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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
Welcome to the program here on sports Radio AM thirteen
hundred The Zone and on the iHeartRadio app where you
can always listen for free. We're glad to have you
with us. My name is Craig Way. Thanks so much
for taking a few minutes or more out of your
day to tune in. Glad to have you with us.
And us includes the producer of the program. His name
is Cameron D.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Parker.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
The D on the birth certificate stands for the football
team that went to Charlotte North Carolina and beat the
pants off to Carolina Pants yesterday. Yes, his middle name
is Dallas, named in honor of his favorite pro football team,
even if he refuses to watch them out of the frustration.
But since he was engineering the Texas men's basketball game
that I was calling yesterday, he didn't get a chance other.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Than I thought.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
So you sneak a glance or two over there, just
to see how things are going.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
How's your Monday going, by the way, it's going good, Craig.
It is game week, baby.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
The first ever year we had the college football playoff expansion,
We're gonna have home football games in the first round.
It took college football I don't know how many years
to figure out. Hey, maybe let's have home field advantage
in the postseason for these teams and not played at
a half empty stadium in so far with Rob Gronkowski
coming out of Havetime or Jimmy Kimmel or Snoop Dog whatever,
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let's do a home game first round the playoff. We
got games at the Horseshoe, at Happy Valley, at Notre Dame,
and at DKR.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Man.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I'm so pumped. I can't wait for this game, Craig.
I can't wait for our broadcast, the pregame show Longhorns game.
They now in the two PM myself, Hardball and Mark
Henry come out and say what's up to us.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
I'm excited to see Clemson.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
I've been an admirer of Davo and Clemson, of the program.
He's about the last couple of years, manh Man. But
obviously Kad kleb MC his ties from West Lake. Of course,
you know I saw him play in a handful of
playoff games. Ian Reed as well, who I know is
not playing in this game, but excited to see Clemson.
Who I think I think I know Bernard Orange is
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to Dree Orange, I'll let you in a little secret, Craig.
I like Clemson's colors. I like the purple and orange.
I like the hat with the sea on it. I
think it looks pretty cool and I'm pumped up for
college football this Saturday.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
My high school had at least for one y runs
in high school and we had a prett good high
school football program. Had the Clemson that that Tiger Paul
logo on the side, and now we were blue and white.
We were the Flying Tigers of Lucy Coffin Raxdale High
School of Jamestown, North Carolina. But we had white helmet
with that with a blue Clemson Tiger Paul like the
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one the white one you see on the side of
the orange helmet. We had a blue one on the side,
So I know what you're talking about. And their fights
hung like cars. He had hold that tiger you know,
had that as well. But it's also interesting you mentioned
you mentioned Kate Club Nick and Ian Reed. They're Alma
Maters CAD's being Westlake, Ian's being Vandergriff.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Both.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Congratulations to those programs. They will be playing for state
championships this coming Saturday. Vandergriff will take on South Lake
Carol one of the pre eminent programs a year in
year out. In the six to eight Division two game
that's at three o'clock Saturday afternoon, Carol won on a
walk off field goal against long View that that was
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they got to redo because the first one was no good,
but running into the kicker was called against Longview and
so they got one more shot at it and banged
it through. At South Lake, Carol won that. Meanwhile, Vandergriff
rallied from a ten point deficit in the first half
against Summer Creek, a team that the computer liked, a
team that was in the state finals a year ago,
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and they rallied back and they were tough and tough
down the stretch on defense. So Vandergriff won that one,
thirty four to thirty one. So they're making their second
trip to the state championship round in three years. So
congratulations to do Drew Sanders and the Vipers going back
to the state.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Town to run.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
And how about west Like my goodness, Galena Park north Shore,
who has kind of been a standard bear out of
the Greater Houston area the past several years. They had
won three of the prior for meetings against West Lake
and they played in Katie on Saturday. Got a chance
to call that game for the FanDuel Sports Network and
it was dominant. Westlake had a dominant performance all three phases, offense, defense,
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special teams. They dominated that football game in winning thirty
five to ten. They were up twenty one to three
before you could bat an eye, or fourteen three before
you could blink, and then twenty one to three late
and a half, and North Short scored just before they
have to cut it to twenty to ten. Twenty one
to ten, got the football to start the second half.
So we were talking about today, you know, coach would
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like to get that daily double scored just for the
half against football start second half of that.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Well, or Short scored right before the half.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
They got the football start the second half, and they
went for it on fourth down and I think it
was about four or maybe six inside their own twenty
yard line. Dan Campbell didn't get it. They were on
their own nineteen yard line and got stopped. And then
one play later West Lakes truck Reese Wise had himself
a marvelous game at quarterback and they hit Grady Bartler
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for a touchdown. It was twenty eight ten that point
and that point it was so he gett a schwaeper
because it was done. After that, they went only won
thirty five ten, So congratulations. Westlake went back to the
state championship round for the twelfth time in school history
and the first time in three years since they finished
the three peat run under Todd dodge Well. Now Tony
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Salazar has coached a team into the state finals himself,
and they're playing North Crowley, not Duncanville. The two time
defending state champions are defending no More and novils A
seasaw Fair. North Crowley jumped with a fifteen to nothing
lead and Duncanville came back three unanswered touchdowns, went up
twenty one point fifteen. Then North Crowley punched a couple
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of touchdowns across. They went up twenty nine to twenty one.
Duncanyville closed within two, missed on the two point conversion
try that would have tied it. It was twenty nine to
twenty seven. North Crowley scored and we said, okay, well
that's done. There's just there's under two minutes to go
in the game. It took down Kviill thirty seconds to
come down and score cut it. The thirty six, thirty four,
but they could not stop North Crowley after that they
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kept the ball on the ground. So North Crowley going
to the state championship round to get this. North Crowley
has a state title. A lot of folks may not
remember they did win one, and they were a relatively
new school at the time.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
This was twenty one years ago.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
This was in two thousand and three, and I had
done TV that morning or at noon on what was
then the five A Division one state championship because the
largest bracket only had thirty two teams in it in
five A what's now known as six A back then,
and then the Division two had a larger bracket, a
sixty fourteen bracket, so we used to stagger them on
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successive weekends. So the first one was North Shore against
the Woodlands and it was Northshore's first state titled.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
David A.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Mam was the coach and I called that game for
television that day. It was noon a noonkick at Rice Stadium,
and Bobby Reid was the quarterback for North Serry. He's
the one that went on Oklahoma State and caused all
the controversy there when Jenny Carlson wrote the article that
sprung the come after me. I'm a man, I'm forty
that deal. It all started from a Bobby Reid thing afterwards,
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and by the way, the Woodlands was coached by Mike Amandola,
whose son Danny was playing for the Woodlands. Danny Amandola
of course went on to Texas Tech and then the NFL.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Well. Northshore wins that game.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Their defensive coordinator was a fellow by the name of
Craig Cheshire who parlayed that into his first and still
only head coaching job. He's been at Stony Point since
two thousand and four, the last twenty years, but he
was the defensive coordat of a great North Shore defense.
So when the game was over, I jumped on the
car and the zipped up the college station because that
night for radio I called what was then the four
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A Division one State Final, nowadays have been known as
five eight, and it featured North Crowley kind of a
newbie against a Bay City team who had an up
and coming young defensive coordinator by the name of Hank Carter,
who then go on obviously to Stephenville and then the
Lake Travis and North Crowley won that game, but this
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is their first time in the state final of the
largest classification, So North Crowley and Westlake play at seven
o'clock on Saturday night. I've been asked about this by
a lot of people. I'm not calling either of those games,
Vandergrift in Westlake because the day job. I'll be busy
down here with Texas Clemson, and we're gonna hear from
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Long Wrnons head coach Steve sarkisian this being a Long
WRNS Monday, probably our final Long Horns Monday of the season,
even with a Texas win.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
We'll see how the holiday affects, whether there's a Monday
news conference or how that works. But we did have
a Long RNE Monday news conference to bring you live
this morning at eleven o'clock with coach sark and you'll
hear that the comments from sark from that press are
coming up. Also, we'll review the NFL weekend. Your Dallas
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Cowboys thumping the Caroline. How did your friends and Charlotte
take to that? They couldn't have been very happy.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Yeah, I saw a text message. I don't think many
of them watched it, to be honest with you. One
of the texts was all right, how many of Bryce's
six turnovers were his fault, so it tells you how
the game went okay with four turnovers overall in that one.
So it's a ceedee lamb at a big game. Yeah,
he did for the Cowboys, Freco Dattle pretty good. He's
been in one of the few bright spots this football.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
So the Cowboys are six and eight right and they
still have a barely breathing mathematical shot to make the playoffs.
So we'll see how it finishes out from there. As
a Rams fan, I was happy to see the Packers
beat the Seahawks, Lises.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
How about the uniform matchup last night? Did you see
what Seattle's wearing?
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Those neon green highlighter uniforms and the Packers went Stormtrooper white.
They wore icy whites, including a white helmet. They didn't
wear the yellow green Bay helmet. They wore the white
helmet with a G football logo on the side. But
the Packers won that game. In winning thirty to thirteen,
they close in on getting close to clinching a playoff spot. Meanwhile,
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Seattle drops in a tie for first place in the
NFC West with the Rams. Each team has three games remaining,
including a head to head meeting in Los Angeles the
final weekend of the regular seasons.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
We'll talk about the NFL.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Cam has to be happy that his Oklahoma City Thunder
tomorrow night are playing in the Emirates NBA Cup Final
against the Milwaukee Bucks. Let me say this, I'm glad
for the sake of the NBA and the Emirates NBA
Cup that it is the Thunder in the Bucks because
you got two of the better franchise are two of
the better teams in the NBA. If we had been
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left with Houston against Atlanta, an Atlanta team is now
fourteen and thirteen, you know, So I'm I'm glad.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
It worked out that way. So there's that.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
So and of course there's college basketball from over the weekend.
Long Worn's one yesterday one twenty one to fifty seven
of Arkansas Pine Bluff. We'll hear from head coach Rodney
Terry coming off of that contest. Texas women went on
the road on Sunday in the state of Virginia for
the second straight Sunday, and they beat the Richmond Spiders
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yesterday sixty five to fifty four. So they're ten and
one this season, so we'll get to all of that
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Speaker 2 (12:03):
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