51.45 Howe Enterprise March 31, 2014

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Monday, March 31, 2014

Volume #1, Issue #3

Tim Rose Retiring Tim Rose is calling it a career as the head varsity basketball coach at Howe which spun for 23 years. His head basketball coaching career started with three seasons in three different towns. He started in McCamey, Texas in the 1988-89 season before he went to Bullard for the 1989-90 year. The following year he came to Howe and made a 23 year home. He arrived in Howe when Howe was a powerhouse in football. The Bulldog football team had just gone to the Regional finals two consecutive years before he

Howe's That ? Today's edition comes out in the midst of what I would consider a national holiday - Opening Day in baseball. However, the work never stops on a weekly newspaper. I'm meeting a lot of new people along with way with this new venture of bringing back The Howe Enterprise and I feel blessed to be in this position.

coached his first basketball game in Howe. The mentality of school athletics in general were geared and focused around football more than any other sport. As a matter of fact, he was the first true basketball coach hired to coach strictly basketball in quite some time by the school. He took over for Billy Hill who had been more well known as a great football defensive coordinator. Rose came to town when short shorts were still the normal everyday basketball attire and the basketball was just as ugly. Howe

Scouts Pouring In To See Fulenchek Radar guns became popular in the 1950's after first being used in World War II. But they've never been as popular in the city of Howe as they are right now. Howe senior pitcher Garrett Fulenchek has been scouted ferociously over the past year or so due to his ability to make radar guns pop. At 6'3, 205 pounds, Fulenchek

As of Sunday morning, The Howe Enterprise had 711 subscribers and Facebook tells me that 4,250 saw last Monday's edition. Howeenterprise.com also has had 7,378 hits. If you're looking for the larger, easier to read version, go to howeenterprise.com. But the photos of each page are also posted and can be shared, liked, commented on and such. Please feel free to like what you see. I also want to give a warm thank you to Dale and Lana Rideout for their blessing for me to be able to do this for the community. They have provided a great service to Howe for many years and they can still be found at texomaenterprise.net.

basketball teams hadn't played .500 ball in several seasons when Rose came to Howe and it was not an overnight success story. His first team went 3-17 mostly because 3 starters were lost to football injuries.. But since that first team in Howe, he amassed over 400 wins, six district championships and advanced to the regional tournament on three occasions. In the 2004-05 season the Bulldogs won the Region II title in Stephenville, defeating Godley to earn a trip to the state’s final four. The Bulldogs have had four players selected for All-State teams during Rose’s career.

reaches 94 miles per hour consistently. And that kind of ability makes people notice. Fulenchek was touted as the #131 ranked player in the nation by Scout.com who analyzes draft status situations for Major League Baseball. As a junior, Fulenchek

Roy Layman was picked for the Texas Sportswriters Association team in 1995, and Dwayne Emmons was selected by the TSWA and Texas Basketball Coaches Association teams in 1997 and 1998. Justin Howerton and Collin Mangrum received All-State awards from the TABC in the 2004-05 season and Mangrum repeated the following year.

struck out 59 in 29 innings and also hit .524 with 34 RBI. He was the Offensive MVP in District 11-2A. But Fulenchek says pitching is what he thrives on. "I've always been able to hit,

but pitching is On a side note, I happened to be on that 3-17 team more fun." said that was Tim Rose's first. It was nice to see his Fulenchek. passion for basketball. I wish he'd have arrived Continued on Page #2 sooner.

The highlight of Rose’s career was that regional championship and subsequent state semifinal appearance when his Bulldogs played a Tuscola Jim Ned team that featured a future University of Texas quarterback, Colt McCoy. Rose came to Howe because of friendship. He grew up in Ballinger, Continued on Page #4


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