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HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL: Bowie teams ranked
The Bowie High School girls’ basketball team has ascended to sixth spot in the latest Texas Association of Basketball Coaches Conference 3A poll.
Bowie stands at 5-2 overall, with their lone losses to Conference 5A powerhouse Wichita Falls Rider.
Brock is tops in the 3A girls’ poll, with Wall second.
The Bowie girls aren’t ranked in the Texas Girls Coaches Association poll.
Windthorst is ranked seventh in the Conference 2A girls’ poll from the TGCA, and eighth in the TABC poll. LaPoynor is No. 1 in the TABC poll and Weimar the TGCA poll.
Lipan, who plays Bowie during the non-district schedule, leads both the TABC and TGCA Conference 1A girls’ polls.
Argyle, Canyon and Duncanville are tops in the respective Conference 4A, 5A and 6A polls. Sanger also is ranked in both polls, in the top-10 of 4A.
On the boys’ side, Bowie is ranked 18th in the latest TABC Conference 3A poll, slipping some after losses to Krum and Brock last week.
Van Alstyne is tops in the 3A poll, with Kountze second. Brock is 15th in 3A; however, Krum isn’t ranked in the 4A poll.
There are no other Montague County boys or girls teams ranked in polls this week.
The Bowie High School girls’ basketball team shows off the runner-up trophy it earned in the large-school division during the Fantasy of Lights tournament at D.L. Ligon Coliseum at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls. The Bowie girls are ranked sixth in the latest Texas Association of Basketball Coaches Conference 3A poll. (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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