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TRACK AND FIELD: 3A-9 meet set today, Thursday

Published

10 years ago

04/04/2016

The Bowie and Nocona High School track and field teams will compete at the District 3A-9 meet in Jacksboro on April 4 and April 7.
The April 4 session will begin with a coaches meeting at 10 a.m., followed by the following field events:

11 a.m.: Long jump (varsity boys), triple jump (junior varsity boys), high jump (varsity/JV girls), discus (JV boys) and shot put (varsity boys)
12:30 a.m.: Triple jump (varsity/JV girls), high jump (varsity boys), pole vault (JV boys), discus (varsity boys) and shot put (JV boys).
2 p.m.: Long jump (varsity girls, JV girls), high jump (JV boys), pole vault (varsity boys) and discus (varsity girls, JV girls)
3:30 p.m.: Long jump (JV boys), triple jump (varsity boys), pole vault (varsity girls, JV girls), and shot put (varsity girls/JV girls)
5 p.m.: Running preliminaries: 100-meter hurdles, 110 meter high hurdles, 100 dash, 400 dash, 300 intermediate hurdles, 200 dash and 3,200 run (JV girls, JV boys, varsity girls, varsity boys). Events will follow the timed schedule, which wraps up with the 3,200 run at 6:30 p.m.

The April 7 session will begin at 5:30 p.m. with the 400 relay followed by the 800 run, 100 hurdles, 110 high hurdles (boys), 100 dash, 800 relay, 400 dash, 300 hurdles, 200 dash, 1,600 run and 1,600 relay.

Bowie’s Logan Lawhorn, shown here competing at last week’s Bowie Invitational, will be a featured performer for the Jackrabbits in relays. (News photo by Eric Viccaro)

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Bowie softball team falls in area round

Published

6 days ago

05/07/2026

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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.

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Willett, Richey off to State

Published

6 days ago

05/07/2026

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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 2^nd in the pole vault with a 15’ leap. Richey was also 9^th in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 15.39. Sophomore Braden Willett was 3^rd in the 1,600-meters with a school record best of time of 4:21.93. Willett was 4^th 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 6^th with a time of 1:30.24 while the 1,600-meter relay team of Dosch, Judah Livsey, Riddle and Blaine Leonard finished 8^th with a time of 3:30.76.

For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.

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Fourteen track athletes head to State

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6 days ago

05/07/2026

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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 2^nd-place finish in the 1,600-meter relay with a time 3:32.81. Gaston was 2^nd in the 110-meter hurdles with a tie of 16.09. Johnson was 2^nd in the 400-meter dash in 50.75, Ayden Giambruno was 6^th in the 3200-meter run in 11:05.24 with Yeley 8^th in the 200-meters with a time of 25.61.

For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.