SPORTS
LOCAL: Williams will lead Gold-Burg
By ERIC VICCARO
sports@bowienewsonline.com
Gordon Williams is coming home to Montague County.
Williams’ move as new Gold-Burg athletic director and head boys’ basketball coach was made official when he was approved by the school board at its Monday meeting.
“We’re excited,” said Gold-Burg superintendent Roger Ellis. “We’re jumping up and down. I think we are moving in the right direction with an established, seasoned coach.”
With Williams taking over at Gold-Burg, the Conference 1A school that makes up Ringgold and Stoneburg, it’s hopeful the coaching carousel will stop spinning. There will be five different head coaches in five seasons.
In related news, Gold-Burg boys’ athletics coach Michael Taylor has accepted a position in Flower Bluff. Ellis reported recent boys’ basketball coach
Michael Ball has resigned in hopes of being closer to his hometown of Mineral Wells.
There’s still one boys’ athletics vacancy at Gold-Burg, with the possibility any hire will be the head football coach.
As of right now, Williams will be the head football coach as well.
This will mark Williams’ second stint at Gold-Burg, also coaching at the school for six years during the 1990s.
Longtime Bowie head coach Gayno Shelton is excited to see Williams return home.
“Gordon’s a great guy,” Shelton said. “He does a good job on the fundamentals, and his kids play with a lot of energy. That’s important.”
Shelton served as Williams basketball coach in the early-1980s at Bowie High School.
“I remember Gordon as an excellent shooter and he was athletic,” added Shelton, who now plans on making trips to Stoneburg to watch Williams mentor the Bears. Read more in the June 10 Bowie News.
Gordon Williams. (Courtesy photo from the Petrolia Independent School District)
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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