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)
Bowie softball had a historic season, where the squad made the postseason for the first time since 2019 and knocked a top seed from the playoffs, come to an end April 29.
No-4 ranked Tuscola Jim Ned got out to a quick start and took an 11-1, five inning win in the area round of the Class 3A Division I playoffs. Bowie had its season end at 19-15.
With a large crowd at Weatherford High rooting them on, Bowie took the field looking to knock out another top seed, as they did with Early last week.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Bowie will have two track athletes at the State track and field meet May 14 with top two finishes at the Region 1-3A track meet at Abilene Christian University May 1-2.
Tyler Richey finished 2nd in the pole vault with a 15’ leap. Richey was also 9th in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 15.39. Sophomore Braden Willett was 3rd in the 1,600-meters with a school record best of time of 4:21.93. Willett was 4th in the 3,200-meter run with a time of 9:29.71.
Several other Rabbits and Lady Rabbits competed at the regional meet. The 800-meter relay foursome of Colton Dosch, Richey, Finn Riddle and Jaxon White finished 6th with a time of 1:30.24 while the 1,600-meter relay team of Dosch, Judah Livsey, Riddle and Blaine Leonard finished 8th with a time of 3:30.76.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Saint Jo’s boys and girls track teams took top honors at the Region III-A track meet at Hewitt Midway High School May 1-2 and will send several athletes to the state track and field meet May 16 in Austin.
The boys were led by Damon Byrd who won both the long jump with a 22’9 ¾” leap and triple jump with a 45’ 10 ½”. Byrd also won the 100-meter dash with a time of 1.03 and was a member of the victorious 800-meter relay along with Trent Gaston, Barrett Johnson and Lee Yeley with a time of 1:30.80.
Yeley won the high jump with a 6’ leap. Byrd, Yeley, Dominic Luna and Gaston combined for a 2nd-place finish in the 1,600-meter relay with a time 3:32.81. Gaston was 2nd in the 110-meter hurdles with a tie of 16.09. Johnson was 2nd in the 400-meter dash in 50.75, Ayden Giambruno was 6th in the 3200-meter run in 11:05.24 with Yeley 8th in the 200-meters with a time of 25.61.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
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