SPORTS
SPORTS IN BRIEF: Henderson joins up with Kings
Former Bowie High School basketball player Marshall Henderson has been invited to training camp with the Sacramento Kings.
The invitation was first reported by the Yahoo! Sports website and from other sources.
Henderson played his freshman year at Bowie before moving on to three seasons at L.D. Bell High School in Hurst.
Most recently, Henderson played for a team based in Iraq called Nift-Al Janoub.
Henderson played in college at Ole Miss, averaging a whopping 12.6 3-point attempts per game during his junior year.
Henderson had a checkered past which featured maturity issues and problems with drugs, but this make-good contract gives him his chance to play in the National Basketball Association.
Saint Jo sets cross country schedule
The Saint Jo High School cross country team will open the season at the Duncan Invitational in Oklahoma on Sept. 5.
Saint Jo’s home meet, set for Willa Walla Shooting Range, is set for Sept. 26.
Saint Jo also will participate in meets at Decatur, Grand Prairie, Denison and Ponder.
The District 1A-21 meet is set for Bowie on Oct. 14, with the regional meet in Grand Prairie at Joe Pool Lake.
The University Interscholastic League state meet is set for Nov. 7 at Old Settlers’ Park in Round Rock. The Panthers and Lady Panthers will run in the early afternoon.
Kyle Sivadon is the first-year coach for both the boys’ and girls’ squads.
Bowie Boosters will meet Monday
The Bowie Athletic Booster Club will meet at 6 p.m. on Monday in the high school “Commons” area.
During last Monday’s meeting there was discussion individual game programs will be for sale for each home game.
The boosters didn’t make any purchases at the gathering.
Coaches will provide reports, and may make requests. Committee reports will be heard. There also will be discussions on Homecoming, the start of the football season and Hall of Honor inductees.
For information about joining the Bowie Booster Club, call Craig Stallcup at 1-817-821-1215.
Bass Club also meets Monday
The Bowie Bass Club will have a meeting at 6 p.m. on Monday at Edwards Collision Center on Wise Street.
The team will meet to discuss the season ahead, and fill out paperwork for the first two tournaments.
To join the Bowie Bass Club, call Trent Gillaspia at 531-0050.
Former Bowie High School basketball player Marshall Henderson has been invited to training camp with the National Basketball Association’s Sacramento Kings. (Courtesy photo by Spruce Derden)
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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