15-5A BASEBALL STANDINGS
Whitehouse 10-2
Hallsville 9-3
Texas High 8-4
Mount Pleasant 7-5
Marshall 6-6
Longview 6-6
Pine Tree 2-10
Tyler 0-12

Game 11
Texas High beat Whitehouse 10-9
Hallsville beat Tyler 16-0
Longview beat Marshall 8-1
Mount Pleasant beat Pine Tree ???

Game 12
Whitehouse beat Hallsville 6-3
Texas High beat Mount Pleasant 2-0
Marshall beat Tyler 5-1
Longview beat Pine Tree 13-0

Whitehouse has taken control of the district lead again with their win over Hallsville.  The WIldcats and Bobcats have clinched playoff berths.  Texas High currently sits in third place with MP in fourth.  Marshall and Longview are currently tied for fifth and have split their series....both are still alive for the playoffs...but they are on life support and will need some upsets next week if they have any hopes of making the post season.  Pine Tree and Tyler round out the standings.

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15-5A SOFTBALL STANDINGS
Whitehouse 13-1  -------- DISTRICT CHAMPIONS
Mount Pleasant 11-3 ------- RUNNER UP
Hallsville 10-4 ------ THIRD PLACE
Texas High 8-6
Pine Tree 8-6
Marshall 3-11
Longview 2-12
Tyler 0-14

Game 13
Pine Tree beat Mount Pleasant 5-4
Whitehouse beat Texas High 11-3
Hallsville beat Tyler 18-0
Longview beat Marshall 20-10
 

Game 14
Whitehouse beat Hallsville 3-0
Mount Pleasant beat Texas High 18-5 
Pine Tree beat Longview 10-8
Marshall beat Tyler 18-1

WH has won the district title with MP settling in at second and Hallsville in third.  Texas High and PT are tied up for the fourth and final playoff berth and split their regular season series.  A tie breaker game will be played to determine who will make the playoffs.  TBA.  Marshall finishes the season in 6th with Longview and Tyler round out the standings. 

“Before the Date” by Norman Rockwell (1949)

     As always, Rockwell carefully chose his models and his settings. The model for the young man was a cowboy named Fred Beilfus, a bronco buster at the Snedden Ranch in Ventura County, California. He is seen here in his corner of the ranch’s bunkhouse, surrounded by his hats, boots, pistol, and cigarette “makings” on the window sill. He has stuck a photo of his girlfriend on the wall, though perhaps he’s more enamored of the photo that appears above it: his horse, Zip.

      The young lady was modeled by Beverly Walters, a Hollywood waitress in real life, whose uniform, which hangs on her dresser, readers would have recognized from Fred Harvey Restaurants. Rockwell has her facing the mirror, the room cast in the subdued light coming through a window shade lowered for modesty. We can’t fully see her face, but when Rockwell dropped off the painting at the Post’s art department, he admitted to the editors, “She’s a real cutie.”

So it is ok to hold film session and chalk talk before school or to go out on field and rum offense or defense in january and february.. It is ok now for 14u 16u 18 u baseball players to wear school uniforms and have the head coach in the dugout during summer USSSA tournys-

---when did this change

Justin Verlander allowed two runs and four his over six innings in the three-time Cy Young Award winner’s season debut for the Houston Astros against the Washington Nationals on Friday night.

The 41-year-old right-hander, who began the season on the injured list because of right should inflammation, struck out four and walked none, throwing 59 of 78 pitches for strikes. Verlander averaged 94.3 mph with 35 four-seam fastballs and induced five groundouts. The nine-time All-Star retired the side in order four times. Houston Astros #JustinVerlander #vivahoustonpodcast #vivahouston