Lady Bulldogs upend Leonard, slaughter Commerce

The Howe Lady Bulldogs are growing up before our eyes The young team featuring several freshmen won in come-frombehind fashion on the road at Leonard on Tuesday night, 48-40 thanks in part to Peyton Streetman's 19 points It was a 216 win of the fourth and final stanza that lifted the Howe girls to victory Howe led 16-15 at the half, but trailed 34-27 entering the fourth quarter

Other scorers were Kayla Anderson (8), Madisyn Hargrove (7), Landry Rhoten (6), Jenna Honore (4), Emily Sanders (2), Kamryn Fulenchek (1), and Ally Harvey (1)

On Friday night, it was all Howe from the beginning of the very first whistle Howe's 29-4 win of the first quarter eliminated any hopes for Commerce to compete in the game The Lady Bulldogs also outscored their opponent, 16-2 in the second quarter to take a 45-6 halftime lead

The Lady Bulldogs eased up on the gas pedal in the second half and coasted to an easy 60-17 win

Streetman and Anderson combined to lead the Lady Bulldogs with 10 points each Sanders added eight and Callie Vick and Rhoten each finished with seven Other scorers were Honore (6), Harvey (6), Payton Griffin (4), and Hargrove (3)

The Bulldogs may have very well played their best game on Friday night versus a really talented Commerce team Howe eventually lost the game, 81-62 but the game was tight for the better part of the contest Ty Harvey had a monster game

On Thursday, Howe lost at

Leonard, 44-35 It was the second quarter that Leonard stretched out the game by holding Howe to only four points

Harvey finished with 20 points to lead Howe while Brandon Wall added nine Elijah Campbell, James Cowin and Ty Hawkins each had two points

Howe's Robotics team

The Howe Robotics team led by science teacher Becky Friedman had a successful year by competing at state In the initial contest, there were 42 teams that had to be in the top 10 to progress to the UIL state competition While at state, there was also a “Best Regional” competition which included 74 teams from New Mexico and Arizona Howe placed in the middle of that competition

The students said that the bonding experience was even more important than the project itself. Vice President Hannah Brown impressively gave a recap of the project that the team combined to make successful

“We were give supplies and a certain number of weeks and we had to create a robot to collect the most amount of points ” said Brown “There was programming as well as budgeting and accounting so that we use everything in the most precise way that we could There was a marketing presentation and a booth that we had set up to go through and explain our process We had interviews with judges and then rounds with our robots ”

Members of the team said that they found it very special because it was the first year under the UIL and they were able to compete at state “Being seniors and the chance to go to state feels pretty good ” said one team member

“It was a good learning experience for us.” said Brown “We learned how to work together and we partnered people together that had probably never talked with each other before and it was great experience ”

The district also recognized the ag program which also recently competed at state. Ag teacher Ronald Blum told the board that the students started back at the first of the school year and he had selected individuals to be on leadership teams that compete in the fall with a chance to go on to state competition

“You have to find out where their strengths are and put them in the right place ” Said Blum We were unique enough to have four teams qualify for state contest That’s pretty exceptional that we were able to do that ”

Mati Abner was state champion in Creed Speaking out of 795 participants She also finished sixth overall from 537 participants throughout the state in the Job Interview category

Kindle Catching, Allie Morgan and Mikayla Doty finished tenth of 389 teams that competed in Public Relations

Jenna Honore, Kaci Morgan, and Molly Wilson were semifinalists at state as freshman against senior level competition continued on page 9

The Howe High School Cheerleaders competed at the UIL state championship for the first time and were also recognized by the school board.

© 2017 The Howe Enterprise

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