SPORTS
STORM CENTER: Texas plays classic with Toronto
Wednesday wasn’t the easiest sports day for me – well, from a fan perspective that is.
My first priority was to cover the District 1A-21 cross country meet at Twisted Oaks Golf Club near Amon G. Carter Lake.
That meant only casually glancing to check the score from Game Five of the American League Championship Series between the Toronto Blue Jays and Texas Rangers.
Interestingly enough, junior high school awards were presented just as the seventh inning was about to begin.
Yes, that seventh inning – which spanned 53 minutes inside Rogers Centre, the building formerly known as the SkyDome.
Toronto Blue Jay Jose Bautista said the only time he experienced a seventh inning like that was in winter ball.
The seventh inning had everything a baseball fan could ask for; it was like going to one of the many buffet lines at the Golden Corral.
It was the greatest seventh inning I never saw live – only with accounts through Major League Baseball’s gameday scoreboard service and the radio. I later saw highlights and cobbled together some notes for this piece.
There were questionable umpiring decisions, a benches-clearing incident, errors aplenty, and Bautista’s bat flip heard around the world.
Yes, I became a Blue Jays fan this season, and that’s because Toronto general manager Alex Anthopolous traded for third baseman Josh Donaldson.
Donaldson is my favorite current player in baseball, and he plays the game like my favorite third baseman all time in Michael Jack Schmidt of the 548 home runs and Hall of Fame career.
I know you Rangers are dealing with heartbreak, and I can say I have been there, too. After all, I grew up in Connecticut rooting for the Philadelphia Phillies.
The Phillies have lost the most games in major league baseball, with more than 10,000 of them. They lost several times in the National League Championship Series.
Philadelphia lost to Baltimore in the 1983 World Series after winning the first game. The Phillies lost to the Blue Jays in 1993 as Joe Carter smacked an epic home run off reliever Mitch Williams in Game Six. Read more of this column in the weekend edition of The Bowie News.
Editor’s Note: The Storm Center column is the expressed written views of sports editor Eric Viccaro and not The Bowie News.
Texas Rangers. (Graphic provided by the team and Major League Baseball, 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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