SPORTS
Lady Horns’ offense explodes on Lady Bears
A first half barrage from the Forestburg Lady Horns left no one safe on Friday night, including the visiting Gold-Burg Lady Bears.
Forestburg won 60-36 thanks to the strength of a first half offensive explosion that saw the Lady Horns score 42 points.
It seemed like everything Forestburg shot went in. The Lady Horns scored 11 points before the Lady Bears scored their first basket two minutes into the game, already sinking three three-pointers and scoring on a drive.
Gold-Burg struggled to score against Forestburg’s zone defense as they elected to shoot over the defense and then do their best to crash the offensive glass, but they had limited success.
The Lady Horns led 19-5 on the strength of four three-pointers heading into the second quarter.
Forestburg was not done. Despite only one three-pointer made in the quarter, the Lady Horns out did their first quarter effort by scoring 23 points in the quarter.
The hot shooting forced Gold-Burg to switch to man-to-man defense so Forestburg started finding cutters to the basket and driving lanes.
Also, the Lady Horns inserted big Morgan Miller in the quarter and she dominated using her size to make easy uncontested baskets at the rim, scoring six points.
The game was essentially over as Forestburg led 42-8 heading into halftime.
The Lady Horns could not top the offensive performance from the first half while the Lady Bears seemed to double down on their strategy to throw up open shots and do their best to grab offensive rebounds.
Freshman Kelly Contreras from Gold-Burg got hot in the second half as she got the free throw line in the third quarter and knocked in four three-pointers in the fourth quarter.
This helped the final score be more respectable than the halftime score would lead people to believe as Forestburg won 60-36.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
Kally Jump will be taking over as head volleyball coach at Bowe High School.
Jump comes to town after a three-year stint as head coach at Class 4A Alvarado. She will be entering her 7th year of coaching this Fall. She replaces Ashley Sanders, who guide the team to a 6-6 finish in District 7-3A and a bi-district loss to Peaster.
After graduating from Tarleton State in 2020, she went to Itasca before going to Alvarado. With a number of family and friends in the area, Jump and her family decided to make the trip North.
Jump, who taught geometry and Algebra 2 at Alvarado, is the daughter of educators, She decided she wanted to be an educator when she was in elementary school.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
A solid day was had by Montague county high school tracksters at the State Track and Field Meet May 16 in Austin.
Bellevue’s Mattie Broussard had a pair of second place finishes in both the 800-meter run with a time of 2:21.41 and the 3,200-meter run with a time of 11:31.33. Broussard also was 4th in the 1,600-meters with a time of 5:22.18.
Her teammate Brylie Hager was 9th in the 110-meter hurdles in 19.93.
Forestburg’s Brenna Briles was 4th in the triple jump with a 35’9 1’2” leap. Her teammate Jocelyn Rich was 4th in the pole vault with a 9’ leap.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Bowie had a pair of top four finishes at the State Track and Field Meet May 14.
Sophomore Brayden Willett made it onto the medal stand, finishing 3rd in the 1,600-meter run with a time of 4:17.89. Bowie junior Tyler Richey finished 4th in the pole vault after a 14’6” effort.
The top two finishers from Holliday, also in Bowie’s district, celebrated with him after he crossed the finish line.
“It was kind of surprising,” Willett said about Ryder and Noah Stroman embracing him in a celebratory hug. “They’re good guys, so it was kind of cool.”
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
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