SPORTS
OUTDOORS: Hunters need to have a checklist
Texas game wardens will be out in force on Sept. 1, the official start of the 2015-16 hunting season.
That’s according to a press release from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s law enforcement division.
Hunters will need the following.
• Hunting license: A license is required of everyone regardless of age. Children under the age of 17 years of age and Texas residents 65 years of age and older receive a license at a reduced price.
• Migratory game bird endorsement: It’s required for anyone 17 years of age and older to hunt any migratory game bird.
• HIP certification: Required for everyone who hunts migratory game birds.
• Hunter education: Required for any hunter born after Sept. 1, 1971. A hunter education deferral may be purchased by anyone 17 years of age and older in lieu of completing said education. It’s valid for the current license year. Hunters ages nine to 16 years old must have hunter education or be “accompanied” on a shoot.
• Legal shooting hours: One-half hour before sunrise to sunset.
• Legal gun: Shotguns must not be larger than 10-gauge and not capable of holding more than three shells.
• Daily bag limit: Fifteen mourning, white-winged and white-tipped doves combined with no more than two white-tipped ones.
• Possession limit: Fifteen doves on opening day, 30 on the second day and 45 after the second day.
• Hunting from a vehicle or road is prohibited.
• Discharging a firearm across a property line is prohibited.
• All dove not in the immediate possession of the person who killed them must be tagged with a wildlife resource document until the birds reach the possessor’s residence, and are processed.
For more information, call 1-817-343-9114 or email Eddie Hood at eddie.hood@tpwd.texas.gov. To report a crime, call the Operation Game Thief hotline at 1-800-792-GAME. Read more on the outdoors in the mid-week Bowie News.
Dove and teal hunting season begins next Tuesday, and it’s important hunters run through a checklist before going out into the field. (Courtesy photo by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department)
Saint Jo hosted its own volleyball tournament Sept. 10-12.
In its first match, the Lady Panthers bested Sam Rayburn in a b est-of-three match 2-1 (25-11, 23-25, 25-14.) In the opener, senior Tatum Morman staked the Lady Panthers to a 4-0 lead with help from Kamron Skidmore and Olivia Johnson kills. The Lady Rebels would come back and tie the game at seven.
Savannah Hill’s kill broke serve and allowed Abby Carter to string together seven points. An ace and a Hill kill helped keep the drive alive. Hill later rolled off six points in a row, helped by two aces, to go up 23-10. Sam Rayburn broke serve but Saint Jo finished the game with a single Morman point.
Sam Rayburn came right out of the gate firing in the second game leading 4-0. A single Carter point, thrown down by a Hill block, and Hill’s four-point skein put the Lady Panthers up 8-6. Sam Rayburn tied the game at eight.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Forestburg’s volleyball team gave visiting Chico a solid test Sept. 8, but the Lady Dragons rebounded from a third-set loss to pull out the 3-1 win (25-23, 25-19, 25-27, 25-19).
The Lady Longhorns got out to a quick start with aces from freshmen Madi Wadsworth and Lacie Shotwell staking the squad to a 4-1 lead in game one. Wadsworth later broke a 4-all tie with a kill.
Addy Conway rolled off four straight points, helped by a Wadsworth kill to give Forestburg an 11-9 lead. Chico took a 16-14 lead but a Brenna Briles ace and Jocelyn Rich’s two points forced Chico into a timeout down 17-19.
The respite worked as it would be Forestburg’s last lead of game one, the Lady ‘Horns not having another serving point.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
After splitting the first two games with Vernon Northside, Bowie’s volleyball team turned things out and wound with a 3-1 match win (25-17, 15-25, 25-17, 25-17).
Molly Enlow used two aces amidst a four-point string to give the Lady Rabbits a 5-1 lead in game one. Senior KP Rutherford’s pair of points extended the lead to 8-3.
Northside cut the deficit to 10-11 before Rutherford’s kill broke serve.
Bella Culwell’s point, aided by an Ellie Mowery kill, put Bowie up 13-10. Northside tied the game at 13 before Rutherford came through with another pair for a 17-14 lead. Lillie Maddox also had a deuce for a 20-15 lead and force a Lady INdian timeout.
Northside broke serve but a Sophie Maddox block and Lillie Maddox three-point string gave the squad game point at 24-16. The squads exchanged side outs to end the game.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
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