SPORTS
85th Oil Bowl this weekend
It is time for the 85th annual Oil Bowl this week as the area’s best graduating athletes represent their schools one last time.
Montague County and Bellevue will have 14 athletes competing in football, basketball and volleyball all-star games on June 17-18.
The Maskat Shrine Oil Bowl is one of the longest running all-star football games in the state, starting 1938. From 1945-2013, the format used to pit Texas versus Oklahoma.
After a 13-year absence, basketball was re-added to the proceedings in 2018. Volleyball was added for the first time in 2019.
The weekend starts with basketball on June 17 at Rider High School. The girl’s game is scheduled first at 6 p.m. with the boys following at 7:30 p.m.
In the girl’s game, Bowie’s Addie Farris and Bellevue’s Austin Ford will play on the west team. On the east team, Nocona will have Raylee Sparkman and Stephany Gutierrez play.
In the boy’s game, Bowie’s Drew Weber will suit up for the east team while Nocona’s Lyndon Fenoglio and Adam Meekins will play for the west team.
On June 18 the volleyball game will be played first also at Rider High School starting at 4 p.m. with the small school game.
Gold-Burg’s Kelly Contreras on the west team and Prairie Valley’s Emily Carpenter on the east team will play in that game.
The big school game will follow where Bowie’s Taygon Jones will play on the west team.
The football game is that night. This year the game will be at Iowa Park High School instead of Midwestern State University’s Memorial Stadium. The game is scheduled to start at 7:30 p.m.
Both Bowie and Nocona players will play on the east team. The Jackrabbits have Jake Fallis and Hunter Wade playing while the Indians have Sam Davis and Ian Hostetter. The east team has won six of the last seven years.
Landry Norwood has agreed to become the new Head Boys Basketball Coach for Bowie High.
Norwood grew up in Paradise, playing a number of sports for the Panthers during his high school career. With a number of family members still in the area and the position coming open, Norwood applied and was hired.
“I know the tradition up here,” Norwood said. “I was glad (Athletic Director and Head Football) Coach Tyler Price felt he could put his trust in me.”
Bowie’s varsity went 2-10 last year, both wins coming against Vernon. Norwood spent five years as an assistant in Lipan before spending the next four years at Llano, three years as head coach. He said his last two years in Llano were rough after graduation of nine seniors his first year and a 26-7 squad.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News
Nocona came into game two of its Class 2A Division I bi-district series with Archer City looking to rebound from a 17-0 loss in game one.
The Lady Indians took a quick lead but the Lady ‘Cats had too much in the tank and knocked Nocona out of the playoffs courtesy of a 13-3, five-inning victory winning the best of three series, 2-0.
Kylea Wallace reached base on a second baseman’s error. With one out, M’leigha Franklin took a pitch over the wall in left field for a home run, igniting the Lady Indian crowd with a 2-0 lead.
Archer City prevented further damage by retiring the next two hitters. The Lady ‘Cats struck in the bottom of the inning for seven runs.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Culture. It’s a beautiful word.
Bowie Softball Coach Griffin Fields has been trying to install a positive, winning culture since taking over the job. For the first time since 2019, the Lady Rabbits qualified for the postseason, facing District 8 top seed Early in the bi-district round.
After beating the Lady ‘Horns 9-8 in game one of the best-of-three series April 23, Early came back and evened the series less than 24 hours later, 15-0. The Lady Rabbits used the aforementioned culture and got out to a quick lead in game three.
Bowie was then forced to come from behind for the second straight night. Kinley Baker, who had the game winning RBI in game one, came through again in game three and broke a 6-all tie with a single to lift the Lady Rabbits to a 9-6 victory in the finale.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
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