SPORTS
District titles go to Prairie Valley boys, Saint Jo girl’s teams
The district 22-1A golf tournament was on April 3 at the Indian Oaks Golf Course in Nocona.
In the end, boys from Prairie Valley won that second straight district title while the girls from Saint Jo surprised themselves, winning by just four strokes.
The Bulldogs won in dominant fashion by 44 strokes. Carter Lemon not only led Prairie Valley with a score of 84, but the entire field as second place was 26 strokes behind.
Teammates William Winkler and Shane Roof finished fourth and sixth individually with scores of 111 and 115.

The Lady Panthers won the district title by just four strokes to second place Midway and by six strokes from third place Prairie Valley. Jayla Thomas led Saint Jo with a 119, good for second place in the entire field. Teammate Hallie Hinds joined her in the top 10 with a score of 127.
Their Coach Michael Wheeler was not expecting his girls to take home the district title.
“It was a pleasant surprise for the girls to take first place, and proved the little amount of practice we had paid off just enough,” Wheeler said.
On the boy’s side, other regional qualifiers came from Carson Rowlett from Forestburg and Paden Jarosz from Saint Jo.
On the girl’s side, Shelby Roof and Molly Gilleland both qualified for regionals despite the Lady Bulldogs team coming two strokes short of qualifying as a team in third place
The regional tournament is scheduled to take place at the Squaw Valley Golf Course in Glen Rose. The boys will play April 22-23 and the girls April 24-25.
To see the full list of results for Montague County schools, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
SPORTS
Bowie softball team falls in area round
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.
SPORTS
Willett, Richey off to State
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.
SPORTS
Fourteen track athletes head to State
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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