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The Texas State Hall of Fame has announced the 2015 class of inductees into the Southwest Conference Hall of Fame.
The class features the following people: Tracy Saul of Texas Tech, Norm DeBriyn from Arkansas, Billy Ray Brown from Houston, Baylor’s Thomas Everett, Ricky Pierce of Rice, Kyle O’Brien Stevens of Southern Methodist, Darrell Browder from Texas Christian, Anjanette Kirkland of Texas A&M and Carlette Guidry White from the University of Texas.
Sponsored by the TSHOF, the Southwest Conference Hall of Fame induction ceremony and luncheon will be at 11:30 a.m. on Oct. 5 at the Doubletree by Hilton in downtown Dallas.
Visit www.tshof.org/buy-tickets to reserve event tickets.
The Southwest Conference Hall of Fame is one of four separate halls of fame housed within the TSHOF, including the Texas High School Football Hall of Fame and the Texas Tennis Hall of Fame.
Thomas Everett played defensive back at Baylor with 12 interceptions and 325 tackles before going to the National Football League for a nine-year career.
Billy Ray Brown won the NCAA Division I championship as a freshman, and was tied for third at the 1990 United States Open.
Pierce played basketball at Rice, where he scored 1,847 points in three years before playing 16 seasons for eight National Basketball Association franchises.
Stevens was coach at Southern Methodist, and she was an All-American golfer for the Mustangs.
White was a 23-time All-American as an outstanding sprinter and jumper on the Longhorns’ women’s track and field team.
Kirkland was the most decorated female athlete in Texas A&M history as an eight-time All-American.
She specialized in hurdles for the Aggies.
Browder was a standout basketball player at Texas Christian, averaging 16.1 points per game. He was a first-time all-SWC selection three times.
Saul played for Texas Tech for four years, finishing with 317 tackles and 25 interceptions as both a safety and cornerback for the Red Raiders. He was a consensus all-SWC player all four years as a player.
Texas Sports Hall of Fame. (Photo provided by the Texas Sports Hall of Fame, used with permission)
The Bowie sports banquets was on Monday night. Olivia Gill and Tucker Jones were named Jackrabbit and Lady Rabbit of the year. Pick up the mid-week paper for all of the sports team awards and pictures.
The 72nd Chisholm Trail Rodeo was a big success on Friday and Saturday nights at Nocona.
The rodeo had big crowds and saw some good competition from both local and far reaching talent.
Winners in the events included Zach Hibler in bareback riding, Lindsey Muggli in barrel racing, Ashley Goforth in breakaway roping, Leanardo Lima in bull riding, Cody McCartney in calf roping, Thomas Moellering in ranch bronc riding, Wacey Hathcock in saddle bronc riding, Renato Finazzi in steer wrestling, Rowdy Jones and Rance Doyal in team roping.
To see full results and more pictures, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
The regional tennis tournaments were late last week in North Richland Hills and a doubles team is moving on to state.
The Saint Jo girl’s doubles team Kyler Dunn and Taylor Patrick won the 1A region III tournament and will return to state for the second straight year.
The pair rolled through teams from Morgan, Dodd City, Priddy before beating a Graford team in the finals. The pair did not lose a set and only lost five of the 53 games it played, never losing more than one in a set.
The team made it to state last year after finishing second at regionals and won a match at the state meet against a team from Vernon Northside. They then lost to the eventual state champion team from Utopia and finished tied for third place.
They will be the only tennis players from Montague County playing at state this week as others did not have as successful regional tournament.
The Saint Jo teammates and fellow girl’s doubles team Bailie Nobile and Maxey Johnson won their first match against Ector 6-1, 6-4, but fell in their next match against Lometa, 6-1, 6-1.
From Prairie Valley, Case Carpenter was competing in boy’s singles. His first match was a draining two and half hour battle against a player from Strawn Carpenter came through in the three-set battle, winning 6-4, 5-7, 6-4.
Unfortunately, the magic was not there in the second game. Paired against the eventual tournament champion from Gustine, Carpenter lost 6-0, 6-1.
From Gold-Burg, Alyson Rojas and Jimena Garcia competed in girl’s singles. Rojas won her first match against a girl from Avinger 7-6, 6-2. Unfortunately, the next match she lost to a girl from Graford 6-0, 6-0 to end her tournament.
Garcia lost a tough first match against a player from Ector. Both sets could have gone either way with the scores being 6-4, 7-5 to the winner.
The mixed doubles team from Forestburg, Jesse Wadsworth and Alli Cisneros, also did not make it through.
From Nocona, Kaygan Stone was playing in the girl’s singles 2A region II tournament.
Unfortunately, she got paired against the player who would go on to win the tournament in the first round to end her season.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
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