SPORTS
STORM CENTER: Getting stuffed on football
This coming Thursday, Americans celebrate Thanksgiving.
We sit around dining room tables noshing on turkey, stuffing, probably some yams and pumpkin pie. One of my Thanksgiving favorites is cranberry sauce. I wonder if the musician Prince calls his a “Cranberry Beret?”
I digress.
One of the staples of American life is football on Thanksgiving, and that’s at all levels ranging from the pros to the high schools.
I remember covering a football game on Thanksgiving back in 1994 for the New Britain Herald – which was my hometown daily newspaper in Connecticut, like the Wichita Falls Times Record News here.
Wethersfield played Newington. The Eagles and the Indians have played each other on Thanksgiving since seemingly the beginning of time.
From my friend Kathleen Pulek, who is a former assistant sports information director at my alma mater Central Connecticut State University, Wethersfield and Newington played last year at CCSU the night before Thanksgiving.
This year’s game will be live from Alumni Field in Newington. Wethersfield comes into the game with a spotless 10-0 record.
In many northeastern states, Thanksgiving games signal the final week of regular-season contests.
Meanwhile, here in Texas, high school football playoffs are well underway in the regional round this week and quarterfinal games are set for next week.
Some of our postseason games will take place on Thanksgiving, but the teams to play in them have yet to be determined. Read more of this column in the weekend Bowie News. Buy an e-subscription to this newspaper.
Editor’s Note: The Storm Center column is the expressed written views of sports editor Eric Viccaro and not The Bowie News.
Fields will be filled with Thanksgiving football this Thursday. (Metro graphic)
A positive culture can be tough to install but will reap dividends if done correctly.
Trinadee Imotichey is trying to do just that with her Forestburg Lady Longhorns.
Imotichey, an assistant coach on the 2025 Forestburg volleyball team, was moved into the head coaching position. Last year’s coach, Cori Hayes, took over as football head coach.
Imotichey, in her 2nd year in Forestburg, said she learned a lot from Hayes and is ready to take over.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Bowie’s summer softball league team overcame a 6-1 deficit with a six-run third inning for a 7-6 win over Bridgeport in its season opener July 6.
The league consists of teams from Bowie, Nocona, Lindsay, Bridgeport, and Alvord and will last three weeks. Bowie will host games each week.
Bowie pitcher Hazel Trahern gave up two singles and a groundout to put the Sissies on the board in the first. It would be the only hits she gave up in the game. Two groundouts and a strikeout got the Lady Rabbits out of the jam.
Bowie got the run back in the bottom of the first with Andee Jo Miller opening the frame with a walk and a stolen base. She then scored on Kynlee Baker’s groundout to tie the game at one.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Rest. Run. Repeat.
Sage Keck, an 8th grader at Montague, lives by this mantra. No ifs, ands and buts about it.
She’s been running since fourth grade PE classes where she would run a mile every week. After discovering she could outrun the other students, she began to enjoy it and continued doing it.
Her success continued, as she finished 2nd overall against more than 200 runners at the Old Saint Jo 5K July 4. In last weekend’s Texas Junior Olympics, she reached the pinnacle of her career so far by qualifying for the United States of America Track and Field (USATF) National Junior Olympics in Norwalk, Calif. in three events.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
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