Last Friday night, the parents of four North Central Texas College softball players received news they didn’t want to hear.
Parents learned their daughters – Brooke Deckard, 20, Scurry; Jaiden Pelton, 20, Telephone; Meagan Richardson, 19, of Wylie; and Katelyn Woodlee, 18, of Windom – were dead.
The story first broke during the second half of last week’s football games.
I was on the home sideline watching Nocona take on Henrietta at Jack Crain Stadium when I received tweets on my Twitter account.
A tractor-trailer crossed a median and plowed into the side of North Central Texas College’s activity vehicle.
In addition to the four dead, there were more than one dozen women injured.
The accident occurred south of Davis on Interstate-35.
It’s a road I’ve traveled many times, and I’m sure you have, too. After all, the road connects Dallas with Oklahoma City, two of this area’s largest hubs. Read more in the weekend edition of The Bowie News.

A scholarship fund called Angels in the Infield has been created at North Central Texas College to honor the memory of the four young women, softball players killed last weekend in the tragic bus accident that also injured 15 people. (Graphic from NCTC website)