SPORTS
Girls basketball district honors released
With the basketball season now over for all of the girl’s teams in the area, all-district selections have now been officially released.
The Bowie Lady Rabbits team had seven players earn honorable mention honors. The players were Ziba Robbins, Maycie Metzler, Allie Parr, Emily Cueva, Melenie Cantu, Kayliegh Crow and Ella Richey.
The Nocona Lady Indians won district and were the 2A state runners-up so they had plenty of honors to go around. Skyler Smith and Meg Meekins were the district’s co-most valuable players. Sadie Jacobs was the district’s newcomer of the year.
Reagan Phipps and Avery Crutsinger were named to the first team. Aubree Kleinhans and Jolie Rose were on the second team.
For the area schools in the 1A classification, Saint Jo was the district champion. Taylor Patrick earned the district’s co-MVP honor. Payzlie Cervantes was named the district’s offensive MVP. The coaching staff honors went to them as well.
First team selections for the Lady Panthers were Kyler Dunn and Aubrey Morman. Second team honors went to Maxey Johnson and Jordyn O’Neal.
Forestburg was the district runners-up and got a couple of superlative awards. Brenna Briles was the district’s other co-MVP. Lili Cisneros was named the district’s newcomer of the year. Braylee Briles and Alli Cisneros were named to the district’s second team.
Bellevue squeaked into the playoffs and saw several players earn honors. Cirstin Allen was named the district’s sixth woman of the year, coming off the bench for the Lady Eagles.
Brylie Hager and Brittney Gill were given first team honors. Tristan Shook, Callie Martin and Mary Grace Broussard were named to the second team.
Prairie Valley saw Makaylee Gomez named to the first team. Natalee Young, Kenedy Stone and Linzie Priddy were named to the honorable mention team.
Gold-Burg saw Ollie Gaston, Jimena Garcia and Alyson Rojas given honorable mention honors.
The full results for area teams are in the weekend edition of the Bowie News, including academic all-district and every school’s honorable mention selections.
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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