SPORTS
STORM CENTER COLUMN: Goon Squad makes game fun
The sports editor would like to take this time to applaud the student cheering sections at all of the schools he covers.
The Bowie Goon Squad was in effect on Wednesday night at Denton High School.
According to the Team Bowie Twitter account, even the Goon squad was better than Pottsboro’s cheering section.
The Bowie boys’ basketball team defeated Pottsboro by 16; the Lady Rabbits topped the Lady Cardinals by 25, and the Goon Squad won by who knows how many points? Bazinga.
The Bowie student cheering section has stepped up its game, especially now that we are in the playoffs.
I’d also like to take time to applaud the rest of Bowie’s fans as well. It was heartwarming seeing Bowie had more than quadruple the fan support of Pottsboro during the games. That also might be a conservative estimate.
Now, it’s time to go back to the Goon Squad.
Did you realize there’s a connection between Bowie and Goon Squads. Well, there is.
In the early-1980s song by David Bowie titled, “Fashion,” there’s a line that sings like this, “We are the goon squad, and we’re coming to town.”
In the song, it states there’s a “brand new talk,” and well that’s what the goon squad provided the other night.
Editor’s Note: The Storm Center column is the expressed written views of sports editor Eric Viccaro and not The Bowie News.
Bowie High School student Abraham Landaverde plays a pink ukulele during Wednesday’s boys’ and girls’ basketball doubleheader between Bowie and Pottsboro at Denton High School. The Bowie Goon Squad chose a beach theme for this game. (News photo by Eric Viccaro)
Nocona Independent School District officials looked inward for a new athletic director/head football coach, selecting Jeff Hill for the position.
Hill, who served last year as Nocona football’s offensive coordinator and also led the softball program to the playoffs for the first time in a while as its head coach, was upgraded to the role.
This came on the heels of former Athletic Director Blake Crutsinger, who served in the role the last four years, resigned in May.
For Hill, the choice to apply for the position was a no brainer. His one year in Nocona had impressed upon him and his wife that it was the place they would like to be long term.
“I’m looking for a town to raise my kids in and Nocona has treated my family really well,” Hill said. “There are some really good people. The kids work hard. Everything I am looking for in a hometown is right here in Nocona and I want to try and make it as best as it can be, especially through athletics.”
Before Nocona, Hill served as the athletic director at S&S Consolidated while also spending time at Hebron and Whitewright in his coaching career.
Hill expresses great respect for the departing Crutsinger and besides changing a few small things in how he personally wants to do things, he is not trying to come in with a sweeping restructuring of the whole athletic department.
The program had five of its six team sports make the playoffs, with volleyball playing in the regional final and the girl’s basketball team winning the state championship.
That along with two athletes competing at the state championship in cross country and track with one earning a gold medal, it was one of the more successful school years in athletic program history.
“Coach Crutsinger was awesome and did a great job so honestly just little tweaks, a little bit of structure and cohesion amongst the coaching staff between boys and girls,” Hill said. “I hope to keep the winning tradition going overall in the athletic department.”
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekly edition of the Bowie News.
Prairie Valley hosted its high school awards banquet on May 9. The O.C. Mann Award went to Josh Stout and Linzie Priddy.
To see more award pictures, both sports and academic, pick up a copy of the weekly edition of the Bowie News.
Gold-Burg High School hosted its awards banquet on May 22. The Gold-Burg Iron Bear Awards went to Eli Freeland-White for boy athlete and Hallie Nelson for girl athlete.
To see more sport awards from the banquet, pick up a copy of the weekly edition of the Bowie News. For pictures from the full high school banquet, click here https://www.dotphoto.com/go.asp?l=bnews1&AID=6875234&T=1
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