SPORTS
Montague County sending 14 to state meet
The regional track meets started on Friday and ended on Monday due to bad weather on day two. Montague County has 14 athletes who qualified for the state meet from six different schools.
Bowie competed at the 3A region I meet at Abilene Christian University. Nocona competed at the 2A region II meet at Springtown High School. All of the 1A schools competed in the region III meet at the University of North Texas.
The Jackrabbits have Tucker Jones heading back to the state meet for the second straight year in the 110 meter hurdles. He did it dramatic fashion.
Only the top two finishers in each event automatically qualify for the state meet. The one wildcard qualifier is the best of all third place finishers in the four regions.
Jones ran a personal best time of 14.73 seconds, which was not only the fastest time out of all the third place finishers, but was just six hundredths of a second faster than fourth place runner from Peaster in his race.
At Nocona, Graci Brown qualified in three of the four events she competed at state last year. Brown won the 400 meters, finished second in the 800 meters and elected to skip the long jump this year.
She anchored the 4×400 relay along with Ava Johnson, Ayden Patton and Meg Meekins. The team finished in third place, but like Jones got the wildcard spot with its time of 4:05 to qualify for state again.
At the 1A meet, there were several athletes who qualified for state after the first day of competition due to scheduling.
From Forestburg, Brenna Briles won the high jump by clearing 5-1. Reagan Ladewig finished second in the shot put with a throw of 32-10.
From Gold-Burg, Isaac Renteria qualified for the 3200 meter race for the second straight year. He finished third with a time of 10:19, also getting the wildcard position.
From Saint Jo, Damon Byrd won the long jump and got second in the triple jump. He jumped 21-3 in the long jump and 42-5 in the triple jump.
A few days later during the the running finals, Byrd would join the 4×200 meter relay team along with Blaine Penaluna, Devin Stewart and Lee Yeley that finished second with a time 1:33 to qualify for state.
From Prairie Valley, Linzie Priddy would earn her first state track appearance by finishing second in the 800 meter race with a time of 2:33, less than a second ahead of third place from Blum.
To read the full story and also see results for all area athletes who competed at the regional meets, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
With summer starting up, the first few days can be spent with kids spending some time learning basketball fundamentals and having fun at either Bowie or Nocona.
For Bowie kids, both boy and girl camps will be on May 28-30 and will cost $60 per camper. School employs will have to pay $50.
There will be two sessions for younger and older kids.
For the girl’s camp, incoming 2-5th graders will make up the younger kid session which will be at the junior high from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The older session will be incoming 6-9th graders which will be at the high school from 8:30-10:30 a.m.
The boy’s camp will have incoming campers from kindergarten to 5th grade in the first session at the junior high from 8:30-10:30 a.m.
The older session for incoming 6-9th graders will be scheduled for 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the high school.
Both camp registration forms can be found on the Bowie ISD Athletics Facebook page.
Walk-ups on the first day also will be available.
Any questions can be emailed to Ryan Dykes at [email protected] for the boys camp and Matthew Miller at [email protected] for the girls camp.
For Nocona kids, both boy and girl basketball camps will be on May 28-30 and will cost $50 per camper.
The girl’s basketball camp will have incoming 5-9th graders in the high school gym from 9 a.m. to noon. The younger session of incoming kindergarteners to 4th graders will be at the elementary school gym from 1-3 p.m.
The boy’s basketball camp will have oncoming 5-9th graders at the elementary school gym from 9-11 a.m. The incoming kindergarteners to 4th graders will be in the high school gym from 12:30-3:30 p.m.
For more information on how to sign up ahead of time, email Kyle Spitzer at [email protected] for the girls camp and Brody Wilson at [email protected] for the boys camp.
Gold-Burg hosted its high school awards banquet on May 16. Jayon Grace was chosen for the boy’s Iron Bear award, given to the best overall athlete by Coach Christian Healer.
To see pictures of all of the team award winners, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.
Bellevue High School is planning on adding another sport next school year and a new hire was the catalyst.
Carrington Davis thought she was just going in to interview for the open elementary teacher position. During the interview, Principal Lori Shoemaker brought up her powerlifting past.
Davis, a 2019 graduate from Bowie, spent all four years in high school lifting on top of playing softball, doing well enough to make it to the state meet every year and earning fifth and second place medals her last two seasons.
Since then, while going to college at Midwestern State University, she has stayed in the powerlifting world by serving as a judge at meets the last five years.
“I think it changes your perspective on the sport,” Davis said. “When you are an athlete you know the lift, but you are kind of behind this curtain. Being a judge opens you up to all of the other things. You get to see which coaches know the sport more than others. I honestly think being a judge will help me in the competition part of it more than me having been a lifter.”
That kind of experience was what interested Shoemaker in proposing Davis head the start of the Eagles’ powerlifting program.
“We have a large group of kids who are built for powerlifting and we are excited to see what they make of it with them coming into high school,” Shoemaker said.
Davis graduated this month from MSU with her bachelors of science in education degree. She is excited to start the program up, knowing what the sport of powerlifting provided for her and her teammates in high school.
““It is an all-around beneficial sport,” Davis said. “It helps you grow in your skillset, your strength and endurance for any of the other sports you play. Also, it helps with your confidence a lot. It is an individual sport and most kids are used to team sports and maybe getting put on the backburner if they are not the best at something. Powerlifting is a sport where you can showcase your own individual skills. You get out what you put in.”
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.
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