Starting a new thread for high school sports. There appears to be other Sawmillers who love following the high schools as much as I do, so rather than continuing to sprinkle HS stuff in other places we can centralize them here...
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My predictions for Class 6-A Division 1 football playoffs this past week were:

Southlake Carroll over Duncanville
Waco Midway over Allen
North Shore over Cy-Fair
Converse Judson over Lake Travis

Winners were Duncanville, Allen, North Shore, and Lake Travis. Shows my expertise (or lack thereof) at HS pick 'ems.

Class 6-A Division 2 winners were Amarillo Tascosa, Longview, Beaumont West Brook, and Austin Westlake. I'll make my predictions on the 6-A semifinal games in a couple of days. Feel free to make yours.

Other interesting game results from yesterday saw Dallas Highland Park come from way behind to beat Tyler John Tyler in Class 5-A Division 1, Aledo marching toward another title in 5-A Division 2, Carthage once again looking strong in 4-A, Newton in 3-A, and San Augustine in 2-A. Interesting to note that several of those schools are in East Texas. I hope Coach Carthel is paying attention (I'm sure he is.)

Great idea Ed! I don't keep up with them like you guys do, but I enjoy the updates and it should definitely have it's own thread.

"Class 6-A Division 2 winners were Amarillo Tascosa, Longview, Beaumont West Brook, and Austin Westlake."

I'll take Longview over Tascosa and Westlake over West Brook.

Longview over Westlake in the championship.

Carthel recruits Kamden Perry from Longview and he's named SLC Freshman of the Year.

Also, Carthage continues their dominance and wins the state title for 4A Division I.

I want Haynes King in Nac

sfajack05 said:

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"Class 6-A Division 2 winners were Amarillo Tascosa, Longview, Beaumont West Brook, and Austin Westlake."

I'll take Longview over Tascosa and Westlake over West Brook.

Longview over Westlake in the championship.

Carthel recruits Kamden Perry from Longview and he's named SLC Freshman of the Year.

Also, Carthage continues their dominance and wins the state title for 4A Division I.

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I always find the 2 division thing amusing.

Who is he? (King)

05, I agree with all of your picks. (That means we're probably screwed.)

Quarterback for Longview. Kid is legit

TallTexan said:

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Great idea Ed! I don't keep up with them like you guys do, but I enjoy the updates and it should definitely have it's own thread.

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Ditto... I use to love going to high school games while I was going to SFA; the smaller the schools, the better. Really miss those road trips on Friday nights. Still like to keep an eye on the standings (esp. East Tx).

We have Newton and East Bernard playing in our stadium on Friday night. I think that will be worth watching, just to say I got a chance to see Newton play...

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We have Newton and East Bernard playing in our stadium on Friday night. I think that will be worth watching, just to say I got a chance to see Newton play...

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Does our admissions team do anything when we host HS games? Seems like these would be an excellent opportunity to hand out marketing materials/offer free applications,etc.

Here is a link to a list of all of the Texas playoff games and locations this week.

https://www.texasfootball.com/article/2018/11/13/2018-texas-high-school-football-playoff-times-and-locations?ref=article_preview_img

Here are my predicted winners for this week's Semi-final games (take this and $6 and go buy a cup of overpriced coffee at Starbucks)...

6-A Division 1: Duncanville, North Shore
Division 2: Longview, Westlake

5-A Division 1: Highland Park, Shadow Creek
Division 2: Aledo, FB Marshall

4-A Division 1: LaVega, Carthage
Division 2: Pleasant Grove, Silsbee

3-A Division 1: Brock, Yoakum
Division 2: Canadian, Newton

2-A Division 1: San Saba, San Augustine
Division 2: Gruver, Mart

1-A Division 1: M ilford
Division 2: Strawn

I have to admit, my picks on 1-A (Six-man Finals) are pure shots in the dark. I have no clue...)

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Here are my predicted winners for this week's Semi-final games (take this and $6 and go buy a cup of overpriced coffee at Starbucks)...


5-A Division 1: Shadow Creek

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Footnote about the Shadow Creek Sharks ... They are 14-0 and in the 5-A State Semi-Finals in their first season of varsity football. That's pretty special.

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Footnote about the Shadow Creek Sharks ... They are 14-0 and in the 5-A State Semi-Finals in their first season of varsity football. That's pretty special.

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Its got to be in the water. That whole Manvel/Pearland/Angleton area is growing football players....

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edstile said:

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Here are my predicted winners for this week's Semi-final games (take this and $6 and go buy a cup of overpriced coffee at Starbucks)...


5-A Division 1: Shadow Creek

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Footnote about the Shadow Creek Sharks ... They are 14-0 and in the 5-A State Semi-Finals in their first season of varsity football. That's pretty special.

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Knocked us out in the first round. We had a halftime lead, but they woke up and pulled away in the second half.

Incredible ending.

Good games this year. Longview was due.

Both 6-A games were great, but the North Shore - Duncanville game was a classic. If you missed it, you missed arguably the best HS game of the year!

I thought North Shore would win it all in 6-A Division 1 this year, but I didn't think it would be that difficult in the final. Congrats to both the Mustangs and Panthers. No one deserved to lose that game. They were without a doubt the two best teams in the state, better than either Longview or West Brook, IMO.

(BTW, how about that Aledo team, too?!)

Just saw the ending
...Aaron Rodgers eat your heart out!

Great video work.

Houston Strake Jesuit senior sprinter Matthew Boling ran a 9.98 100 meter dash at the Region III meet on Friday. He's turning heads in the USA Track and Field world. He's headed to Georgia next year.

SFA Jack Fanatic said:

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Houston Strake Jesuit senior sprinter Matthew Boling ran a 9.98 100 meter dash at the Region III meet on Friday. He's turning heads in the USA Track and Field world. He's headed to Georgia next year.

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It has been confirmed that Boling's 9.98 in the 100 meters is a high school world record. Amazing.

SFA Jack Fanatic said:

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Houston Strake Jesuit senior sprinter Matthew Boling ran a 9.98 100 meter dash at the Region III meet on Friday. He's turning heads in the USA Track and Field world. He's headed to Georgia next year.

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He was absolutely flying.

Also, every P5 T&F program in Texas should fire their recruiters.

TallTexan said:

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SFA Jack Fanatic said:

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Houston Strake Jesuit senior sprinter Matthew Boling ran a 9.98 100 meter dash at the Region III meet on Friday. He's turning heads in the USA Track and Field world. He's headed to Georgia next year.

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He was absolutely flying.

Also, every P5 T&F program in Texas should fire their recruiters.

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Truth be told, he had a slight tailwind. (BTW, I recently had a tailwind and clocked a 35 flat. Hasn't yet been certified by any T&F governing body though.)

SFA Jack Fanatic said:

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TallTexan said:

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SFA Jack Fanatic said:

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Houston Strake Jesuit senior sprinter Matthew Boling ran a 9.98 100 meter dash at the Region III meet on Friday. He's turning heads in the USA Track and Field world. He's headed to Georgia next year.

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He was absolutely flying.

Also, every P5 T&F program in Texas should fire their recruiters.

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Truth be told, he had a slight tailwind. (BTW, I recently had a tailwind and clocked a 35 flat. Hasn't yet been certified by any T&F governing body though.)

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Consider it officially Sawmill Certified. That's fast enough to advance to a one on one race with Sawmill's champion speedster Nacluth.

Train hard this summer, the championship race will be held at the first football tailgate of the season.

TallTexan said:

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SFA Jack Fanatic said:

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TallTexan said:

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SFA Jack Fanatic said:

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Houston Strake Jesuit senior sprinter Matthew Boling ran a 9.98 100 meter dash at the Region III meet on Friday. He's turning heads in the USA Track and Field world. He's headed to Georgia next year.

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He was absolutely flying.

Also, every P5 T&F program in Texas should fire their recruiters.

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Truth be told, he had a slight tailwind. (BTW, I recently had a tailwind and clocked a 35 flat. Hasn't yet been certified by any T&F governing body though.)

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Consider it officially Sawmill Certified. That's fast enough to advance to a one on one race with Sawmill's champion speedster Nacluth.

Train hard this summer, the championship race will be held at the first football tailgate of the season.

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Unfortunately, I almost always have an injury-riddled Fall sprinting campaign, so there's a very good chance that won't happen. Wouldn't want to embarrass that fellow in front of his impressionable three rug rats anyway.

Richardson Pearce trailed 14-2 going into the bottom of the 7th inning tonight in a HS baseball playoff game with South Grand Prairie. Pearce scored 13 in that inning to win 15-14. What a comeback!

SFA Jack Fanatic said:

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SFA Jack Fanatic said:

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Houston Strake Jesuit senior sprinter Matthew Boling ran a 9.98 100 meter dash at the Region III meet on Friday. He's turning heads in the USA Track and Field world. He's headed to Georgia next year.

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It has been confirmed that Boling's 9.98 in the 100 meters is a high school world record. Amazing.

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Here's an update on Strake Jesuit HS sprinter Matthew Boling

In addition to his fastest-ever HS 100 meter time of 9.98, his 20.55 in the 200 meters is 3rd in the nation, his 26' 3.5" is 2nd in the nation, and he ran a 46.15 400 meters last year (he's not running it this year). At one point this year, he had the top national marks in the 100, 200, and long jump at the same time.

Before this year, he was recruited by Georgia for his 400 meter success. No other major schools showed much interest, so he signed with the Bulldogs earlier this school year. He only started concentrating on the shorter sprints this Spring. In one of the first meets this year, Boling had to ask his coach if he could run in the 100. He ran a 10.2. One month later he ran a wind-aided 9.98.

He'll be running in the UIL state meet this weekend. Expect to see him in the Olympics, probably in 2024. But at the rate that he's progressing, maybe even in 2020. Who knows?

Oh, and did I mention that he's a white dude?

He's so fast. And it's crazy that he's gotten that much faster in the short sprints.

SFA Jack Fanatic said:

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SFA Jack Fanatic said:

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SFA Jack Fanatic said:

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JHouston Strake Jesuit senior sprinter Matthew Boling ran a 9.98 100 meter dash at the Region III meet on Friday. He's turning heads in the USA Track and Field world. He's headed to Georgia next year.

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It has been confirmed that Boling's 9.98 in the 100 meters is a high school world record. Amazing.

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Here's an update on Strake Jesuit HS sprinter Matthew Boling

In addition to his fastest-ever HS 100 meter time of 9.98, his 20.55 in the 200 meters is 3rd in the nation, his 26' 3.5" is 2nd in the nation, and he ran a 46.15 400 meters last year (he's not running it this year). At one point this year, he had the top national marks in the 100, 200, and long jump at the same time.

Before this year, he was recruited by Georgia for his 400 meter success. No other major schools showed much interest, so he signed with the Bulldogs earlier this school year. He only started concentrating on the shorter sprints this Spring. In one of the first meets this year, Boling had to ask his coach if he could run in the 100. He ran a 10.2. One month later he ran a wind-aided 9.98.

He'll be running in the UIL state meet this weekend. Expect to see him in the Olympics, probably in 2024. But at the rate that he's progressing, maybe even in 2020. Who knows?

Oh, and did I mention that he's a white dude?


I'm perplexed at that last statement.

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djsfw57 said:

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SFA Jack Fanatic said:

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Oh, and did I mention that he's a white dude?


I'm perplexed at that last statement.

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Don't be. He laughs about it when it's mentioned. Boling: "It doesn't offend me. I laugh about it sometimes. It doesn't bother me at all. I just keep running."