The Red River Youth Bass Club competed at Richland Chambers Lake this past weekend for its final regular season tournament.
All seven teams made the long trip to fish the lake. It is spawning time in Texas, so finding fish can sometimes be hit or miss. The club had three teams weigh in fish with plenty of challenges to go with the windy lake.
As a club they finished as the second highest club on the lake behind the Highland Park club. The high placing team for Red River finished second as a team was Carson Caudle/Hunter Blackburn with a weight of 18.63 pounds on four caught fish.
The Cooper Johnson/Corbyn Patton team placed 21st with a weight of 9.53 pounds after catching four fish. The team of Lane Smith/Colt Henry caught two fish for a weight of 7.15 pounds and placed 33rd. The other teams had a difficult time finding any fish to put in the boat.
This tournament finalized the Angler of the Year and Team of the Year. For AOY Red River had some success with the team of Carson Caudle/Hunter Blackburn with a 7th place finish and $1,000 scholarship to split when they graduate.
The other teams placed: 34th for Cooper Johnson/Corbyn Patton; 37th for Lane Smith/Colt Henry; 57th for the team of Walker Strahan/Bryce Ramsey.
All four of those teams qualified for Regionals at Lake Lewisville on April 29th.

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The Bowie golf teams swept the district tournament for the first time since 2021 last week when they dominated the competition after playing two rounds at the River Creek Golf Course in Burkburnett.
The boy’s team kept their streak going, winning its sixth straight district title by 36 strokes. The Lady Rabbits were finally able to jump Jacksboro, winning the district title by 47 strokes. Bowie had finished second behind the Lady Tigers the previous three seasons.
Coach Matthew Miller, always knowing a better round could have been played by all players, was proud of his teams and how they dominated.
“I felt like our kids played well,” Miller said. “We still have some things we need to fix over the next few weeks, but I am proud of how our kids played and competed.”
The course and weather conditions were perfect, according to Miller, for the first day on March 24, but two days later on March 26 the wind picked up for round two. This reflected in the majority of everyone’s scores being lower on day two, but there were some exceptions.
The Jackrabbit team came into the tournament confident. Most of their regular season tournaments, including the previous week’s, had been at unfamiliar courses against competition as big as 6A schools. Bowie is coming off two straight third place finishes at the state tournament and has qualified for state three of the last four years.
The Jackrabbits team shot 314 the first day and 317 the second day and were led by Zac Harris who shot 75-81 and got second place individually.
Hunter Lea shot 77-80 and Rayder Mann shot 81-76 and were both tied for third place individually. They competed in a playoff hole which Lea won.
Cason Airington shot 81 the first day to round out Bowie’s scoring, but his 83 score the second day was not included. Hunter Fluitt shot 88 the first day and it was not included in the team’s score, but he improved to shoot 80 for round two, which was included in the final score.
The Lady Rabbits shot 360-358 during the two days, led by Tess Egenbacher who shot 83-89 as she also finished first overall individually. Teammate Mile Thompson shot 85-89 and finished third overall while Hanna Bell shot 94-88.
Reegen Ferguson shot 98 the first day, which contributed to the team’s total score since it was one shot better than Kendall Fallis who shot 99. On the second day, both girls improved, with Fallis’ 92 going towards the team’s total while Ferguson’s 96 did not.
While not competing with the Lady Rabbits team, Lillie Maddox and Emma Read played as individuals. Maddox shot 96-100, which was good enough to qualify for the regional tournament while Read shot 95-103.
All seven girl players were among the top 11 players in the district.
The Bowie boy’s had enough players to feature a second team that got sixth place. The team shot 353-379 and was led by Caden Belcher who shot 80-90. Trae Seigler was behind him shooting 82-91 and Russell Anderson’s scores of 98-100 counted towards the team totals both days.
Bear Combs shot 93 on day one, which was better than Lane Smith’s score of 107 and counted towards the team’s total. On day two, Smith shot 98, which was better than Comb’s score of 105 as Smith’s score was counted toward the round total.
Overall, the Bowie boy’s top six players all placed in the top 11 individually as well.

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Several Bowie athletes competed at the Wildcat Relays in Santos on March 20.
A couple of athletes did well enough to break school records along with placing well in their events.
Samara McChesney got second place in the girl’s pole vault with a vault of 8 feet 6 inches, breaking the school record for the Lady Rabbits.
Isaac Renteria got first place in the 3200 meter race, with his time of 9:59 that broke the school’s record in the event.
There were several athletes who also did well for Bowie even if they did not break school records.
Brayden Willett got first in the 800 meters and second in the 3200 meter race.
Braden Rhyne won the triple jump and got second in the high jump. Tyler Richey got second in the 110 meter hurdles.
Laney Segura and Ollie Gaston got third and fourth in the 800 meter race.
Olivia Richey got fifth in the 100 meter hurdles and Angela Alvarez got fifth in the 3200 meter race.
Both the boy and girl teams competed in the 4×100 relay event and finished in sixth place.

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