SPORTS
Remember The Alamodome
By ERIC VICCARO
bnewssports@sbcglobal.net
The Bowie High School girls’ basketball team and Bellevue High School boys’ basketball teams are among those with lofty goals for the 2014-15 season.
One of those goals is a berth in the University Interscholastic League state tournament.
Well, “on to state” now has a different meaning as the UIL has announced the state girls’ and boys’ basketball tournaments are moving from Austin to San Antonio effective this season. The UIL made the announcement on Tuesday afternoon.
The Alamodome has been chosen as the host site. It is a domed 65,000-seat, multi-purpose facility on the southeastern fringe of downtown San Antonio that can also be used for large conventions.
The state girls’ basketball tournament is slated for March 5-7, 2015, and the boys one week later March 12-14, 2015.
The move was a topic of discussing during the girls’ basketball coaching school last weekend, Bowie Head Basketball Coach Colby Davis-Pastusek said.
“I really don’t think it’s going to be a good venue for girls’ basketball,” Davis-Pastusek said. “It will be better for boys’ basketball.”
Davis-Pastusek is concerned with how the Alamodome will be curtained off, especially noting the grandiose nature of the building.
“It’s going to be different,” she said. Read more in the weekend edition of The Bowie News.
The Alamodome in San Antonio has been chosen as the new site for the University Interscholastic League state boys and girls basketball tournaments. (Photo courtesy The Alamodome)
A positive culture can be tough to install but will reap dividends if done correctly.
Trinadee Imotichey is trying to do just that with her Forestburg Lady Longhorns.
Imotichey, an assistant coach on the 2025 Forestburg volleyball team, was moved into the head coaching position. Last year’s coach, Cori Hayes, took over as football head coach.
Imotichey, in her 2nd year in Forestburg, said she learned a lot from Hayes and is ready to take over.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Bowie’s summer softball league team overcame a 6-1 deficit with a six-run third inning for a 7-6 win over Bridgeport in its season opener July 6.
The league consists of teams from Bowie, Nocona, Lindsay, Bridgeport, and Alvord and will last three weeks. Bowie will host games each week.
Bowie pitcher Hazel Trahern gave up two singles and a groundout to put the Sissies on the board in the first. It would be the only hits she gave up in the game. Two groundouts and a strikeout got the Lady Rabbits out of the jam.
Bowie got the run back in the bottom of the first with Andee Jo Miller opening the frame with a walk and a stolen base. She then scored on Kynlee Baker’s groundout to tie the game at one.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Rest. Run. Repeat.
Sage Keck, an 8th grader at Montague, lives by this mantra. No ifs, ands and buts about it.
She’s been running since fourth grade PE classes where she would run a mile every week. After discovering she could outrun the other students, she began to enjoy it and continued doing it.
Her success continued, as she finished 2nd overall against more than 200 runners at the Old Saint Jo 5K July 4. In last weekend’s Texas Junior Olympics, she reached the pinnacle of her career so far by qualifying for the United States of America Track and Field (USATF) National Junior Olympics in Norwalk, Calif. in three events.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
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