Month: November 2015

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Scots Continue Post Season March

The HP tennis team is heading to the state tournament and looking for its eighth consecutive state title, the Lady Scot volleyball team has advanced to the 6A Region II quarterfinal, and the football team launches its playoff run on Friday. Please read below for more information about each team.  Go Scots!

Tennis team heads to state tomorrowimageThe community is invited to a send-off for the Scot tennis team at 11 a.m. tomorrow at the HPHS student entrance on Westchester Drive. The team is is headed to College Station to compete in the UIL 6A State Tournament Nov. 11-12. Click here for tournament information.

After battling repeated weather delays, the HPHS tennis team beat The Woodlands College Park, Round Rock Westwood and, finally, Austin Westlake 10-4 in the Region II team tennis tournament Nov 1.

Lady Scots volleyball team advances to regional quarterfinalsimageThe HP volleyball team swept Rockwall in three sets (25-16, 25-23, 25-20), winning the Area Championship and advancing to the regional quarterfinal round of the UIL 6A state playoffs.

The Lady Scots will play Waco Midway at 7 p.m. tomorrow at Red Oak High School.

Varsity football to host playoff game at Highlander StadiumNimitz_VikingThe Scot football team finished the regular season with a 9-1 record and went 7-0 in district play. HP will face Irving Nimitz in the first round of the UIL 6A Division II playoffs at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 13 at Highlander Stadium.

Advance tickets will be available from 8:30-11:30 a.m. and 1:30-3:30 p.m. Nov. 10-12, and from 8:30 a.m.-noon Nov. 13 at the stadium box office. Tickets will be $4 for students and $6 for adults in advance, and all tickets will be $8 at the gate.

All tickets for the playoff game are general admission, and seats will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. No saving of seats will be permitted.

The gates will open at 5:30 p.m. There will be a small section of the stadium reserved for varsity football parents who volunteered at the Caniac dinner.

Sophomore cross country races at state meetimage

HPHS sophomore Jordyn Kaplan raced in the UIL 6A Girls State Cross Country Meet Nov. 7 in Round Rock. The runners battled rain and mud, and Kaplan finished in 126th place.

 

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Lady Scots Volleyball Face Rockwall in Playoffs 2nd Round

volleyball bidistrictLady Scots Volleyball will face Rockwall in the 2nd Round of the playoffs tomorrow (Thurs., 11/5) at Allen High School (click for directions).  First serve at 7pm.  Tickets will be available at the gate: $3 for students and $5 for adults.
Click Here for the volleyball playoff bracket.volleyball celebrate
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HP at Richardson Friday, November 6th- Kickoff at 7:30pm

Kirk Dooley’s Blog
  Friday night’s regular-season-ending contest between the Highland Park Scots and the Richardson Eagles will be the classic tale of two teams coming in from opposite ends of the spectrum. The Scots are 8-1 and the Eagles are 1-8. Regardless of who wins this match, it will be Richardson’s final game of the year while HP has already scheduled Irving Nimitz for a bi-district game next weekend at Highlander Stadium.Richardson Eagles 2 helmets
   It will be the Eagles’ final home game so they’ll play with pride but they won’t play with the passion of a playoff hopeful. The Scots will go full-throttle because they want to win the outright district championship. If they lose against Richardson, they would tie with North Mesquite for the title but it wouldn’t change their playoff seeding. The sting of losing the district championship last year to Horn still motivates the seniors on this year’s team to bring home the trophy without another name on it.
   Like Mesquite, Berkner and Pearce, the Richardson Eagles have talent. None of these teams made the playoffs but I think they (especially the Skeeters) could beat up on some playoff teams from other districts.
   The Eagles are led by one of the best wide receivers in the state, Kahlil Lacy, who has caught 35 passes for 693 yards and seven touchdowns. The highly-recruited Eagle is projected to be a solid major college receiver.
   Richardson quarterback Michael Johnson has completed 139 of 241 passes for 1,743 yards and 14 touchdowns. HP’s QB Henry Allen, by comparison, has completed 138 of 230 passes for 1,697 yards and 14 TDs.
   The Scots are averaging 365 yards per game but are allowing 379. That’s an odd statistic for an 8-1 team. The Eagles are averaging 333 yards per game and are allowing 471, which is appropriate for a 1-8 team.
   Unlike their games against Mesquite and Berkner, the Scots hope to strike quickly against Richardson, build up a comfortable lead and then allow their back-ups to get some experience in the second half. The Eagles, if they saw film from the HP-Berkner game, witnessed how the Rams defense held the Scots to 52 yards of total offense in the first half. Although HP came back in the second half with 246 yards, video doesn’t lie. Playoff opponents will be clamoring to study the first half of that Berkner film.
   The Scots are relatively healthy, rested and have playoff experience. They know they can’t look past Richardson to focus on Nimitz yet. And beyond the Vikings, who lurks in the playoff shadows down the road?
   It’s too early to think about it, but a challenger from Waco lies Midway to the regional finals.