Temple Daily Telegram's Daily Sports Articles http://www.temple-telegram.com Fri, 09 May 2008 15:26:23 -0500 Fri, 09 May 2008 04:00:00 -0500 Sports tdt@temple-telegram.com calendar@temple-telegram.com en-us Copyright 2008, Temple Daily Telegram http://www.temple-telegram.com/story/2008/05/09/49227 BELTON - A truly top-notch pitcher needs only a little breathing room to work with, so the combination of faulty Belton pitching and a big-hitting Klein lineup gave Matthew Purke all the leeway he needed to blow the Tigers away. The Bearkats belted two home runs in a seven-run fourth-inning eruption and Purke did the rest with 15 strikeouts to help No. 8-ranked Klein post a 7-2 win over Belton in the opener of their Class 5A area-round baseball playoff series Thursday night at Tiger Field. Fri, 09 May 2008 04:00:00 -0500 http://www.temple-telegram.com/story/2008/05/09/49227 http://www.temple-telegram.com/story/2008/05/09/49228 BELTON - She is a physicist’s dream: a 5-5, 107-pound mass of kinetic energy. Stand still? No way. Fri, 09 May 2008 04:00:00 -0500 http://www.temple-telegram.com/story/2008/05/09/49228 http://www.temple-telegram.com/story/2008/05/09/49229 BELTON - Sigmund Freud has nothing on Belton pole vaulter Morgan Toone. A gifted athlete who fell in love with vaulting at age 5, the biggest obstacle for Toone to get over in recent years was in her mind. Fri, 09 May 2008 04:00:00 -0500 http://www.temple-telegram.com/story/2008/05/09/49229 http://www.temple-telegram.com/story/2008/05/09/49230 LOCKHART - The Salado Eagles kept hitting and hitting and hitting. Bloop hits. High choppers. Infield singles. Deep gappers. Towering home runs. Fri, 09 May 2008 04:00:00 -0500 http://www.temple-telegram.com/story/2008/05/09/49230 http://www.temple-telegram.com/story/2008/05/09/49231 AUSTIN - The Rogers baseball team isn’t used to this underdog stuff, but the Eagles are learning to embrace it. Rogers, the defending Class 2A state champion, isn’t favored in its area-round playoff series against Hallettsville, the 10th-ranked team in the state. Fri, 09 May 2008 04:00:00 -0500 http://www.temple-telegram.com/story/2008/05/09/49231 http://www.temple-telegram.com/story/2008/05/09/49232 WEIMAR - Troy senior Jake McMurtry summed up the difference between this year’s Trojan baseball club and their recent squads. “The word team pretty much describes it,” McMurtry said after Troy defeated Trinity 13-6 in a Class 2A bi-district playoff game last week. Fri, 09 May 2008 04:00:00 -0500 http://www.temple-telegram.com/story/2008/05/09/49232 http://www.temple-telegram.com/story/2008/05/09/49233 SMITHVILLE - If you had filled out a bracket a couple of weeks ago March Madness-style for the Class 2A Region IV softball playoffs and had Rosebud-Lott and East Bernard as quarterfinal opponents, you might be well on the way to winning the office pool. Whether they are a pair of bracket busters or two teams that simply have flown under the radar, they find themselves together after successfully dispatching their first two playoff opponents. Fri, 09 May 2008 04:00:00 -0500 http://www.temple-telegram.com/story/2008/05/09/49233 http://www.temple-telegram.com/story/2008/05/09/49234 SAN ANTONIO - The San Antonio Spurs’ Big Three congregated around the scorer’s table during a timeout in the fourth quarter, not long before they put the game away for good. Tim Duncan patted Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili. They all laughed. Fri, 09 May 2008 04:00:00 -0500 http://www.temple-telegram.com/story/2008/05/09/49234 http://www.temple-telegram.com/story/2008/05/09/49235 AUSTIN - The Gatesville boys golf team knew it had to have a solid day on the opening round of the Class 3A UIL State Tournament. That the Hornets did, turning in a 304 at Roy Kizer Golf Course in Austin. That score left them just nine strokes behind first place Medina Valley, but it also left them sitting in sixth place as the opening round saw several good scores. Fri, 09 May 2008 04:00:00 -0500 http://www.temple-telegram.com/story/2008/05/09/49235