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Bowie, Nocona basketball all-district awards listed
With the basketball season wrapped for all of the area teams, all-district selections have now been released.
With both Bowie and Nocona teams making the playoffs this year, there were a lot of selections for all of the teams.
The Lady Rabbits had Maddie Mandela win the district most valuable player award. Ziba Robbins was a first team selection while Neely Price and Kayleigh Crow were second team choices. Haley Webb was honorable mention.
The Bowie boy’s team had Andrew Sandhoff earn the district’s sixth man of the year for his play off the bench.
Brody Armstrong, A.J. Whatley and Tucker Jones were first team all-district selections while Bayler Swint was named to the second team.
The Nocona Lady Indians team nearly swept the superlatives in their district after winning the district title. Megyn Meekins earned district MVP, Skyler Smith was defensive MVP, Sydnee Mowry was sixth man of the year and the coaching staff Kyle Spitzer and Clayton Brown were named staff of the year.
First team selections included Reagan Phipps and Aubree Kleinhans. Avery Crutsinger and Jolie Rose were second team picks.
The Nocona boy’s team had several superlative selections as well after winning the district title. Brady McCasland was named the district’s MVP while Conley Kleinhans was the co-defensive MVP.
The staff of Brody Wilson, Chris Woodall and Bryson Hackley were named staff of the year.
Mike Wetmore and Ryder Oswald were first team selections.
Javier Gaytan along with Luke and Charlie Fuller were named to the second team. Johnny Stone and Wesley Murphey were honorable mention selections.
To see the full list for all of the awards, including academic all-district selections, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
Bowie softball had a historic season, where the squad made the postseason for the first time since 2019 and knocked a top seed from the playoffs, come to an end April 29.
No-4 ranked Tuscola Jim Ned got out to a quick start and took an 11-1, five inning win in the area round of the Class 3A Division I playoffs. Bowie had its season end at 19-15.
With a large crowd at Weatherford High rooting them on, Bowie took the field looking to knock out another top seed, as they did with Early last week.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Bowie will have two track athletes at the State track and field meet May 14 with top two finishes at the Region 1-3A track meet at Abilene Christian University May 1-2.
Tyler Richey finished 2nd in the pole vault with a 15’ leap. Richey was also 9th in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 15.39. Sophomore Braden Willett was 3rd in the 1,600-meters with a school record best of time of 4:21.93. Willett was 4th in the 3,200-meter run with a time of 9:29.71.
Several other Rabbits and Lady Rabbits competed at the regional meet. The 800-meter relay foursome of Colton Dosch, Richey, Finn Riddle and Jaxon White finished 6th with a time of 1:30.24 while the 1,600-meter relay team of Dosch, Judah Livsey, Riddle and Blaine Leonard finished 8th with a time of 3:30.76.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Saint Jo’s boys and girls track teams took top honors at the Region III-A track meet at Hewitt Midway High School May 1-2 and will send several athletes to the state track and field meet May 16 in Austin.
The boys were led by Damon Byrd who won both the long jump with a 22’9 ¾” leap and triple jump with a 45’ 10 ½”. Byrd also won the 100-meter dash with a time of 1.03 and was a member of the victorious 800-meter relay along with Trent Gaston, Barrett Johnson and Lee Yeley with a time of 1:30.80.
Yeley won the high jump with a 6’ leap. Byrd, Yeley, Dominic Luna and Gaston combined for a 2nd-place finish in the 1,600-meter relay with a time 3:32.81. Gaston was 2nd in the 110-meter hurdles with a tie of 16.09. Johnson was 2nd in the 400-meter dash in 50.75, Ayden Giambruno was 6th in the 3200-meter run in 11:05.24 with Yeley 8th in the 200-meters with a time of 25.61.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
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