SPORTS
Bowie girls compete at state meet on Friday at Extraco
The girl’s state powerlifting meet is happening this weekend at the Extraco Events Center in Waco.
In Montague County, five lifters from Bowie qualified for the state meet back on March 2 at the regional meet.
Lifters Carrington Davis won the 181 pound weight class, Chelsea Price the 220 pound weight class and Jessie Henry the 97 pound weight class. Sisters Sierra and Emma Skinner each finished second in the 105 and 114 pound weight classes.
Davis is the only lifter who is coming in with any state experience. A senior, Davis is making her fourth appearance, coming off earning a fifth place medal last year.
Her 980 total pounds she put up at the regional meet is the third highest in her weight class in the state. She has lifted 1,000 pounds this year, but she was competing in the 198 pound class at that meet.
Despite winning, Davis was not happy with her performance at regionals and hopes she can go out with a new personal record. If she does that, there is a good chance of finishing in the top three.
Price’s best total of 930 total pounds has her ranked ninth heading into the state meet. The sophomore made a huge leap from her freshman year. A top 10 finish at state will be just the thing to build on heading into her senior year if she also puts up a new personal best.
Henry’s highest total of 550 pounds has her sitting just outside of the top 10 in a tie for 11th place. The tiny sophomore already made a big improvement from her freshman year to win at regionals.
A lot of girls sit tightly packed together in the standings heading into the meet. If Henry makes a big 20-30 pound jump, it would easily get her into a top 10 finish. With two more years to compete, any accomplishment at state is just gravy for Henry.
For Sierra and Emma, they will not only need to put up their best performances of the season, but also need some help from other girls bombing out if they want to break into the top 10.
Still, the story of these sisters both making it to the state meet is already such a great story. Emma competed last year as a freshman and just missed out earning a medal at regionals last year. This year she finished second in the region.
Older by one year, Sierra had never competed despite their older brother Jacob also competing and excelling at powerlifting. Sierra showed that natural strength ran in the family.
The cheerleader became the second Lady Rabbits to qualify for the state meet in powerlifting in only her first year of competition, following Emily Cox Boyd’s example from last year.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week 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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