,
and the number of guys we
have coming back this
year,” said Texas coach
Mack Brown. “We also
understand that where you
finish at the end of the year
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is important; where you finish
at the first of the year is simply respect.”
With Vince Young at quarterback behind a veteran
offensive line, the Longhorns
are early favorites to not only
win their first Big 12 title
since 1996, but to earn another
bid to the Rose Bowl where
they could meet defending
national champion and preseason No. 1 Southern California.
Texas beat Michigan 38-37
in the Rose Bowl last season.
The Longhorns open the 2005
season at home against
Louisiana-Lafayette on Sept.
3. After that, it’s a showdown
with No. 6 Ohio State in
Columbus on Sept. 10.
Then comes the annual
matchup with Oklahoma in
Dallas on Oct. 8.
The Sooners have won five
in a row over their hated rivals
in a series that has all but
determined the division crown
since 2000.
The only exception was in
2001 when the Sooners lost
their last game of the season to
hand the crown to the
Longhorns.
After consecutive appearances — and losses — in the
Bowl Championship Series
title game, Oklahoma enters
the season ranked No. 7.
Despite five straight wins
over the Longhorns and the
return of sensational sophomore tailback Adrian Peterson,
too many questions at quarterback and too many new
starters kept the Sooners from
edging Texas in the rankings
this time.
Texas A&M, which is
counting on the third year of
coach Dennis Franchione’s
rebuilding project to pay big
dividends, starts the season at
No. 17 despite last season’s
horrible finish with a 38-7 loss
to Tennessee in the Cotton
Bowl.
The Aggies haven’t won
more than seven games in a
season since 2001.
Texas Tech, which beat
California in the Holiday
Bowl last season, is No. 21 as
coach Mike Leach searches for
his latest record-breaking
quarterback.
That’s a few notches lower
than last season’s finish at no.
18, the highest for the Red
Raiders since 1976.
Up in the North, the division that dominated the early
years of the Big 12 when
Nebraska was a perennial
power, three teams were in the
“others receiving votes” category.
Defending division champ
Colorado, Iowa State and
Nebraska all picked up votes
but were well short of enough
to crack the rankings.
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Seguin volleyball take third in home tourney
Other area teams
also in action
By JASON ORTS
Gazette-Enterprise
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KEEPING IT ROLLING — Seguin’s solid early start continued with a
third-place finish in its home tournament this weekend.
SEGUIN — Seguin head volleyball coach Khristina Wrase
didn’t get exactly what she
wanted out of a home tournament for her team.
“We were shooting for first place
in this tournament,” Wrase said.
But while the Lady Matadors
fell short of that goal, Wrase still
came away happy, especially
after Seguin dug itself out of a 20 hole to take the third-place
match against Cuero on Saturday
afternoon and improve to 6-3.
“It’s very uplifting to be able to
come back from a deficit like that,”
Wrase said. “It’s a confidence
builder any time you can win coming from behind.”
Cuero dominated the first two
games, mostly from the service
line with eight aces over that
span. But after dropping the first
game, 25-16, and falling behind
7-0 in Game 2, the Lady Matadors
began to assert themelves.
They scored seven of the next
nine points to get themselves back
into the game and actually held a
two-point lead at 14-12 before
Cuero came back and took the
game, 25-21.
“I think the biggest problem in
the first two games was our energy level,” Wrase said. “The girls
had been sitting around for
awhile, and it took them awhile to
get into the flow of the match, but
they did a great job once they
were into it.”
Seguin’s confidence was
quickly restored at the beginning
of Game 3 with an 8-2 run to start
the game that included back-toback aces by Andrea Tovar. The
Lady Matadors then began to
coax errors from their opponents
and rolled to a 25-16 win.
In Game 4, Seguin ran out to a
5-1 advantage, but it was a span in
which it took 14 of 18 points that
made it a 22-10 score. The Lady
Matadors cruised home to a 25-13
win to force the deciding Game 5.
Again it was a scoring run that
allowed Seguin to take over for
good. Leading 7-6, the Lady
Matadors took the next seven
points, including two aces by
Emily Kveton, took Seguin to
match point and allowed it to take
the 15-10 win and the match.
For their efforts, Kveton and
senior libero Bianca Navarro
were named to the AllTournament team.
Seguin fell into the third-place
match after a four-game (25-18,
18-25, 25-21, 25-23) loss to
Temple, the eventual tournament
champion Saturday morning.
The Lady Matadors advanced
to the semifinals with a solid 3-0
win against Wagner in the quarter-
TLU men’s soccer picked to finish ninth in ASC
Special to the Gazette-Enterprise
SEGUIN — The Texas
Lutheran Bulldogs men’s soccer
team is picked to finish ninth in
the
American
Southwest
Conference, according to the
2005 Preseason Men’s Soccer
Coaches Poll.
TLU collected 95 points in the
preseason poll. The Bulldogs are
rated behind preseason favorite
University of Texas at Tyler as
well as University of Texas at
Dallas, McMurry, HardinSimmons, Austin College,
University of the Ozarks,
Schreiner
and
Mississippi
College.
Placing behind TLU were
LeTourneau, East Texas Baptist,
Mary Hardin-Baylor, Louisiana
College and Concordia-Austin.
TLU opens the 2005 season
on Sept. 1 with a home match
against Huston-Tillotson. Match
time is set for 4 p.m. at TLU’s
Gustafson Field.
TLU returns 12 lettermen
from the 2004 squad. The
Bulldogs posted an overall record
of 5-10-1 last season and had a
record of 5-7-1 in the ASC. TLU
placed ninth in the league last
season.
TLU brings back 2004 ASC
All-Conference players Silas
Blackwell and Josh Lauerman.
Blackwell, a junior from San
Antonio (Marshall), was named
to ASC All-Conference Second
Team as a midfielder. Lauerman,
a senior from Spring (Klein),
earned a spot on the ASC
Honorable Mention team as a
defender.
Blackwell, a two-year starter,
was second on the team in goals
scored (4) and was second on the
team in assists (3). His 11 total
points (two points for a goal, one
for an assist) led the team.
Blackwell also netted two gamewinning goals.
Lauerman, another two-year
starter, played and started in all
15 matches as the team’s defensive leader. He finished the year
with one assist.
Coach Mike Alderson enters
his ninth season with the team.
Alderson, TLU’s career leader in
soccer coaching victories, is 7566-8 with the Bulldogs. He led
the Bulldogs to the 2002 ASC
Championship and to a berth in
the NCAA Men’s Soccer
Championships.
Texas-Tyler pulled-in 220
points, including four first-place
votes, to outdistance the defending
ASC regular-season and tournament champion University of
Texas at Dallas.
UTD, which advanced to the
NCAA Division III Men’s Soccer
Championship last season, nabbed
seven first-place votes and totaled
184 points.
Texas-Tyler had 13-3-0 overall and 10-3-0 conference records
a year ago. Texas-Dallas finished
15-5-2 overall, losing to Trinity
University (Texas) in the first
round of the national tournament.
ASC men’s soccer teams
begin the 2005 season as early as
Sept. 1. The conference championship tournament is scheduled
Nov. 4-6 with the league’s top six
seeded squads vying for the title
and the ASC automatic berth in
the NCAA Division III Men’s
Soccer Championship.
As a Division III provisional
member, Texas-Tyler is ineligible
for the postseason ASC Men’s
Soccer Championship Tournament.
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‹The Seguin football team opens
its 2005 season on the road taking
on McCollum at 7:30 p.m., Friday, at
Harlandale Memorial Stadium.
Marion
‹The Marion varsity volleyball
team will be in Floresville for a
tournament beginning Thursday.
‹The Marion football team begins
the 2005 regular season at home
against Karnes City at 7:30 p.m.,
Friday.
Navarro
‹The Navarro volleyball teams host
San Antonio Christian on Tuesday.
The freshmen begin at 5 p.m. and will
be followed by the JV at 6 and the varsity at 7.
‹The Navarro football team travels
to Stockdale to start the regular season at 7:30 p.m., Friday.
Lifegate
‹The Lifegate volleyball team will be
on the road facing Round Rock
Christian Academy at 6 p.m., Monday.
‹The Lifegate football team will host
Holy Trinity Catholic School at 7:30
p.m., Friday, to open the 2005 regular
season.
LADY MATADORS, Page 6B
LINES
SIDE
• REFEREE CLINIC — Seguin
Youth Soccer will host a referee clinic
from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Aug. 27-28, at
First Commercial Bank, 1336 E.
Court. Those participating are expected to bring a pencil, paper, social
security number and a $25 fee for
United States Soccer Federation registration. For more information, call
Cheryl Schriewer at (830) 433-4665
after 4 p.m.
• SOFTBALL REGISTRATION —
The Seguin Parks and Recreation
Department is accepting registrations for its fall softball leagues.
There are openings in the church,
coed, men’s and women’s divisions,
and entries are due Friday, Sept. 2.
For more information, call 401-2480.
• SENIOR GOLF FEST — The
12th annual Central Texas Senior
Men’s Golf Fest, sponsored by the
chambers of commerce of Seguin
and San Marcos will be Oct. 1-2.
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The deadline for entries is Friday,
Sept. 2. For more information, call
the Seguin Area Chamber of
Commerce at 379-6382.
• 5K RUN/WALK — The Seguin
Guadalupe
County
Hispanic
Chamber of Commerce will host its
first-ever “Fiesta’s Patrias” 5K
run/walk from 7-10:30 a.m.,
Saturday, Sept. 17, at the Seguin
Coliseum Grounds. All ages and
speeds are welcome. The first 30
participants to pre-register will
receive free T-shirts. Trophies will
be awarded in each category. For
more information, call Ernest Leal
at 372-3151.
• GOLF TOURNAMENT — Wyatt
Arp Chrysler Dodge, Inc., is hosting
its first-ever golf tournament at 1:30
p.m., Sunday, Sept. 25. There will be
a dinner and dance on Saturday,
Sept. 24. The deadline for registration is Tuesday, Sept. 20. For more
information, call at 303-3005.
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LOOKING TO SURPRISE — Blake Sadler and the Texas Lutheran
men’s soccer team are out to show they are better than their ninthplace selection in the American Southwest Confernce preseason poll.
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‹The Seguin volleyball teams will
be on the road Tuesday, taking on
Floresville and St. Mary’s Hall in a
dual match. The freshman, JV and
varsity teams will be in action.
Matches will begin at 5 p.m.
finals Friday.
Lauren Malouf led the Seguin
offensive attack with 12 kills,
while Kveton added six kills and
three aces.
Seguin started quickly in Game
1, as after allowing Wagner to
score the first point, the Lady
Matadors reeled off eight in a row
to gain the momentum. Tovar’s
serving combined with three kills
by Malouf highlighted the run.
“Tovar did a good job serving, and it got the girls pumped
up,” Wrase said. “It wasn’t just
the serves, it was all the other
things the girls were doing, too.
We had to dig a few shots and
get our offense going.”
Seguin continued to pour it
on in Game 1 and led by as many
as nine before settling for the 2518 win.
The Lady Matadors struggled
with their communication early in
Game 2 and allowed Wagner to
stay close. That lasted until midway through the game, when leading 13-12, Seguin put the game
away with a 10-0 spurt, which was
paced by the serving of Ashlei
Miller and errors by Wagner.
“I thought the girls did a good
job of scrambling to keep the ball
off the floor,” Wrase said. “I’ve
been trying to get them to clean
up their game, but if something
was thrown at them during the
match, they did a good job of
adjusting to it.”
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LADY MATADORS
Continued from Page 5B
The Lady Matadors placed
second in Pool A, dropping both
games to Beeville before taking
both games against Fox Tech and
Jay.
“I thought the girls did a really good job [Friday],” Wrase
said. “They kind of started the
day on a down tune, but they
picked it up throughout the day
and did everything we asked
them to.”
Navarro wins two more
GERONIMO
—
The
Navarro Lady Panthers have yet
to meet their match in 2005,
running their record to 7-0 on
the season with two wins Friday.
The Lady Panthers got 14
kills from Mallory Moeller and
26 assists from Kandi Knippa in
taking down D’Hanis in three
games, 25-18, 25-11, 25-3.
Moeller also added six blocks
and tied with Knippa for the
team-high in aces, with four.
It was Moeller and Knippa
who also led the Lady Panthes
to the win against Somerset in
three games, 25-14, 25-20, 25-9.
Look for more in Tuesday’s edition of the Gazette-Enterprise,
along with information about
Marion, which took the consolation title at the Pleasanton tournament this weekend.
Sunday, August 21, 2005
Texas Lutheran is the favorite in ASC West volleyball
Special to the Gazette-Enterprise
SEGUIN — Defending conference and West Division champion
Texas Lutheran University and
defending East Division champion
Austin College have been selected
as the favorites in the 2005
American Southwest Conference
volleyball race by vote of the
league’s 14 head coaches.
NCAA Division III South
Regional finalist TLU claimed seven
of eight first-place votes and 62 points
to earn the coaches’ nod to win a third
straight ASC West Division championship. TLU has won four of the last
five ASC West Division titles and has
never finished lower than second in the
ASC West.
The Bulldogs, ranked 23rd in last
season’s final AVCA Division III poll,
compiled a 19-1 conference record
while going 27-7 overall in 2004.
TLU opens the 2005 season on
Sept. 3 with a neutral site match
against the University of TexasBrownsville. The match, set for an 11
a.m. start, will be played at Schreiner
University in Kerrville, Texas. The
Bulldogs first home match is set for 7
p.m. Sept. 7
TLU returns seven letterwinners
from last season’s championship
squad, but the Bulldogs lost five senior
starters, including ASC First Team AllConference selections Lindsey
Kolmeier, Emily Raske, Allison
Castillo and Angela Bagwell.
Kolmeier earned AVCA AllAmerican honors, and Bagwell was an
ESPN The Magazine Academic AllAmerican. Castillo was named the
ASC West Division Player of the Year.
The Bulldogs also lost two-year starter
at libero Stefanie Conner.
Returning to the 2005 squad are
starters Angela Kopecki, a 6-foot junior, and Mandy Bauer, a 5-10 junior.
Kopecki was an ASC West Division
second-team selection, and Bauer was
an ASC West Honorable Mention
choice. Kopecki, a right-side hitter,
collected 2.91 kills per game with a
hitting percentage of .291 in 2004. She
also recorded 52 blocks. Bauer, a middle blocker, registered 1.38 kills per
game and was second on the team in
blocks with 66.
Brandi Bradley, the 2004 ASC
West Coach of the Year, is back for her
fourth year. Bradley has compiled a
68-30 record at TLU. The Bulldogs are
53-4 in the ASC with Bradley as the
head coach. In the last two seasons,
TLU is 38-1 in conference regular season play.
TLU finished in a tie for ninth
nationally in NCAA Division III last
season. The Bulldogs defeated
Christopher Newport (Va.) and Trinity
(Texas) in the NCAA South Regional
Tournament and advanced to the
NCAA DIII “Sweet 16.” Trinity
entered the NCAA postseason as the
No. 1 seed for the South Region.
Four-time ASC East Division
champion and runner-up for the
Conference title a year ago, Austin
College collected five of six first-place
votes for 41 points to earn the favorite
role in the ASC East. The ‘Roos posted a 32-4 season and 16-2 conference
record in 2004.
In the ASC East, Austin College is
followed by East Texas Baptist
University, who collected one firstplace vote for 31 points, and the
University of Texas at Tyler with 23
points. The University of Texas at
Dallas was picked fourth (18 pts.)
while Mississippi College (12 pts.) and
LeTourneau University (7 pts.) came
in at fifth and sixth, respectively, in the
preseason division poll.
While TLU ran away with the top
spot in the ASC West predictions, just
three points separated the coaches’
picks for second, third and fourth
places. McMurry University earned
one first-place vote and 46 points to
claim second while ASC West runnerup Sul Ross State University was third
(45 pts.) and Hardin-Simmons
University fourth (43 pts.). Lower
division finishes were predicted for
Concordia University at Austin (fifth,
35 pts.), University of Mary HardinBaylor (sixth, 21 pts.), Howard Payne
University (seventh, 19 pts.) and
Schreiner University (eighth, 17 pts.).
ASC volleyball teams may open
the 2005 season beginning Sept. 1.
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