SPORTS
STORM CENTER: Goodbye football, hello hoops
You hear basketball coaches talk all the time about the transition game.
Basketball is the one sport where going from offense to defense or vice versa can occur in the blink of an eye.
There are so many definitions for the word “transition.”
It’s the process or a period of changing from one state to another.
In the journalism world, it’s a passage in a piece of writing that smoothly connects two topics or sections to each other.
When I was younger, I worked for a sports editor in Temple, Texas, and he consistently worried over my transition from one subject to another in a story.
In music, a transition takes the listener’s ears from one key to another.
For you physics fans out there, a transition is a change of an atom, nucleus or electron from one state to another – concepts such as emission and the absorption of radiation occur.
The word transition is not just a noun, but also a verb. As a verb, transition means to undergo or cause a process or period of transition.
Transition has its roots in both Latin and French languages, and the word was born in the mid-16th Century.
The root word is “transire” in Latin, which means to go across. The word has exponentially grown in popularity in recent times, peaking in the 1900s.
Transitions also occur from one sport to the next, and that certainly was the case this past week.
The sports editor covered a football game at historic Mustang Bowl in Sweetwater on Saturday.
And three days later, Feast Week basketball coverage was underway as I tried to cover both the Bowie/Wichita Falls Rider girls and Nocona/Petrolia boys’ game on the same night.
Wednesday, I also made my way down to Dallas to the American Airlines Center for the Bowie game versus Krum.
Transitions also occur for coaches in another way. The transition from one squad to another thanks to graduation. Read more of this column in the Nov. 26 Bowie News.
Editor’s Note: The Storm Center column is the expressed written views of sports editor Eric Viccaro and not The Bowie News.
The Bowie High School boys’ basketball team gathered after Wednesday’s victory over Krum for a group shot. The Jackrabbits topped Krum 57-34 in their season-opening game at the American Airlines Center in Dallas. (News photo by Eric Viccaro)
In its first match since last year’s state semifinal appearance, Saint Jo hosted Bryson Aug. 11 and took a 25-13, 25-12, 25-21 win over the Cowgirls.
The Lady Panthers lost some talent to graduation but have five seniors ready to have a successful season. Savannah Hil, one of the five, got Saint Jo rolling offensively with a four-point serving string, including a pair of aces. Abby Carter’s kill and Kamron Skidmore’s block helped put the Lady Panthers up 5-2 in game one.
Hadleigh Moore added a four-point string of her own to extend the lead to 10-3. Tatum Morman’s pair, helped by a Hill kill, gave Saint Jo a 14-5 lead. Bryson got within five before a Hill 3-pointer, with help by a Carter kill, put the lead back at 18-10.
After an Olivia Johnson kill broke serve, Jordyn O’Neal served up the final five points, with Johnson providing a kill to move things along.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Despite being the smallest school in the Brock varsity classic volleyball tournament, the Lady Indians finished 4th out of the eight teams there.
After losing to the host team in its first pool play match Aug. 14 18-25, 14-25 and also to Class 3A Wall 12-25, 8-25, Nocona rebounded to close out pool play with a 20-25, 25-23, 25-20 win over Christoval. Sy Parker had 16 kills and 7 blocks in the three matches. Raylea Bowles had 12 kills, 17 digs and served up three aces. Maddyn Bowles had seven kills and 14 digs while Paige Davis had seven kills and 15 digs. Baylee Thomas added 11 digs.
From the setter spot, Kasi Castro had 20 assists, served up five aces and contributed 14 digs. Leah Meekins added 18 assists and six digs during the three matches.
To open Saturday’s bracket play, the Lady Indians posted a 25-18, 18-25, 26-24, 25-19 win over Fort Worth Christian. Castro staked Nocona to a 2-0 lead in game one. Kills by Parker set up pairs of points from Raylea Bowles and Leah Meekins helped Nocona negate an early deficit and take a 10-9 lead.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
County football teams had their first scrimmage of the season Aug. 14 with mixed results.
Forestburg hosted Azle Christian and Victory Christian. Under a new system with new head coach Cori Hayes, the Longhorns looked pretty good in the coach’s eye.
“The first team looked good,” Hayes explained. “Overall we need to work on our pace and blocking assignments and blocking assignments. Overall we looked good for the new regime.”
Forestburg hits the road to scrimmage Newcastle Aug. 21.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
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