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BOWIE NOTEBOOK: Workman will begin throwing in October
Boston Red Sox pitcher Brandon Workman, a 2007 graduate of Bowie High School, said he plans on beginning a throwing program in mid-October.
The Republican (Springfield, Mass.) sportswriter Christopher Smith reported this news in a story he wrote earlier this month.
Workman recently traveled to Boston for a checkup as he continues rehabilitation from an elbow injury that led to Tommy John surgery on June 15.
Workman has been rehabilitating from surgery at Fort Myers, Fla., but he said he doesn’t know where he’ll throw in mid-October.
In 2014, Workman bounced up and down from the Red Sox to the Triple-A affiliate in Pawtucket, R.I. He was a valuable bullpen member as the Red Sox captured the World Series title in 2013, and Bowie had Brandon Workman Day.
Workman is currently under contract with the Red Sox for the next four seasons. It’s expected he won’t be activated to pitch until the middle of the 2016 campaign.
JV volleyball Saturday
The Bowie High School junior varsity volleyball teams will be in action on Aug. 29 at their own tournament called the Bowie Kickoff Classic at the high school.
The JV and freshmen divisions will feature hometown Bowie, Nocona, Iowa Park, Boyd and Paradise.
Matches will start at 8 a.m., with Bowie taking on Nocona in the freshmen division and Nocona versus Boyd in the JV event. Bowie’s first JV match is set for 9 a.m.
Matches will be played a best-of-3 to 25 points.
Alumni Golf Tourney
The Bowie High School alumni will have a golf scramble on Sept. 12 at Twisted Oaks Golf Club.
There will be an 8 a.m. shotgun start, with a four-person best-ball format.
The entry fee is $50 for individuals and $200 for complete four-person teams. Mulligans are available for $5 each. Limit two Mulligans per player.
Limited carts are available. One may build a team, or be assigned to a foursome.
Sign up at www.bowieisd.net or reserve by calling 1-940-872-4000.
Boston Red Sox pitcher Brandon Workman, a 2007 graduate of Bowie High School. (Photo courtesy the Boston Red Sox media relations department)
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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