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STORM CENTER: Deadline magic for Texas Rangers
The Texas Rangers certainly made plenty of noise at the Major League Baseball trade deadline this year.
The Rangers agreed, in principle, to acquire starting pitcher Cole Hamels and reliever Jake Diekman from the Philadelphia Phillies.
The deal was expected to be formally announced by both clubs on Friday, before the deadline at 3 p.m. Central Daylight Time.
Hamels will be under contract with the Rangers through the 2018 season, and could possibly provide an effective 1-2 punch with Yu Darvish should Darvish be healthy in years to come.
He’s guaranteed at least $81 million, and there is a vesting option for 2019.
On July 25 at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Hamels no-hit the Chicago Cubs, and provided a storybook ending for his time with the Phillies.
Hamels has a 6-7 record and 3.64 earned-run average, pitching for a bad Phillies team.
He’s expected to make his Rangers’ debut today at Globe Life Park in Arlington.
I really like this deal for both Texas and Philadelphia. Why?
Well, for the Rangers, they received a true innings eater and versatile pitcher. Hamels has pitched at least 200 innings in six of the past seven seasons.
Since 2010, the 31-year-old Hamels has 112 appearances of at least seven innings. That’s third among pitchers, behind the Seattle Mariners’ Felix Hernandez and Clayton Kershaw from the Los Angeles Dodgers.
For Philadelphia, it receives one of the my favorite Texas high school pitchers in recent memory – former Rockwall-Heath star Jake Thomspon. Read more in the weekend Bowie News.
Editor’s Note: The Storm Center column is the expressed written views of sports editor Eric Viccaro and not The Bowie News.
Cole Hamels was traded from the Philadelphia Phillies to the Texas Rangers before Friday’s 3 p.m. Central Daylight Time trade deadline. Hamels is a top-of-the-line starting pitcher. (Courtesy photo from the Texas Rangers)
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.
4-D Open Barrel Racing was one of the events that started Jim Bowie Days off on the right foot June 20.
Barrel racing officials said there were more than 200 competitors in the event, which broke up into two events: one in the morning and one in the afternoon. The winner in each division received cash and a buckle.
Having the fastest time in the 1D division was Maggie Wright on Tres Leche, with a time of 17.115. Finishing 2nd was Ella Gordillo aboard Famous Noble in 17.251. In 3rd place was Jimmie Smith riding Brickk with a time of 17.268.
Lexi Doud aboard Ain’t He Dazzling was 4th with a time of 17.29. In 5th place was Torrie Edge on Francy N Famous with a time of 17.364. Janna Brown riding I’m a Billionaire was 6th in 17.428. Tara Carr was 7th aboard with a time of 17.454 while Brylee Wall rounded out the top 8 on TKW Hawkins Fame with a time of 17.536.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
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