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Sears competes at Archery World Cup
Gold-Burg senior Connor Sears traveled to Nimes, France last week to compete at the Indoor Archery World Cup in the junior men’s compound bow division.
The son of Pam and David, Sears made the trip to France for the second straight year to compete against the world’s best in the 18-20 year-old division despite being 17.
Unfortunately, Sears was not able to repeat last year’s bronze medal, losing to Sweden’s Marcus Arlefur-Wällstedt 145-141 in the bronze medal match. Still, just to get to that point is an achievement unto itself.
Sears first had to make it out of qualifications, competing against 50 other archers from around the world. Also, the demand for perfection from indoor archery makes every point not earned that much more costly.
Out of sixty shots, Sears only failed to hit center 10 times and on those 10 he scored the next best thing, nines, for a 590 total. This put him in a tie for third place, with only four archers shooting better than him and only by one or two points.
This qualified him for individual matches. He won his first three matches before faced fellow American Carson Sapp for a chance to shoot for the gold.
Sears fell a couple points behind early and could not recover as he lost by the close margin 145-143. That qualified him for the bronze medal match, where things did not go his way again, losing to Sweden’s Arlefur-Wällstedt 145-141.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.
Landry Norwood has agreed to become the new Head Boys Basketball Coach for Bowie High.
Norwood grew up in Paradise, playing a number of sports for the Panthers during his high school career. With a number of family members still in the area and the position coming open, Norwood applied and was hired.
“I know the tradition up here,” Norwood said. “I was glad (Athletic Director and Head Football) Coach Tyler Price felt he could put his trust in me.”
Bowie’s varsity went 2-10 last year, both wins coming against Vernon. Norwood spent five years as an assistant in Lipan before spending the next four years at Llano, three years as head coach. He said his last two years in Llano were rough after graduation of nine seniors his first year and a 26-7 squad.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News
Nocona came into game two of its Class 2A Division I bi-district series with Archer City looking to rebound from a 17-0 loss in game one.
The Lady Indians took a quick lead but the Lady ‘Cats had too much in the tank and knocked Nocona out of the playoffs courtesy of a 13-3, five-inning victory winning the best of three series, 2-0.
Kylea Wallace reached base on a second baseman’s error. With one out, M’leigha Franklin took a pitch over the wall in left field for a home run, igniting the Lady Indian crowd with a 2-0 lead.
Archer City prevented further damage by retiring the next two hitters. The Lady ‘Cats struck in the bottom of the inning for seven runs.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Culture. It’s a beautiful word.
Bowie Softball Coach Griffin Fields has been trying to install a positive, winning culture since taking over the job. For the first time since 2019, the Lady Rabbits qualified for the postseason, facing District 8 top seed Early in the bi-district round.
After beating the Lady ‘Horns 9-8 in game one of the best-of-three series April 23, Early came back and evened the series less than 24 hours later, 15-0. The Lady Rabbits used the aforementioned culture and got out to a quick lead in game three.
Bowie was then forced to come from behind for the second straight night. Kinley Baker, who had the game winning RBI in game one, came through again in game three and broke a 6-all tie with a single to lift the Lady Rabbits to a 9-6 victory in the finale.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
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