SPORTS
HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL: For Bowie, it’s ‘silence of the bats’
By ERIC VICCARO
bnewssports@sbcglobal.net
For the Bowie High School softball team, Monday’s 6-0 District 3A-9 loss could have been turned into a movie.
The film could have been called, “Silence of the Bats.”
Paradise pitcher Reagan Taylor shut down Bowie, holding the Lady Rabbits to three hits while striking out five.
“Taylor was throwing hard,” Bowie head coach Brant Farris said. “She did a nice job of shutting our bats down.”
Bowie left only six runners on base, another indication the Lady Rabbits weren’t generating enough firepower.
The Lady Rabbits had chances to score, but they were few and far between.
Henslee Ogle singled and Addy Cook walked in the second inning. Ogle was caught attempting to steal home. And Cook was left at third base after an Ashlyn Vanwey groundout.
Tristin Hopson was picked off first base in the fourth inning. Later in the inning, Taylor McCarty was stranded at second and Ogle at first as Cook flied out to left field.
Vanwey reached on an error in the fifth inning, Hopson singled in the sixth, and Cook in the seventh. But none of them scored.
Maylie Short took the loss, allowing five runs – only two earned, in part because of three Bowie errors – on six hits with one walk and two hit batters. She threw 57 pitches, 38 for strikes. Kellbie Throckmorton pitched the fourth, fifth and sixth innings. Read more, and see the box score, in the mid-week Bowie News.
Bowie’s Maylie Short attempts to pick up the ball during Monday’s District 3A-9 game at Paradise. Short made the play, but her throw was just late as Paradise scored three runs during the fourth inning of a 6-0 win for the Lady Jackets. (News photo by Eric Viccaro)
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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