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Cross country solar car race starts in Ft. Worth

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A record 20 high school teams from 10 states began their week-long, cross-country race in solar cars Tuesday as the 23rd running of the Solar Car Challenge got underway from Fort Worth.
In a span of just seven days, the teams, which include nine from North Texas, are competing in a cross-country race of more than 1,300 miles that will conclude Monday in Palmdale, CA.
The race will have the teams travel from Fort Worth to Snyder, TX (Day 1) and then onto Carlsbad, NM (Day 2); El Paso, TX (Day 3 and Day 4 rest day); Phoenix, AZ (Day 5); Palms, CA (Day 6) and Palmdale, CA (Day 7).
“It’s an incredible opportunity for these young people to see what it is like, testing their skills, their abilities,” said Dr. Lehman Marks, founder of the Solar Car Foundation and race director. “They’re going to be driving on the roadway – we prefer two-lane streets that have a nice shoulder for them to go through – and other traffic is going to be going around them during the next seven days to get to California.”
The North Texas contingent that qualified for the Solar Car Challenge and took the green flag were the Winston School of Dallas; All Saints Episcopal School of Fort Worth; Coppell High School; Plano Green Team; Liberty Christian of Argyle; Prosper High School; Covenant Christian Academy of Colleyville; Wylie East High School; and Greenville High School.
“I think it’s going to be awesome to get this (solar car) on the road, get the caravan moving and go to California,” Prosper High team captain Tanten Jones said. “That is spectacular.”
In addition to the local participants, teams traveled from as far as New York, North Carolina and California to compete across four divisions – Classic, Advanced Classic (used their classic car for more than three years), Advanced and Electric-Solar Powered – in the cross-country race.
Throughout the cross-country journey, Western High School, the lone representative from Florida, will pay tribute to the victims of the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.
The schools are approximately 20 miles apart in South Florida and the Western High School team placed decals on each side of its solar car – “Douglas Strong” on one side and “MSDStrong” on the other – in remembrance of the 17 students and staff members that were killed in the incident.
“This hit really close to home and we were at school when this happened and we got locked down immediately,” Western High team captain Brandon Abin said. “They are close friends; it’s our community.
You always hear about these things happening elsewhere, but when it hits close to home it really hits deep. … It’s something that scarred us for a while.”
In addition to the teams from Texas and Florida, the others competing are Palmdale (CA) High School; La Canada (CA) Engineering Club; Staten Island (NY) Solar Car/Green Technology; Leesville Solar Car Team (Raleigh, NC); Dove Academy (Oklahoma City, OK); Lisa Academy North Solar Car Team (Little Rock, AR.); Pana (IL) High School; Houston (MS) Solar Car Race Team; and Frontier High School (Kansas City, MS).

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Interview with Bowie baseball players Boston Farris (left) and Trae Seigler following their district win against City View on April 8, 2025.
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Interview with Bowie softball players Hanna Bell (left) and Sadie Britt following their district win against City View on senior night on April 8, 2025.
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RJ Walker pitched four perfect innings for Nocona and got his 100th career strike out. (Courtesy photo)

Nocona
The Nocona Indians picked up dominant wins against Chico in their series against the Dragons last week.
The Indians won both games 11-0 by run-rule after five innings to get their first district wins of the season.
Nocona was coming off losing both games against Lindsay the previous week in its first district series and bounced back in a big way.
In the first game at home last week, the Indians scored six runs in the first inning and five in the third inning which proved to be all the offense they needed.
Kutter Cabrera led the team with three RBIs while Miller Jentry was second with two RBIs. The team finished with nine hits and drew eight walks.
On the mound, Walker Murphey pitched a shut out while striking out seven and allowing three hits. Defensively, the team committed one fielding error.
The second game saw Nocona score all of its runs in the first three innings, highlighted by scoring six runs in the second inning.
Murphey hit a three-run home run to lead the team while Brody Langford and Landon Fatheree each had two RBIs.
On the mound RJ Walker had a big day, throwing a perfect four innings which means he did not allow a hit or walk anyone. He also struck out eight batters, which put him over 100 career strikeouts in high school. The defense committed no fielding errors.

Saint Jo
The Saint Jo Panthers lost their series against Bryson last week.
The first game was a close 3-0 loss, but the second game was 11-0, done after four and half innings due to run-rule.
The Panthers were coming off close losses to Perrin-Whitt from the previous week. They were hoping they could turn their fortune around playing another 1A program.
Unfortunately in the first game, the Cowboys got off to a good start, scoring three runs in the first inning, with two coming with two outs due to an error and a dropped third strike.
Saint Jo’s pitching and defense tightened up after that to not allow another run in the final six innings. Unfortunately, the Panthers had only two hits and four base runners all game as they lost the close game 3-0.
Charlie Evans and Rylan Forrest had the only two hits for Saint Jo in the game as the team struck out 18 times. Trent Gaston ended the game allowing three runs (one earned) on six hits while striking out five batters and walking two in six innings of work. The defense committed five fielding errors.
Unfortunately, things did not go as well several days later in game two. Bryson scored three runs in both the first and second innings before scoring five runs in the third inning. Saint Jo was not able to get a hit and drew two walks in the game.
The Panther defense committed six fielding errors which led to only three of the 11 runs given up were earned by the pitching staff who gave up five hits, walked six and hit four batters.

Bellevue
The Bellevue Eagles played Perrin-Whitt last week in a series.
The Pirates won the first game 11-1 by run-rule and the second game score was not updated on Game Changer.
The Eagles were coming off one-sided losses to Bryson the previous week in their first district series and was hoping to play better.
Bellevue did get out to an early lead in the first inning. River Trail hit an RBI single in the top of the first inning to go up 1-0, which proved to be the highlight of the game.
Perrin-Whitt scored three runs in the first inning, one in the second inning, two in the fourth inning and five in the fifth inning to win 11-1.

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