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Bowie, Nocona golf teams do well at hosted tournaments

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The Bowie Lady Rabbits team shot 407 and finished second overall on Monday. (Photo by Tiffany Egenbacher)

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The Bowie golf teams competed at the home course Twisted Oaks at a tournament on Monday and Tuesday.
The girl’s team finished second while the boys II team finished fourth.
The Lady Rabbits shot 407 overall as a team. Tess Egenbacher led the team with a 92, good enough to finish fifth individually. Teammate Miley Thompson was second with 97 and finished sixth overall.
Emma Read and Reegan Ferguson rounded out the team’s score, shooting 106 and 112. Kendall Fallis shot 114, but her score did not count towards the total.
Emily Cueva competed as an individual medalist and shot 107.
The Jackrabbit team shot 324 overall. Seth Mann was the lowest score as he shot 78 and finished in 8th place individually.
Gavyn Brown shot 79 and finished 10th individually. Trae Seigler and Russell Anderson rounded out the team’s scoring shooting 82 and 84.
The Bowie boy’s I team competed later in the week at a tournament in Gladewater. Results for that tournament will be in the mid-week paper.

Nocona
The Nocona golf teams competed at its home course earlier this week at the Norman Waters Invitational.
The boy’s team finished in third place while the girls had two individuals compete.
The Indians shot 366 as a team and were led by Caden Belcher who shot an 86 while Jake Pribble who an 88. Johnny Stone and Caden Gaston rounded out the scoring as both shot 96. Brady McCasland’s 109 did not count towards the team total.
The boys had three more players compete individually. Cooper Waldrop shot 104, Payton Reed shot 117 and Caden Hammer shot 110.
The Lady Indians two players compete individually. Jessie Howard shot 111 and Alexa Sosa shot 119.

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District awards for 1A released

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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

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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

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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.

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