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)
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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