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H.S. FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS: Forestburg falls to Chillicothe

Published

10 years ago

11/18/2014

The Forestburg High School football team stayed stride for stride with Chillicothe for nearly four quarters in Friday’s Conference 1A Division II bi-district playoff game at Archer City.
Longhorn freshman quarterback Matthew Wallace scored on a 19-yard touchdown run with 2 minutes, 23 seconds in the fourth quarter – trimming Chillicothe’s lead to 44-41.
But, on 2nd-down-and-10 from Forestburg’s 33-yard line, Chillicothe’s Denzel Graves eluded a couple of would-be Longhorn tacklers en route to a TD.
That gave the Eagles the cushion they needed and Forestburg bowed out of the postseason with a 58-41 loss to Chillicothe.
Chillicothe improved to 7-4 on the season, advancing to the regional round for a game with Guthrie on Nov. 21 against Knox City. Forestburg finished the 2014 campaign with a mark of 6-4.
“The boys played hard tonight,” Forestburg head coach Wayne Tuckwell said.
Tuckwell thought injuries wore down the Longhorns as the game advanced. “Forestburg played us well,” Chillicothe head coach Clint Miller said. “I didn’t think we played well for the first 2-1/2 quarters. Forestburg was able to build a lead with all of our turnovers. We were fortunate to be behind (by only 22 points). We played with a sense of urgency in the second half.”
Miller said the Eagles blocked and tackled better as the game went along, and that helped them win.
Middle linebacker Malaci Moore missed several stretches of the game due to cramps in his right calf. Stretching and pickle juice were tried as remedies, but Moore wasn’t quite as effective as before the cramps started.
Bryan McDowell is the lone senior on the Forestburg roster. McDowell played superbly in his final scholastic grid contest, catching two 24-yard TD passes from Wallace. Read more in the mid-week Bowie News, and see a complete a box score and scoring summary.

Krum, Vernon play Friday here in Bowie

The Krum and Vernon football teams will play at 7:30 p.m. on Friday at Jackrabbit Stadium.
Krum is coming off a 40-6 victory over Dallas Lincoln on Thursday, Nov. 13 and Vernon blasted past Fort Stockwell 43-18 on Friday, Nov. 14 to set up this Conference 4A Division II area round contest.
The winner will play the game between Sweetwater and Bridgeport at an undisclosed location next week.
Bowie High School athletic director Dylan Stark reports tickets will cost $7 across the board for adults and students.
The Bowie High School Athletic Boosters will operate a concession stand.
The University Interscholastic League football tournament will culminate in mid-December with championship games at AT&T Stadium in Arlington.

Forestburg’s Malaci Moore, before he was injured, served as a good blocker while playing wingback on offense for the Longhorns during Friday’s Conference 1A Division II bi-district playoff game in Archer City. Chillicothe won, 58-41. (News photo by Eric Viccaro)

SPORTS

District awards for 1A released

Published

3 days ago

05/18/2024

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Bellevue’s Bryce Ramsey was named his district’s newcomer of the year.

With the baseball and softball seasons over for the area 1A schools, district awards have been released.
Listed below are those earned honors on the field and in the classroom for Saint Jo and Bellevue.

Softball
Saint Jo
Honorable mention
Utility player: Taylor Patrick; Catcher: Jordyn O’Neal

Baseball
Superlatives
Offensive MVP: Devin Stewart, Saint Jo
Newcomer of the Year: Bryce Ramsey, Bellevue

Pitcher: Trent Gaston, Saint Jo
Outfielder: Jayden Curry, Saint Jo

Second team
Pitcher: Charlie Barclay, Saint Jo
Infielder: Brycen Bancroft, Bellevue; Sam Martin, Saint Jo
Outfielder: Rylan Forrester, Saint Jo
Catcher: Charlie Evans, Saint Jo
Utility: Logan Hoover, Saint Jo
DH: Amzy Barclay, Saint Jo

Honorable mention
Cody Gaston, Saint Jo; Xander Joyner, Saint Jo

To see academic awards from Saint Jo players, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.

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Forestburg coach retiring

Published

3 days ago

05/18/2024

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Forestburg boys basketball coach Eldon Van Hooser helped lead the program to its first playoff win in nine years in his last year coaching.

Eldon Van Hooser is leaving Forestburg better than he found it.
The head boy’s basketball coach is retiring after more than 30 years, spending the last five at Forestburg.
Van Hooser did not come to this decision because of a lack of fire or feeling tired after decades in the profession. He had to for family reasons.
“My wife has MS (multiple sclerosis) and it’s a disease where you have trouble standing and walking and she needs help,” Van Hooser said. “I am able to so I am going to step away from teaching and coaching to be there for her.”
Van Hooser was hired in 2019. Along with being the boy’s basketball coach, he also was the football team’s defensive coordinator.
There were some lean years for Forestburg on the boy’s athletic side, with numbers being low and the available athletes being mostly underclassmen.
For two years, the Longhorns’ boy’s basketball team won few games and one of those seasons saw the team field five players on the high school team.
“One of those years we had COVID-19 and the other we had five kids,” Van Hooser said. “It was very rough. After that we worked with the kids and we had a good freshman group coming up. Next year they are going to be seniors.”
That group has helped to turn the program around. Last year the young Longhorns team contested for a playoff spot and just barely missed it finishing fifth in the district.
This season, that same group took a leap and finished second in district with a record of 7-5.
Despite losing its last two regular season games in dramatic fashion heading into the playoffs, the team stepped up in the bi-district game.
Playing against an athletic Newcastle team, Forestburg led for most of the game.
Unfortunately, the previous game against Bellevue saw the Longhorn team blow the lead late in the fourth quarter against a hard pressing style team and they were suffering the same fate against the Bobcats down the stretch.
Fortunately, Forestburg held on just enough to win 53-46. It was the first boy’s basketball playoff win in nine years for Forestburg.
“It was huge for our program,” Van Hooser said. “This new year we will have new goals. The new coach will have some goals of his own, but I set some for the team and think that we have come a long way.”

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

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Bowie Sports Banquet

Published

6 days ago

05/15/2024

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The Bowie sports banquets was on Monday night. Olivia Gill and Tucker Jones were named Jackrabbit and Lady Rabbit of the year. Pick up the mid-week paper for all of the sports team awards and pictures.