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March 17, 2010

Brenham blasts Huntsville 18-1 in district baseball; Lady Hornets blanked by Montgomery in softball

By Tom Waddill Sports Editor The Huntsville Item Wed Mar 17, 2010, 10:56 PM CDT

HUNTSVILLE — On a night when Brenham’s Chase Wellbrock nearly threw a no-hitter, Huntsville head coach Jeff Brumbelow shook his head more about the Cubs’ impressive hit parade.

Brenham came to Kate Barr Ross Park on Wednesday and quickly took control on the District 18-4A baseball game against the Hornets. The top-ranked Cubs banged out 16 hits in the first three innings and scored 13 runs on their way to a commanding 18-1 win over Huntsville.

The Cubs improved to 2-0 in district play and 14-3 overall, while the Hornets dropped to 1-1 and 4-9 on the season.

“They hit the ball well,” Brumbelow said of the Cubs. “It didn’t matter if the pitch was off-speed and outside or a fastball inside, they hit the ball hard and they hit it into gaps.”

Cleanup man Chance Bolcerek got the Cubs going with two-run double off the right-field fence in the first inning. Right fielder Ty Schlottmann later crashed a three-run homer off Hornets starter Hunter Burson.

Brenham scored six runs in the first inning, then added three more in the second on singles by Eric Preuss and Schlottmann.

The Cubs starting quarterback in the fall, Schlottmann went 3-for-4 with six RBIs. Bolcerek had three doubles in his three plate appearances and Eric Weiss added a single, double and triple for the Cubs.

Wellbrock (5-0) took a perfect game into the fifth and final inning, but that ended when Cody Murray’s squibber bounced off the glove of first baseman Dillion Knebel, who tried unsuccessfully to dive and get Murray at first.

Grant Sprott chopped Huntsville’s first hit over the head of third baseman Scott Meier. Murray moved to third on Cody Jackson’s groundout and scored on a sharply hit comebacker to the mound off the bat of Casey Gattis.

Brumbelow said the Hornets waited too long to start swinging the bats against Wellbrock.

“When we finally got aggressive, we got runners on base in the fifth inning,” the coach said. “We’ve got to learn to be more aggressive The best thing I can say is we’ll go back to work tomorrow.”

The Hornets play at Waller on Friday at 7 p.m.

Montgomery blanks Lady Hornets in softball 3-0

The same problem seems to be plaguing Huntsville’s varsity softball squad: lack of offensive punch.

On Wednesday afternoon at Kate Barr Ross Park, the Lady Hornets managed only three hits in a 3-0 District 18-4A loss to Montgomery.

Alexis Ortiz, Michelle McGill and Jessica Beardsley all had hits for HHS, but they were all singles and none of them came in the same inning, according to coach Karol K. Smith.

“We’re just going to keep hitting away,” Smith said. “They’ll have to start falling in there sometime.”

Montgomery took a 1-0 lead in the third inning off Lady Hornets starter Hayley Martin. The Lady Bears scored two insurance runs in the top of the seventh when a fly ball dropped in the Huntsville outfield.

“That was a big error, that dropped fly ball,” Smith said. “They scored two runs on that. It should have been a 1-0 ballgame, but those things happen.”

Martin pitched well, allowing only four hits and one walk while striking out five.

Huntsville (2-2 in 18-4A play, 8-9 overall) hits the road today for a 7 p.m. game at Magnolia.

“We have competed very well against Brenham and Montgomery,” Smith said. “They’re supposed to be the best teams in the district, so I feel like we can play with anybody.”

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Back to work
Tick tick tick. Tick tick tick tick.
It won’t be long until the alarm goes off early Monday morning, signaling the start of high school football practice in Huntsville.
Freshmen hit the field at 8 a.m. Monday and Hornets head coach Shane Martin can’t wait. Huntsville’s defensive coordinator the past two years, Martin has been waiting seven long months for the first day of serious summer workouts.

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Huntsville ISD hires new volleyball coach
On paper and in her head, Stephanie Branch quietly took notes while sitting in the stands at Bryan High School on Thursday night. She paid particular attention to the team from Huntsville, because in a little more than a month that bunch will be her’s.
The daughter of a teaching and coaching couple, Branch, 31, was hired this week as the Lady Hornets’ new head volleyball coach. She replaces Brittany Brumbelow, who stepped down from her position at the end of the school year to spend more time with her family.

June 17, 2010
High school notebook: Brenham boys edge Hornets at state track meet
Round one went to the Brenham boys. The Cubs won the District 18-4A boys track and field title last month in Willis.
The Huntsville boys took round two. Led by state qualifiers Justin Gilbert, Brodrick Hadnot, Henry Ford, Dimitri Collier and Cameron Simmons, the Hornets evened the score by outscoring the Cubs at the Region III track meet in Huntsville early this month.
In Austin last weekend, the Cubs edged the Hornets in the unofficial battle for track and field supremacy in District 18-4A.

May 18, 2010
Going for gold
It wasn’t that long ago. RaKira Turner stood in the shot put ring and with all of her might, flat-footed she heaved the heavy ball forward.
Her first throws from the discus ring were even more memorable. With no idea about how to hold the strangely shaped disc, Turner did her best but the results were far from pretty.

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Hornets finish strong
They easily could have gone through the motions.
Sitting eighth in the team standings after a miserable first day at the UIL Boys Golf State Championships, the Hornets could have trudged around the Jimmy Clay Golf Course without a care.
They could have turned in another big score, gotten back on the bus and hit the highway headed home to Huntsville.
These Hornets had too much pride to mail in the second round of the tournament. On Tuesday, the Huntsville boys made a huge turnaround, shooting a team score of 307, which moved them up to sixth in the team standings.

May 11, 2010
Difficult district
The Lady Hornets played their best round of golf Monday at Raven Nest Golf Club. Unfortunately for the Huntsville girls, they are stuck in District 18-4A with two, and probably three, of the top teams in the state.
Led by junior Madison Ward, who shot a solid 79, Huntsville’s varsity team posted a 349 team score during the first round of the District 18-4A tournament. That total puts the Lady Hornets in fourth place behind Montgomery Gold (310), Montgomery Purple (313) and Magnolia A (319) heading into today’s final round.

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Hornets finish first at Dayton track meet
The track teams from Huntsville High School did exactly what their head coach wanted them to do last week in the final tune-up before the all-important District 18-4A meet.
The Hornets finished first and the Lady Hornets placed third in the team standings at the Bronco Relays in Dayton.

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Gilbert advances to 100-meter finals at Texas Relays
Huntsville senior Justin Gilbert booked a spot in the main event. With a sizzling showing in the prelims for the 100-meter dash, Gilbert earned a place in the finals of the Texas Relays this afternoon in Austin.
Hopefully, he will have some company as some of his teammates try this morning to advance to the finals at Mike Myers Stadium at the University of Texas.

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‘I’m going to be nervous’
Austin’s Mike Myers Stadium is the place to be this weekend. The top track and field athletes not only in Texas, but from across the United States, will be competing inside a stadium full with the sport’s most passionate fans.
As a reward for weeks of hard work, and also to act as a possible tune-up for next month’s season-ending state meet, Huntsville High School is sending its best athletes to Austin, too.

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Top-ranked Cubs bring big bats to Huntsville
On a night when Brenham’s Chase Wellbrock nearly threw a no-hitter, Huntsville head coach Jeff Brumbelow shook his head more about the Cubs’ impressive hit parade.
Brenham came to Kate Barr Ross Park on Wednesday and quickly took control on the District 18-4A baseball game against the Hornets. The top-ranked Cubs banged out 16 hits in the first three innings and scored 13 runs on their way to a commanding 18-1 win over Huntsville.

March 17, 2010
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