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LSCSN News & Notes; June 28, 2022

LSCSN TO BROADCAST DALLAS ST. MARK'S AT JOHN COOPER IN WEEK 3!

Apologize for a little bit of a break from our last News & Notes on Saturday morning.

As we stated on last night's "Chalk Talk Live", which you can see on our Facebook page, LSCSN.COM, it's been a busy month of June.

We are pleased to announce our Week Three Football Game of the Week for Friday, September 9, 2022.

We will broadcast across the LSCSN Mixlr Radio Network the St. Mark's School of Texas from Dallas as they will travel to The Woodlands to take on The John Cooper School.

We appreciate athletic director John Hoye for giving us to add this contest to our 2022 football schedule.

This will currently go along with our Week One matchup of New Braunfels Christian Academy versus Huntsville Alpha Omega Academy in Bryan at Allen Academy on Saturday night, August 27, 2022.

As we navigate Dan Morgan's game schedule in his responsibilities as a football coach at Houston Milby High School, we will continue to look at filling out our 2022 football broadcast schedule.

TEXAS STATE 7-ON-7 CHAMPIONSHIP

Bellaire Episcopal won their opening round contest with a 27-13 decision over The Woodlands before falling to Northwest ISD Byron Nelson 34-30.

Head coach Steve Leisz said on Twitter on Saturday, "Our run is over, making the Top 16, and I couldn't be more proud of our guys."

Both Bellaire Episcopal and Sugar Land Fort Bend Christian Academy represented themselves well in the Texas state competition.

TAPPS 6-ON-6 / 7-ON-7 CHAMPIONSHIP

Congratulations to Fort Worth Covenant Classical and Houston St. Thomas for winning their respective tournaments.

The Eagles of Houston Saint Thomas grabbed the title with Saturday wins over Houston The Kinkaid School, 32-21; Fort Worth Christian, 41-20 and Austin St. Michael's Catholic, 40-39, in the title game.

In six-man play, Fort Worth Covenant Classical ran the table on Saturday by scoring victories over Austin Texas School for the Deaf, Bryan St. Joseph Catholic and Plano Prestonwood Christian Academy North.

All of the Saturday scores can be found at https://lscsn.blogspot.com/2022/06/tapps-6-on-6-7-on-7-championship.html

TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF BASKETBALL COACHES (TABC) SHOWCASE

A great opportunity for many of our private and parochial schools to go up against some of the best UIL programs over three days, Friday-Sunday, June 24-26, 2022 in Duncanville and Cedar Hill.

Cumulative records were as follows:

3-0 - Houston St Francis, Houston St Thomas

2-1 - Dallas Jesuit, Houston Strake Jesuit

2-1 - McKinney Christian Academy, Plano John Paul II, The Woodlands Christian, Tomball Concordia Lutheran

1-2 - Addison Trinity Christian, Austin St Michael's, Fort Worth Christian, Houston St Thomas Episcopal, Lubbock Trinity Christian, Midland Christian 

0-2 - Austin Brentwood Christian School

0-3 - Annapolis Christian Academy, Argyle Liberty Christian, Dallas Parish Episcopal, Dallas St Mark's School of Texas, Fort Worth Nolan Catholic, Houston Episcopal, Houston St John's, Plano Prestonwood Christian 

Scores from each of the three days can be found at the following links:

Friday, June 24 - https://lscsn.blogspot.com/2022/06/tabc-showcase-2022-friday-june-24-2022.html
Saturday, June 25 - https://lscsn.blogspot.com/2022/06/tabc-showcase-2022-saturday-june-25.html
Sunday, June 26 - https://lscsn.blogspot.com/2022/06/tabc-showcase-2022-sunday-june-26-2022.html

WORLD ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS OREGON22

This competition will be held in Eugene, Oregon at Hayward Field from Friday, July 15 to Sunday, July 24, but the road to get there was this past weekend at the 2022 Toyota USATF Outdoor Championships, also in Eugene.

Houston The Kinkaid School alum Raevyn Rogers ran a season-best 1:57.96 in the finals on Sunday to finish third behind Athling Mu and Ajee Wilson to earn her spot on USA's Worlds Team.

She had run 2:01.10 in Thursday's first round and 2:01.15 in Friday's semifinals to setup her finals performance on Sunday.

TEXAS PRESEASON ALL-COLLEGE TEAM

Congratulations to Colleyville Covenant Christian alum Seth Keller, a kicker for the Texas State Bobcats, for being named to the Dave Campbell's Texas Football Second Team All-College Team.  

Sixth in school history with 23 career field goals made, Keller was All-Sun Belt Honorable Mention in 2021 after connecting on 15 of 18 field goals with a long of 48 yards.  He led the team in points scored with 78, the most in seven years since Robert Lowe in 2014.

PROFESSIONAL GOLF

The @KinkaidAthletic and UT alum Cole Hammer shot 69-74 for a three-over-par 143 at the Travelers Championship in Cromwell, CT, missing the cut by five strokes.

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

The Oakland Athletics on Monday, June 27 called Austin St. Andrew's alum and pitcher Sam Selman up from AAA Las Vegas for the second time this season.

The Los Angeles Angels reclaimed Houston Westbury Christian alum and outfielder Dillon Thomas off waivers from the Houston Astros on Monday.  After hitting a home run for the Sugar Land Space Cowboys, he had been designated for assignment.  

He has been assigned to Salt Lake where he is expected to be in the lineup tonight on the road against Tacoma.

New York Yankees catcher Jose Trevino, an alum of Corpus Christi John Paul II, is currently second in MLB All-Star Game Balloting behind Toronto's Alejandro Kirk.  He has garnered 695,932 votes, but would need all five boroughs to get out the vote to catch Kirk's 1,857,670.

INDEPENDENT LEAGUE BASEBALL

After being released by the Montgomery Biscuits and the Tampa Bay Rays organization, the Cleburne Railroaders of the American Association on Tuesday, June 21, signed Arlington Pantego Christian alum Hill Alexander.

And already Alexander is feasting on Indy Ball pitching as he's batting .370 in his first seven games, through Monday night, and has hit three home runs - including two in one game - and driven in nine runs.

COLLEGE BASEBALL

Dallas Jesuit alum and Texas A&M Aggie Jacob Palisch picked up another second team All-American award, this time from Baseball America it was announced on Monday, June 27, 2022.

HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL

The Texas High School Baseball website, txhighschoolbaseball.com, released their top 25 stories of the Texas high school baseball season and private and parochial high schools earned seven (7) places on the list.

To view the list, please go to the following link:  https://txhighschoolbaseball.com/featured_news/top-25-stories-from-the-2022-texas-high-school-baseball-season/

COLLEGE BASKETBALL RECRUITING

Austin St. Michael's Catholic Academy power forward Joshua Jones announced Monday night that he had received an offer from Drexel University, which plays in the Colonial Athletic Association and is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Houston Strake Jesuit shooting guard Jace Posey is participating in the NBA Top 100 Camp this week in Orlando.  Once rosters and schedules are posted, games will be streamed live at https://top100camp.com/.

Houston St. Thomas forward Jake Pike shared on Twitter on Sunday that he had received an offer from the University of Incarnate Word in San Antonio.  UIW within the last week announced that it was no longer departing the Southland Conference for the Western Athletic Conference at the end of this month.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL RECRUITING

Midland Christian School senior Athlete Elijah Windham announced on Twitter Tuesday that he had received an offer from the Fightin' Engineers of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, an NCAA Division III school that is based in Terre Haute, Indiana and plays in the Heartland Collegeiate Athletic Conference

Parker Reese, a linebacker/running back from Dallas Parish Episcopal, indicated on Sunday via Twitter that he had received an offer from ACC member Boston College University.

Sunday also saw Dallas Jesuit running back Reed Pfaffenberger receiving an offer from NCAA Division III Hendrix College, based in Conway, Arkansas and plays in the Southern Athletic Association.

The Woodlands John Cooper School linebacker/running back Alex Rovirosa announced an offer on Sunday to play football from NCAA Division III Grinnell College.

HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL

Spring Legacy School of Sports Sciences announced that its Brittany Anderson was on the championship team in the San Antonio Spurs Sports Academy 10th Grade for Just Play Elite Gold.  They ran the table 6-0 and defeated the Houston Queens Elite, 38-17, in the championship game.

HIGH SCHOOL TRACK AND FIELD

Bellaire Episcopal graduate and college freshman-to-be at the University of Texas Kat Kwiatowski got her first taste of running against some freshman-to-sophomore collegians at the USATF U20 Championships at Hayward Field this past weekend.  She ran a personal best time of 4:44:06 in a field that included three fellow graduating seniors and five other college freshman.

There was even an SPC tie-in.  Wake Forest commit Elizabeth Whaley, who finished third in 4:23.00, ran for Indian Hill High School in Cincinnati, Ohio, whose athletic director Brian Phelps used to be the AD at Fort Worth Country Day School.

Sugar Land Logos Prep's Luke Mason won the 1500 meters at the USATF Gulf Association Junior Olympics/Gulf Open meet in Humble with a winning time of 4:08.25.  He also was on the Carl Lewis Athletic Stars Track Club's one of two teams in the 4x400 meter relay where they stopped the clock in 3:28.97.

Dallas St. Mark's School of Texas senior-to-be Jack "Wirt" Jackson IV ran a new personal best in the 100 meters at the USATF Southwestern Association Junior Olympic Championships on Saturday, June 25.  It came in the prelim round before he ran a 10.73 to take fourth overall in the finals.  He finished third this year at the SPC state championship meet on April 30.

HIGH SCHOOL LACROSSE

Episcopal School of Dallas senior Brian Brennan was named to the All-Tournament Team at last week's National High School Lacrosse Showcase in Maryland.

HIGH SCHOOL FIELD HOCKEY

Houston The Kinkaid School junior Abygail Deverka and sophomore Caroline Raynes along with Houston St. John's School junior Kristina Johnson were selected to play in the U-16 Rise Girls NXC Gold game this past Saturday as part of the 2022 Nexus Championship, presented by Osaka Hockey, in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

HIGH SCHOOL COACHES OF THE YEAR

While they didn't win, Wichita Falls Christi Academy athletic director and head girls volleyball coach Sara Lindemann and boys basketball coach Dale Miller were nominated for this year’s 2022 Nexstar Sports Award for the Small School Coach of the Year.  Both coaches led their teams to a state championship in the 2021-2022 school year.

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