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HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Bowie creates no-mush zone
By ERIC VICCARO
bnewssports@gmail.com
The Bowie High School football team totaled more than 200 yards of offense in the opening quarter with an old-fashioned wishbone alignment.
The Jackrabbit defense yielded just one first down the entire first half.
Those were the elements at play as Bowie won its season opener over visiting Wichita Falls Hirschi 50-8 at Jackrabbit Stadium in non-district action Friday.
Now, the Jackrabbits aim to pull off something they didn’t accomplish all season in 2014, and that’s win a road game.
“They have a new coach in Keri Timmerman,” said Bowie head coach Dylan Stark. “He’ll have them fired up and ready to play.”
Timmerman is a former assistant at Grapevine High. Lake Worth is coming off a 49-27 loss to Fort Worth Country Day.
Historically, the Jackrabbits and Bullfrogs have played tight games. Last year, Bowie defeated Wichita Falls Hirschi 41-35 in overtime – winning in part because Lake Worth missed an extra point during regulation.
Stark said Bowie will have to prepare for a team that ran and threw the ball with success last week, despite the loss. Lake Worth had 153 yards passing and 121 yards on the ground.
“They like to throw it as much as they run it,” Stark said. “We will have to prepare for both.”
Bowie’s defense, spearheaded by middle linebacker Cayden Cox, held the Huskies to 137 total yards and Stark expects the Bullfrogs to provide a good test. Read more, and see complete statistics, in the mid-week Bowie News.
Bowie High School’s Tilghman Parr (55) was part of a cohesive offensive line that kept Wichita Falls Hirschi’s defense at bay as the Jackrabbits overwhelmed the Huskies 50-8 on Aug. 28. (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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