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Schools compete at area track meets
Area track meets took place last week as athletes competed for a chance to qualify for the regional meet.
Only the top four finishers in each event moved on for a chance to qualify for the state meet.
Bowie and Nocona both competed at Graham on April 10, but in different classifications, while all the area 1A schools competed on April 7 at Bryson.
On a team level, both Saint Jo teams again finished first overall by a significant margin. Bowie boy’s finished sixth overall, Nocona girls got third and the boy’s team finished ninth. The Bellevue girl’s team got fifth place and the Gold-Burg boy’s team finished in sixth place. Both Forestburg and Prairie Valley teams placed eighth and 11th places.
For Bowie, Tyler Richey had a great day winning the pole vault to qualify for regionals. Russell Anderson got second in the 400 meters while Brayden Willett finished fourth in the 1600 meters and Isaac Renteria fourth in the 3200 meters to all qualify. Braden Rhyne qualified in the 300 meter hurdles while finishing in fourth place.
For Nocona, Graci Brown won the 400 meters and finished second in the 200 meters to qualify. Caden Gaston got third in the high jump to qualify and the girls 4×400 meter relay team got second place as they move on as well.
The list for Saint Jo athletes alone that qualified for regionals is a long one that can be viewed by the results at the bottom. Therefore the athletes highlighted will be ones that won their events.
All three Lady Panther relay teams got first place while the Saint Jo boy’s relay teams won the 4×200 and 4×400 meter relays. Jayden Curry won the 1600 meter race, Barrett Johnson won the 400 meters, Savannah Hill won the 300 meter hurdles, Lee Yeley won the 200 meters. Maxey Johnson won both the discus and shot put while Damon Byrd won the triple and long jump events.
Forestburg saw Brenna Briles win the high jump and triple jump while she finished third in the 100 meter race.
Jesse Wadsworth won the 800 meter race and got third in the triple jump while Tye Reid finished fourth in the 110 meter hurdles. The boy’s 4×400 meter relay team finished fourth as well to qualify.
Bellevue’s results were dominated by Mattie Broussard getting first in the 800, 1600 and 3200 meter races. Tristan Shook got second in the pole vault and Emma Blaylock also finished second in the shot put.
For Gold-Burg, Eli White-Freeland got second in the discus and fourth in the shot put to qualify. The boy’s 4×100 meter relay team finished third overall to qualify for regionals as well.
For Prairie Valley, pole vaulters Josh Stout and Hunter Camden finished third and fourth to both qualify and move on.
To see results for all area athletes, pick up a copy of the weekly edition of the Bowie News.
For pictures from the running finals at the area meet at Graham that featured Bowie and Nocona athletes, click here https://www.dotphoto.com/go.asp?l=bnews1&AID=6874398&T=1
The Red River High School Bass Club competed this past weekend, May 31 – June 1, at the State Tournament on Lake Conroe for the two-day tournament.
Two of the teams from Montague County traveled south to try their best at the culmination of the year for the state title. Teams were able to pre-fish on Friday before the Saturday and Sunday competition. On Friday, there was a flipping contest for the youth and Cooper Johnson won third overall and won a $500 scholarship and an Academy gift card.
The club’s two teams who competed were Lane Smith/Colt Henry with boat captain Jimmy Smith. The team placed 63rd with a total of 16.22 pounds. The second team of Cooper Johnson/Corbyn Patton and boat captain Jayson Toerck placed 169th with a total weight of 2.29 pounds.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekly edition of the Bowie News.
The Maskat Shrine Oil Bowl is this week on June 6-7 and graduating athletes from Bowie, Nocona and Saint Jo are confirmed to be playing.
In total, seven athletes from Bowie, five from Nocona and three from Saint Jo are planning to play in the all-star games this week. Nocona also will have a pair of coaches participating as well.
The girl’s basketball game kicks off events on June 6, scheduled for 6 p.m. at Wichita Falls Memorial High School. In the game, the east team will have Nocona players Avery Crutsinger, Meg Meekins and Reagan Phipps playing while Kyler Spitzer and Clayton Brown coach them one last time.
On the west team, Saint Jo’s Payzlie Cervantes is confirmed to be playing.
The boy’s basketball game is scheduled to follow at 7:30 p.m. On the east team, Bowie’s Boston Farris and Nocona’s Jose Gomez Jr. will be playing.
On June 7, the volleyball games are scheduled to start at 4 p.m. with the small school game. On the west team, Nocona’s Kaygan Stone and Saint Jo’s Taylor Patrick are confirmed to play. On the east team, Saint Jo’s Aubrey Morman will get to play her teammate.
There are no local athletes confirmed to be playing in the big school volleyball game.
The final event is the football game, scheduled for 7:30 p.m. at Memorial Stadium. It is an all Bowie affair with six players confirmed to be playing for the east team: Justin Clark, Jorge De Leon, Hunter Fluitt and Braden Rhyne, Preacher Chambers and Moh Azouak.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekly edition of the Bowie News.
Nocona Independent School District officials looked inward for a new athletic director/head football coach, selecting Jeff Hill for the position.
Hill, who served last year as Nocona football’s offensive coordinator and also led the softball program to the playoffs for the first time in a while as its head coach, was upgraded to the role.
This came on the heels of former Athletic Director Blake Crutsinger, who served in the role the last four years, resigned in May.
For Hill, the choice to apply for the position was a no brainer. His one year in Nocona had impressed upon him and his wife that it was the place they would like to be long term.
“I’m looking for a town to raise my kids in and Nocona has treated my family really well,” Hill said. “There are some really good people. The kids work hard. Everything I am looking for in a hometown is right here in Nocona and I want to try and make it as best as it can be, especially through athletics.”
Before Nocona, Hill served as the athletic director at S&S Consolidated while also spending time at Hebron and Whitewright in his coaching career.
Hill expresses great respect for the departing Crutsinger and besides changing a few small things in how he personally wants to do things, he is not trying to come in with a sweeping restructuring of the whole athletic department.
The program had five of its six team sports make the playoffs, with volleyball playing in the regional final and the girl’s basketball team winning the state championship.
That along with two athletes competing at the state championship in cross country and track with one earning a gold medal, it was one of the more successful school years in athletic program history.
“Coach Crutsinger was awesome and did a great job so honestly just little tweaks, a little bit of structure and cohesion amongst the coaching staff between boys and girls,” Hill said. “I hope to keep the winning tradition going overall in the athletic department.”
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekly edition of the Bowie News.
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