Sports Shorts - 12/5

Sicory Smith caps off successful freshman season at Blinn

Former Yoe star receiver Sicory Smith made headlines this past week with his performance in Blinn’s bowl game Smith caught 7 passes for 147 yards in the Buccaneers’ 43-41 loss to #6 Snow in the El Toro Bowl. That performance earned the freshman offensive MVP honors for the game. Smith hauled in 23 passes for 536 yards and 7 touchdowns in 2017. The 7 scores were tied for first on the team with sophomore Dandre Reed.

Thorndale boys basketball tournament

Cameron will once again be competing in the Thorndale tournament this Thursday and Saturday. This tournament will feature a pure round robin style format with no actual bracket or championship game play. Team included: Cameron, Thorndale, Thorndale JV, Caldwell, Georgetown Gateway Prep and Smithville. Cameron will open play with Caldwell, a team they have already beaten twice this season, at 10:15 am on Thursday. The Yoemen will finish Thursday with Thorndale at 12:45. Cameron will play Smithville (10:15) and Gateway Prep (2:00) on Saturday.

Westbrook has most productive NFL game yet

Dede Westbrook continues to prove he should be on the field on a consistent basis with his performance in the Jaguars’ 30-10 win over the Colts. Westbrook caught 6 passes for 78 yards, his most yards to date in a game. Jacksonville (8-4) remains tied with Tennessee (8-4) for first place in the AFC South. Westbrook will have a national audience to showcase his skills this week when Seattle (8-4) comes to down for a 3:25 kickoff.

Local State Quarterfinal Matchups

6A DI: Round Rock Cedar Ridge (12-1) vs. Pflugerville Hendrickson (10-3) Saturday 5:00pm at Pflugerville’s The Pfield; Lake Travis (11-2) vs. San Antonio O’Connor (13-0) Saturday 4:00pm at San Antonio’s Alamodome. 6A DII: Southlake Carroll (10-3) vs. Waco Midway (13-0) Saturday 6:00pm at Waco’s McLane Stadium; Austin Westlake (13-0) vs. Cibolo Steele (9-4) Saturday 8:00pm at San Antonio’s Alamodome. 5A DI: Manvel (12-0) vs. Temple (10-3) Friday 7:30pm at Prairie View’s Panther Stadium. 5A DII: Fort Bend Marshall (10-2) vs. College Station (11-2) Saturday 1:00pm at Waller’s Waller ISD Stadium; Austin McCallum (13-0) vs. Corpus Christi Calallen (13-0) Saturday 12:00pm at San Antonio’s Alamodome. 4A DI: Waco La Vega (13-0) vs. Liberty Hill (10-2) Friday 7:30pm at Killeen’s Buckley Stadium. 4A DII: Salado (12-1) vs. West Orange Stark (11-0) Friday 7:00pm at Katy’s Legacy Stadium. 3A DI: Teague (11-2) vs. Rockdale (10-3) Friday 7:30pm at Waco’s Waco ISD Stadium. 3A DII: Lexington (13-0) vs. Boling (8-5) Friday 7:30pm at Brenham’s Cub Stadium. 2A DI: Crawford (11-2) vs. Mart (12-1) Thursday 7:30pm Waco’s Waco ISD Stadium. 2A DII: Burton (12-1) vs. Falls City (11-2) Friday 7:00pm at San Marcos’ Bobcat Stadium.

Little Dribblers Sign Ups

Forms for Little Dribblers signups have been sent home with students. They will be due by

Monday, December 11th. The teams will practice Monday December 4th and Monday December 11th before the Holiday break. Practice locations and times will be listed on the forms.

Wrestling Results

Cameron held strong in this past week’s tournament in Austin that saw more than 50 competing schools. Results from head coach Dale Keen:

“Payton Aguillon won three matches to win the 285 lb wt. class in the JV division. Domanique Borgas competed in the 220 lb wt. class and found it tougher going this week but wrestled well and won one of three matches.

Newcomer Zachary Hafley surprised the Cameron contingent with a win after just 4 days in the program. There is definitely hope for the future.

Others competing well in the JV division were Jacob Green and Seth Perez.

Alfredo Ramos, Ebonique House and Johnvanique Porter all won two matches in the varsity divisions to qualify to the advancing rounds on Saturday. Though they wrestled well they found it tougher going, failing to win in two matches.”

Cameron staying put in 3A

On Wednesday morning, the UIL announced the long-awaited cutoff numbers that places schools in classifications for the 2018-2019 school years. With a conference cutoff number of 504, this means that Cameron will be staying put in class 3A. Cameron turned in a number of 488 back in October for the snapshot day. Districts will be released at the beginning on February. We will have more details about where the Yoemen could potentially land in next week’s edition of sports.