SPORTS
HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL: Bowie whites out Whitesboro
By ERIC VICCARO
bnewssports@sbcglobal.net
The Bowie High School baseball team has advanced one step further than last year by virtue of a best-of-3 sweep over Whitesboro in the Conference 3A Bi-District round last weekend.
The Jackrabbits will take on Palmer on May 15-16 in a best-of-3 Area series scheduled for Chisholm Trail High School in Saginaw, a suburb of Fort Worth.
With weather permitting, Game One is set for 7 p.m. on May 15. Game Two will be at noon on May 16. If needed, Game Three will begin around 2:30 p.m. the same day.
Bowie head baseball coach Ryan Rogers said Palmer has a standout right-handed pitcher in Brian Archibald.
“They are a good team; I think they’ll throw No. 3 (Archibald) on Friday,” Rogers said. “He’s a big, strong kid. It’s going to be a big challenge coming up.”
Bowie stands at 26-1-2 on the season. The Jackrabbits haven’t lost since March 6, falling to Decatur 4-3. The team tied Castleberry at the NTX Tournament of Champions on March 19.
Then Bowie went through the District 3A-9 slate unblemished, before picking up the bi-district crown on Saturday, complete with gold glove.
The Jackrabbits have cranked up the offense recently, scoring double-digit runs in seven of their past eight games. Bowie has plated 104 runs during such time. Read more, and see complete game recaps and box scores, in the mid-week Bowie News.
Bowie’s Chandler Dean (5) and Coby Bentley (10) react after turning a double play during the first game of a Conference 3A bi-district series against Whitesboro. The Jackrabbits swept the Bearcats by scores of 12-1 and 14-7. Click on the image itself for the complete photo. (News photo by Eric Viccaro)
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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