Clear Lake Falconhoops

THURSDAY 10:30 A.M.
Clear Lake has won the coin toss to decide seeding in the playoff bracket.

Playoff brackets for each round of the 2007 Region III playoffs will be available on the Falconhoops web site. There will be two ways you can access the bracket.

1. If you have EXCEL, you can go to the HANDOUTS Page and download and print or view the bracket. The entire bracket should fit on one page if you print it.

Scroll to the bottom of the Falconhhoops left menu to find the HANDOUTS link.

Once there, select REGION III PLAYOFFS.

Click once on the REGION III PLAYOFFS Link with the EXCEL symbol by it in the middle of the page.

When the window comes up, click on download now. The small file will download to your computer where you can print it or view it in EXCEL.

 

2. If you do NOT have EXCEL, an image of the bracket provided as a photo is available on the ALBUMS link (http://picasaweb.google.com/falconhoops). It is too small to view so it must be downloaded to view. This is very simple to do and can be done by dial-up users since it is a small file. Read these instructions completely before you link to the Albums web site link above.

• Once you are at the FALCONHOOPS PICASAWEB ALBUMS site, click on the Region III Playoffs Album.

            Once the image of the playoff bracket is displayed, choose the first image.

            Select download from the options on the right (left if you are still on the Albums View). When the download window appears, select DOWNLOAD NOW and OPEN once the download is complete.

You may then view the image which may still be too small depending on the screen size of your computer. Select zoom to magnify the image to your liking.

 I will have a limited number of the printed copies of the bracket at each playoff game.

2006-2007 District 24-5A Schedule

FIRST ROUND
December 21, 2006
Galveston Ball  48 at Clear Lake 78
Creek 38 at Pearland 59
Alvin 54 at Brazoswood 57 (Dec 22)

January 2, 2007
Clear Lake 71 at Clear Brook 63
Pearland 62 at Alvin 48
Ball over Brazoswood at Bwood

January 5, 2007
Clear Lake 67 at Angleton 50 (non-district)
Brook 53 at Brazsowood 39
Alvin 54 at Creek 56
Ball 45 at Pearland 59

Jan 9
Creek 53 at Ball 46
Pearland 54 at Brook 38
Brazoswood 50 at Lake 79
Alvin open

Jan 12
Alvin 72 at Ball 74
Creek 56 at Brook 51
Pearland 44 at Lake 41
Brazoswood open

Jan 16
Brook 52 at Alvin 44
Lake 75 at Creek 54
Brazoswood 57 at Pearland 75
Ball open

Jan 19
Creek 70 at Brazoswood 53
Ball 56 at Brook 58
Alvin 55 at Lake 85
Pearland open

SECOND ROUND
Jan 23
Brazoswood 25 at Alvin 57
Pearland 55 at Creek 47
Lake 85 at Ball 57
Brook open

Jan 26
Pearland 30 at Alvin 23
Ball 52 at Brazoswood 47
Brook 44 at Lake 60
Creek open

Jan 30
Creek 56 at Alvin 54 (OT)
Pearland 57 at Ball 43
Brazoswood 49 at Brook 80
Dulles 58 at Lake 70 (non district)

Feb 2
Lake 84 at Brazoswood 41
Ball 45 at Creek 43
Brook 46 at Pearland 63
Alvin open

Feb 6
Ball 52 at Alvin 60
Lake 58 at Pearland 55
Brook 59 at Creek 46
Brazoswood open

Feb 9
Pearland 56 at Brazoswood 45
Alvin 48 at Brook 51
Creek 48 at Lake 58
Ball open

Feb 13, 14
Lake 60 at Alvin 56
Brook at Ball
Brazoswood 50 at Creek 69
Pearland open



 

Clear Lake 58 - Clear Creek 48
On Friday night in the new Krueger Field House on the campus of Clear Lake High School, the Falcons defeated the Clear Creek Wildcats by a score of 58-48. With a single game remaining in the regular season and the 24-5A district championship still on the line for the Falcons, the Lake – Creek rivalry was for more than bragging rights for both teams. With four teams advancing to the playoffs in 5A this year for the first time ever, it was a must win for the Creek hopefuls as well.

Both Pearland and Lake have secured positions in the playoffs. A Lake win over Alvin on February 14, (Valentine's Day for those fellas who tend to forget), will tie Pearland and Clear Lake with 11-1 records and the district championship will be shared. A coin toss will decide which team is seeded as the district winner in the bi-district round of the playoffs.

Third and fourth place were still up for grabs with Clear Brook, Clear Creek, and Galveston Ball vying for the two remaining spots. Brook’s 13 point win over Creek Tuesday night and Lake’s win over Creek tonight put Brook in the number 3 spot. This means Creek must win over Brazoswood and rely on Brook to defeat Galveston Ball next week to secure a playoff berth. Considering Brook beat Ball by only 2 points at home, a victory over Clear Lake would have made life much simpler for the Wildcats so they were highly motivated.

Although Clear Lake had defeated Clear Creek by a 21 point margin in Creek’s gym in the first round of play, the spirited Wildcats were a much improved team and it was not as easy a victory for Lake as many might have expected. The Falcons established an early lead and never trailed in the contest but it was too close to relax throughout the first three quarters and the early part of the fourth period. With over a minute gone in the second half, Kendrell Thompson started the half with a three pointer to give Lake their biggest lead in the game up to that point, 30-19. Thompson had a game high 14 points ( 9 of which came in the fourth quarter). The third quarter closed with only a five point margin, 38-33, with Creek still very much in it.

Throughout the first half and through much of the third quarter, Clear Creek’s defense set the tempo of the game while Lake enjoyed a slight lead. A Creek bucket at the beginning of the final quarter narrowed the game to three points, 38-35. Then Lake went to work on the Wildcats. Consistently solid defense and nine unanswered points by Lake widened the gap to 12 points, 46-35. It was not the 22 point blowout that Lake had inflicted on the Wildcats in the fourth quarter of the last game in Creek's gym but it did get the job done.The Falcons were in control from this point but the pesky Wildcats hung in there. The 10 point margin of victory for the Falcons is not indicative of the wide difference in talent between the two squads (especially off the bench) and some of the Creek crowd might have considered it a moral victory.

There were numerous instances of unselfish play from most of the Falcons and at times watching Lake’s offense is like watching a well oiled machine execute with precision and predictability. The variety of different successfully executed plays is more numerous than most Lake teams in the past which speaks highly of the versatility of the Falcon players (and of the coaching). Lake’s defense, especially early in the second half, was impressive at times but still too inconsistent. Weakness in the defense by one player often causes the team’s defense to break down despite standout performances from as many as three or four of the players on the court.

Please Note: Photos for this game and of the Seniors Night recognition of their parents can be found at http://picasaweb.google.com/falconhoops. after 5 p.m. on February 10. It will be helpful if you read the GENERAL INFO writeup on using the new ALBUMS on the new site. Note there are two albums for each game, one for dial up users and one for broadband users (much larger file sizes) who wish to make prints of the photos. In addition two photographers have contributed photos of the Creek game. These photos are in separate albums. Neither of these men have sons on the Varsity team this year. We are deeply indebted to them both for their efforts. After you view their work on the Creek game and some others, you may wish to buy them a steak dinner!


Individual Scoring: Kendrell Thompson 14, Fulton Brisco 10, Jimmy Witten 10,
Armie Lewis 9 (6 steals), RJ Turner 7, Cody Kinsey 3, Christian Enriquez 2, Anthony Bilcic 2, Andrew Gorie 1,

FALCON STATS	FG made	FG attempts	%
2's	17	33	51.5%
3's	4	16	25.0%
free throws	12	17	70.6%

SCORE BY QUARTER	1	2	3	4
Clear Lake	14	27	38	58
Clear Creek	7	19	33	48

LINESCORE	1	2	3	4	Final
Clear Lake	14	13	11	20	58
Clear Creek	7	12	14	15	48

REBOUNDS	LAKE	CREEK
Offensive	8	12
Defensive	10	13