SPORTS
STORM CENTER: This cliche has legs
On Sept. 4, the Bowie High School football team traveled to face Lake Worth to face the Bullfrogs.
It wasn’t an easy night for athletic trainer Jordan Roth as both Cayden Cox and Carter Shackelford were injured on a steamy night at Kittrell Stadium in Lake Worth.
Chase Hall battled through ankle discomfort and Josh Monkres endured severe cramping.
Injuries are a part of life, and I’ve had my share of them.
Sure, coaches don’t offer excuses for a team’s performance based on injuries to key performers, and that’s not the case here.
Cox and Shackelford are both expected to return to the field at some point for the Jackrabbits.
The football team isn’t the only one dealing with injuries as during warm-ups for Bowie’s District 3A-9 volleyball match against Henrietta on Sept. 12, Lady Rabbit middle blocker Karlyn Dean was injured.
Dean sustained a season-ending knee injury, joining Kamryn Cantwell on the sideline. Cantwell may return to help the Lady Rabbits, but that’s still an unknown at this point.
Without Dean, Bowie played inspirational volleyball recently with mammoth road victories at both Boyd, in four games, and Jacksboro, a three-game sweep.
Both the football and volleyball teams should be commended. The Jackrabbit football squad gave Henrietta all it could handle before falling to the Bearcats by four points.
Sure, Bowie is 0-2 since Cox and Shackelford went out of the lineup, but others such as L.B. Clement, Gary Mosley, Brandon Hutto and Kevin Stallcup have shouldered the burden well.
So, why is there all this talk about injuries?
Well, the sports editor is about to expose one of the worst clichés he’s ever witnessed in sports, and that is the M*A*S*H* unit.
I’m sorry, but I don’t see a visit to a high school training room resembling anything of the sort reserved for military personnel.
M*A*S*H* stands for Mobile Army Surgical Hospital. The facility is a fully functional hospital in a combat area. Read more of this column in the weekend Bowie News.
Editor’s Note: The Storm Center column is the expressed written views of sports editor Eric Viccaro and not The Bowie News.
M*A*S*H* stands for Mobile Army Surgical Hospital. (Metro graphic, used with permission)
Bowie softball had a historic season, where the squad made the postseason for the first time since 2019 and knocked a top seed from the playoffs, come to an end April 29.
No-4 ranked Tuscola Jim Ned got out to a quick start and took an 11-1, five inning win in the area round of the Class 3A Division I playoffs. Bowie had its season end at 19-15.
With a large crowd at Weatherford High rooting them on, Bowie took the field looking to knock out another top seed, as they did with Early last week.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Bowie will have two track athletes at the State track and field meet May 14 with top two finishes at the Region 1-3A track meet at Abilene Christian University May 1-2.
Tyler Richey finished 2nd in the pole vault with a 15’ leap. Richey was also 9th in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 15.39. Sophomore Braden Willett was 3rd in the 1,600-meters with a school record best of time of 4:21.93. Willett was 4th in the 3,200-meter run with a time of 9:29.71.
Several other Rabbits and Lady Rabbits competed at the regional meet. The 800-meter relay foursome of Colton Dosch, Richey, Finn Riddle and Jaxon White finished 6th with a time of 1:30.24 while the 1,600-meter relay team of Dosch, Judah Livsey, Riddle and Blaine Leonard finished 8th with a time of 3:30.76.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Saint Jo’s boys and girls track teams took top honors at the Region III-A track meet at Hewitt Midway High School May 1-2 and will send several athletes to the state track and field meet May 16 in Austin.
The boys were led by Damon Byrd who won both the long jump with a 22’9 ¾” leap and triple jump with a 45’ 10 ½”. Byrd also won the 100-meter dash with a time of 1.03 and was a member of the victorious 800-meter relay along with Trent Gaston, Barrett Johnson and Lee Yeley with a time of 1:30.80.
Yeley won the high jump with a 6’ leap. Byrd, Yeley, Dominic Luna and Gaston combined for a 2nd-place finish in the 1,600-meter relay with a time 3:32.81. Gaston was 2nd in the 110-meter hurdles with a tie of 16.09. Johnson was 2nd in the 400-meter dash in 50.75, Ayden Giambruno was 6th in the 3200-meter run in 11:05.24 with Yeley 8th in the 200-meters with a time of 25.61.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
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