SPORTS
Bowie boy’s win district title
The district track meet wrapped up Thursday night at City View for both Bowie and Nocona teams.
The Bowie boy’s team repeated as overall team district champions for the second straight year despite some new faces in the district.
The Jackrabbits went into the final relay race with the title wrapped up and won by 12 points to district newcomer Childress thanks to a big first day in field events.
District champions included: Alex Shelton winning the 3200 and 1600 races; Joey Crawford winning the pole vault; A.J. Craddock winning the 110-meter hurdles; Logan Lawhorn winning the high jump and Daniel Mosley winning the shot put.
All of those athletes and some others also earned valuable points in many other events.
Up big after day one of field events, Coach Justin Prescott credits Childress cutting the lead close.
“We came out 40 points up and usually with a 40 point lead you feel secure, but they kept fighting back, fighting back until our guys just gutted it out,” Prescott said.
The Lady Rabbits came up a painful half point short of tying for the district lead with the district champions from Holliday. Bowie had the lead heading into the final relay and needed to finish at least one space behind the Lady Eagles to hold on to the win. Unfortunately, the Lady Cats from Childress finished in front of Bowie and a tie on a field event on day one ended up costing the Lady Rabbits winning back-to-back district titles like the boy’s team.
District champions for Bowie included: Abby Zamzow winning both the hurdle races and both the long and triple jumps; Jayci Logan winning the both the 100 and 200 meter races and Hope Howard winning the shot put. The 4×100 meter relay team of Zamzow, Logan, Brysen Richey and Landra Parr also won as well.
The teams from Nocona had trouble overall with both finishing sixth. However a couple athletes won their events and many more qualified for area. Tyler Richards and Kylie Rose each won the 400 meter race.
Top four finishers in each event qualify for the area meet.
To see the full list of results for athletes who finished in the top six, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
Bowie softball had a historic season, where the squad made the postseason for the first time since 2019 and knocked a top seed from the playoffs, come to an end April 29.
No-4 ranked Tuscola Jim Ned got out to a quick start and took an 11-1, five inning win in the area round of the Class 3A Division I playoffs. Bowie had its season end at 19-15.
With a large crowd at Weatherford High rooting them on, Bowie took the field looking to knock out another top seed, as they did with Early last week.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Bowie will have two track athletes at the State track and field meet May 14 with top two finishes at the Region 1-3A track meet at Abilene Christian University May 1-2.
Tyler Richey finished 2nd in the pole vault with a 15’ leap. Richey was also 9th in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 15.39. Sophomore Braden Willett was 3rd in the 1,600-meters with a school record best of time of 4:21.93. Willett was 4th in the 3,200-meter run with a time of 9:29.71.
Several other Rabbits and Lady Rabbits competed at the regional meet. The 800-meter relay foursome of Colton Dosch, Richey, Finn Riddle and Jaxon White finished 6th with a time of 1:30.24 while the 1,600-meter relay team of Dosch, Judah Livsey, Riddle and Blaine Leonard finished 8th with a time of 3:30.76.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Saint Jo’s boys and girls track teams took top honors at the Region III-A track meet at Hewitt Midway High School May 1-2 and will send several athletes to the state track and field meet May 16 in Austin.
The boys were led by Damon Byrd who won both the long jump with a 22’9 ¾” leap and triple jump with a 45’ 10 ½”. Byrd also won the 100-meter dash with a time of 1.03 and was a member of the victorious 800-meter relay along with Trent Gaston, Barrett Johnson and Lee Yeley with a time of 1:30.80.
Yeley won the high jump with a 6’ leap. Byrd, Yeley, Dominic Luna and Gaston combined for a 2nd-place finish in the 1,600-meter relay with a time 3:32.81. Gaston was 2nd in the 110-meter hurdles with a tie of 16.09. Johnson was 2nd in the 400-meter dash in 50.75, Ayden Giambruno was 6th in the 3200-meter run in 11:05.24 with Yeley 8th in the 200-meters with a time of 25.61.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
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