Football begins today

All Howe High School football players will report to the campus today for the first of “2-a-days.” Today, athletes do not go through two different workouts in a day, but the term has stuck over the years even as the practices times have changed.

Players will report today at 3:45 pm and beginning training in the weight room from 4 pm to 4:40. They’ll then attend meetings from 4:45 to 5:15 before hitting the practice field at 5:30 where they’ll be until 8:30 tonight.

The schedule will remain the same throughout the week until Saturday when they will have a morning practice from 7:30 am to 11 and then will have photos beginning at 2 pm.

The Bulldogs continue the tradition of the Black & White Scrimmage which will be held at Bull-

The 2020 Howe Bulldogs helmet will look much like the ‘Dogs of the 1980s during the Buck Smith and Jim Fryar eras.

dog Stadium on Friday, Aug. 14 from 6:30 to 8:30.

The first game is scheduled for Aug. 28 at Callisburg. The Howe Enterprise will have a live broadcast of all ten regular season games this season. The games will be on HoweEnterprise.com as well as YouTube with the first game’s link here: https:// youtu.be/PkV_jNYmzPc

Deadline for Black & White Game Day program ads today

The Howe Athletic Booster Club normally focuses on caps spirit wear for fundraising opportunities, but this year another item is being marketed thanks to COVID -19. The booster club is currently selling Howe Spirit Neck Gaiters with the Howe Bulldogs logo on it. The sales are online and orders must be placed by Aug. 9, 2020. The link to purchase the neck gaiter is here:

The booster club is also working feverishly on the 2020 Black & White Game Day program where ads will be accepted until the end of the day today (Monday). Ads should be emailed to vicepresident.habc@gmail.com.

Full page personal ads are $150, half-page ads are $100, Quarterpage ads are $75, and Eighthpage ads are $45. Business ads are on a different rate scale. The Booster Club address is P.O. Box 321, Howe, TX, 75459.

pitched three innings with two walks and five strikeouts. Cooper Jones entered the game in the fourth inning and walked four and struck out one.

Earlier in the day, Howe beat Hawkins, 6-2 behind a dominating pitching performance by Zeb Montgomery. He allowed only one hit and walked none as he struck out seven hitters in 3.2 innings.

Lowder led Howe with two RBI on two hits. He also scored a run. Ethan Mayo also had two hits in the game. Runs were scored by Lowder, Mahlon Walker, Mayo (2), Parker Daniels, and Montgomery.

Hits in the game were by Lowder (2), Ulmer, Jesse Portman, Luciano Vazquez, Mayo (2), Kolin Murphy, and Beau Stephens.

Jones came in relief of Montgomery and was dominant with six strikeouts in 2.1 innings. He allowed no hits and one walk. After rain cancelled all pool play games, a random hat draw gave Howe the number nine seed heading into tournament play which was a matchup with new football district mates Winnsboro. Anthony Lowder got the start for Howe on the mound and went two innings, walking one and striking out three hitters. The Dogs couldn’t catch a break as every ball off the bat of Winnsboro had eyes and found green grass just inches away from the defenders’ reach. After Lowder hit his pitch limit, Daniels came in relief and went 1.1 innings, walking two hitters and striking out one. The Bulldogs defense did not help him out or the final pitcher Kolin Murphy who went 0.2 innings, walking one hitter and allowing two hits.

Howe only had three hits in the game which came from Lowder, Walker, and Montgomery.

The Bulldogs were coached by Monte Walker, Brad Murphy, and Josh Daniels. They want to thank the parents and grandparents of the players for their support throughout the years.

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Williams man-to-man defense concept and offense-wise lots of guys coming off of screens,” said Forsythe. “If we’re strong in shooting, we’ll be a shooting team. I don’t see much height so it’s going to be hard to throw it in to the post some.” Forsythe said he has been fortunate to normally have a 6’-8 or 6’-10 player.

The stressed that his players would play disciplined on the court with a strong defense.

“I’ve always been told our defense is hard to play against,” said Forsythe. “It’ll be a tight defense and a help defense. We’ll give you the open shot and if you can it it, we’ll pat you on the bottom and we’ll take a step out further towards you the next time. We’re going to protect the paint and it’s going to be hard to get into the middle for sure. If you can’t play defense, you’re not going to win.” He says that there’s quite a bit of difference in the style of basketball from North Carolina to Texas. There are more set plays in North Carolina and hard-nosed defense.

“From what I’ve seen in Texas so far is a lot of people like to run four and five outs on offense and kind dribble-drive type of stuff,” said Forsythe. “In North Carolina, you wouldn’t see that a whole lot in the upper level. You’re going to see a lot of people coming off of screens.”

Maybe the best player Forsythe has coached is the recent Columbia grad and Duke transfer Patrick Tape. The 6’10, 232-pound Tape averaged 11.3 points for Columbia in his final season. He originally committed to Duke over a final four that also included Syracuse, USC and Ohio State. But then de-committed to Duke which sparked Georgetown to also become interested. But Tape recommitted to Duke which pleased his former high school coach.

Jay Forsythe (left) with his former player Patrick Tape (middle). Photo from Twitter.

“He was a great player for us and I’m so proud of what he’s been able to accomplish,” said Forsythe.

Forsythe will also coach football and track along with basketball. He was a defensive end in college football, but will be working with running backs in football.

He and his wife Erin have four children. The oldest is a boy named Bear who will be in sixth grade at Howe Middle School. They have three daughters which will be in kindergarten, second grade, and fourth grade.

The Howe Bulldogs will return seniors Cameron Lankford, Noah Campbell, Kolby Taylor, Jake Fabacher with juniors Luke Lopez, Ethan Lopez, and Eli Wilson. Howe will also bring back sophomore point guard Austin Haley.

Howe’s big man might be senior Kolby Taylor. Photo by Michelle Carney.

Band members lineup for fun games to begin the camp before getting down to business. Staff photo.

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are allowed to begin working on their actual contest show on August 1 and band camps all over the state of Texas are gearing up the week prior to that with marching fundamentals, music and colorguard choreography. However, on Tuesday, July 21 the University Interscholastic League (UIL) announced that all bands, class 1A-6A, would see their seasons pushed back over a month and sent band directors scrambling to revamp schedules and plans for the season. began on July 26-27 with colorguard members coming in to begin work on choreography, followed by percussion camp on Monday - Wednesday and then on Thursday and Friday over 70 students filled the grid, masked when necessary, temperatures checked, and socially distanced for marching fundamentals. The afternoon saw those same students divided into two blocks of sectional rehearsals on music (again following the protocols put in place by the Texas Education Agency and the UIL) followed by evenings back out on the grid.

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The Texoma Patriots will meet tomorrow evening, Tuesday, August 4, at 7 p.m. at the Elks Lodge No. 2280 in Sherman - 1713 E. FM 1417.

The speaker will be Keenan Williams, strategic initiative director for the Trump Campaign. Williams spoke at the organization’s 10 year anniversary celebration and is coming back to talk to our Grayson County community.

He is a man of God, a patriotic conservative, and a motivational speaker. The Patriots invite the entire community to join and hear about his conversion from a young man who took to the streets because he felt he had nowhere to go to become someone who finally took control of his life and, through a newly found meaning in religion, vowed to turn his life around. He is now an entrepreneur and a well-respected motivational speaker. A former inmate, he inspires others through a mentor program. He has gone from living on the streets to working for the President of the United States.

“Trump saw who I had become and didn’t care about who I was,” Williams said with a smile. “When I started subtracting all the bad people and things from my life, God started adding and multiplying.” Everyone is welcome and there is no charge to attend the event.