SPORTS
Bowie boy’s golf prepared for state
The Bowie boy’s golf team plays in the state tournament May 17-18.
The first golf team in a long time hopes to represent the Jackrabbits well at the state meet with a team in what has been several years in the making.
The team won every tournament it played last year before the season was ultimately canceled due to COVID-19. Despite losing some of its best players to graduation, the team returned enough this year for another chance at a good season.
The team won tournaments at Rider and its home course before obliterating the competition at district, beating second place by more than 40 shots. Parker Price and Andrew Sandhoff finished first and second among individuals.
The regional tournament at Baird saw the team get tested. The team was 11 shots back after the first day. Despite conditions being worse the second day, the team actually shot a bit better overall. This allowed them to come all the way back to finish third overall.
Even if the team had not qualified, the team’s top player Price did enough individually that would have qualified him.
His two day total 152 tied him for first and had a chance to win the gold medal in a playoff. Unfortunately, he lost the first hole and settled for regional runner-up.
It will have been almost a month since that tournament when the team takes the course at the state tournament this week.
The team has not just been sitting around and playing no frills golf during that time.
“I truly feel like the guys have made some good adjustments and improved over the course of the three weeks,” Coach Matt Miller said.
The team has not gotten a chance to play at the ShadowGlen Golf Club in Manor yet, but will get one practice round on Saturday.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.
A positive culture can be tough to install but will reap dividends if done correctly.
Trinadee Imotichey is trying to do just that with her Forestburg Lady Longhorns.
Imotichey, an assistant coach on the 2025 Forestburg volleyball team, was moved into the head coaching position. Last year’s coach, Cori Hayes, took over as football head coach.
Imotichey, in her 2nd year in Forestburg, said she learned a lot from Hayes and is ready to take over.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Bowie’s summer softball league team overcame a 6-1 deficit with a six-run third inning for a 7-6 win over Bridgeport in its season opener July 6.
The league consists of teams from Bowie, Nocona, Lindsay, Bridgeport, and Alvord and will last three weeks. Bowie will host games each week.
Bowie pitcher Hazel Trahern gave up two singles and a groundout to put the Sissies on the board in the first. It would be the only hits she gave up in the game. Two groundouts and a strikeout got the Lady Rabbits out of the jam.
Bowie got the run back in the bottom of the first with Andee Jo Miller opening the frame with a walk and a stolen base. She then scored on Kynlee Baker’s groundout to tie the game at one.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Rest. Run. Repeat.
Sage Keck, an 8th grader at Montague, lives by this mantra. No ifs, ands and buts about it.
She’s been running since fourth grade PE classes where she would run a mile every week. After discovering she could outrun the other students, she began to enjoy it and continued doing it.
Her success continued, as she finished 2nd overall against more than 200 runners at the Old Saint Jo 5K July 4. In last weekend’s Texas Junior Olympics, she reached the pinnacle of her career so far by qualifying for the United States of America Track and Field (USATF) National Junior Olympics in Norwalk, Calif. in three events.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
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