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HIGH SCHOOL TRACK AND FIELD: Area schedules released
The Conference 1A and Conference 3A Area meets will be taking place during the course of the next two weeks.
The 3A meet is set for Jacksboro High School on Thursday, April 23, beginning with a scratch meeting at 9:45 a.m. and then coaches meeting at 10:15 a.m. in the high school fieldhouse.
The 3A Area meet will feature Bowie, Nocona, Jacksboro, Henrietta, Holliday, Wichita Falls City View, Paradise, Boyd, Callisburg, Gunter, Howe, Pilot Point, Ponder, Pottsboro, Sadler S&S Consolidated and Whitesboro.
There also will be an Area 2A meet the same day at Jacksboro.
Here’s the 3A only schedule:
11 a.m., Long jump (3A boys); triple jump and pole vault (girls)
11:15 a.m., 3,200-meter run (girls)
11:45 a.m., 3,200 run (boys)
12:30 p.m., Shot put and high jump (boys); discus and pole vault (girls)
2 p.m., Triple jump and pole vault (boys); long jump (girls)
3:30 p.m., Discus and pole vault (boys); shot put and high jump (girls)
5:30 p.m., 400-meter relay (the format will be 2A girls, 3A girls, 2A boys and 2A girls for all running finals)
5:50 p.m., 800-meter run
6:10 p.m., 100-meter hurdles (girls)
6:25 p.m., 110-meter high hurdles (boys)
6:40 p.m., 100-meter dash
7 p.m., 800-meter relay
7:20 p.m., 400-meter dash
7:40 p.m., 300-meter hurdles (girls)
7:50 p.m., 300-meter intermediate hurdles (boys)
8 p.m., 200-meter dash
8:20 p.m., 1,600-meter run
8:40 p.m., 1,600-meter relay
Conference 1A at Ponder
The Conference 1A meet is set for Ponder High School on April 18, beginning with a scratch meeting at 9:30 a.m.
The Area 1A meet will feature the following schools: Bellevue, Gold-Burg, Forestburg, Midway, Prairie Valley, Saint Jo, Slidell, Tioga, Avalon, Flower Mound Universal Academy, Irving Universal Academy, Milford, Trinidad and Waxahachie Faith Family.
10:15 a.m., 3,200-meter run (varsity girls followed by varsity boys)
11 a.m., Running preliminaries as needed
12 p.m., Field events
12:30 p.m., Discus and triple jump (girls); pole vault and shot put (boys)
1:15 p.m., Long jump and pole vault (girls); triple jump and high jump (girls)
2 p.m., Shot put and high jump (girls); discus and long jump (boys)
4 p.m., All finals (in the following order of events: 400-meter relay, 800-meter run, 100-meter hurdles girls, 110-meter high hurdles boys, 100-meter dash, 800-meter relay, 400-meter dash, 300-meter hurdles girls, 300-meter intermediate hurdles boys, 200-meter dash, 1,600-meter run and 1,600-meter relay)
Bowie High School sprinter/hurdler specialist Zeke Vaughan prepares for the start of the 1,600-meter relay during the District 3A-9 meet at Jacksboro on April 9. Click on the image itself for the complete photo. (News photo by Eric Viccaro)
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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