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2 VICTORIA ADVOCATE, Thurday, Swrmbet 7, 2002 High School After 1,274 wins, DeMatha coach retiring Wootten's legends KBA ei-'l tHttH sow U(H Vaone ewouncrt fee nwHrt otce rra fc-j tcftoei mmnom ri ft fca SbA land and won a championship ring with the Los Angeks Lakers. But he remained in constant contact with Wootten, and made a point of attending the news conference- "YouVe got to be happy for him. He's a wonderful guy, a wonderful coach," Branch said "He had his o7i style; he knew his audience. He knew what buttons to push." During Wootten's tenure, the Stags won at least 20 games over 44 consecutive seasons, and his teams were voted nauonal champion five times. During the 1960s, DeMatha snapped the 71 -game winning streak of Lew Alcindor's team, Power Memorial Academy of New York.

right way." To years ago, Wuoeen became just the third prep coach to be inducted into the Rasletha3 Ha3 of Fime in SpnngJod, Mass. He never had a losang season, and last year's squad ckd wtth an 1 game winning streak to finish at 22-3. Soon after that be began to poofter retirement. "Being head coach has been the fulfillment of aS my boyish hopes and dreams. It has been a wonderful run," he said, "1 realized at some point I would have to do it I guess Td rather do it on the way up than on the way down." He turned down several lucrative offers to leave DeMatha to coach at the college leveL Given I am doubly happy that I never made the mistake of moving on" Most of all, he enjoyed working with high school fcds.

Several of those players turned into outstanding pros, including Adrian Danlley, Kenny Can; Danny Ferry, Sidney Lowe and Adrian Branch. He's a legend," said Lowe, now head coach of the Memphis Griz-rlies, "What's most important and most impressive is not so much being a legend basketball-wise, but just a legend in life. He told me things and instilled things in me that stuck with me for the rest of my life. I know it's had an impact on the blessings I have received." After leaving DeMatha, Branch starred at the University of Mary- HlGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL LEADERS IKTTHCEmONJ PASSING A I Toe TO Pet 11522119 1M8U 541 1052131 1745 11 49 3 2121 167( 13 46 7 94 1916 1323 1 49 2 Plfyw, School Siicto. falls Crty EH.

Bay City Burns. Memorial Bomer. Beemlie Thompson, Palaces 85 1641 1233 12 51 1 81 1724 I ICQ 471 Mclntyre. Whaf 80 1616 1093 12 47 8 62 1319 1036 11 47 3 DAVID CINS8URG AF Sports. Writtr HYATTSVILLE, Ml After winning more games than any high school basketball coach and sending a dozen players to the NBA, Morgan Wootten will put down his whistle and end a career that spanned 46 years.

Wootten, 71, announced his recrement Wednesday at a news conference at DeMatha High School, where he compiled a record since taking the job in 1956. "I just finally got that gut feeling that now is the time," Wootten said. "I thought about it all summer long. And then, in early September, there was no question in my mind. I wanted to do it the Form an Continot1 from Pg IB basketball operations at Texas.

She has been on maternity leave since the birth of her daughter, Alisa Marie, last month. But Smith-Knight admits she had no inkling of what was to come when she arrived in Austin in 1981 after an outstanding high school career at Bay City. "The thing I remember about playing in Bay City is we were very, very talented," said Smith-Knight who advanced to the state final as a senior before losing to Canyon. "We had some great athletes who enjoyed playing the game." Smith-Knight had the opportunity to play with even better athletes at Texas. "When I got there, I noticed how structured it was," Smith-Knight said.

"I was amazed at how much they ran and lifted weights. I came in scared to death. But I wasn't going to show the fear. I was talented enough to just run and run, and I picked up on everything else." Smith-Knight was listed at 6-foot-10, but insists she played at 6-1 1, and she became a force in the paint for the Lady Longhorns al 71 14910954 4 67 167 11948 48 93 5 870 Manning mile Bibcock. EC Mays.

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ISft Cvafcrt Jwtrt Ujr.tf ton 1-ku Am hint. lS. Soton CRci the chance to do it all over, he wouldnt change a thing. "I have absolutely no regrets. I have been happy and fulfilled here as I imagine anyone could be at any level," he said.

"As I look back, Victoria to host 5A tennis event Victoria will host the Class 5A finals of the 2002 UIL Team Tennis State Tournament between Corpus Christi Carroll and Katy Taylor on Saturday at the Memorial senior campus tennis courts. Heavy rains on Saturday in Austin forced the postponement of the 5A and 4A finals. It didnt hurt that District 29-5A rival Carroll made the finals and Victoria is also a convenient site for Katy Taylor. Unbeaten Katy Taylor (20-0) and Carroll (28-3) will play at noon on Saturday at the Memorial senior campus tennis courts. H.S.

VOLLEYBALL PLAYOFFS CLASS SA AREA Memorial vs Edmburg Economedes, Friday. 7 m. Corpus Christ) King High School CLASS 4A REGION QUARTERFINAL City Criennerwew, TB A BeeWte vt San Amorm McCoilum, TBA CLASS 3A AREA Yoakum vs. la Vamia. Today, 6 30 Texas Utntran Umvtrsity, Segum Edna n.

lyH, Saturday, 4 Segum High School CLASS 2A AREA Yrxttown Danbury, Today, 7 El Campo Schultnourg vs. Franklin, Saturday, 6 ASM Consohdatad Weimar vt Rogers, Saturday, in Lexmglon Poth vs Bohng, TBA Industrial vs Stockdile. TBA Refugio vs. Navarro, Today, 7 Kames City CLASS 1A BI-DISTRICT Shiner vs Round Top-Carmine, Today, 7 it. La Grange Middle School Flatonuj vs.

Burton, Today, 7 30 La Grange High School Runge vs. La Pryor, Today, 7 Lytte N0T1 Coaches are reminded to call in their playoffs painngs as soon as they are finalned They can be called into Paul Ebner at 361-580-6507 PI am Sckooi No YeaTD Ave, Tim Neumann. Ganado 245. 1694 19 6 9 Chad Hams. Pettus 148 1582 25 107 Anthony Harmon.

Yoakum 193 1517 10 7 9 Joseph Goniales, Goruales 206 1421 18 6 8 Jepnus Brown, Edna 195 1370 19 7 0 Donne Turner. Schul 203 1207 14 6 0 MikeyGaitan, N-S 163 1147 13 6 3 Jeremy Washington, What. 105 1131 15 108 Brian Bonner. Beeville 139 1078 14 7 8 Canton Waddy. Boimg 14 1067 9 6 9 Kurt Kamter.

(Hatonia 180 1046 14 5 8 James Campbell. Yortrtown 151 1024 8 6 8 Randy Aguayo. St Joseph 146 987 14 6 8 Michael Bland, Calhoun 155 950 6 6 1 Darrell Johnson. wile 115 924 13 8 0 Chris Baer, Shiner 114 902 13 7.9 Ryan Sevcik. Sacred Heart 122 855 11 7 0 Klint Evans.

Industnal 116 832 11 7.2 Terrell Lee. Palacioj 159 803 6 51 Gabriel Green, Beeville 64 801 10 12 5 Bo Crutchheld, Refugio 119 764 10 6 4 Bobby Burnett. Goliad 160 729 4 4 6 Gary Rartdle. Tidehaven 135 720 53 Cart Morrison, Louise 161 700 5 4 3 Pleret Schoei No Michael Resales, Karnes City 7 Joe White Ninon-Smttey Rewtey FarreN East Bernard 6 Brendan Holm. St Joseph 6 Quentm Wright.

Shiner I Man Heltord. Pettus 5 Colby Wilemon Yoakum 5 Coby Brown, Ganado 4 Cwton Fernandez. Industnal 4 Marshal Hargrove. Bohng 4 Oustin Morrow. Edna 4 Asftton Powell.

Goliad 4 Bennie Stanley. Memorial 4 Andrew Steward. Schulenburg 4 Shane Stuart, Industrial 4 PUNTING Player, School No Avi Steven Evans. Shiner 22 41 6 Alei Gana. Falls City 33 40 9 Eric Mann, Memorial 21 401 Randy Boone.

Yoakum 25 38 6 Jack B'llups. St Joseph 26 38 0 Caleb Wernh. Van Vleck 18 37 8 William Richter, Hatonia 29 37 6 Jimmy Collins. Calhoun 36 34 8 Repka. Refugio 26 34 6 Isaac Rodriguez, Goliad 41 34 1 Jared Kaspar, Bay City 28 33 3 Daniel Garcia Bloomington 39 33 2 Jason Dees, Schulenburg 26 31 9 Aie Matula.

East Bernard 34 31 3 Klint Evans, Industrial 27 30 6 Eric Patek. St Paul 27 30 5 Michael Varela Cuero 29 30 0 (Minimum 19 punts! SCORING Player, School Points Chad Harris, Pettus 191 Japhus Brown. Edna 122 Joseph Gonzales, Gonzales 122 Tim Neumann, Ganado 116 Kurt Kamer, Fiatonia 102 Randy Aguayo, St Joseph 94 Jeremy Washington, Wharton 90 Chris Baer, Shiner 86 Brian Bonner, Beeville 86 Mikey Gaitan. Nmon-Smiley 84 Surto Falls City 84 Dontae Turner, Schulenburg 84 Darrell Johnson. Hallettsville 82 Terrell Lee, Palacios 78 Brendan Holm, St Joseph 76 Klint Evans.

Industrial 74 Carfton Waddy. Boling 68 Gabriel Green, Beeville 66 Caleb Wernly, Van Vleck 64 Anthony Harrison. Yoakum 62 Bo Crutchheld. Refugio 60 Lamont Johnson, Weimar 60 Enc Patek, St Paul 60 Adam Pointer, Bay City 60 Elliott Babcock. El Campo 57 A Florus.

Fiatonia 56 Matt Heilord, Pettus 56 OeOlan Ellison. Werner 54 John Paul Patek. St Paul 54 Fran Perez, Beeville 54 Gary Handle, Tidehaven 52 Cesar Arceo, Memorial 51 James Campbell, Yorktown 50 RECEIVING No Yds TO Avg 40 742 7 186 Player, School Marvin Sof rerl. Memorial Shaun Green. Bay City Moctygemba.

Falls City Gabriel Green, Beeville Jordan Shirley, Vile Cooper Dickerson, Beeville Terence Ward, Wharton Joey Wiatrbk, Falls City Derek Cumbie, Bay City Matt Garcia. Palacios Paco Vasquez. Palacios Terrell Lee. Palacios Chns Taylor, Cuero RoShard Shorter, El Campo Derek Sturm, Falls City 37 510 2 34 634 8 33 449 3 32 410 4 31 520 5 28 283 1 27 382 1 25 524 4 25 326 5 25 291 2 23 445 4 22 311 1 21 360 5 mined as I was to get it done. Each game we came back and played our hearts out" Smith-Knight averaged 9.1 points and 5.1 rebounds per game as a senior, but her presence as the co-captain of the 1985-86 team was vital to its success.

"When she was healthy, Annette was the best defensive player I've ever coached," Conradt said. "Although she never returned to the playing form she had prior to her knee surgery, Annette was the anchor of that NCAA title team The passion and intensity which she brought to the court, along with her love for the game, has rarely been matched." The Lady Longhorns compiled a 131-10 record during Smith-Knight's career at Texas. Along with her record 2,523 points, Smith-Knight ranks first in field goals made second in scoring average (19.3 points per game) and free throws made (419), fourth in rebounding (966) and eight in games played (131). She also holds the school record for most consecutive games in double-figure scoring with 33. Smith-Knight was injured during the 1984 Olympics, but won a golomedal as the member of the U.S.

team at the 1983 World University Games. "I loved playing and I wish I could still play today," Smith-Knight said. "I wonder what would have happened if I had the opportunities that they have now." Smith-Knight worked as a paralegal for the secretary of state for five years after graduating from Texas before Conradt called and asked her to come back and work with the post players. "I really enjoyed playing for Jody," Smith-Knight said. "She taught us a lot on and off the court Evidently she saw something in me.

I'm still there now." Smith-Knight became an assistant coach at Texas from 1993-98. She left to coach at Southwest Texas State and UC-Irvine, where she met her husband, Curtis, who played basketball at UCLA and is now coaching boys basketball at Round Rock High School. Smith-Knight who also has a five-year-old son, Trey, lives in Cedar Park and is looking forward to welcoming friends and family, including her mother and father and pastor from Bay City, for her induction ceremonies. "I'm really excited," Smith-Knight said. "This is so special to me." Mike Forman is a sports writer for the Victoria Advocate.

Contact him at 361-580-6588, or by e-mail at 138 186 136 12 8 16 8 101 142 210 130 116 194 141 171 171 TLl 18 2 197 144 119 191 9.2 21 358 20 443 Shane Stuart, Industrial TENNIS In Shanghai. O-ra, lop-raried Llotoo Hewitt -ifl face No 3 Marat SaAa in oexl "ef i season-ending SLar.hai Cup. draw put No 1 Aa-dre and French Open finalist Juaa Carlo Ferrero in the tournament's other four man group. Agassi trail Hewitt by points in the ATP Champions Race, and ISO points are available in Shanghai Hewitt lost to Safin in Sunday's Paris Open trial. Also in their group here are French Open champion Albert Costs and Carlos Mova Agassi and Ftrrero are joined by Roger Federer and Jiri Novak.

In Pattaya, Thailand, top-seeded Tatiaoa Pa nova of Russia won her first-round match at the Volvo Women's while second-seeded Tamarine Tanasugarn of Thailand struggled to advance. Panovatook less than an hour to defeat Tatiana Poutchek of Belarus In the quarterfinals, Pan ova will Italy's Adrianna Ser-ra Zanetti, who defeated Ludmi-la Cervanova of Slovakia 7-5, 6-4. Tamarine, ranked 30th in the world and seeking her first WTA title, had to overcome an inconsistent performance to defeat No. 138 Akiko Morigami 7-5, 7-6 (6). Tamarine plays South Korea's Cho Yoon-jeong.

Cho, a silver medalist in last month's Asian Games, upset seventh-seeded Denisa Chladkova of the Czech Republic 6-3, 7-6 (6). BOXING In Montreal, WBC super-middleweight champion Eric Lucas wants to postpone his Dec. 7 fight against Markus Beyer because of a thyroid gland problem Lucas' camp said Wednesday it wrote to the World Boxing Council asking for a postponement, hoping to move to early 2003. The Canadian stopped training in New York on Tuesday and returned to Montreal for medical tests. He wont be able to train until January.

The title bout had been scheduled for Leipzig, Germany. Lucas won the title by beating Glenn Catley in July 2001 and has defended it three times. SOCCER In Columbus, Ohio, the Columbus Crew selected forward Luchi Gonzalez, a former Hermann Trophy winner, in Wednesday's Major League Soccer waiver draft. Gonzalez played in eight games in his rookie season for San Jose, which took him with the sixth pick overall in last year's MLS Super-Draft. Gonzalez scored 21 goals in 21 games as a senior at Southern Methodist and won the Hermann Trophy and MAC player of the year award both given to the nation's outstanding college player.

DC United, the MetroStars, Kansas City, Chicago and Dallas passed with the first five picks, and San Jose took defender Craig WalbeL The only other player drafted was defender Billy Sleeth, taken by Colorado with the eighth pick. Twenty-six players were eligible in the draft Waible, 27, made 12 appearances for Los Angeles last season, and Sleeth played in 13 games for Chicago. HORSE RACING In Lexington, Ky, Eclipse Award winner Xtra Heat was sold for $1.5 million to David Plummer of ClasskStar this week two years after the horse was bought for $5,000. Xtra Heat, winner of 24 of 32 races, was honored in 2001 as champion 3-year-old filly. Plummer bid $1 million for the racehorse during an auction Sunday at Fasig Tipton in Lexington, according to Dennis Lynch, director of breeding stock.

But the minimum price for Sunday's auction was $1.8 million, Lynch said. Plummer made the deal Monday. The filly will continue to be trained by John Salzman, who had owned the Dixieland Heat filly with partners Ken Taylor and Harry Deitchman, Lynch said. Xtra Heat won the $250,000 Grade III Phoenix Breeders' Cup at Keeneland in October, and she was sixth in the Breeder's Cup $1 million Sprint on Oct 26. CYCLING In Colorado Springs, former USA Cycling chief executive Lisa Voight resigned as one of the organization's top administrators, citing a desire to spend more time with her family.

Voight, who gave birth to twin daughters on May 6, is leaving her job as senior adviser for Olympic and international relations. She will continue to serve on the US. Olympic Committee's board of directors and executive committee through 2004. Compitod from Advocitt Wirt Reports Raymond Hudson, Wharton 20 363 Colby Parson, El Campo 18 354 Kyle King, Bloomington 18 259 Travis Pilat, St Paul 18 214 1 Adam Pointer, Bay City 17 325 2 Nick Taylor, Cuero 17 157 1 most immediately. "I was able to pick up everything very well," Smith-Knight said.

"I just focused in on everything I was supposed to do. Every time we stepped on the court, I gave it 100 percent" The Lady Longhorns finished as the AIAW national championship runner-up in Smith-Knight's freshman year and Texas advanced to the NCAA final eight in her sophomore and junior seasons. "In the early 1980's when we recruited Annette, she became the foundation upon which we built our national tradition," Conradt said. "She was the first great national-recruit type player to come into our program. We had some very impressive and solid basketball talent before her arrival, but no player of her kind.

She brought an incredible ability to the court, and her competitiveness is second to no one." Smith-Knight's desire to play basketball was severely tested when she suffered a knee injury that forced her to miss what was to be her senior season. She worked hard to rehabilitate her knee, which she still cant bend all the way back, and returned to help lead Texas to the 1986 national championship. "Each year, we got so close and so close but we would have an injury or something happen," Smith-Knight said. "I had teammates who were just as deter- 1 victoria, Texas vvp Texas Saturday: Sunday: Adult price REGULAR: $8. Children prices REGULAR: $2 Prosale adult ticket prices are $4 Children's tickets are 1 Pre sale Tickets available at all Speedy Stop Stores, The Texas Zoo, Leonard Kovar Ford, The Victoria Chamber of Commerce dumijiiiffl i ami 'mgi ji Texas athletic director DeLoss Dodds said the school stands by Garrido and that UT officials believed the violation to be "secondary" in nature, which would have brought a lesser penalty.

"We felt it was a secondary violation and still do," Dodds said. "(But) we did violate a rule and we're big folks. This is a wakeup call for everybody to find out what their coaches are doing. We're going to make some corrections." Garrido, who said he was disappointed by the sanctions, said he believed Texas had done what it was supposed to with Couch. "We did everything we thought we should and they said it was a violation," Garrido said.

"My understanding was to stay out of what they were doing at that job." The NCAA's report said Texas officials did a good job of explaining the rules to Couch before he took the job, but then didnt check up on him. Corrections and Clarifications Tlx Advocate trie to eorrtcl promptly ny trrw i ttet or clarify tny initletdinf MonMboo opp ring in nmn atone That the pwpoM of (ha column. To report tny orror or need for clarification ptoiM ctfl S1 -574-1201 Continued from Page IB ed NCAA standards of honesty. Although the NCAA's report attributed only one recruit who signed with Couch, it concluded that he gave Texas a competitive advantage by spending ail of his time on baseball and dozens of recruiting trips. It also said Texas failed to monitor whether Couch was going to his job, which was arranged with help from head coach Augie Garrido.

The Leghorns won their fifth national title and first in 13 years by beating South Carolina 12-6 at the College World Series in June. Couch left the team in October 2001. Tom Yeager chairman of the NCAA Division I Committee on In-fractions and chairman of the Colonial Athletic Association, said the violation was considered "major" The NCAA accepted Texas' self-imposed penalty to prohibit Garrido from recruiting off campus un-til August 2003. The team also will have one fewer scholarship for the 2003-04 school year, and only one assistant coach will be allowed to recruit off campus until August The penalties do not keep Texas from playing in postseason championships. I The Macaroni Festival is sponsored by: i VICTORIA ADVOCATE -A.

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