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Lightning in the area, along with flash storms, has canceled tonight's 7-on-7 league games at Jesuit. The games will not be made up, meaning the Scots' summer 7-on-7 schedule is over.

The football team's summer workouts continue with the Performance Course at Highlander Stadium. The first day of official team workouts is just six weeks away on Aug. 9.

HP fans can catch up with Clayton Kershaw on Sunday night, as ESPN offers up the Yankees at the Dodgers. Kershaw's first pitch to the Yankees lineup will be at 7 p.m. 

Kershaw is 7-4 on the season and coming off a 6-3 loss to the Los Angeles Angels. He has a 3.24 earned-run average, and is among the National League leaders in lowest batting average against (just over .200) and strikeouts (102). 

The Scots earned 84 points through scoring from athletics, band, fine arts and academic competitions. Friendswood won its second consecutive Lone Star Cup with 100 points, edging Austin Lake Travis (94 points). The two teams were tied for first heading into the state baseball and softball regional playoffs. Berths into the state baseball playoffs by third-place Brenham (92) and Frisco Wakeland (86) accounted for those programs' late surges past HP in the final standings. Frisco Wakeland beat HP in the first round of the baseball playoffs.

Only UIL-sponsored sports are eligible for the Lone Star Cup. Here are the final Lone Star Cup standings as released by the UIL through June 18, although scoring appeals can be heard through the end of the month.

The scene at Jesuit Prep School on Monday afternoon looked just like a regular HP football practice, minus the helmets, and the pads, and the field turf, and a handful of coaches working inside the huddles.

Instead of 90 or so players crammed onto one field, four teams of seven players fit well onto two 45-yard fields for another round of 7-on-7 work. HP had the bulk of its skill-position players on hand for the third week in the four-week June schedule.

HP beat Bishop Lynch, lost to W.T. White on the final play, and tied Jesuit in this week's set of three 25-minute mini-games. Each team plays the three others each week. No results or standings have been kept. 

"We asking them to be up at the weight room two hours a day, four days a week, and then they're out there doing 7-on-7 on Mondays, so there's plenty of football going on right now," HP head coach Randy Allen said. 

The Scots will close their 7-on-7 league next Monday, June 28, back at Jesuit. The mini-games begin at 6 p.m. Allen said HP has not played in any other 7-on-7 state-qualifying tournaments this summer. 

I found HP head football coach Randy Allen at Monday's 7-on-7 games, and he said the Scots were never officially invited to the Red Bull Game Breakers 7-on-7 tournament two weeks ago.

I reported earlier this month that HP was a no-show at the event. My apologies for the misleading wording. Allen said he informed tourney organizers earlier this month that most of the players would be out of town and unavailable for the June 11 event, and thought that concluded HP's involvement. 

Allen was unaware the Game Breakers staff still had HP listed among the teams expected to attend the event at Cedar Hill High School on the Red Bull website, and the Scots were slotted into the 16-team bracket up until to the day of the event.  

HP's declined invitation left the  Game Breakers with a 12-team bracket after three other invited teams didn't show up either. 

The Scots have been competing in a 7-on-7 league with W.T. White, Bishop Lynch and Jesuit each Monday night in June. The final games are next Monday, June 28, beginning at 6 p.m. at the grass fields on the south end of Jesuit's campus.  

Here is the UIL's posted schedule for the championship games: 

Fri., Dec. 17, 2010
Class 3A Division II - 4 p.m.
Class 4A Division II - 8 p.m.

Sat., Dec. 18, 2010
Class 4A Division I - 12 p.m.
Class 5A Division II - 4 p.m.
Class 5A Division I - 8 p.m.

(at Shotwell Stadium in Abilene)
Sat. Dec. 11, 2010
Class 1A 6-Man Division II - 2 p.m.
Class 1A 6-Man Division I - 7 p.m.

(at Vernon Newsom Stadium in Mansfield)
Fri., Dec. 17, 2010
Class 1A Division II - 7:30 p.m.

Sat., Dec. 18, 2010
Class 1A Division I - 12 p.m.
Class 2A Division II - 4 p.m.
Class 2A Division I - 8 p.m.  

Publisher's Note: A follow-up to this blog item was published on June 21. Click here to read the explanation for HP not appearing at this tournament. The original post is below. - Scott Farrell

CEDAR HILL - HP didn't show up at the 7-on-7 tournament out at Cedar Hill. Three other teams also decided not to make the trip, turning what was supposed to be a 16-team bracket into a 12-team event. The Red Bull Game Breakers staff were not informed of the teams' plans prior to the start of the tournament.

HP's next 7-on-7 competition is in its June summer league, which has moved to Jesuit on Monday nights due to construction at Highlander Stadium. The Scots begin play at 6 p.m. Monday, June 14, at Jesuit.