SPORTS
LOCAL SPORTS: Bowie, Nocona run on Thursday
Bowie Junior High and Nocona Middle School will both be competing at the District 3A-9 junior high meet on April 2 at Boyd Independent School District stadium.
The Bowie Junior Varsity White baseball team will compete against Windthorst here in Bowie on Thursday.
Bowie versus Nocona softball and baseball will start at the regular time on Friday in Nocona. Softball will begin at 5 p.m. with baseball to follow at 7:30 p.m.
The Bowie and Nocona boys’ and girls’ golf teams will be in action Thursday as well, the second round of the District 3A-9 tournament at River Creek Golf Club in Burkburnett.
News will have all-star teams
The Bowie News is proud to announce the newspaper will be releasing its own all-star boys’ and girls’ basketball teams during the month of April.
Coaches from our coverage area – Bowie, Nocona, Saint Jo, Forestburg, Gold-Burg, Bellevue and Prairie Valley – are asked to provide season-ending statistics similar to what they used for all-district nominations.
The Bowie News boys’ and girls’ basketball teams will feature at least one member from each school in our coverage area.
Players that attained all-region and all-state automatically qualify for the all-star squads.
Both the boys’ and girls’ all-star teams will feature 16 players, one above the normal limit for a high school squad.
Coaches, send season-ending statistics to the Bowie News at the following email address: bnewssports@gmail.com.
For more information, call sports editor Eric Viccaro at 940-872-2247.
News in brief. (Graphic created by The Bowie News)
SPORTS
Bowie softball team falls in area round
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.
SPORTS
Willett, Richey off to State
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.
SPORTS
Fourteen track athletes head to State
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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