SPORTS
Bass club competes in cold
The Red River HS Bass Club competed again at Lake Lewisville on Oct. 26 with five teams from the club fishing the third tournament of the Texas High School Bass Association West Division.
The day started out miserable on the water as temperature was about 45 degrees with rain and winds in excess of 15 miles per hour, creating a very cold and bone chilling start for the youth and the boat captains.
Once they braved the brunt of it that morning it settled into a nice day with blue skies and calmer water. Fish were biting for most everyone, but some were too small to weigh, while others found a groove and were able to bring fish across the scales. More than 200 teams fished this tournament from the West Division.
Competing in the tournament this round were the teams of: Konner Ritchie-Easton Womack with boat captain Roger Ritchie who caught several fish, but were too short to weigh-in; Gunnar Valverde-Baylen Faris with boat captain Mike Turner who were able to bring to the scales one fish to weigh 1.42 pounds placing 110th, this team has been fortunate to weigh a fish in at all three tournaments; Cole Scribner-Shane Chitwood with boat captain John Ballard pulled three from the lake to weigh-in at 6.5 pounds placing 35th; Cooper Harris-Finn Stevens with boat captain Brian Clark brought three to the scales as well and turned in a weight of 7.98 pounds placing 25th; Kooper Hansard along with boat captain Jason Uncel carried in 5 fish to tip the scales at 13.44 pounds placing 4th overall in the tournament.
The Red River High School Bass Club is based in Montague County and have teams from Montague, Clay and Wichita counties competing in the West Division.
Bellevue’s girl’s basketball team led at halftime but a quick 9-0 Jacksboro run in the opening moments of the second half would prove the difference in a 28-25 Lady Eagle loss June 15 in a Nocona Summer League game.
Leading 12-9 at the half, Bellevue continued to shut down the inside game of the Tigerettes. Jacksboro switched tactics and began firing from outside. Three 3-pointers in the span of just under two minutes gave Jacksboro an 18-12 lead.
Bellevue kept things close, however, getting on the second half scoreboard with Mattie Broussard’s basket and free throws cutting the deficit to two, 18-16. A Haven Jones 3-pointer put the Lady Eagles up 19-18 midway through the second half.
The Tigerettes had just one 3 -pointer the rest of the way but got inside for a pair of buckets to take a 25-21 lead with 4:50 to go. Both offenses shut down late.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Most school-age athletes start off playing everything. By the time they graduate, they whittle it down to just one or two.
New Bowie girl’s track and overall cross country coach Shawnda Childers is no exception. While at Iowa Park she competed in volleyball, cross country and track before cutting out volleyball and focusing on track and cross country to close out high school.
Childers did not stay with athletics while moving on to Midwestern State University, where she received her bachelor’s and master’s Degrees. After graduation, shestarted coaching in Electra. She came to Bowie for one year, then went back to her old stomping grounds in Iowa Park where she spent the next four years.
The return home also put her in contact with now-Bowie Coach Griffin Fields, who was a coach there at the time. From Iowa Park, she spent the next three years at City View.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
New Saint Jo Girl’s Basketball Coach Grant Gooch isn’t completely unfamiliar with the area.
“We went to Muenster quite a bit when I was a kid,” Gooch, who will be going into his 20th year as a coach, said. “We’d load up the cooler from the meat markets. It’s good to be back.”
Gooch worked with Saint Jo Athletic Director CJ Hantz when the pair were in Throckmorton. Gooch comes to town from Menard where he spent three years at the West Texas school.
Gooch says coaching and education kind of come naturally to him.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
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