Wednesday Morning Sports: * Today is National Bosss Day * Today is National Take Your Parents To Lunch Day * Today is National Fossil Day * Today is Support Your Local Chamber of Commerce * Today is Department Store Day * Today is Dictionary Day * Today is National Feral Cat Day * Today is Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity * Today is World Food Day * Today is Hagfish Day This Day in History: 1781 – George Washington captures Yorktown, Virginia after the Siege of Yorktown. 1829 - In Boston, MA, the first modern hotel in America opened. The Tremont Hotel had 170 rooms that rented for $2 a day and included four meals. 1846 – William T. G. Morton first demonstrated ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dome. 1859 - Abolitionist John Brown led a raid on Harpers Ferry, VA (now located in West Virginia). 1928 - Marvin Pipkin received a patent for the frosted electric light bulb. Birthdays Today: 1758- Noah Webster - compiled first American English dictionary 1854- Oscar Wilde, poet, playwright 1886- David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel 1898- William O. Douglas, Supreme Court Justice 1925- Angela Lansbury, actress, Murder, She Wrote 1946- Suzanne Somers, actress, Chrissy on TV series Threes Company 1958- Tim Robbins, actor, director 1975- Kellie Martin, actress ______________________ TGCA STATE VOLLEYBALL POLL Class 1A 1. Leon 37-1 2. Iola 32-2 3. Windthorst 26-8 4. Round Top Carmine 21-12 5. Milano 25-4 6. Plains 25-9 7. Shiner 21-12 8. Lindsay 27-7 9. Harper 25-6 10. Kerens 21-3 11. Beckville 22-4 12. Thrall NR 13. Miles 26-6 14. Yorktown 25-5 15. Abbott 17-5 16. Leakey 24-8 17. Burton 27-8 18. Archer City 19-8 19. Water Valley 20-9 20. Weimar 24-9 21. Avery 26-5 22. Forestburg 22-5 23. Sterling City 17-15 24. Wink 19-12 25t. Valley Mills NR 25t. Blum 16-15 Also: Chico, Valley View, Normangee, Avery, Bronte, Evadale and Cayuga Class 2A 1. Crawford 36-2 2. Bushland 28-5 3. Schulenburg 31-2 4. Caddo Mills 29-4 5. Blanco 27-6 6. Franklin 27-5 7. Brock 26-8 8. George West 24-3 9. White Oak 27-8 10. Dublin 24-8 11. Henrietta 23-8 12. Eustace 24-5 13. Godley 27-6 14. Comfort 26-5 15. Callisburg NR 16. Troup 20-12 17. New Diana NR 18. Grandview 20-7 19. Tatum 19-9 20. Sabine NR 21. Wallis Brazos 22-12 22. Poth 17-22 23. Edna 21-10 24. Quitman 20-12 25t. Nocona NR 25t. Palestine Westwood NR 25t. Pottsboro 18-9 Also- Pattonville Prairiland, Hallettsville, Commerce, Holliday, Lago Vista and Pilot Point . Class 3A 1. Argyle 25-9 2. Wimberley 27-10 3. Longview Spring Hill 30-2 4. Decatur 27-7 5. LaGrange 28-5 6. Van 27-6 7. Abilene Wylie 26-9 8. Bellville 30-7 9. Liberty Hill 25-9 10. Monahans 26-7 11. Columbus 29-7 12. Iowa Park 22-6 13. Celina 25-6 14. Henderson NR 15. Melissa 21-4 16. Springtown 22-8 17. Somerset NR 18. Hardin Jefferson 21-9 19. Borger 31-4 20. Bonham 30-9 21. Fredericksburg 19-17 22. Groesbeck 24-10 23. Big Spring 22-10 24. Carthage 24-9 25t. Hondo 17-11 25t. Gilmer 17-10 25t. Krum 22-10 25t. College Station 21-16 Also-Geronimo Navarro, Gatesville, Bullard, Pilot Point, Sealy, Pleasanton, Cleveland Tarkington and Boerne Class 4A 1. Mission Veteran’s Memorial 33-0 2. Burleson 33-2 3. Dallas Highland Park 30-5 4. Amarillo 29-8 5. Cedar Park 34-4 6. Frisco Centennial 28-7 7. San Antonio Brennan 30-3 8. Granbury 31-4 9. Dripping Springs 31-9 10. Lindale 31-3 11. Waxahachie 32-5 12. Fort Worth Boswell 31-5 13. Richmond Foster 24-3 14. Lovejoy 28-10 15. Alamo Heights 39-8 16. Barbers Hill NR 17. Frisco 30-6 18. Lumberton 26-7 19. El Paso Chapin 27-10 20. Dumas 23-11 21. Red Oak NR 22. Pearland Dawson NR 23. Aledo 25-6 24. Leander 28-12 25t. Canyon Randall 26-8 25t. Prosper 24-9 25t. Friendswood NR 25t. Santa Fe 25-11 Also-Hutto, Georgetown, Byron Nelson, Magnolia, El Paso Burgess, Brenham, Vista Ridge, McCallum, Ann Richards, and Waco University Class 5A 1. The Woodlands 33-0 2. Southlake Carroll 37-1 3. Colleyville Heritage 32-5 4. Round Rock 29-7 5. San Antonio Reagan 31-5 6. Coppell 35-3 7. Alvin 31-5 8. Cypress Fair 36-3 9. San Antonio Churchill 36-2 10. Clear Falls 25-6 11. Brownsville Veteran’s Memorial 30-4 12. New Braunfels Canyon 32-10 13. Richardson Pearce 26-7 14. A&M Consolidated 27-9 15. Kingwood NR 16. McKinney Boyd 25-7 17. Austin Lake Travis 26-12 18. Flower Mound 19-9 19. Edinburg North 24-6 20. Copperas Cove 33-7 21. El Paso Americas 17-4 22. Cypress Falls NR 23. Austin Westlake 26-12 24. El Paso Coronado 21-8 25t. Hebron 23-7 25t. Los Fresnos NR 25t. El Paso Franklin 26-9 Also-Brazoswood, Pflugerville Hendrickson, Mission Sharyland, Cypress Woods, Allen, Steele, Laredo United, Arlington, Smithson Valley, Laredo Alexander, New Braunfels , Del Rio, College Park and Round Rock Westwood _______________________ MLB PLayoffs Last Night Boston 1, Detroit 0 St. Louis 4, LA Dodgers 2 Today 3:00 PM St. Louis at LA Dodgers, Kelly vs Greinke 7:00 PM Boston at Detroit, Peavy vs Fister
Posted on: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 14:00:00 +0000
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