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STORM CENTER COLUMN: Winning stays with McKinley

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Bob McKinley grew up playing basketball here in Bowie back in the 1950s, and he was part of that tradition-rich decade of success.
McKinley said his coach Bobby Brashear helped him develop his love of basketball, and that has translated into a long fruitful career as the athletic director and head women’s hoop coach at Weatherford College.
This summer, McKinley will be inducted into the National Junior College Athletic Association Women’s Basketball Coaches Hall of Fame. He will be feted at a banquet on July 24 in Niceville, Fla.
“It’s a tremendous honor to be selected after 38 years here at Weatherford College,” McKinley said in a telephone interview with me on Wednesday afternoon.
McKinley will be joined in the Hall by fellow inductees Ricky Gene Ford from Northeast Mississippi and Denny Jerome from former NJCAA member Waldorf (Iowa).
Bob’s record speaks for itself.
McKinley has amassed more than 870 victories and entered the 2014-15 campaign as the winningest active coach in the entire NJCAA. He’s third on the all-time wins list.
While a schoolboy at Bowie, he helped the Jackrabbits make state as a junior before falling to Buna. That team featured the likes of James Thompson, Jerry Cantwell, Tommy Powers and Orville Welch.
Brashear’s Bowie teams had a “culture of winning,” and that precedent has followed McKinley wherever he’s been as a coach.
“Coach Brashear did a lot of things other coaches weren’t doing (at the time),” McKinley said.
Bowie was known for its stifling press defense, and that’s one of the cornerstones of how Weatherford College has played since McKinley arrived on campus in 1977.
What else did McKinley learn from Brashear?
“Discipline,” he said. “It’s very important to let the players know how you feel about them and believe in them. Then you can get just about anything out of them.”
Once he graduated from Bowie, McKinley played for three seasons at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, where he met his wife, Delores. He served as Horned Frogs’ team captain. Read more of this column in the weekend News.

Weatherford College head women’s basketball coach and athletic director Bob McKinley, a Bowie native. (Courtesy photo from Weatherford College) 

Editor’s Note: The Storm Center column is the expressed written views of sports editor Eric Viccaro and not The Bowie News.

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Jackrabbits blow out City View

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The Bowie Jackrabbits beat down City View on the road on Monday by run-rule to pick up a district win.
The Jackrabbits won 15-0 after five innings due to run-rule as they dominated against the Mustangs.
Bowie was coming off a close loss at Holliday in a game it nearly came back to win, so took out its frustration on a struggling City View team.
The Jackrabbits got going early as Troy Kesey hit a solo home run with two outs to get a rally going for the team. Two batters later Edmond De Leon hit a two-run home run.
Rayder Mann hit a ground ball to third base that resulted in an error that drove in a run. Cy Egenbacher then hit an RBI single to put Bowie up 5-0 before the Mustangs had even hit.
After a scoreless second inning, the Jackrabbits got back going in the third. Boston Farris and Seth Mann both hit a two RBI doubles.
Kesey and Hayden Rodriguez followed with RBI singles to make it 11-0 for Bowie.
The Jackrabbits kept the pressure in the fourth inning. Farris hit a three-run home run and Kesey later drove in another run with a double to make it 15-0 for Bowie.
The game continued into the fifth inning and City View needed to score at least six runs to keep the game going. The Mustangs broke up Kesey’s no-hitter on the mound with three straight singles to load the bases up with no outs.
Kesey finished strong, striking out the next two batters before inducing a fly ball to center field for the final out.
The Jackrabbits won 15-0.

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Baseball Roundup

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Nocona
The Nocona Indians got some revenge by beating Perrin-Whitt on Thursday at home.
The Indians won 5-3 to hopefully make up for losing the previous game in the final inning against the Pirates.
Nocona had lost two days earlier to Perrin-Whitt 3-2 after leading for the entire game until the final inning.
The second game it was the Pirates that led for the majority of the game, leading 2-1 after the first inning. The Indians tied the score 2-2 after the third inning, but Perrin-Whitt got the lead back in the fourth inning with one run to make it 4-3.
Nocona took control in the sixth inning when Wesley Murpehy drove in two runs with a double. Brody Langford followed him with an RBI single to double the Indians score and put them up 6-4.
This time around, Nocona’s defense held on in the final inning, allowing only one base runner before closing the game with little trouble.

Missing scores
Scores from Saint Jo and Bellevue are not updated due to games being delayed due to weather late last week.

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Bowie softball season comes to an end

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The Bowie Lady Rabbits came up just short of winning their final game at City View on Friday.
The Lady Mustangs held off a furious Lady Rabbits rally in the seventh inning to scrape out a win 11-10.
Bowie was entering the game knowing it was the last game of the season no matter what so it came out loose and ready.
The Lady Rabbits took control early. Chloe Kinney scored due to an error trying to pick her off. Sage Gossett hit a single that drove in one run and an error on the throw allowed another run to score.
Several batters later, Beau Combs and Victoria Cox both hit RBI singles to make it 5-0 for Bowie.
The Lady Mustangs scored two runs to make cut the lead to 5-2 after the first inning.
Bowie scored one run in the second inning when Serenity Klump was able to score from third base due to an error by the catcher. City View equaled that run in the same inning with an RBI double.
After the teams exchanged scoreless innings in the third and fourth, things picked up in the fifth inning.
Kaylie Kinney hit an RBI double with two outs to extend Bowie’s lead to 7-3.
The Lady Mustangs answered with a huge inning to get back in the game. Three singles and two errors allowed City View to score four runs and tie the score up at 7-7.
After the Lady Rabbits offense could not get anything going in the sixth inning, the Lady Mustangs picked up where they left off.
Five straight singles, one walk and a passed ball allowed City View to score four more runs to take the lead 11-7 heading into the final inning.
With Bowie down to its last three outs of the season, the team buckled up to get something going.
Cox hit a one out double. Chloe Kinney followed with a single that drove her in. After a strikeout and Kinney advancing to second base after a passed ball, Klump drove her in with a double.
After a walk, Gossett came through and hit a single that drove in one more run to cut City View’s lead to one run.
With the tying run in scoring position, Bowie was in good condition but was also down to its last out.
Unfortunately, the next batter struck out looking to end the game and the Lady Rabbits season.
City View won 11-10.

To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.

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