SPORTS
OUTDOORS: Still time to enter Big Game Hunts
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is offering the chance to win Big Time Texas Hunts.
The hunts are guided hunt packages with food and lodging provided, as well as taxidermy in some cases.
The Grand Slam hunt package includes four separate hunts for Texas’ most prized game animals – the desert bighorn sheep, the white-tailed deer, mule deer and pronghorn.
New this year is the Ultimate Mule Deer Hunt, where one winner will be the first to hunt on recently acquired Yoakum Dunes Wildlife Management Area in the Texas Panhandle.
There are several quality whitetail hunt packages available, as well as chances to pursue alligator, waterfowl, game birds, wild hog in East Texas and exotics.
The whitetail bonanza features a three- or five-day trip to wildlife management areas.
Hunt sable antelope, gemsbok and axis deer on the Mason Mountain WMA.
Gators may be pursued on the Gulf Coast at J.D. Murphee WMA in Port Arthur.
Big Time Texas Hunts entries are available online for $9 each at www.tpwd.texas.gov/buyentry, or for $10 each at licensed retailers or by phone. A $5 administrative fee is required for online entries.
There is no limit on the number of entries an individual may purchase. All proceeds benefit conservation, wildlife management and public hunting initiatives.
The Texas Trophy Hunters Association and the Texas Bighorn Society help make the Big Time Texas Hunts possible.
The deadline to enter is Oct. 15. Read more from this outdoors notebook in the weekend Bowie News.
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. (Logo provided by the TPWD, 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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