SPORTS
OUTDOORS NOTEBOOK: TPWD sets seasons for various fowl
Dove hunters will have more opportunity earlier in the season as the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has finalized dates and bag limits.
The United States Fish and Wildlife Service has approved to the 2015-16 Texas dove season, including a 70-day season and 15-bird daily bag limit statewide.
There also will be a 16-day early teal and Canada goose season.
The traditional Sept. 1 dove season opening day in the North and Central Zones remains. Montague County is in the North Zone.
The season will be five days longer this year, ending on Oct. 25.
The possession limit for doves is 45.
The special white-winged dove area will be restricted to afternoon only – noon to sunset – hunting the first two full September weekends on Sept. 5-6 and Sept. 12-13. There are two other hunting periods, Sept. 18 to Oct. 21 and Dec. 18 to Jan. 18, 2016.
During the early two weekends, the daily bag limit is 15 birds, not to include more than two mourning doves and two white-tipped doves. Once the general season opens, the bag limit will be 15 with no more than two white-tipped doves.
“Age ratios, juveniles versus adults, from last season indicated very strong production in mourning doves across Texas last year,” said Shaun Oldenburger, TPWD’s dove program leader. “We expect similar or slightly increased production this year with the improved habitat conditions across Texas.”
Oldenburger said hunters may need to spend more time on mourning doves’ patterns. Read the mid-week Bowie News for more from the outdoors notebook.
A wood duck sits calmly in the water. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has set duck, dove and teal season for later this year. (Courtesy photo by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department)
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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