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)
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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