Time Warp

No excuse but super busy so it is time for a brief update of what's been happening. Football season ended after a loss to Waco Midway in Regionals, the Men's basketball team won their own tournament, The Highland Classic, The Ladies basketball team has really come together and is very competitive, the volleyball team lost in the state finals, the wrestling team has been hitting the mat every week, boys and girls soccer held their annual alumni games and tennis won team state again after a year of not winning.

Back To It

Well the fall season has kept me rather busy and it appears I have missed a few weeks of bringing you up to the minute news of local sports so let's recap. The Scots Football team is entering the third week of playoffs with only one loss, the Volleyball Lady Scots took their show to the State Finals and came home with silver medals losing in the finals to a strong team from Herford, (where is that anyway?). The basketball teams kicked off their seasons with the annual Meet the Scots night where they actually ran out of basketballs given out to the first 200 fans. Great turnout from the community to see what the Scots have on the court this season. Both the Lady Scots and the Mens team played in the Scots Classic with the Mens team taking home the first place trophy with a hard win over SFAustin. The Cross Country teams have had a successful post season run, (pardon the pun) and wrestling and swimming have gotten off to a great start. The tennis team re-in-Stated them selves as team state champions. Student athletes signed letters of intent to play sports for University of Texas, Auburn, Tulane, New Mexico State, Tennessee and one heading off to Princeton. Sports included volleyball, golf, baseball, swimming, lacrosse and tennis. So that should just about get you up to the minute with the happenings around here. Enjoy your turkey and get ready to cheer those Scots to another victory on Friday.

Stretching Raiders

Where it all begins, no it isn't the YMCA program it is the 7th grade football program. These are the kids who rise before the sun and hit the field to learn the HP system of football. Some lessons come easy and some come hard but the main lesson is that this is a team environment and it is all or nothing and rules are made to be followed. Week after week three men appear on the field out numbered by players sometimes 26 to 1. The system they have put in place requires everyone following it or everyone pays the price for the one who doesn't. Following directions is key and required by all. Listening is mandatory because let's face it when there are 80 kids and 3 coaches the odds are not everything said by a coach will be heard by everyone. What is amazing is the respect these boys are learning will carry them farther than they will ever realize. The parents might be another story but if they will let the coaches do their job most of these boys will be better off for it.

Thursday Night Football

With a week off and a short week due to a Thursday night football game everyone was a bit out of their routine. The pep rally was held on Thursday, the game started at 7pm which meant the JV Gold and Huddles 3 & 4 played on Wednesday. What to do on Friday? Well to tell you the truth if it was left up to me everyone would have headed to the opening day of the State Fair of Texas and had a corny dog or a funnel cake but in reality seniors headed off to either ACL in Austin and possibly caught the Texas -Arkansas game, if you can call what happened there a game or they followed Coach Allen to Athens, Georgia to see the Dawgs fall to Bama and the Tide, some made college visits and some just enjoyed a weekend off. Whatever you did with your weekend I hope it was nice and relaxing. In the mean time it is time to get ready to face Greenville and their new coach. Should be exciting as the Greenville quarterback takes on the HP Scots and their mighty defense. Kick off is at 7:30.

Jumping Belles

The Belles halftime routine was full of pompoms and jumping. Always the top of excitement for little girls in the stands the Belles did not disappoint. After their routine Brad Bradley was recognized for his tireless work with all of the HP sports teams over the years and Dr. Bryce was recognized for all of her work with the district.

HP Too Much for Coppell

It was a little close at times but the Scots settled down during half time and came out and played their game. The Cowboys never had a chance after halftime. With touchdowns by scored by four different Scots , HP showed how diverse its offense has become. Throw a safety early on in there and you have another home win.

A Scrimmage for the Hundreds

You think I am kidding when I say a scrimmage for the hundreds. Some one needs to give those middle school football coaches a huge bonus. There were at the beginning of school about 140 kids playing 7th grade football, I would guess a slightly lower number playing 8th grade. Some how these coaches are to determine in a matter of eleven school days who should play what position and how to divide them up into two teams. The eighth grade coaches have it a little better since most of them played in 7th and know the drill. Imagine being one of these coaches and running a scrimmage for one hour with 140 kids all wearing white jerseys, very few had a number on their jersey. With the exception of names on the helmets many looked identical. I am still amazed at how quickly the coaches have gotten the kids into a routine of arriving almost before sunrise to school and knowing exactly what is expected of them. Within a two hour period the 7th and 8th grade coaches worked easily over 200 kids into a scrimmage by grade level. Amazing!