Bulldogs baseball

Bulldogs players stand for the anthem before Tuesday’s game at Gunter. Photo by Carla Burnett.

The Howe Bulldogs fall to a 5-13 record on the season including 06 in district play. Due to COVID shortening the season to one game a year ago, Howe hasn’t won a district game since the final game of the 2019 season. The Bulldogs were swept this week by a very good Gunter Tigers team who improves to 18-4 and 5-1 in district action.

On Tuesday, Howe was 5-hit by Cooper Wade who went all five innings. Wade finished with five strikeouts and no walks and one earned run allowed. Howe’s lone run in the 10-1 loss came in the top of the third inning when sophomore Ryan Hough doubled home Brett Burnett who singled to open the inning.

Dylan Hughs collected two hits in the game including a double. Luke Lopez also singled in the game.

Hughs was the starter on the hill and lasted only 1.1 innings, giving up three earned runs on three walks, and one hit. He was spelled by Matt Hayes who went 2.2 innings, giving up five earned runs on eight hits. He walked one and struck out one.

Carson Daniels pitched the final two-thirds of the game and getting both outs in only nine pitches.

On Friday, the pitching matchup of Parker Pecina and Isaac Villanueva was much anticipated. But it was Villanueva who went the distance holding Howe to only three baserunners the entire game. The Tiger lefthander pounded the strike zone for 28 of 31 first-pitch strikes to Howe batters. He gave up one hit to Austin Haley in the first inning and blanked the Dogs from that point on. Luke Catching and Ethan Lopez each drew the rare walk from Villanueva, but Howe was unable to capitalize on the baserunners as Howe struck out 10 times in the game. Every Bulldog with exception of Hughs went down on strikes to Villanueva.

The game was scoreless heading into the third inning and Gunter took a 1-0 lead in the third. It remained 1-0 heading to the fourth with a pitching duel in full force. However, Gunter knocked out Pecina in the fourth and put up seven runs in the next three innings. Pecina went 3.1 innings allowing two earned runs on five hits. He was relieved by Burnett who left with arm tightness after 1.2 innings allowing two earned runs. Hughs was wild walking three and allowing three runs.

Howe vs. Gunter

Howe at Gunter

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Howe to send multiple track athletes to the area meet

The Howe girls 4x200 relay team of (L-R) Sydney Rector, Hannah Dwyer, Teagan Stubblefield, and Kendall Griffin finished fourth and will head to the area track meet. Photo by Michelle Carney.

The Howe track program had a good district meet in Pottsboro last Thursday and Friday. Prelims and field events took place on Thursday where freshman Cooper Jones placed first in the shotput in his first varsity meet. Jones’ throw was 40’-1.5”. The same day, senior Hannah Dwyer won first place in the triple jump with a leap of 33’-9.75”. Also finishing as district champs were Jake Fabacher and Marissa Agee who took first place in two separate events. Fabacher finished first in the 1600 meters with a time of 4:57.42 and won the 800 meters with a time of 2:12.30. Agee won first in the 800 meters at 2:35.23 and won the 400 meters with a time of 59.72.

Those also qualifying for the area meet were 4x200 girls relay team of Sydney Rector, Kendall Griffin, Teagan Stubblefield, and Hannah Dwyer who combined for a fourth place time of 1:53.32.

Rector, Dwyer, Stubblefield, and Agee finished third in the 4x400 relay with a time of 4:18.87.

Senior Noah Campbell qualified for area in discus as he finished second with a toss of 112’-1”. finished fourth in the 100 meters with a time of 11.53.

It was a great performance by Howe individuals, but no school records fell.

The area track meet is scheduled for April 15 with the location to be determined.

Jake Fabacher won the 800 meters at 2:12.30. Photo by Michelle Carney.

Freshman Kendall Griffin finished third in the triple jump at 33’-2.25” and senior Jordan Jones

Marissa Agee won the 800meters at 2:35.23. Photo by Michelle Carney.

is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith. More than that, we are then found to be false witnesses about God, for we have testified about God that he raised Christ from the dead. But he did not raise him if in fact the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised either. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost. If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied. But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.” “If 500 people saw a dead person come to life today. Who wouldn’t know about it,?” said Moore. “It would be all over social media. It woud be the most viral thing that we can think of. You know what’s really cool? We have a book that’s telling us that story. We have a book that’s telling us the history of what happened and of what Jesus came to do for every single one of us.” At Howe Church of Christ, Pastor Toby Soechting continued with a series on attitude. The message was from Philippians 3:12 which states, “Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. All of us, then, who are mature should take such a view of things. And if on some point you think differently, that too God will make clear to you.” “We speak this morning about what the church does with her attitude. Amongst all the adversities in life, your attitude is really the only thing you can control,” said Soechting.

At New Beginning Fellowship, Pastor Brett Hetrick delivered a message entitled, “Consider Jesus.”

“This weekend, millions and millions of believers in hundreds of thousands of churches across the globe are gathered to celebrate the greatest event in history—that three days after the death of Jesus, (Continued on page 6)

a massive stone was rolled away. A tomb was empty. Christ was not there. He had risen from the dead.”

First United Methodist Church continued with their online sermon where Pastor Zach Landis preached from John 20:1-18 which states, “Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!” So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb. Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but did not go in. Then Simon Peter came along behind him and went straight into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there, as well as the cloth that had been wrapped around Jesus’ head. The cloth was still lying in its place, separate from the linen. Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed. (They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.) Then the disciples went back to where they were staying. Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus’ body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot.

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