Big news on Tuesday was Bellaire Episcopal alum Tanner Witt as he worked the final 5.2 innings in relief for the Texas Longhorns as their bats came alive to send the Tennessee Volunteers home from the College World Series with an 8-4 victory.
After giving up a single to the Vols' Liam Spence that drove in a run to tie the score at 4-all, Watt surpassed season highs of 3.1 innings and 56 pitches (throwing 78 in total) to close out the victory only giving up two additional hits and no walks while striking out two.
Texas plays Virginia on Thursday at 6 p.m. Central in an elimination game.
+ JewishHoopsAmerica.com on Tuesday named Yavneh Academy of Dallas men's head basketball coach David Zimmerman as its 2019-2020 Coach of the Year. The organization, since so few teams competed in 2020-2021, upgraded awards from 2019-20 or added those who did play in 2020-21 as honorable mention.
Zimmerman led Yavneh to the TAPPS 3A championship, the first time a Jewish high school team in the United States ever won a state title. Yavneh finished the season 31-3, including 18 straight wins to end the 2019-2020 year.
Third team All-Jewish Hoops America recognition waent to senior Mason Schwaber. Honorable mention recognition was bestowed upon Houston Beren Academy senior Noah Diner and Yavneh senior Jonah Eber.
+ Ferris High School announced on Tuesday that its new Associate Head Coach, Defensive Coordinator and Inside Linebackers Coach is former Dallas Bishop Dunne head coach Michael Johnson. Johnson guided Dunne to TAPPS state titles in 2014 and 2018 and was Dave Campbell's Texas Football magazine's Private School Coach of the Year in 2014.
+ Houston The Kinkaid School field hockey phenom Hope Haynes, who will be a junior in the 2021-2022 academic year, verbally committed to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Tuesday. She said, "I want to thank my coaches, family and teammates for the all support and guidance over the past seven years!"
+ Stanford staved off elimination at the College World Series on Monday after the Cardinal dispatched Arizona, 14-5. Dallas Jesuit alum Jacob Palisch, on the same day that fellow Ranger Kyle Muller was getting his first major league start, came on in relief for the Cardinal and went 3.2 innings, giving up three hits and a run while striking out one to earn his second save of the season.
+ KCBD sports director Pete Christy had a great "Call A Coach" segment with former Lubbock Trinity Christian Boys Basketball Coach Brandon Gilbert on Tuesday. Check it out on Facebook here.
+ Abilene High on Monday announced that Fort Worth Christian alum -- and former girls varsity assistant and head JV basketball coach - Brenda (Jacoby) Andress would be the Lady Eagles new girls head basketball coach. She was a three-year captain at ACU and played on a pair of Lone Star Conference championship teams, before starting her coaching career which included stops at Colorado Springs (CO) Sierra, ACU (as a GA), Fort Worth Christian School (nine seasons) and Birdville Richland (four years)
+ Episcopal School of Dallas alum Charlotte North, a senior attacker on Boston College's lacrosse team, wrapped up her collegiate career by being recognized last Tuesday, June 15, as the Atlantic Coast Conference's 2021 Women's Lacrosse Scholar-Athlete of the Year, headlining the conference's All-Academic team. It was North's third selection to the All-ACC Academic team.
North was the women's recipient of the 2021 Tewaaraton Award, annually given to the top lacrosse player in the nation, as she led Boston College to its first-ever National Championship with an NCAA Division I-record 102 goals. She also broke the Division I record for goals in an NCAA Tournament with 31.
North was named First-Team All-ACC as well as the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association's Player of the Year and Attacked of the Year while earning spots on the IWLCA and Inside Lacrosse All-America first teams.
+ Austin St. Andrew's Episcopal School has announced this week a number of position changes. Associate Athletics Director and Head Boys Lacrosse Coach Josh Blumenthal shared that he is heading north to Wisconsin to become the Athletic Director and Lacrosse Coach at Wayland Academy in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. Wayland Academy, which competes in the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (equivalent to UIL in Texas), was originally founded as Wayland University in 1855.
Austin St. Andrew's has brought in Trey Morin as their new Boys Basketball Program Director from The Phelps School in Malvern, Pennsylvania. According to his LinkedIn, he has just been named as the school's Director of Athletics. He had been a GA at Merrimack College before collegiate assistant stints at Colby-Sawyer and Bates after playing all four seasons at Salem State University.
The school also tapped a Bates College pipeline by naming Katherine Bowie as its Field Hockey Program Director. Bowie, who rose from an Assistant Coach to the Interim Head Coach at Bates, will join St. Andrew's after a stint as the head coach of Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. A native of Maine, Bates played collegiately for Siena College in Albany, New York.
+ Ovilla Christian School alum and Dallas Baptist University senior Jackson Glenn was named a Third Team All-American by the National Collegiate Baseball Writer's Association (NCBWA) last Wednedsay. It capped off a storied senior season after also being named the Joe Carter Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year in 2021 ater posting a career-high .366 batting average and his 21 home runs were the third-most in a single season in the program's Division I era dating back to 2004 and was also the fourth-most in college baseball.
+ Participating in the Texas Association of Basketball Coaches' Showcase this weekend at Duncanville High School are the following non-UIL high school programs (and their opponents):
Arlington Grace Prep (Killeen Shoemaker, Schertz Clemens, Frisco Reedy)
Austin St. Michael's Catholic (Haltom, Fort Worth Christian, Rockwall)
Dallas Bishop Lynch (Leander Rouse, A&M Consolidated, Cypress Creek)
Dallas Greenhill (San Antonio Wagner, South Grand Prairie, Irving Universal Academy)
Dallas Jesuit (San Antonio Harlan, Grapevine Faith Christian, Round Rock, Houston St. Thomas)
Dallas St. Mark's School of Texas (Katy Seven Lakes, Silsbee, El Paso Andress)
Fort Worth Christian (Baytown Goose Creek Memorial, Austin St. Michael's Catholic, San Angelo Central)
Fort Worth Nolan Catholic (New Caney, Sherman, Wichita Falls Rider)
Grapevine Faith Christian (Katy Jordan, Dallas Jesuit, Waco)
Houston Marian (Mansfield Lake Ridge, Keller Central, Spring Creek Academy)
Houston St. Thomas (Irving MacArthur, Dallas Wilson, Dallas Jesuit)
Houston Strake Jesuit (Mansfield Summit, Waco Midway, Prosper)
Irving Universal Academy (Humble Summer Creek, San Antonio Wagner, Dallas Greenhill)
Legacy School of Sports Sciences (Frisco Memorial, Lancaster, Lewisville iSchool)
Lewisville iSchool (Duncanville, Richardons, Legacy School of Sports Sciences)
New Braunfels St. John Paul II (Center, Wichita Falls City View, Nacogdoches Central Heights)
Plano John Paul (Dallas Faith Family, Clear Brook, Texas Alliance of Christian Athletes)
Spring Creek Academy (Dallas Wilson, San Antonio Brennan, Houston Marian)
Texas Alliacne of Christian Athletes (Killeen Ellison, Cypress Ranch, Plano John Paul)
The Woodlands Christian Academy (San Antonio Cole, Sulphur Springs, Leadership Prep)
Tomball Concordia Lutheran (Leadership Prep, Dallas Lincoln, San Antonio Harlan)
+ We still need to recap the TAPPS Sand Volleyball Tournament from this past week, as well as a couple of other activities recently.
+ We're also working on updating our entire list of former Texas private and parochial high school baseball athletes who are playing minor or major league baseball.
OFFERS
Episcopal School of Dallas OG/OT Ryan Ainsworth by Trinity University (Announced via Twitter on 6/22/2021)
Episcopal School of Dallas '22 DE Chase Kennedy by Southern Methodist University (Announced via Twitter on 6/22/2021)
Episcopal School of Dallas '22 DB/QB Carter Hogg by Washington and Lee University (Announced via Twitter on 6/20/2021)
Fort Worth Nolan Catholic '23 DE/DT Caleb James by the University of Oklahoma (Announced via Twitter on 6/22/2021)
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