SPORTS
STORM CENTER: Goodbye football, hello hoops
You hear basketball coaches talk all the time about the transition game.
Basketball is the one sport where going from offense to defense or vice versa can occur in the blink of an eye.
There are so many definitions for the word “transition.”
It’s the process or a period of changing from one state to another.
In the journalism world, it’s a passage in a piece of writing that smoothly connects two topics or sections to each other.
When I was younger, I worked for a sports editor in Temple, Texas, and he consistently worried over my transition from one subject to another in a story.
In music, a transition takes the listener’s ears from one key to another.
For you physics fans out there, a transition is a change of an atom, nucleus or electron from one state to another – concepts such as emission and the absorption of radiation occur.
The word transition is not just a noun, but also a verb. As a verb, transition means to undergo or cause a process or period of transition.
Transition has its roots in both Latin and French languages, and the word was born in the mid-16th Century.
The root word is “transire” in Latin, which means to go across. The word has exponentially grown in popularity in recent times, peaking in the 1900s.
Transitions also occur from one sport to the next, and that certainly was the case this past week.
The sports editor covered a football game at historic Mustang Bowl in Sweetwater on Saturday.
And three days later, Feast Week basketball coverage was underway as I tried to cover both the Bowie/Wichita Falls Rider girls and Nocona/Petrolia boys’ game on the same night.
Wednesday, I also made my way down to Dallas to the American Airlines Center for the Bowie game versus Krum.
Transitions also occur for coaches in another way. The transition from one squad to another thanks to graduation. Read more of this column in the Nov. 26 Bowie News.
Editor’s Note: The Storm Center column is the expressed written views of sports editor Eric Viccaro and not The Bowie News.
The Bowie High School boys’ basketball team gathered after Wednesday’s victory over Krum for a group shot. The Jackrabbits topped Krum 57-34 in their season-opening game at the American Airlines Center in Dallas. (News photo by Eric Viccaro)
Nocona got its new press box into place this week at Jack Crane Stadium. The old press box, which was in place for more than 60 years, was taken out in early June and moved to Indian Valley Raceway. The new press box was by the Southern Bleacher Company out of Graham. Athletic Director Black Crutsinger said they looked at a lot of press boxes and decided they liked the one at Lindsay High School and went with that model. Sean Hutson operated the crane from the Hurd Crane Service that put the press box up for Nocona.
Sunset native Cason Richey (right) and his team roping partner Beldon Cox from Weatherford repeated as the International Finals Youth Rodeo champions last weekend at Shawnee, OK. Richey and Cox won the previous year and were able to complete the repeat by catching three steers in a combined time of 16.6 seconds. Richey is expected to compete attend Texas Tech University this fall and compete on the rodeo team.
The Chisholm Trail Youth Rodeo had its awards ceremony this week, giving out plaques and buckles to the top competitors throughout the summer season.
There were four age categories with five events to compete in for the young athletes.
Along with the best results in each event, at the end the overall best cowboy and cowgirl in each age division was awarded as well.
The lead line division, in which an adult helps the young competitors, saw Rylee Stewart win the first in poles, barrel racing and mystery event on her way to win top cowgirl.
Hattie Snow got the fastest time in the flags event and Lany Shupak got the fastest goat time. Riggin Bishop got named the top cowboy in the division.
In the eight-and-under division, Whitley Goins won the top cowgirl and Trell Carpenter won top cowboy. Goins got the fastest times in barrel racing, flags and mystery event. Carpenter got the fastest time in poles and goats.
In the 9-12 age division, Sage Keck won the top cowgirl while Chisum Carpenter won the top cowboy. Keck got the fastest times in four of the five divisions. Only Layna Taylor getting the fastest goat time prevented her from winning in a clean sweep.
In the 13-18 age division, Tess Egenbacher won the top overall cowgirl award.
Kiley McCracken won both the barrel racing and flags event. Emma Strahan won the poles and mystery event. Hadlee Bryan won the goats event.
There was no top overall cowboy in the age division.
To see the times for the winners of each event in all four age categories along with pictures of all of the top cowboys and cowgirls, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.
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