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REGIONAL: Haley to speak at MSU
Charles Haley, a member of the 2015 National Football League Hall of Fame class, is set to be the guest speaker at the ninth annual Midwestern State University Welcome Dinner.
The dinner will take place on Aug. 23 at the D.L. Ligon Coliseum on the campus in Wichita Falls.
The event begins with a silent auction at 5:30 p.m. with Dallas Cowboy and Midwestern State University memorabilia and other items.
The dinner, catered by the Branding Iron Restaurant, will follow at 6 p.m. and Haley’s speech at 6:45 p.m.
Haley played defensive end and linebacker during a storied career with both the Dallas Cowboys and San Francisco 49ers.
Reserve seats are available for $70, for a student-athlete sponsorship. A limited number of corporate tables accommodating six people with a sponsor acknowledgement are available for $300.
Haley is the only player in pro football history to win five Super Bowls, three with Dallas and two with San Francisco.
Haley transferred from linebacker to defensive end with the Cowboys. He registered double-digit sack seasons with Dallas in 1994 and 1995.
When he walked away after the 1999 season, Haley finished with 100½ sacks over a 169-game career. He was twice named National Football Conference defensive player of the year, in 1990 and 1994.
Haley played in the NFC Championship Game six times during a seven-year period, and he was a member of 10 division championship squads.
For more information, call Sherri Mummert at 1-940-397-4779 or log onto MSU’s website: www.msumustangs.com.
Charles Haley is the only player in National Football League history to be on five Super Bowl-winning teams. Haley will speak at Midwestern State University on Aug. 23. (Courtesy photo)
Bellevue’s girl’s basketball team led at halftime but a quick 9-0 Jacksboro run in the opening moments of the second half would prove the difference in a 28-25 Lady Eagle loss June 15 in a Nocona Summer League game.
Leading 12-9 at the half, Bellevue continued to shut down the inside game of the Tigerettes. Jacksboro switched tactics and began firing from outside. Three 3-pointers in the span of just under two minutes gave Jacksboro an 18-12 lead.
Bellevue kept things close, however, getting on the second half scoreboard with Mattie Broussard’s basket and free throws cutting the deficit to two, 18-16. A Haven Jones 3-pointer put the Lady Eagles up 19-18 midway through the second half.
The Tigerettes had just one 3 -pointer the rest of the way but got inside for a pair of buckets to take a 25-21 lead with 4:50 to go. Both offenses shut down late.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Most school-age athletes start off playing everything. By the time they graduate, they whittle it down to just one or two.
New Bowie girl’s track and overall cross country coach Shawnda Childers is no exception. While at Iowa Park she competed in volleyball, cross country and track before cutting out volleyball and focusing on track and cross country to close out high school.
Childers did not stay with athletics while moving on to Midwestern State University, where she received her bachelor’s and master’s Degrees. After graduation, shestarted coaching in Electra. She came to Bowie for one year, then went back to her old stomping grounds in Iowa Park where she spent the next four years.
The return home also put her in contact with now-Bowie Coach Griffin Fields, who was a coach there at the time. From Iowa Park, she spent the next three years at City View.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
New Saint Jo Girl’s Basketball Coach Grant Gooch isn’t completely unfamiliar with the area.
“We went to Muenster quite a bit when I was a kid,” Gooch, who will be going into his 20th year as a coach, said. “We’d load up the cooler from the meat markets. It’s good to be back.”
Gooch worked with Saint Jo Athletic Director CJ Hantz when the pair were in Throckmorton. Gooch comes to town from Menard where he spent three years at the West Texas school.
Gooch says coaching and education kind of come naturally to him.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
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