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STORM CENTER: Fantasy of Lights in timeline form
The first-year Bowie News sports editor covered the 34th annual Fantasy of Lights Tournament, a basketball cornucopia, on Saturday throughout the day.
The Fantasy of Lights was the brainchild of the late John Seddon back in the early-1980s as a fundraiser for the Southwest Kiwanis Club.
Seddon loved basketball, and his passion has spread to others such as Carmen Lozipone, Terry Shelton and Brent Spray – today’s tournament caretakers.
After the Southwest Kiwanis Club disbanded, Seddon approached the Retired School Teacher Association about maintaining the tournament, and they did.
This information was culled from: www.fantasyoflights.org.
Overall, our area teams fared quite well at the tournament.
The Bowie girls and Bellevue boys were runner-ups in the large school girls’ and small school boys’ divisions, respectively.
Nocona’s boys placed fourth in the small school boys’ division, and Bellevue’s girls won two games and earned ninth-place in a 12-team field.
There were 15 teams in the large school girls’ division, so what the Lady Rabbits accomplished last weekend was certainly remarkable. Bowie was the smallest school in the large school girls’ bracket.
There were 12 schools in the small school boys’ division. We had two teams finish among the best. That’s what I like to see.
I ultimately decided to cover Saturday’s games, rather than go both days. I figured it would be better to cram all the basketball I could handle in one day. See the complete timeline in the weekend Bowie News.
Editor’s Note: The Storm Center column is the expressed written views of sports editor Eric Viccaro and not The Bowie News.
Bowie’s Courtney Brady (left) and Kamryn Cantwell were named to the Fantasy of Lights Tournament team last Saturday at D.L. Ligon Coliseum on the Midwestern State University campus in Wichita Falls. Click on the image itself for the complete photo. (News photo by Eric Viccaro)
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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