SPORTS
HIGH SCHOOL CROSS COUNTRY: Bowie’s off and running
Barrett Brooks paced the Bowie High School boys’ cross country team with a second-place finish at the Perkins Scout Camp Invitational in Burkburnett on Thursday.
Brooks raced in with a time of 20 minutes, 13.96 seconds, finishing 20 seconds behind winner Brandon Wright from Wichita Falls Old High.
Courtney Brady was the top finisher on the girls’ side, grabbing 33rd in the junior varsity race with a time of 17:09.24.
Bowie’s boys will compete in the Fossil Ridge Invitational on Sept. 11. The girls will race at the Strohman Dental/Midwestern State University Stampede in Wichita Falls on Sept. 10.
Orlando Martinez, a freshman, placed 12th in the JV boys’ race, which covered three miles. Martinez recorded a time of 22:17.03.
Hadley Morgan and Spenser Meekins also placed in the top-20, in 14th and 17th, respectively.
“I think we ran well,” Bowie head boys’ cross country coach Chuck Hall said. “Compared to last year, the times seem to be a lot better. It was nice for them to get the taste of a meet.”
Emmy Thomas and Lauren Gill also recorded top-50 performances for the Lady Rabbits. Thomas was 36th in 17:19.88 and Gill 43rd in 17:49.24.
“I am very proud of how all of our kids came out and competed for the first meet of the year,” said Bowie girls’ cross country coach Colby Davis-Pastusek. “Their effort and competitiveness was tremendous.”
Hall said the Perkins Scout Camp course was “a little rougher” this year because rain washed out some places. The girls’ race covered 3,200 meters. Read more, and see complete results, in the weekend Bowie News.
The Bowie High School girls’ cross country team competed in its first meet of the season on Thursday at the Perkins Scout Camp in Burkburnett. Here’s the team, from left, Taylor Martin, Carli Shields, Lauren Gill, Valerie Walker, River Romine, Courtney Brady, Emmy Thomas, Madison Hill and Sage Bullock. (Courtesy photo by Colby Davis-Pastusek)
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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