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FC Flyers lose to Amarillo 7-4
Two weeks from playing its last game, Football Club Wichita Falls hosted the Amarillo Bombers for the second straight game to see if it could avenge the game between this team.
The Falls Town Flyers could not get it done as a late run in the fourth period led to the Bombers winning 7-4, giving Wichita Falls its third loss in as many match ups the teams have had this season.
Technical issues halted the start of the game as the lights did not come on for one side of the field. After about five minutes and only half the field still lit up, the game got started anyway. Eventually two spot lights were aimed at the dark area to try and illuminate it as the game played on.
The Flyers struck first in the fifth minute of period one. Flavio Guzman scored from a pass from Christian Okeke to go up 1-0.
The Bombers answered seven minutes later as they scored off a set piece play from a penalty to tie the game. A few minutes later, Amarillo took the lead 2-1, capitalizing on a two-on-one opportunity to end the first period.
The physical play was evident from the beginning, but refs were quick on the whistle from the beginning.
Wichita Falls had a one man advantage in the opening few minutes when a Bomber’s player was put in the penalty box, but could not capitalize in those two minutes.
Fortunately, the Flyers did tie the score 2-2 not long after that as Okeke scored from a pass from Flavio Guzman. Shortly after Wichita Falls had another one-man advantage following a penalty. Things looked to be going the Flyers’ way.
Unfortunately, Amarillo survived the two minutes. A minute after the teams were both back at even power, the Bombers scored on a perfectly executed give-and-go as they led 3-2 at halftime.
Early in the third period Wichita Falls tied up the score 3-3. With a free kick awarded deep in Amarillo’s territory, Okeke quickly passed to captain Robert Swann who scored.
The physical game just seemed to intensify on both sides as a double penalty limited both sides to just five players on either side for two minutes at one point. The Bombers retook the lead 4-3 just before the end of the period as a kick got through the defense.
The final few seconds of the third saw the player who just scored get sent to the penalty box for a hard foul, but the Flyers could not take advantage.
Early in the fourth period Amarillo scored two goals within two minutes of each other to go up 6-3. Wichita Falls was able to score once more as Swann scored again, this time off a feed from Ivan Castaneda to cut the lead to 6-4.
Still down multiple goals, the Flyers sold out on the offensive end to try and score more. This left them open for a counter attack, which Amarillo took advantage of, scoring on a three-on-two situation to back up by three goals 7-4 in the final minutes, where the final score ended.
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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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