SPORTS
Bowie powerlifting teams sweep team competitions last week
It was another successful week for Bowie powerlifting teams as both boys and girls won their respective meets.
The Jackrabbit team hosted a league meet on Feb. 7 against four other schools from the same region and division. Thanks to 10 lifters placing in the top three of their weight classes, including three gold medals, Bowie outpointed Alvord by seven points to win the overall team title.
Top finishers included Dalton Davis winning the 148 pound division with a 1,035 pound total, Zack Otto winning the 220 pound division with a 1,290 total and Bryan Arellano winning the 242 pound division with a 1,260 total.
Other lifters who placed included: Raiden Brezina earning second in the 114 division, Roman Rivas and Ethan Meyers earning second and third in the 132 division, Joey Crawford earning second in the 165 division, Jacob Skinner and Victor Tran placing second and third in the 181 division, Tyson Herron earning third in the super heavy weight division.
Based on totals, Skinner and Tran have the second and third highest totals in the region in the 181 pound class. Rivas and Otto also are both listed third in the region in their weight classes according to their highest totals.
The girls traveled to Perrin-Whitt on Feb. 9 to compete against 10 other schools, including some from division one and two. Despite the competition, the Lady Rabbits dominated as they won the overall meet by more than 20 points as 11 lifters contributed point totals, including six gold medals.
Top finishers include: Jessie Henry winning the 97 pound weight class, Sierra Skinner winning the 104 pound weight class, Emma Skinner winning the 114 pound weight class; Kerstin Kindsfather winning the 148 pound weight class, Carrington Davis winning the 198 pound weight class and Chelsea Price winning the 220 pound weight class.
Other lifters who contributed to the point total included Jenna Rogers earning second in the 148 division, Ashley Aguirre earning third in the 123 division, Maddie Baker earning third in the 132 division, Harley Lowe earning fourth in the 220 division and Breanne Masingale earning fifth in the 148 division.
Emma Skinner and Davis each won lifter of the meet, Skinner among the light weight classes and Davis among the heavy weight classes. Both of them set PRs with their total weight as Skinner’s 640 was a 70 pound jump. Davis broke the 1,000 pound total for the first time, a feat Coach Quentin Berend said he has never seen a girl he has coached do before.
Davis and Henry both have the highest weight total in their weight classes in the region. Davis has the distinction of having the highest weight total in both the 181 and 198 weight classes.
Sierra and Emma Skinner as well as Price all have the second highest total in the region for their weight classes.
To see results for every Bowie lifter, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
The Red River High School Bass Club competed this past weekend, May 31 – June 1, at the State Tournament on Lake Conroe for the two-day tournament.
Two of the teams from Montague County traveled south to try their best at the culmination of the year for the state title. Teams were able to pre-fish on Friday before the Saturday and Sunday competition. On Friday, there was a flipping contest for the youth and Cooper Johnson won third overall and won a $500 scholarship and an Academy gift card.
The club’s two teams who competed were Lane Smith/Colt Henry with boat captain Jimmy Smith. The team placed 63rd with a total of 16.22 pounds. The second team of Cooper Johnson/Corbyn Patton and boat captain Jayson Toerck placed 169th with a total weight of 2.29 pounds.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekly edition of the Bowie News.
The Maskat Shrine Oil Bowl is this week on June 6-7 and graduating athletes from Bowie, Nocona and Saint Jo are confirmed to be playing.
In total, seven athletes from Bowie, five from Nocona and three from Saint Jo are planning to play in the all-star games this week. Nocona also will have a pair of coaches participating as well.
The girl’s basketball game kicks off events on June 6, scheduled for 6 p.m. at Wichita Falls Memorial High School. In the game, the east team will have Nocona players Avery Crutsinger, Meg Meekins and Reagan Phipps playing while Kyler Spitzer and Clayton Brown coach them one last time.
On the west team, Saint Jo’s Payzlie Cervantes is confirmed to be playing.
The boy’s basketball game is scheduled to follow at 7:30 p.m. On the east team, Bowie’s Boston Farris and Nocona’s Jose Gomez Jr. will be playing.
On June 7, the volleyball games are scheduled to start at 4 p.m. with the small school game. On the west team, Nocona’s Kaygan Stone and Saint Jo’s Taylor Patrick are confirmed to play. On the east team, Saint Jo’s Aubrey Morman will get to play her teammate.
There are no local athletes confirmed to be playing in the big school volleyball game.
The final event is the football game, scheduled for 7:30 p.m. at Memorial Stadium. It is an all Bowie affair with six players confirmed to be playing for the east team: Justin Clark, Jorge De Leon, Hunter Fluitt and Braden Rhyne, Preacher Chambers and Moh Azouak.
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Nocona Independent School District officials looked inward for a new athletic director/head football coach, selecting Jeff Hill for the position.
Hill, who served last year as Nocona football’s offensive coordinator and also led the softball program to the playoffs for the first time in a while as its head coach, was upgraded to the role.
This came on the heels of former Athletic Director Blake Crutsinger, who served in the role the last four years, resigned in May.
For Hill, the choice to apply for the position was a no brainer. His one year in Nocona had impressed upon him and his wife that it was the place they would like to be long term.
“I’m looking for a town to raise my kids in and Nocona has treated my family really well,” Hill said. “There are some really good people. The kids work hard. Everything I am looking for in a hometown is right here in Nocona and I want to try and make it as best as it can be, especially through athletics.”
Before Nocona, Hill served as the athletic director at S&S Consolidated while also spending time at Hebron and Whitewright in his coaching career.
Hill expresses great respect for the departing Crutsinger and besides changing a few small things in how he personally wants to do things, he is not trying to come in with a sweeping restructuring of the whole athletic department.
The program had five of its six team sports make the playoffs, with volleyball playing in the regional final and the girl’s basketball team winning the state championship.
That along with two athletes competing at the state championship in cross country and track with one earning a gold medal, it was one of the more successful school years in athletic program history.
“Coach Crutsinger was awesome and did a great job so honestly just little tweaks, a little bit of structure and cohesion amongst the coaching staff between boys and girls,” Hill said. “I hope to keep the winning tradition going overall in the athletic department.”
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