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Sears competes at Archery World Cup
Gold-Burg senior Connor Sears traveled to Nimes, France last week to compete at the Indoor Archery World Cup in the junior men’s compound bow division.
The son of Pam and David, Sears made the trip to France for the second straight year to compete against the world’s best in the 18-20 year-old division despite being 17.
Unfortunately, Sears was not able to repeat last year’s bronze medal, losing to Sweden’s Marcus Arlefur-Wällstedt 145-141 in the bronze medal match. Still, just to get to that point is an achievement unto itself.
Sears first had to make it out of qualifications, competing against 50 other archers from around the world. Also, the demand for perfection from indoor archery makes every point not earned that much more costly.
Out of sixty shots, Sears only failed to hit center 10 times and on those 10 he scored the next best thing, nines, for a 590 total. This put him in a tie for third place, with only four archers shooting better than him and only by one or two points.
This qualified him for individual matches. He won his first three matches before faced fellow American Carson Sapp for a chance to shoot for the gold.
Sears fell a couple points behind early and could not recover as he lost by the close margin 145-143. That qualified him for the bronze medal match, where things did not go his way again, losing to Sweden’s Arlefur-Wällstedt 145-141.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekend 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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