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Football Roundup
Forestburg
The Forestburg Longhorns football team had a homecoming win for the ages on Friday night.
The Longhorns won their first game of the season 46-45 against Vernon Northside in a game that went to seven overtime periods.
Both teams came into the game in rough shape health wise and seeking their first wins. Forestburg fell behind 19-7 in the second quarter, but came back tie the game heading into halftime. It was a defensive struggle for most of the second half.
Jeremiah Perez, who finished the game with 292 yards rushing, scored with less than two minutes left in regulation to tie the score at 39-39. The defense got a stop with some time left, but Coach Greg Roller decided to play for overtime.
Both teams scored on their first possessions to keep the game going. After that, the overtime rules transitioned to where both teams alternate one-point conversions from the two-yard line.
Roller admitted he and his team were confused at times during the overtime since the format was new this year.
Both teams had trouble converting several times until the Longhorns finally did as Perez found Braxton Osteen in the end zone.
After being unsure if the game was over, when the referees signaled it was the players celebrated in dramatic fashion.
Bowie
The Bowie Jackrabbits faced another buzz saw as they hosted Pilot Point on Friday.
The Bearcats won in a one-sided affair 65-18 to give the Jackrabbits their second district loss in as many games.
Pilot Point is considered the clear number No. 2 team in the district after state-ranked Brock, the team Bowie had to play the previous week to start off district play.
The Bearcats started the game scoring on its opening drive. The Jackrabbits were looking to respond when quarterback Landon Felts went down with some sort hip injury that took him out of the game.
From there Pilot Point scored twice more before Jackrabbit backup quarterback Colby Miller found Seth Mann for a 16-yard touchdown to cut the lead to 22-6.
Following another score from the Bearcats, Miller then found Colton Covington for a 63-yard touchdown pass to cut the lead to 29-12. Pilot Point scored once more before halftime to make it 36-12.
At some point in the second half Miller then went down with an injury. Bowie then turned to senior Jake Fallis, who had never played quarterback and mostly stuck to running the ball to finish the game out with the score getting ridiculous.
The last good thing of note for Bowie in the game was Trevor Hopson recovering a fumble on defense and returning it 66 yards for a touchdown in the fourth quarter. This made the final score 65-18.
Nocona
The Nocona Indians lost to Maud on Thursday night in a game that was delayed 45 minutes at the start due to lightning.
When the game did start the Cardinals would go on to win 41-14.
On defense Coach Blake Crutsinger said his team did not do a good job in stopping Maud’s quarterback.
“We have to do a better job tackling,” Crutsinger said. “We practice it every day, but we have to do a better job of it.”
On offense, Crutsinger zeroed in on one aspect that stopped drives.
Gold-Burg
The Gold-Burg football team won its fourth straight game by mercy rule on Friday with a win at Woodson.
The Bears won 61-16 in a game where once they figured out how to stop the Cowboys early on it was over.
Woodson was surprisingly physical to start the game, something Coach Joe Helms said they had not shown much of on film in the lead up.
This led to the Cowboys scoring on their first two possessions mostly running the ball right at Gold-Burg. Once adjustments were made and Bears rose to the level of physical play Woodson brought, they started getting stops on defense.
Offensively Gold-Burg could not be slowed down from the start, finishing all but one drive on the night with a touchdown with its advantage in the speed department.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
The Red River High School Bass Club competed this past weekend, May 31 – June 1, at the State Tournament on Lake Conroe for the two-day tournament.
Two of the teams from Montague County traveled south to try their best at the culmination of the year for the state title. Teams were able to pre-fish on Friday before the Saturday and Sunday competition. On Friday, there was a flipping contest for the youth and Cooper Johnson won third overall and won a $500 scholarship and an Academy gift card.
The club’s two teams who competed were Lane Smith/Colt Henry with boat captain Jimmy Smith. The team placed 63rd with a total of 16.22 pounds. The second team of Cooper Johnson/Corbyn Patton and boat captain Jayson Toerck placed 169th with a total weight of 2.29 pounds.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekly edition of the Bowie News.
The Maskat Shrine Oil Bowl is this week on June 6-7 and graduating athletes from Bowie, Nocona and Saint Jo are confirmed to be playing.
In total, seven athletes from Bowie, five from Nocona and three from Saint Jo are planning to play in the all-star games this week. Nocona also will have a pair of coaches participating as well.
The girl’s basketball game kicks off events on June 6, scheduled for 6 p.m. at Wichita Falls Memorial High School. In the game, the east team will have Nocona players Avery Crutsinger, Meg Meekins and Reagan Phipps playing while Kyler Spitzer and Clayton Brown coach them one last time.
On the west team, Saint Jo’s Payzlie Cervantes is confirmed to be playing.
The boy’s basketball game is scheduled to follow at 7:30 p.m. On the east team, Bowie’s Boston Farris and Nocona’s Jose Gomez Jr. will be playing.
On June 7, the volleyball games are scheduled to start at 4 p.m. with the small school game. On the west team, Nocona’s Kaygan Stone and Saint Jo’s Taylor Patrick are confirmed to play. On the east team, Saint Jo’s Aubrey Morman will get to play her teammate.
There are no local athletes confirmed to be playing in the big school volleyball game.
The final event is the football game, scheduled for 7:30 p.m. at Memorial Stadium. It is an all Bowie affair with six players confirmed to be playing for the east team: Justin Clark, Jorge De Leon, Hunter Fluitt and Braden Rhyne, Preacher Chambers and Moh Azouak.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekly edition of the Bowie News.
Nocona Independent School District officials looked inward for a new athletic director/head football coach, selecting Jeff Hill for the position.
Hill, who served last year as Nocona football’s offensive coordinator and also led the softball program to the playoffs for the first time in a while as its head coach, was upgraded to the role.
This came on the heels of former Athletic Director Blake Crutsinger, who served in the role the last four years, resigned in May.
For Hill, the choice to apply for the position was a no brainer. His one year in Nocona had impressed upon him and his wife that it was the place they would like to be long term.
“I’m looking for a town to raise my kids in and Nocona has treated my family really well,” Hill said. “There are some really good people. The kids work hard. Everything I am looking for in a hometown is right here in Nocona and I want to try and make it as best as it can be, especially through athletics.”
Before Nocona, Hill served as the athletic director at S&S Consolidated while also spending time at Hebron and Whitewright in his coaching career.
Hill expresses great respect for the departing Crutsinger and besides changing a few small things in how he personally wants to do things, he is not trying to come in with a sweeping restructuring of the whole athletic department.
The program had five of its six team sports make the playoffs, with volleyball playing in the regional final and the girl’s basketball team winning the state championship.
That along with two athletes competing at the state championship in cross country and track with one earning a gold medal, it was one of the more successful school years in athletic program history.
“Coach Crutsinger was awesome and did a great job so honestly just little tweaks, a little bit of structure and cohesion amongst the coaching staff between boys and girls,” Hill said. “I hope to keep the winning tradition going overall in the athletic department.”
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekly edition of the Bowie News.
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