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HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL: Bowie shows betterment on defense

Published

11 years ago

03/11/2015

By ERIC VICCARO
bnewssports@sbcglobal.net

Defense wins games.
Perhaps no sport is that more the case than softball. Bobbles and miscues can lead to big innings – for the other girls.
This weekend, the Bowie High School softball team made tremendous strides in improving their defense and it paid off as the Lady Rabbits went 3-2 at their own tournament.
Bowie now stands at 5-6, before the team played Nocona in the District 3A-9 opener for both squads on Tuesday evening.
“At the Brock Tournament two weeks ago, we made 26 errors in six games,” Bowie first-year head coach Brant Farris said. “Here we made eight errors in five games. We are starting to make routine plays, and defense is what we’ve been working on in practices.”
The weekend featured many highlights, including a Maylie Short no-hitter in a Bowie conquest over Decatur and Courtney Brady’s grand-slam home run in a loss to Petrolia.
“That was quite a feat,” Farris said. “She was able to hit her spots, and the defense stood behind her.”
In Short’s no-hitter, she recorded 29 strikes in 52 total pitches. She struck out four and walked one, giving up an unearned run. She threw 10 first-pitch strikes to help out.
Farris was pleased to see the girls battle through Friday’s cold weather. Both dugouts featured heaters as temperatures plummeted to about 40 degrees by the end of the Petrolia contest. Read more, and see complete boxscores, in the mid-week Bowie News. Also see Nocona softball and baseball results in our newspaper.

Bowie High School’s Petie Wolsey makes a play in centerfield during Friday’s tournament game versus Fort Worth Christian. (News photo by Eric Viccaro)

SPORTS

Bowie softball team falls in area round

Published

3 days ago

05/07/2026

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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.

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Willett, Richey off to State

Published

3 days ago

05/07/2026

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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 2^nd in the pole vault with a 15’ leap. Richey was also 9^th in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 15.39. Sophomore Braden Willett was 3^rd in the 1,600-meters with a school record best of time of 4:21.93. Willett was 4^th 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 6^th with a time of 1:30.24 while the 1,600-meter relay team of Dosch, Judah Livsey, Riddle and Blaine Leonard finished 8^th with a time of 3:30.76.

For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.

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Fourteen track athletes head to State

Published

3 days ago

05/07/2026

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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 2^nd-place finish in the 1,600-meter relay with a time 3:32.81. Gaston was 2^nd in the 110-meter hurdles with a tie of 16.09. Johnson was 2^nd in the 400-meter dash in 50.75, Ayden Giambruno was 6^th in the 3200-meter run in 11:05.24 with Yeley 8^th in the 200-meters with a time of 25.61.

For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.