Temple High School’s 7-on-7 football team will begin its quest for a third consecutive state tournament berth with a game at Georgetown at 6 p.m. today. The Wildcats, coached by Temple graduate Craig Marshall, are scheduled to compete in state qualifying tournaments Saturday at Waco Midway, June 6 at Southlake Carroll and June 13 at Abilene.

The Wildcats went 4-1 at last year’s state tournament and tied for ninth place out of 64 teams in the Class 5A-4A division. This year’s state tournament is July 10-11 at Texas A&M’s intramural fields in College Station.

Temple graduate Hernandez helping San Jacinto in JUCO World Series

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - Former Temple High School baseball standout Danny Hernandez is making a positive impact for Houston’s nationally ranked San Jacinto College in the Junior College World Series.

The 2006 District 13-5A Most Valuable Player as a Wildcats junior, sophomore Hernandez is the starting third baseman for the No. 7 Gators (45-10) - he hit .369 with 15 doubles in the regular season - and aided their first two wins in the World Series.

Hernandez was 1-for-4 and scored a run in San Jac’s 7-1 win over Spartanburg Methodist (S.C.) on Sunday and went 1-for-5 with a home run and two runs scored as the Gators beat Santa Fe (Fla.) 9-4 on Tuesday. The combined attendance of those games was 18,263 fans.

San Jacinto and No. 1 Howard (61-1) were the only undefeated teams remaining in the 10-team field entering their matchup late Wednesday night. Hernandez was 3-for-4 with a double, an RBI and two runs in the Gators’ 12-11 loss. Temple College handed Howard its lone loss, 8-2 two weeks ago at the NJCAA Region V Tournament in Fort Worth.

San Jacinto plays Santa Fe in an elimination game at 3 p.m. today, then Howard will play one-loss Western Nevada at 7:30.