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Basketball roundup

Published

3 years ago

12/16/2020

Saint Jo boys
The Saint Jo Panthers picked up two big wins on Friday and Saturday.
The Panthers won at Era 54-31 and beat Chico 71-20 at home.
Saint Jo got out to a 14-4 lead in the first quarter against the Hornets and never looked back. While Era had a better second quarter and cut the lead to 23-17 at halftime, the Panthers’ defense put the clamps back on in the second half. The offense did enough to not let the Hornets get closer.
Saint Jo then ended the game strong scoring 20 points in the fourth quarter to win the game by 23 points.
The next day against the Dragons at home, it was all about the defense. Chico scored nine points in the first quarter and trailed the Panthers only 15-9.
Saint Jo’s defense then allowed the Dragons to score only 11 points for the next three quarters.
The Panther’s offense never slowed down, again ending the game strong scoring 22 points in the fourth quarter to pull away and win by 51 points.
Saint Jo is next scheduled to play at 6 p.m. on Dec. 18 at home against Perrin-Whitt.

Prairie Valley girls
The Prairie Valley Lady Bulldogs won against Notre Dame on Friday.
The Lady Bulldogs won a close game 48-40 against the Lady Knights.
Carmen Gomez led the team with 16 points while Hailey Winkler was right behind her scoring 14 points.
Coach Jeannie Carpenter is liking what she is seeing from her team so far as district play kicks off this week.
“I am liking what I see out of our younger players,” Carpenter said. “They are really stepping up and contributing in big ways. We need to continue to work on rebounding and get more confident in our ball handling, but overall things are looking good.”
Prairie Valley is scheduled to host Bellevue at 6 p.m. on Dec. 18.

Prairie Valley boys
The Prairie Valley Bulldogs picked up a big win at home on Friday against Notre Dame before losing at Electra on Saturday.
The Bulldogs won by 30 points against the Knights 61-31, but lost by nearly that many against the Tigers 70-41.
Isaac Yeargin led the team with 25 points while Konner Ritchie and Tyler Winkler also scored in double figures scoring 18 and 15 points. All three also grabbed eight rebounds.
Prairie Valley had a good first half against Electra. The Bulldogs led by two at halftime, but shots stopped going in in the second half. Some easy baskets allowed the Tigers to get into rhythm.
The fourth quarter Prairie Valley seemed to run out of gas which allowed Electra to start extending its lead.
Yeargin led the team with 19 points, Winkler scored 11 points while grabbing a team high six rebounds and Konner Ritchie led the team with five assists.
The Bulldogs are next scheduled to play Huckabay at 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 18 at home.

Forestburg boys
The Forestburg Longhorns lost to Sacred Heart on Friday.
The Tigers won a one-sided game 76-30 against an overmatched Longhorns team.
Forestburg scored well to start the game scoring 13 points, but could not keep up with Sacred Heart scoring 29 points in the first quarter.
While scoring slowed down the rest of the game on both sides, it went way down for the Longhorns while the Tigers kept scoring enough to keep building their lead.
Dylan Ronken led the team with 12 points while Braxton Osteen joined him in double-figures scoring 10 points.
Coach Eldon Van Hooser thought the team played better than its previous games, but the young and inexperienced team has a long way to go. Still, he is happy with the improvement he has seen so far.
The Longhorns are next scheduled to open up district play at 3 p.m. on Dec. 21 at home against Prairie Valley.

Gold-Burg girls
The Gold-Burg Lady Bears lost a close game at Bryson on Friday.
The Cowgirls won 39-29 against a Lady Bears team that was missing a key senior player due to quarantine.
Kelly Contreras led Gold-Burg with 15 points while Sadie Whitaker was second with nine points.
Coach Cheryl Cromleigh thought her team would have definitely won if it was at full strength, but her team fell short.
The Lady Bears are next scheduled to play at 6 p.m. on Dec. 18 at Midway.

To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.

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District awards for 1A released

Published

2 days ago

05/18/2024

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Bellevue’s Bryce Ramsey was named his district’s newcomer of the year.

With the baseball and softball seasons over for the area 1A schools, district awards have been released.
Listed below are those earned honors on the field and in the classroom for Saint Jo and Bellevue.

Softball
Saint Jo
Honorable mention
Utility player: Taylor Patrick; Catcher: Jordyn O’Neal

Baseball
Superlatives
Offensive MVP: Devin Stewart, Saint Jo
Newcomer of the Year: Bryce Ramsey, Bellevue

Pitcher: Trent Gaston, Saint Jo
Outfielder: Jayden Curry, Saint Jo

Second team
Pitcher: Charlie Barclay, Saint Jo
Infielder: Brycen Bancroft, Bellevue; Sam Martin, Saint Jo
Outfielder: Rylan Forrester, Saint Jo
Catcher: Charlie Evans, Saint Jo
Utility: Logan Hoover, Saint Jo
DH: Amzy Barclay, Saint Jo

Honorable mention
Cody Gaston, Saint Jo; Xander Joyner, Saint Jo

To see academic awards from Saint Jo players, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.

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Forestburg coach retiring

Published

2 days ago

05/18/2024

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Forestburg boys basketball coach Eldon Van Hooser helped lead the program to its first playoff win in nine years in his last year coaching.

Eldon Van Hooser is leaving Forestburg better than he found it.
The head boy’s basketball coach is retiring after more than 30 years, spending the last five at Forestburg.
Van Hooser did not come to this decision because of a lack of fire or feeling tired after decades in the profession. He had to for family reasons.
“My wife has MS (multiple sclerosis) and it’s a disease where you have trouble standing and walking and she needs help,” Van Hooser said. “I am able to so I am going to step away from teaching and coaching to be there for her.”
Van Hooser was hired in 2019. Along with being the boy’s basketball coach, he also was the football team’s defensive coordinator.
There were some lean years for Forestburg on the boy’s athletic side, with numbers being low and the available athletes being mostly underclassmen.
For two years, the Longhorns’ boy’s basketball team won few games and one of those seasons saw the team field five players on the high school team.
“One of those years we had COVID-19 and the other we had five kids,” Van Hooser said. “It was very rough. After that we worked with the kids and we had a good freshman group coming up. Next year they are going to be seniors.”
That group has helped to turn the program around. Last year the young Longhorns team contested for a playoff spot and just barely missed it finishing fifth in the district.
This season, that same group took a leap and finished second in district with a record of 7-5.
Despite losing its last two regular season games in dramatic fashion heading into the playoffs, the team stepped up in the bi-district game.
Playing against an athletic Newcastle team, Forestburg led for most of the game.
Unfortunately, the previous game against Bellevue saw the Longhorn team blow the lead late in the fourth quarter against a hard pressing style team and they were suffering the same fate against the Bobcats down the stretch.
Fortunately, Forestburg held on just enough to win 53-46. It was the first boy’s basketball playoff win in nine years for Forestburg.
“It was huge for our program,” Van Hooser said. “This new year we will have new goals. The new coach will have some goals of his own, but I set some for the team and think that we have come a long way.”

To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.

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Bowie Sports Banquet

Published

5 days ago

05/15/2024

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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.