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| GALVESTON - After preparing most of this week for Galveston Ball, Mother Nature has apparently thrown a wet curve into the Longview Lobos' travel and game plans for Friday.
Due to a potential threat by Hurricane Gilbert, a category 5 storm which entered the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday with 175 mph winds and could strike the upper Texas coast, officials from the Galveston Independent School District decided to indefinitely suspend Ball's game Friday night with Longview at Public School Stadium. School in Galveston has also been canceled Thursday and Friday. According to Longview Independent School District athletic director Doug Cox, because it was a non-district contest, the game would not be rescheduled. Cox also noted that Ball administrators did not want to separate the players from their families by moving the game to Longview. Friday's game would have been fifth time the two schools had met. In 1976 and '77, Ball made the trek to Longview with the Lobos winning both games (35-15 and 17-13, respectively). Longview opens District 13-5A play Friday, Sept. 23 at Tyler Lee. The Lobos are 1-1 on the season, while the Ball Tornadoes out of District 24-5A are also 1-1. Galveston host Pearland next Friday. The Lobos continued regular weekly workouts Wednesday afternoon, but were undecided about the schedule for Thursday and Friday. "We'll try to go watch Tyler Lee play Friday night, then get back on schedule," said Longview head coach Robert Bero. "Nothing really different in the plans, right now. "They're (players) disappointed, just like everybody else is. But not much you can do about it," he continued. "I don't think it makes it anymore difficult (not playing Friday). We've just got to get our routine back on schedule. "Monday needs to be just like a normal Monday for us. I do think it's important how we handle the next couple of days. We want to try to get better fundamentally, dow hat we can do, a lot of 3-on 3, 1-on-1 and just a lot of individual work...hopefully (the layoff) helps us." Bero, who was born on Galveston Island and played football for Ball High, is no stranger to hurricanes having gone through Hurricane Carla in 1961. "It looks like it's going to be a bad one and I can understand their (GISD) decision." |