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STORM CENTER: Mascot mania ensues
We’ve dealt with some serious issues in columns the past couple of weeks, so it’s time to change that.
One of my personal favorite topics is high school mascots.
The mascots around here are safe picks, and certainly aren’t going to make the politically-correct crowd boil like water on a stove.
At one point, Bowie wasn’t the Jackrabbits – rather the school mascot was the Mustang.
As stated in previous special sections found in the Bowie News, the first school mascot was the Mustang. This was documented in yearbooks from 1909 and 1912.
More annuals were uncovered during the 1920s, and these publications have Jackrabbits listed as Bowie’s mascot.
Tales of the change are unclear.
One account states the Jackrabbit mascot was born thanks to a member of the media. Bowie ran so fast at the University Interscholastic League state meet, a reporter compared them to Jackrabbits.
The other story relates one of the track team members had a Jackrabbit sewn on his shirt, and the crowd cheered him on, yelling, “Go Jackrabbit.”
The new mascot stuck, and the Mustangs were transformed into Jackrabbits.
Nocona is an Indian town through and through. So therefore, Indians makes perfect sense to be the mascot.
Peta Nocona, chief of the Comanche Quahadi band, led his tribe through the Indian Wars from the 1840s to the 1860s. He’s the father of Chief Quanah Parker.
Peta was the son of Pohebits-quasho, also known as “Iron Jacket,” which serves the name for the largest youth baseball tournament every year in Nocona. Read more from this column in the July 23 Bowie News.
Do you know some interesting mascots? Let the sports editor know by email: sports@bowienewsonline.com.
Editor’s Note: The Storm Center column is the expressed written views of sports editor Eric Viccaro and not The Bowie News.
Hutto High School, according to the sports editor of the Bowie News, has the best mascot in the state of Texas. The legend has it a hippo escaped from a traveling circus and visited this community, which is near Austin. (Submitted photo)
Bowie softball had a historic season, where the squad made the postseason for the first time since 2019 and knocked a top seed from the playoffs, come to an end April 29.
No-4 ranked Tuscola Jim Ned got out to a quick start and took an 11-1, five inning win in the area round of the Class 3A Division I playoffs. Bowie had its season end at 19-15.
With a large crowd at Weatherford High rooting them on, Bowie took the field looking to knock out another top seed, as they did with Early last week.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Bowie will have two track athletes at the State track and field meet May 14 with top two finishes at the Region 1-3A track meet at Abilene Christian University May 1-2.
Tyler Richey finished 2nd in the pole vault with a 15’ leap. Richey was also 9th in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 15.39. Sophomore Braden Willett was 3rd in the 1,600-meters with a school record best of time of 4:21.93. Willett was 4th in the 3,200-meter run with a time of 9:29.71.
Several other Rabbits and Lady Rabbits competed at the regional meet. The 800-meter relay foursome of Colton Dosch, Richey, Finn Riddle and Jaxon White finished 6th with a time of 1:30.24 while the 1,600-meter relay team of Dosch, Judah Livsey, Riddle and Blaine Leonard finished 8th with a time of 3:30.76.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Saint Jo’s boys and girls track teams took top honors at the Region III-A track meet at Hewitt Midway High School May 1-2 and will send several athletes to the state track and field meet May 16 in Austin.
The boys were led by Damon Byrd who won both the long jump with a 22’9 ¾” leap and triple jump with a 45’ 10 ½”. Byrd also won the 100-meter dash with a time of 1.03 and was a member of the victorious 800-meter relay along with Trent Gaston, Barrett Johnson and Lee Yeley with a time of 1:30.80.
Yeley won the high jump with a 6’ leap. Byrd, Yeley, Dominic Luna and Gaston combined for a 2nd-place finish in the 1,600-meter relay with a time 3:32.81. Gaston was 2nd in the 110-meter hurdles with a tie of 16.09. Johnson was 2nd in the 400-meter dash in 50.75, Ayden Giambruno was 6th in the 3200-meter run in 11:05.24 with Yeley 8th in the 200-meters with a time of 25.61.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
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