The Deer Park girls basketball team falls 38-33 to Port Arthur Memorial in an opening assignment of the Lee HS Gander Tipoff Classic Thursday. Jernye McZeal nets 19 second-half points to spark the win. DP now meets rival La Porte on Friday. Bulldogs fell to Episcopal 47-37.

In the rain at Rice Stadium, Gregory Plummer scores 4 touchdowns and Jeremiah Jenkins kicks 3 2-point conversion kicks in sparking the Deer Park Junior Tigers to a 30-0 win over Pearland in the South Texas Youth Football Association Juniors Super Bowl Sunday.

Richland High School rallies from a 34-9 halftime deficit to shock Barbers Hill 48-47 in OT in a 5A-Div. 1 playoff game at Hutto’s Memorial Stadium Friday night. Both teams scored in the OT. The Eagles tried for 2 and failed. Freshman Beck Spivey’s PAT won it for Royals.

No. Crowley wins the 20th McDonald’s Texas Invitational, following a tense 54-53 win over South Grand Prairie at Phillips FH Sat. night. Atascocita and Allen were North Crowley’s other victims in Gold bracket. DP beats Barbers Hill on a buzzer beater to win Div. II Gold 56-53.

Baytown Christian’s surprising run to the TAPPS Division III 6-man state championship game ends with top-ranked Prestonwood Christian North nabbing the title with a 70-22 win at Waco ISD Stadium Thursday night. The Bulldogs were 3 yards shy of jumping out to 14-0 lead.

Lee College, the No. 10 Div. I JUCO basketball team in the nation, barely escapes a major upset Wed. night as Lee nips Paris JC 64-58 at Lee College. The Dragons almost had a happy 5-hour drive back to Paris, forcing a 56-56 tie, before Lee hit some big buckets in the paint.

Cy-Fair snaps 37-37 tie with a 15-2 surge that leads to narrow 60-56 win over North Shore Thursday morning at Lee College in an opening game of the 32-team Lee College Classic. So. Houston defeats Ft. Bend Bush in other Platinum Div. opener.

Clear Springs opposing Bellaire for the Lee College Classic Platinum Division title Saturday night. South Houston met Bmt. Westbrook for third place in Platinum. Port Arthur Memorial tops Lee for the Gold Division title 64-49.

In the nation’s biggest junior college Division I basketball game of the night, Baytown’s Lee College, ranked 9th in the nation, nips No. 5 Trinity Valley Community College 70-68 at Lee Wed.night. Cardinals watch last-second shot from behind arc bound away.

Unranked Angelina JC, with a losing conference mark when the day began, pulls off a Region 14 shocker Saturday when the Roadrunners defeat No. 9 Lee College 70-53. Lee trailed 45-14 at the break. Angelina hit 59 percent in first half as Lee’s 26-game home win streak is snapped.

In a bi-district championship girls basketball doubleheader at Lee College Monday night, La Porte ousted Port Arthur Memorial 48-30 and in the nightcap Barbers Hill eliminated Friendswood 56-45.

The Crosby girls basketball team is celebrating its first bi-district crown in years, following a 54-42 victory over Galveston Ball at Clear Brook HS Tuesday night. Lamaya Clark led the Cougars with 20 points. All of Ball’s points but 2 were scored by freshmen or sophomores.

In an unbelievable 4 overtimes, Barbers Hill tops Fulshear 68-60 to win the Area championship at Pasadena Memorial HS Friday night. Fulshear’s Kinzie Searcy sent it into OT with a buzzer beater, tying game at 46. BH’s Aniyah Robinson forced the 4th OT with a last-second score.

Nationally-ranked Lee College avenges its worst defeat of the season by defeating Angelina JC 82-72 in overtime at Shands Gymnasium in Lufkin Sat. night. Angelina forces OT with buzzer beater, but Lee outscores Angelina 15-5 in the OT. Roadrunners won first meeting by 17 pts.

Barbers Hill sweeps state playoff doubleheader at Sam Rayburn HS Tuesday night. Girls defeat Manvel 32-28 to win their third playoff game. Guys open playoffs with 53-48 bi-district win in double OT over Manvel. Manvel missed 2 FTs with 1 second left that would have won game.

The Gary Herrington Battle by the Bay baseball tourney is minutes away from Pearland and Flower Mound, last spring’s Class 6A state title opponents, meeting again, this time at Baytown Sterling. Oilers have already defeated Ridge Point 4-1. 30-team event continues thru Sat.

In a rematch of last year’s 6A baseball state title game, Flower Mound defeats Pearland 4-2 at Baytown Sterling, ending first day of the Gary Herrington Battle by the Bay tourney. Flower Mound scored 3 runs in 5th, Oilers score 2. Pearland leaves bases loaded twice.

A dropped fly ball by Clear Creek’s outfield allows Barbers Hill to snap a 1-1 tie late in the game, giving the Eagles a 3-1 win in the final game of the Gary Herrington Battle by the Bay tourney Saturday. BH’s Brock Billeaud, in a no-decision, works 4 innings of no-hit ball.

Angleton’s Fabian Gonzalez scores a pair of goals, the second one coming with 36.9 seconds remaining in an opening 10-minute OT as the Wildcats take the bi-district soccer title from Baytown Sterling 2-1 at Al Dennis Field Tuesday night.

Goose Creek Memorial’s boys soccer team captures the Class 5A Region III championship with a thrilling 2-1 win in overtime, defeating Magnolia West at Turner Stadium Saturday afternoon. Deciding goal for Baytown’s bunch arrives just 29 seconds into second 10-minute OT.