SPORTS
HIGH SCHOOL CROSS COUNTRY: Area teams run Monday
By ERIC VICCARO
bnewssports@gmail.com
There are plenty of enticing storylines heading into Monday’s Conference 3A-Region II and Conference 1A-Region III meet at Lynn Creek Park in Grand Prairie.
Forestburg’s Skyler Sandusky and Saint Jo’s Juan Sanchez return to the same venue they ran at last year.
“I am proud of him and where he’s at,” said Forestburg head coach Steve Sandusky. “We will have the same plan as last year, to go for his best time.”
Sandusky won the District 1A-21 meet in a time of 18 minutes, 53 seconds, his season best. He won the race over Bellevue’s Gavin Moore and Sanchez.
Nocona brings a full complement of boys and girls – including dazzling freshman Maria Hernandez.
“It’s very rewarding experience for the kids for all the hard work they’ve put in,” said Nocona head coach Bret Botard. “And it’s an opportunity for us to advance further.”
Hernandez leads the Lady Indian contingent, coming off a fourth-place effort in the District 3A-9 meet at Kiwanis Park on Oct. 15. Her time was 12:05.91. Brayden Skinner and Luis Rico were seventh and eighth, respectively, in the boys’ race.
Both Gold-Burg and Bellevue boys and girls qualified for the regional meet together. Saint Jo fields a strong girls’ team coming off a District 1A-21 championship. And like Hernandez, Prairie Valley has a talented runner in Avry Hawthorne joining the fray.
“We are looking forward to the regional meet and learning from the experience so the kids know what to expect in the future,” Gold-Burg head coach Aaron Tefertiller said.
Both Tefertiller and girls’ coach Cheryl Cromleigh are looking to use this meet as an opportunity for achievement to overlap into other athletic programs. Brandon Lee leads the boys’ squad while Haley Davis guides the girls. Both runners are coming off top-5 district performances.
Bellevue has plenty of depth on both rosters with Emily Trail and Devon Cassetty pacing the girls and Moore and Jonah Belcher each recording top-5 finishes for the Eagle boys at district at Twisted Oaks Golf Club here in Bowie. Read more in the weekend edition of The Bowie News.
Ashley Reyling (left) and Caitlyn Holley represent Saint Jo at the University Interscholastic League Region 1A-3 meet at Lynn Creek Park in Grand Prairie on Monday. (News file photo by Eric Viccaro)
Bellevue’s girl’s basketball team led at halftime but a quick 9-0 Jacksboro run in the opening moments of the second half would prove the difference in a 28-25 Lady Eagle loss June 15 in a Nocona Summer League game.
Leading 12-9 at the half, Bellevue continued to shut down the inside game of the Tigerettes. Jacksboro switched tactics and began firing from outside. Three 3-pointers in the span of just under two minutes gave Jacksboro an 18-12 lead.
Bellevue kept things close, however, getting on the second half scoreboard with Mattie Broussard’s basket and free throws cutting the deficit to two, 18-16. A Haven Jones 3-pointer put the Lady Eagles up 19-18 midway through the second half.
The Tigerettes had just one 3 -pointer the rest of the way but got inside for a pair of buckets to take a 25-21 lead with 4:50 to go. Both offenses shut down late.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Most school-age athletes start off playing everything. By the time they graduate, they whittle it down to just one or two.
New Bowie girl’s track and overall cross country coach Shawnda Childers is no exception. While at Iowa Park she competed in volleyball, cross country and track before cutting out volleyball and focusing on track and cross country to close out high school.
Childers did not stay with athletics while moving on to Midwestern State University, where she received her bachelor’s and master’s Degrees. After graduation, shestarted coaching in Electra. She came to Bowie for one year, then went back to her old stomping grounds in Iowa Park where she spent the next four years.
The return home also put her in contact with now-Bowie Coach Griffin Fields, who was a coach there at the time. From Iowa Park, she spent the next three years at City View.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
New Saint Jo Girl’s Basketball Coach Grant Gooch isn’t completely unfamiliar with the area.
“We went to Muenster quite a bit when I was a kid,” Gooch, who will be going into his 20th year as a coach, said. “We’d load up the cooler from the meat markets. It’s good to be back.”
Gooch worked with Saint Jo Athletic Director CJ Hantz when the pair were in Throckmorton. Gooch comes to town from Menard where he spent three years at the West Texas school.
Gooch says coaching and education kind of come naturally to him.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
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