SPORTS
Locals receive all-state recognition
Volleyball all-state honors were announced this week from the Texas Girls Coaches Association with the season wrapped up across the state and Montague County had a few players get recognized.
Three girls were named to the all-state team while several girls from Bowie and Nocona were named to the academic all-state team.
From Bowie, senior Aslyn Davis was picked for the all-state team. The outside hitter regularly led the Lady Rabbits in kills while also being versatile enough to play back row.
From Nocona, junior outside hitter Averee Kleinhans made a return appearance to the all-state list. The versatile and hard hitting attacker got recognized last year as a sophomore while also earning her way on the list in basketball twice so far.
Prairie Valley made a run to the regional tournament for the first time in school history. In the process Lady Bulldog sophomore Emily Carpenter was named to the all-state team.
Carpenter did a little bit of everything. She was a threat to lead the team in kills as an outside hitter, she was the second setter and she played back row.
Her coach and mother Jeannie Carpenter credited the extra work she puts into the offseason.
Several players also made the academic all-state team. Only senior varsity players are eligible and are required to keep a 94 overall average from grades 9-11.
From Bowie Cassidy Duke, Sydney Jones, Landra Parr and Davis were named academic all-state.
From Nocona Trystin Fenoglio, Ella Nunneley and Ellen Yates were named academic all-state.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.
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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