SPORTS
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Scrimmages set for this weekend
By ERIC VICCARO
bnewssports@sbcglobal.net
There are only two high school football scrimmages taking place in Montague County, and both happen this week.
Bowie will play host to Bridgeport on Aug. 14, with ninth grade Bulls and Jackrabbits squaring off at 5 p.m. followed by junior varsity at 6 p.m. and varsity at 7 p.m.
The scrimmage will be free of charge, and a concession stand will be offered.
Saint Jo also will have a home scrimmage on Aug. 14 at 6 p.m. versus Wichita Christian at venerable Harley Sewell Field. There will be no admission charge.
All other teams will have scrimmages on the road on Aug. 15, with Gold-Burg at Notre Dame in Wichita Falls at 9 p.m., Nocona at Windthorst and Forestburg travels to rural Vernon for a triangular with Northside and Paint Creek.
Bowie head coach Dylan Stark said the Jackrabbits had a good first week of practice thanks to senior leadership.
“I think we are in a good place,” Stark said. “We have more of a sense of urgency with the sessions. This is their last time, and they want to make the best of it.”
Bowie has 13 seniors on the squad this year, and there’s optimism that experience will translate into a better season.
Stark said Bridgeport will provide a good test.
The Jackrabbits have installed about 50 percent of the playbook on both offense and defense. Read more in the mid-week Bowie News.
A Bowie High School football player makes a reception during a drill at practice on Aug. 7 at Jackrabbit Stadium. Bowie will have a scrimmage on Aug. 14 versus Bridgeport, also here in Bowie. (News photo by Eric Viccaro)
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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