SPORTS
SPORTS IN BRIEF: Gold-Burg makes schedule change
The Gold-Burg High School girls’ basketball game originally scheduled for Friday evening was moved to 11 a.m. today in Electra.
Coaches and/or athletic directors, please notify The Bowie News of schedule changes by calling 1-940-872-2247 or by e-mail at: bnewssports@gmail.com.
In turn, the Bowie News will post the announcement in our newspaper as well as on our Facebook and Twitter sites.
Prairie Valley JH tourney today
The Prairie Valley Independent School District will have a junior high school basketball tournament today.
Prairie Valley’s junior high girls will take on Walnut Bend bright and early at 8 a.m.
The Bulldog junior high boys play Trinity North at 8:45 a.m.
Forestburg challenges Montague in a girls game at 9:30 a.m. The Longhorn and Eagle boys play at 11 a.m.
The girls’ championship game is at 2 p.m. and the boys’ championship is set for 2:45 p.m.
Prairie Valley coach Jack Williams advises game times are “floating.”
Forestburg competes in Slidell Tournament next weekend
Forestburg High School’s boys’ and girls’ basketball teams will be competing in the Slidell Tipoff Classic from Nov. 20-22.
The boys’ participation in the tournament depended on if the Longhorns win versus Chillicothe in the Conference 1A Division II football playoffs Friday.
On Nov. 20, Forestburg’s girls will take on Texoma Christian at noon. The boys’ game is scheduled for 3 p.m. that day.
On Nov. 21, Forestburg will play Savoy at 3 p.m. in a girls’ game. On the boys’ side, the Longhorns are scheduled to play Denton Calvary at 6 p.m.
On Nov. 22, Forestburg’s girls will play the host Slidell at 10 a.m. Savoy and Forestburg boys will play at 2:30 p.m. on the same date.
The Forestburg girls are off to a 1-0 start, defeating Notre Dame on Tuesday night.
Bowie softball had a historic season, where the squad made the postseason for the first time since 2019 and knocked a top seed from the playoffs, come to an end April 29.
No-4 ranked Tuscola Jim Ned got out to a quick start and took an 11-1, five inning win in the area round of the Class 3A Division I playoffs. Bowie had its season end at 19-15.
With a large crowd at Weatherford High rooting them on, Bowie took the field looking to knock out another top seed, as they did with Early last week.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Bowie will have two track athletes at the State track and field meet May 14 with top two finishes at the Region 1-3A track meet at Abilene Christian University May 1-2.
Tyler Richey finished 2nd in the pole vault with a 15’ leap. Richey was also 9th in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 15.39. Sophomore Braden Willett was 3rd in the 1,600-meters with a school record best of time of 4:21.93. Willett was 4th in the 3,200-meter run with a time of 9:29.71.
Several other Rabbits and Lady Rabbits competed at the regional meet. The 800-meter relay foursome of Colton Dosch, Richey, Finn Riddle and Jaxon White finished 6th with a time of 1:30.24 while the 1,600-meter relay team of Dosch, Judah Livsey, Riddle and Blaine Leonard finished 8th with a time of 3:30.76.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Saint Jo’s boys and girls track teams took top honors at the Region III-A track meet at Hewitt Midway High School May 1-2 and will send several athletes to the state track and field meet May 16 in Austin.
The boys were led by Damon Byrd who won both the long jump with a 22’9 ¾” leap and triple jump with a 45’ 10 ½”. Byrd also won the 100-meter dash with a time of 1.03 and was a member of the victorious 800-meter relay along with Trent Gaston, Barrett Johnson and Lee Yeley with a time of 1:30.80.
Yeley won the high jump with a 6’ leap. Byrd, Yeley, Dominic Luna and Gaston combined for a 2nd-place finish in the 1,600-meter relay with a time 3:32.81. Gaston was 2nd in the 110-meter hurdles with a tie of 16.09. Johnson was 2nd in the 400-meter dash in 50.75, Ayden Giambruno was 6th in the 3200-meter run in 11:05.24 with Yeley 8th in the 200-meters with a time of 25.61.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
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