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MONTICELLO, Ark. -- Arkansas Highs varsity boys basketball team hit the road Monday and came back home with a 54-53 win over Drew Central.

PITTSBURG, Texas -- One week after pitching a shutout to open the playoffs, the Daingerfield Tigers shut down the high-scoring Hooks Hornets, 33-6, here Friday at Pirate Stadium in a class 3A Division I Region III area playoff game.

High School football is king in East Texas with 25 games featuring East Texas teams this weekend in the area round of the playoffs.

High School football is king in East Texas with 25 games featuring East Texas teams this weekend in the area round of the playoffs.

Note: Some people think Dr. PickEm is not real, so Im attaching a mug for his column: Dr. PickEms Picks, as told to Bill Owney

The first third of the regular season is when football reality sets in. Teams tend to define their identities in the first few weeks and patterns set in.

I was thinking he had retreated to the Caribbean cave where he stores cases of rum, pin-jabbed dolls, and volumes of books on Voo-doo incantations, when a whimper from under the kitchen sink caught my attention.

Three years after his in-absentia wake, I had finally come to accept that the seven seas would probably never relinquish the body of my usually irritating but always brilliant friend. Heck, I had even come to hope that someday the stars might align to produce another profound and prodigious pigskin prognosticator like Dr. Pick Em.

I may be climbing out a limb -- Ive definitely done that before -- but I believe the Hooks Hornets boys basketball team was the second-best in Class 3A this season.

The Hooks Hornets (32-5) will collide with the No. 2 ranked Hitchcock Bulldogs (29-7) in the state semifinals of the Class 3A boys state basketball tournament in San Antonios Alamodome.