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Jim Bowie Day rodeo events all next week
The Jim Bowie Days celebration is a week full of activities, with a large focus on rodeo.
There will be rodeo events almost every night of the week at Bowie’s rodeo arena at Pelham Park starting Monday.
The books will be open for the big rodeo performances at the end of the week until 5 p.m. on June 19. People can register via the NextGen App.
The week starts with 4D open barrel racing at 7:30 p.m. on June 20. The books will be open from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. that same day and racers will need to text the number 940-366-2812 to sign-up.
Registration for the youth rodeo also will be that night including speed, roping and mutton bustin’. The books will open 6-9 p.m. and people can call 940-577-9740 to sign up. Kids must be between the ages of 0-19 as of Jan.1, 2022.
The next day is the first night of the youth rodeo at 7 p.m. on June 21. It will just cover speed events that night. On June 22 at 7 p.m. the youth rodeo will do roping events. Both nights will have mutton bustin’.
The regular rodeo will be June 23-25. Mutton bustin’ check-in starts at 6:30 p.m. while the rodeo performance starts at 7:30 p.m. all three nights.
On June 23, there will be an FFA calf scramble as well as a children’s calf scramble. Slack will run afterwards. On June 24-25 there will be a royalty presentations for the reigning and contestant Pioneer Queen and Duchesses, with the crowning on June 25. The rodeo stock will be provided by the T-N-T Rodeo Company.
After June 24 rodeo performance, there will be a concert by the Melissa Brooke Band that will cost $5. After the June 25 rodeo performance, there will be a concert by Tin Rivers that will cost $10. Both will be under the pavilion at Pelham Park.
Bellevue’s girl’s basketball team led at halftime but a quick 9-0 Jacksboro run in the opening moments of the second half would prove the difference in a 28-25 Lady Eagle loss June 15 in a Nocona Summer League game.
Leading 12-9 at the half, Bellevue continued to shut down the inside game of the Tigerettes. Jacksboro switched tactics and began firing from outside. Three 3-pointers in the span of just under two minutes gave Jacksboro an 18-12 lead.
Bellevue kept things close, however, getting on the second half scoreboard with Mattie Broussard’s basket and free throws cutting the deficit to two, 18-16. A Haven Jones 3-pointer put the Lady Eagles up 19-18 midway through the second half.
The Tigerettes had just one 3 -pointer the rest of the way but got inside for a pair of buckets to take a 25-21 lead with 4:50 to go. Both offenses shut down late.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Most school-age athletes start off playing everything. By the time they graduate, they whittle it down to just one or two.
New Bowie girl’s track and overall cross country coach Shawnda Childers is no exception. While at Iowa Park she competed in volleyball, cross country and track before cutting out volleyball and focusing on track and cross country to close out high school.
Childers did not stay with athletics while moving on to Midwestern State University, where she received her bachelor’s and master’s Degrees. After graduation, shestarted coaching in Electra. She came to Bowie for one year, then went back to her old stomping grounds in Iowa Park where she spent the next four years.
The return home also put her in contact with now-Bowie Coach Griffin Fields, who was a coach there at the time. From Iowa Park, she spent the next three years at City View.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
New Saint Jo Girl’s Basketball Coach Grant Gooch isn’t completely unfamiliar with the area.
“We went to Muenster quite a bit when I was a kid,” Gooch, who will be going into his 20th year as a coach, said. “We’d load up the cooler from the meat markets. It’s good to be back.”
Gooch worked with Saint Jo Athletic Director CJ Hantz when the pair were in Throckmorton. Gooch comes to town from Menard where he spent three years at the West Texas school.
Gooch says coaching and education kind of come naturally to him.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
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