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18-6A offensive MVP last spring and not
only did he lead his team and that league
in many offensive categories, but he was
one of the top offensive players across
the state in 6A — fourth in the state in
batting average with a .532 norm and
11th overall in scoring with 42 runs. He
clubbed eight home runs last spring while
driving in 37 and pounding out 10 dou-bles.
Woodcox has also played football
for the past three years for the Lamar
team, where he was a quarterback, but he
has now turned his attention exclusively
to baseball. Texas Tech earned a trip to
the College World Series last year and
made it to the final four…
Jhamon Ausbon,
who began his high
school football
career at Epis-copal
HS before
transferring to the
IMG Academy in
Florida, has been a
big-play threat as a
wide receiver this season for Texas A&M.
After starting nine games last year as a
sophomore, which followed a freshman
season in which he caught 50 passes and
was named to the All-SEC Freshman first
team, Ausbon is a full-time starter this
year for the Aggies and has become one
of their biggest offensive weapons. In two
games this year against defending nation-al
champion Clemson and then top-10
ranked Auburn, Ausbon had a combined
15 catches for 180 yards, and he went
into October of this year having already
accumulated over 1,000 career receiving
yards for the maroon-and-white...
While the Bellaire HS football team
is trying to shake things up in District
18-6A by securing a berth in the playoffs,
their fans are shaking the opposition up
in their own way as they have begun hav-ing
theme nights for different Cardinal
games at Butler Stadium. For example,
the Cardinals recently pummeled Chavez,
54-22, and the theme for the evening was
Cowboys and Aliens. Fans were encour-aged
to wear either cowboy boots or some
kind of alien suit and quite a few did ex-actly
that, making for an interesting mix
in the stands while The Big Red Machine
rolled on the field. With the idea catching
on in popularity, it will be interesting to
see if Bellaire HS officials will use theme
nights for fans attending other sporting
events in the district...
Bellaire HS senior
standout volley-ball
player Emily
Hawes was fea-tured
on CW 39 TV
in their Class Act
This Week segment
for her work on the court and her suc-cess
off the court. Hawes, who has a 4.75
grade-point average and will play at the
University of Mississippi next fall, plays
the libero position for the Cardinals and
is one of the leaders of the local chapter
for Fellowship of Christian Athletes. She
is also a three-time all-district player and
has been a member of the Bellaire HS
varsity since she was a freshman...
The Rice men’s
cross country team
is hoping to shine
at this month’s
Conference-USA
meet in Bowling
Green, Ky., and
Strake Jesuit grad
Jason Bugg is a
part of the strategy.
Bugg, a redshirt
sophomore who
also competes for both the indoor and
outdoor track and field teams, was a
member of the Rice quartet that was the
C-USA distance medley relay champion
at last spring’s conference champion-ships,
winning with a time of 10:05.14.
Bugg’s strongest event thus far appears to
be the 800 meters where he has accumu-lated
two personal bests with a 1:54.27
indoors time and a 1:51.97 on the out-doors
side. Besides his athletic exploits,
Bugg has also excelled in the classroom,
earning a spot on the C-USA Commis-sioner’s
honor roll each of his first two
years in college...
The Bellaire Little League is putting
the wraps on another full year of baseball
in 2019 with the conclusion of its fall
ball season. The autumn league has been
going strong with games every Sunday
since the middle of September. There
are no standings, no playoffs — but some
coaches and league officials do assemble
traveling teams that play regional winter
weekend tournaments in December and
January.
November is a big month for the South-west
Football League (SFL) with its
final week of the regular season taking up
the first Saturday in the month followed
by two weeks of playoffs and the league’s
own version of Friday Night Lights for
the championship games on the last Fri-day
before Thanksgiving. The league will
crown champions in its sophomore tackle
and junior tackle divisions as the playoffs
begin Nov. 9 at the South Campus. The
second or semifinals round will be held
one week later on Nov. 16 with the cham-pionship
games to be played starting at
6 p.m. Nov. 22. The league is currently
in its 17th season of play, and the senior
Shamrocks, comprised of the oldest
players, just finished its season against
middle schools around the immediate
area...
Former Episco-pal
HS speedster
Jaylen Waddle is
going to force the
Alabama football
team to increase
their wide receiv-ing
crew’s “Three
Amigos” nickname
to four. The Crim-son
Tide sopho-more
is a dynamic
threat to score every time he touches the
football with elusive moves and a serious
burst of speed, totaling 207 yards on his
Hawes
Bugg
Ausbon
Waddle