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)