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Bowie, Nocona boy powerlifters compete at state

Published

1 year ago

03/29/2023

Bowie sent five boys to compete at the state powerlifting meet on Friday in Abilene, with three completing all three of their lifts. (Courtesy photo)

The Bowie and Nocona boy’s powerlifting teams competed one final time this season last week at the state meet in Abilene.
With five Jackrabbits competing in division III and one Indian competing in division IV, no one came home with medals but several came up only one spot short.
Bowie’s Cooper McShan competed in the 132 pound weight class and his 1,050 total tied him with two other lifters. The tie breaker is then who weighs in at the lesser weight. McShan was lighter than one of the lifters, but not the other as he finished in sixth place, just outside of medal contention.
Bowie’s Jakson Hofbauer also finished just outside of medal contention in sixth place. Competing in the 275 weight class, Hofbauer’s 1,635 total was his highest of the season by 50 pounds. Unfortunately, it was 25 pounds off from fifth place.
Hofbauer tied with a lifter from Odem, but he weighed in at a much lower weight to finish ahead in sixth place.
The Jackrabbits Robert Zambrano competed in the 123 weight class and his 920 total was the highest of the season by 30 pounds. He finished 15th overall.
Two Bowie lifters unfortunately did not have good days. Gavin Brown was competing in the 114 class and Johnny Arenas competing in the 198 class both busted out, or did not complete all of their lifts. Arenas completed his squat, with his 585 being 45 pounds more than his previous season best.
From Nocona, senior Miguel Olivares just missed out on a medal finishing sixth as well. Competing in the 132 weight class, he lifted 950 total pounds.

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

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Bowie golf heads back to state for third time in four years

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10 mins ago

04/20/2024

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The Bowie boy’s golf team finished third at the regional tournament at Abilene this week to qualify for the state tournament for the third time. (Photo by Tiffany Egenbacher)

The Bowie boy’s golf team is heading back to state tournament after competing at the regional tournament this week.
The Jackrabbits finished third overall, shooting 630 total after two days of competing at the Diamondback National Golf Club in Abilene.
Bowie was trying to get back to state for the third time in the last four years and improve on its third place finish since it returned everyone, but knew it would be tough.
State-power Brock, which finished ahead of the Jackrabbits at state last year, had two teams competing as well as Lubbock-Cooper Liberty showing off the program’s depth. Wall was not far behind as well, nipping at Bowie’s heels.
The conditions were perfect and several players were shooting the best they have all season. Cy Egenbacher led the team shooting 74 the first day. Rayder Mann (77) and Zac Harris (78) joined him the 70s which is really good and the first time all season three Bowie players had done it in one round.
Andrew Sandhoff shot 81 to round out the team’s score to 310 which put the team in third place, three shots behind Brock in second place and seven shots back from Cooper Liberty in first place.
Blanco was six shots back from Bowie in fourth place.
Hunter Lea shot 83, but it did not count towards the team total since it counts a team’s four lowest scores.
The second day saw all but one of the Jackrabbits players shoot a bit worse. Harris was the only player to shoot better as he shot 75 to lead the team.
Egenbacher shot 77. Mann and Sandhoff both shot 84 to put the team’s total for day two at 320. Hunter Lea shot 88 on day two.
Unfortunately, with Bowie’s score increasing by 10 from day one, it did not leave the possibility for the Jackrabbits to move up in the standings.
Brock’s team repeated its score from day one while Cooper Liberty actually lowered its score by seven shots from day one.
Blanco’s team increased its day two total by 10 shots as well to leave the door open for Wall to jump in the standings as it lowered its second day total by two shots.
Still, Bowie finished six shots ahead of Wall to get the final state qualifying spot.
Egenbacher had the lowest total for the Jackrabbits, shooting 151 during the two days as he finished tied for sixth place individually.
Harris shot 153 and was tied for 12th place individually. Mann shot 161 and finished tied for 24th. Sandhoff shot 165 and finished 33rd while Lea shot 171 and placed 49th.

To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.