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STORM CENTER: Oil Bowl trumps it all

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Welcome to Oil Bowl week here in North Texas.
The 78th annual Maskat Shrine Oil Bowl Classic is set to take place today at 7:30 p.m. at Memorial Stadium in Wichita Falls.
Bowie’s David Correa is the lone representative from Montague County this year.
The sports editor is a big fan of Shrine Bowl all-star football games, which take place all over the nation.
When I lived in Kansas, I covered a couple of Shrine Bowls, and I have also reported on them in Iowa.
The Shriners Hospital for Children is my favorite charity organization.
According to its Form 990 in April 2009, the hospital endowment was more than $5 billion. A Form 990 is an annual reporting return that certain federally tax-exempt groups must file with the Internal Revenue Service.
Children with orthopedic conditions, burns, spinal cord injuries and cleft lip and palate are eligible for care and receive all services in a family environment.
That’s regardless of the patients’ ability to pay, and whether or not the family has any affiliation with the Shriners or other Freemasonry.
After last year’s game, current Texas Lutheran quarterback Garland McCoy said it was “very emotional” watching a video about the impact the Shriners Hospitals For Children has.
The first Shriners hospital opened in 1922 in Shreveport, La., providing pediatric orthopedic care. Today, there are more than 20 centers in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
In the state of Texas, hospitals are located in both Galveston and Houston. The center in Galveston has a reputation for caring for children that are burn victims. Read more of this column 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.

Maskat Shrine Oil Bowl. (Graphic provided by the Maskat Shrine, no copyright infringement inferred) 

 

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Bowie Sports Banquet

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The Bowie sports banquets was on Monday night. Olivia Gill and Tucker Jones were named Jackrabbit and Lady Rabbit of the year. Pick up the mid-week paper for all of the sports team awards and pictures.

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Chisholm Trail Rodeo entertains crowd

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A steer wrestler gets a good grip as he comes off his horse to get the steer on the ground. (Photo by Benjimen Barker from J Bar S Photography)

The 72nd Chisholm Trail Rodeo was a big success on Friday and Saturday nights at Nocona.
The rodeo had big crowds and saw some good competition from both local and far reaching talent.
Winners in the events included Zach Hibler in bareback riding, Lindsey Muggli in barrel racing, Ashley Goforth in breakaway roping, Leanardo Lima in bull riding, Cody McCartney in calf roping, Thomas Moellering in ranch bronc riding, Wacey Hathcock in saddle bronc riding, Renato Finazzi in steer wrestling, Rowdy Jones and Rance Doyal in team roping.

To see full results and more pictures, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.

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Saint Jo pair heading back to state tennis

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Saint Jo girl’s doubles team Kyler Dunn and Taylor Patrick won the 1A region III tournament to earn a second straight trip to state. (Courtesy photo)

The regional tennis tournaments were late last week in North Richland Hills and a doubles team is moving on to state.
The Saint Jo girl’s doubles team Kyler Dunn and Taylor Patrick won the 1A region III tournament and will return to state for the second straight year.
The pair rolled through teams from Morgan, Dodd City, Priddy before beating a Graford team in the finals. The pair did not lose a set and only lost five of the 53 games it played, never losing more than one in a set.
The team made it to state last year after finishing second at regionals and won a match at the state meet against a team from Vernon Northside. They then lost to the eventual state champion team from Utopia and finished tied for third place.
They will be the only tennis players from Montague County playing at state this week as others did not have as successful regional tournament.
The Saint Jo teammates and fellow girl’s doubles team Bailie Nobile and Maxey Johnson won their first match against Ector 6-1, 6-4, but fell in their next match against Lometa, 6-1, 6-1.
From Prairie Valley, Case Carpenter was competing in boy’s singles. His first match was a draining two and half hour battle against a player from Strawn Carpenter came through in the three-set battle, winning 6-4, 5-7, 6-4.
Unfortunately, the magic was not there in the second game. Paired against the eventual tournament champion from Gustine, Carpenter lost 6-0, 6-1.
From Gold-Burg, Alyson Rojas and Jimena Garcia competed in girl’s singles. Rojas won her first match against a girl from Avinger 7-6, 6-2. Unfortunately, the next match she lost to a girl from Graford 6-0, 6-0 to end her tournament.
Garcia lost a tough first match against a player from Ector. Both sets could have gone either way with the scores being 6-4, 7-5 to the winner.
The mixed doubles team from Forestburg, Jesse Wadsworth and Alli Cisneros, also did not make it through.
From Nocona, Kaygan Stone was playing in the girl’s singles 2A region II tournament.
Unfortunately, she got paired against the player who would go on to win the tournament in the first round to end her season.

To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.

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