SPORTS
Bulldogs take second place at home meet
Despite the heavy rain this week, Prairie Valley was still able to host its cross country on meet on Sept. 26.
It was a smaller meet with a little more than 20 runners in the boys and girls races. This made every place count that much more and motivate each runner to push themselves every bit they could to try and beat the runner in front of them.
The Bulldog boys team finished second overall as a team and had the top finisher of the race, with last year’s state qualifier William Winler running a season best 18:37, beating second place by more than 30 seconds.
Other top finishers for Prairie Valley included Kaden Fleming in seventh place, Tyler Reid in eighth place, Isaac Yeargin in 12th place and Zak Smith in 15th place.
Coach Seth Stephens was pleased with how much better his boys ran from their first meet the previous week.
“All of my high school guys ran their best time of the year,” Stephens said.
The coach said it turned out to be a beautiful day after concerns the meet might get rained out.
“Not running in 95 degree heat definitely helped us I think, but our guys also are working hard at getting better. Their times are getting faster in practice as well. It was good to see Kaden Fleming bounce back this week. He had a rough week last week, he ran on a hurt ankle. This week it was feeling better and he ran 20:28. Of course it was good to see William win the gold. I’m really excited about seeing how our team continues to do moving forward.”
The girls team also finished second. Their top two runners finished close to each other at the top of the standings as Cosima Ermert finished second with a time of 14:37 while Allie Brown finished not too far behind her in third with at time of 14:48. The rest of the team saw Taylor Franklin finish 11th, Veronica Gutierrez 16th and Randi Gilleland 21st.
Read the full story in the weekend edition of The Bowie News.
Bowie, playing on a short rest, held with host Jacksboro for most of the volleyball match Oct. 1, but the Tigerettes pulled away late and defeated the Lady Rabbits 3-1 (26-24, 12-25, 25-14, 22-25).
The match was scheduled for Oct. 2 but was moved. Both teams are now 2-2 in District 6-3A.
Jacksboro got out to a quick lead in game one before Olivia Stewart’s kill and a three-point Olivia Richey serving run put the visitors up 8-7. Junior Abby Reneau broke things open with a six-point string to give Bowie a 15-8 cushion and force Jacksboro into a timeout.
The Tigerettes came back and took an 18-16 lead. KP Rutherford’s kill broke the serve and allowed Molly Enlow to tie the game at 18.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Gold-Burg Football Coach Austin Norman called his Bears’ 35-32 loss to host Perrin a “barn burner”.
It most definitely was as Gold-Burg, now 1-5 for the year gave the 5-1 Pirates everything they wanted for four quarters. Gold-Burg scored on the last play of the first half on a Peyton Epperson run with the two point conversion cutting the deficit to 20-16.
The Bears were their own worst enemy to open the third quarter with face mask and offside penalties moving the Pirates downfield setting up a first-and-goal at the Bear three. Defense by Epperson, Keelyn Case and Barrett Allen and a pair of Perrin penalties helped stop the drive and force a turnover on downs.
Gold-Burg was slapped with an intentional grounding penalty on the first play, giving Perrin a safety and extending the Pirate lead to 22-16. Defense by Epperson and JoJuan Grace after a first down run closed out the third quarter.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Nocona and Prairie Valley cross country teams took part in the Prairie Valley Invitational Sept. 20 while Bowie varsity runners competed in the Lubbock Invitational.
Lubbock
Leading the Rabbits was Kellen Rater who finished 10th among 162 runners with a time of 17:24.50. Finishing behind Rater was Shawn Willett with a time of 19:33.20. Hayden Sutton ran a 20:27.10 followed by Taven Melton in 20:39.20, Coleman Holloway in 20:53.80 and Jaxon Castro with a time of 21:31.60.
Laney Segura led the Lady Rabbits with a time of 14:41.30. She was followed by Kylee Waldrep in 15:56.80, Bella Lozano in 16:04.80, Angeles Alvarez with a time of 16:15.40, AnDee Miller in 16:23.70 and Isabella Caswell in 16:51 flat.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
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