by Stormy Williams SAsports.com Columnist Nueces Canyon High School Week of May 1, 2008
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Hey all you Panther fans, sorry we haven't updated you all in a while, but we, along with our Panther brothers and sisters, have been extremely busy with track and tennis.  We have all been very busy representing NCHS with great pride.  We'll get right to it and let yall know how everyone has been doing with their respective activities.

Basketball

The Lady Panthers had a tremendous season this year, advancing to the regional quarterfinals with a post season Area championship victory against Falls City 68-67.  I think everyone would agree that game was one for the books.  The Lady Panthers had a tremendous amout of community and school support, it was literally standing room only at that game and a very young Lady Panther basketball team kept their composure and came out with a win.  Next they met Flatonia for the quaterfinals, and our play-off run ended with a loss to a very disciplined Flatonia team.  But, even though the season ended, we will return 9 out of 11 players for next season, and there were no juniors on the team, so the next 2-3 years will be very interesting for the Lady Panthers basketball team. 

Basketball awards

All-district
Honorable Mention - Haley Burleson
Second team - Jordan Hicks
First team - Paulette Williams & Sylvia Iwouha
Newcomer of the Year - Hannah Burleson
MVP - Stormy Williams
Academic all-district - Jordan Hicks, Joana Hicks, Hannah Burleson, & Jessica Rollison
Academic all-state TGCA & TABC - Hannah Burleson
TABC all-region - Stormy Williams
TGCA all-state - Stormy Williams

Tennis

Well tennis was dominated by the Panthers this year, as we came away with the district team championship. District results are:

Mixed doubles 3rd place - Stormy Williams & JW Bishop

Girls doubles and advancing to regional tournament - Netty Flores & Stephanie Bonner 2nd
Brittney Luce & Laken Palermo 1st

Brittney and Laken also took 1st place at Regional to advance to State for the second year in a row.  WAY TO GO GIRLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Panther power!!!!!!!!

Boys doubles and advancing to regional tournament - Richie Maner & Wendell Landry - 2nd
Jon Arrellano & Steven Sifuentes 1st

Boys singles - Jeremy Whipkey 3rd place

JV girls doubles - Joana Hicks & Bethany Benivides - 1st place

Track

Girls advancing to area

Paulette Williams - discus 3rd at district
Stormy Williams - discus 2nd at district & shot put 1st at district
Sylvia Iwouha - 100m hurdles 1st at district; 100m dash, 200m dash, triple jump; and long jump

Girls advancing to regional

Paulette Williams - discus 3rd at area
Stormy Williams - discus 1st at area, shot put 1st at area
Sylvia Iwouha - 100m hurdles 1st at area; 100m; 200m; triple jump; long jump

Girls advancing to STATE (wooooo hooooooooo!!  GO BLUE!!!!) -

Stormy Williams - 1st place shot put - Region IV - 1A champion

Sylvia Iwouha - 100m hurdles 2nd place

Boys advancing to area -

Kevin Whipkey - sprint relay, triple jump 1st place, long jump 1st place

Gary Hurt - Long jump 2nd place, sprint relay alternate

Gage Perry - sprint relay, 100m dash 1st place, 200m dash 1st place

Sam Sifuentes - sprint relay

Steven Sifuentes - sprint relay

Boys advancing to regional

Sprint relay - Gary, Gage, Sam, & Kevin

Kevin Whipkey - triple jump & long jump

Gary Hurt - long jump

UIL academics

Advancing to State competition

Sylvia Iwouha - Poetry

Michael Gonzales - News writing

FFA Dairy team advancing to state juding competetion

One act play advanced to district competition

The students at NCHS have been representing our school well, keep the pride growin'
GO PANTHERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TAKS testing was this week, we hope everyone did well.

Prom is set for May 17th - Saturday

The following girls will be participating in a summer basketball tournament team for the MAYB league:

May God bless each and everyone of you,

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