SPORTS
Bowie, Bellevue cross country opens running season at Perkins Jamboree
The Bowie High School cross country teams opened the season at the Perkins Jamboree in Burkburnett on Thursday morning.
The Lady Rabbits took home third place as a team in the 3,200-meter junior varsity division.
“I thought we ran well, I was pleasantly surprised with the kids as a whole,” said Lady Rabbits Cross Country Coach Chuck Hall.
The third place team results icluded a second place showing from Abby Zamzow with a time of 12:56.20. followed by Ali Frie in tenth place at 14:30.65. Landra Parr was right on her heels in twelfth place, crossing the finishing line at 14:35.50.
“Abby ran well and had a personal record that broke 13 minutes, I think she has been trying to do that for a while and I know she was excited,” explained Hall. “Ali and Landra ran well, and the pleasant surprise was Desarai Reyes. I was really pleased with her. Those five ran really well,” said Hall.
Reyes ran her way to a sixteenth place finish with a time of 14:47.56. Other runners for the Lady Rabbits also performed well, despite battling injuries.
“Sage Bullock is recovering from injury and it is going to take some time to get back where she was,” said Hall.
With such strong performances, the team was only one point off second place.
“I was made we finished third, only one point away. Canyon beating us didn’t surprise me, they are perennial power, but overall i was pleased with the numbers and felt like some of the younger kids were excited about their times. They ran well, and it’s always good to see that,” said Hall.
The Lady Rabbits will next run at the Midwestern State University Stampede, which Hall feels will be a good test for his runners.
The Bellevue Lady Eagles also ran in the Burkburnett meet with an eighth-place team finish. Skylar Embry ran her way to an eleventh-place finish. Meanwhile, Austin Ford finished twenty-seventh with a time of 15:16.75 and FreeDom Morris finished sixty fifth with a time of 17:41.10.
In the varsity boy’s 5,000-meter division, the Bowie Jackrabbits placed second as a team.
“I am very excited and I think it is a great starting point for the season,” said Bowie Jackrabbits Cross Country Coach Jonathon Horton. “I am excited about competing for the district title and earning a team trip to regionals, and I am very pleased with the number of kids we have running. We have enough to fill two junior varsity teams and a varsity.”
Daniel Mosley raced to a seventh place finish with a time of 19:46.80, followed closely behind by Seth Robinson in eighth place at 19:51.76. Syd Mayfield came across the finish line in tenth place with a time of 20:07.37.
“I am pleased with the number of kids who broke the 20 minute mark in their first meet,” said Horton.
In the 5,000-meter boy’s junior varsity division, the Bowie Jackrabbits earned a seventh place finish. Trevor Vann led the Jackrabbits with an individual seventh place finish and a time of 19:34.44, with Brock Neese finishing twenty sixth, 20:57.45. Travis Terry finished third for the team in forty sixth place with a time of 22:40.96.
Bellevue finished tenth as a team with a thirty ninth place finish from Trey Terry, 21:41.10, forty seventh from Jacob Eckeberger, 22:44.89 and fifth first from Zach Gill, 23:03.01.
To see full results, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.
The Bowie sports banquets was on Monday night. Olivia Gill and Tucker Jones were named Jackrabbit and Lady Rabbit of the year. Pick up the mid-week paper for all of the sports team awards and pictures.
The 72nd Chisholm Trail Rodeo was a big success on Friday and Saturday nights at Nocona.
The rodeo had big crowds and saw some good competition from both local and far reaching talent.
Winners in the events included Zach Hibler in bareback riding, Lindsey Muggli in barrel racing, Ashley Goforth in breakaway roping, Leanardo Lima in bull riding, Cody McCartney in calf roping, Thomas Moellering in ranch bronc riding, Wacey Hathcock in saddle bronc riding, Renato Finazzi in steer wrestling, Rowdy Jones and Rance Doyal in team roping.
To see full results and more pictures, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
The regional tennis tournaments were late last week in North Richland Hills and a doubles team is moving on to state.
The Saint Jo girl’s doubles team Kyler Dunn and Taylor Patrick won the 1A region III tournament and will return to state for the second straight year.
The pair rolled through teams from Morgan, Dodd City, Priddy before beating a Graford team in the finals. The pair did not lose a set and only lost five of the 53 games it played, never losing more than one in a set.
The team made it to state last year after finishing second at regionals and won a match at the state meet against a team from Vernon Northside. They then lost to the eventual state champion team from Utopia and finished tied for third place.
They will be the only tennis players from Montague County playing at state this week as others did not have as successful regional tournament.
The Saint Jo teammates and fellow girl’s doubles team Bailie Nobile and Maxey Johnson won their first match against Ector 6-1, 6-4, but fell in their next match against Lometa, 6-1, 6-1.
From Prairie Valley, Case Carpenter was competing in boy’s singles. His first match was a draining two and half hour battle against a player from Strawn Carpenter came through in the three-set battle, winning 6-4, 5-7, 6-4.
Unfortunately, the magic was not there in the second game. Paired against the eventual tournament champion from Gustine, Carpenter lost 6-0, 6-1.
From Gold-Burg, Alyson Rojas and Jimena Garcia competed in girl’s singles. Rojas won her first match against a girl from Avinger 7-6, 6-2. Unfortunately, the next match she lost to a girl from Graford 6-0, 6-0 to end her tournament.
Garcia lost a tough first match against a player from Ector. Both sets could have gone either way with the scores being 6-4, 7-5 to the winner.
The mixed doubles team from Forestburg, Jesse Wadsworth and Alli Cisneros, also did not make it through.
From Nocona, Kaygan Stone was playing in the girl’s singles 2A region II tournament.
Unfortunately, she got paired against the player who would go on to win the tournament in the first round to end her season.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
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