SPORTS
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Potholes in the road, Bowie travels to Pottsboro
By ERIC VICCARO
bnewssports@gmail.com
The Bowie High School football team will try and find a way to bounce back from Friday’s 30-26 Homecoming loss to Henrietta.
The task is front of them is daunting, however, as the Jackrabbits face a tough Pottsboro team that has outscored opponents 141-14 so far. Last week, Pottsboro bounced Boyd 54-14 and the Cardinals whitewashed Gunter – another team Bowie will face – by 42 points.
“They’ve been clicking on all cylinders,” Bowie head coach Dylan Stark said. “They have played very well this season.”
Stark said the Cardinals have generated plenty of turnovers, and that has snowballed against the opposition.
Meanwhile, Bowie couldn’t catch a break with turnovers in its most recent game. Several defensive players forced turnovers – six of them in fact – but the Jackrabbits only pounced on one of them.
Pottsboro will run a spread offense and quarterback Zane Pritchett will be a handful for the Bowie defense.
“They also have good receivers and No. 8 for them (Carson Rein) runs the ball well,” Stark said.
Pritchett has thrown for 353 yards and eight touchdowns, with just one interception.
Bowie’s defense, which gave up nearly six yards per play last week, will have to keep an eye on Pritchett at all times.
“We have to make them work for everything” Stark said. “We have to make them drive the field if they are going to score. We have to make them earn every point they get.”
Defensively, Bowie can’t give up the big play and stop the Cardinals on third down. Henrietta converted most of its third- and fourth-down plays when it mattered most in the fourth quarter last week. Read more, and see complete game statistics, in the mid-week Bowie News.
GAME TIME
Who: Bowie at Pottsboro
When: 7:30 p.m., Friday
Where: Jim Henderson Memorial Stadium
Ticket Prices: Adults are charged $5 and students $3.
Why it’s important: Can Bowie, bounce back from a Homecoming loss, and defeat Pottsboro on the road?
Last year’s game: Pottsboro 52, Bowie 13 here in Bowie.
Bowie High School’s Daniel Mosley tried to spark the Jackrabbits in the punt return game during Friday’s game versus Henrietta. Mosley helped give Bowie better field position during Homecoming at Jackrabbit Stadium. Click on the image itself for the complete photo. (News photo by Eric Viccaro)
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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