SPORTS
‘Buckle Up For Lane’s Sake’ starts Thursday
By ERIC VICCARO
bnewssports@sbcglobal.net
There are so many connections for everyone involved at the “Buckle Up For Lane’s Sake” Tournament, and this year proves no different.
The tournament is named in honor of Lane Fenoglio, who was killed in an auto accident on July 11, 1998, the summer before what would have been her sophomore year at Nocona High School.
“It’s so nice to see Lane’s memory kept alive,” said Lane’s mother, Janna Fenoglio.
The tournament will take place on Thursday and Saturday, Sept. 4 and 6 at various places in Nocona, including all three school gymnasiums as well as Baptist gym and “The Dome” in Saint Jo.
This year, Anderson-Shiro will travel up and compete in the same bracket as Bowie, along with Sanger, Ponder and Celina. All these teams will comprise Pool F.
Nocona is in Pool E, with pesky Petrolia, Bryson, Dodd City and Bonham. The Nocona JV will play in Pool A along with S&S Consolidated of Sadler, Henrietta, City View, Archer City and Burkburnett.
Tickets cost $6 for adults and $2 for students. There will be no charge for students attending Thursday’s matches.
Janna Fenoglio said Anderson-Shiro will stay at the Veranda Inn, and it marks a homecoming for one of the mothers.
Kathy Walker-Sayers, formerly of Ringgold, was Lane’s babysitter when she was young. Walker-Sayers’ daughter, Keaton, plays for Anderson-Shiro. Read more of the story in the mid-week edition of The Bowie News.
Buckle Up For
Lane’s Sake Tournament
Pool A: S&S Consolidated, Nocona JV, Henrietta, Wichita Falls City View, Archer City and Burkburnett (games in the high school gymnasium)
Pool B: Holliday, Paradise, Peaster, Collinsville, Electra and Gunter (games at the elementary school, Court No. 1)
Pool C: Iowa Park, Windthorst, Jacksboro, Bells and Chico (games played at the Baptist Church gymnasium)
Pool D: Wichita Falls Christian, Vernon, Tioga, Boyd and Callisburg (games at the elementary school, Court No. 2)
Pool E: Nocona, Petrolia, Bryson, Dodd City and Bonham (games played at the middle school gymnasium)
Pool F: Anderson-Shiro, Celina, Sanger, Bowie and Ponder (games played at “The Dome” in Saint Jo)
Matches will begin as early as 8 a.m. on Thursday.
Tickets will cost $6 per day. Students will be charged $2 on Saturday and they are admitted free during Thursday’s action.
Lane Fenoglio. (Photo by Larry Lemons/Nocona Independent School District)
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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