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The post play by Eli Wilson (32) and Zak Defrange (10) have been catalysts

of the 7-game winning streak. Photos by Michelle Carney.

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team has clinched the playoffs since May 2018 when the Howe Bulldogs baseball team lost in the first round to Whitesboro. (Editor’s note—we incorrectly mentioned in a previous article that it was the 2017-18 basketball team that last reached the playoffs).

On Friday at Bells, Howe immediately found themselves trailing 13-0 at the 3:52 mark in the first quarter. Jacob Campbell hit two free throws to get Howe on the board which was the start of a 46-18 run to knock down Bells by a final of 46-31.

Howe vs. Bells

Howe vs. Leonard

District 11-3A Standings

Leonard 11-2* (*clinched) Bells 10-3* Howe 9-4* Blue Ridge 6-7 Pottsboro 6-7 Gunter 6-7 Bonham 3-10 Whitewright 1-12 The X(extra) Y(years) of Z(zest) group of First Baptist Church Howe met recently for their regular monthly meeting. The program was an informative, interesting, and inspirational presentation by Doug Shelley talking about his gospel ministry with the Navajo and other Native Americans in New Mexico. As one way of ministering to the Native Americans, he collects and delivers, 4 or 5 times a year, tons of beans, flour, rice, blankets, and clothing to them. He helps to distribute goods, preach the gospel, train preachers, and witness to the people in the various communities and small churches.

Most recently Doug has made a trip to deliver clothing to help the people devastated in recent Alabama tornadoes.

Doug and his wife, Cindy, who are FB Howe Missionaries, are very appreciative of all the donations of food, clothing, and money that are made to their ministry. Doug attested to that fact as he told how God provided for a much needed new vehicle battery through gift cards he had received from friends in various Texas churches.

A Campbell layup, an Austin Haley 3pointer, a Luke Lopez 3-pointer brought the game to 15-12 at the end of the first quarter.

To being the second quarter, Howe’s Eli Wilson scored a bucket on an inbound play to bring Howe within one point. Haley shot a left elbow jumper to give Howe the lead for the first time. But Bells answered back and jumped back to a 5-point lead at 21-16. But Haley again hit a jumper, Cooper Jones hit a jumper, and a Wilson layup put Howe up again at 22-21.

As the teams continued to go back and forth, Campbell hit Jones with a beautiful left-handed pass underneath for an easy bucket. Moments later Luke Lopez scored on a fast break to give Howe what eventually became a 2623 halftime lead.

Howe opened with a 3-point play by Lopez and a 3-pointer by Campbell which would serve as the early dagger to the Panthers.

Howe, who uses their suffocating defense to win games, allowed only eight points in the entire second half.

Campbell led all scorers with 17 points and also had six rebounds and six assists. Luke Lopez added 13 points and Austin Haley contributed seven. Other scorers were Jones (5), and Wilson (4). Jones and Wilson had six rebounds.

On Friday night, the 11-1 Leonard Tigers came marching into “The Ranch” on Ponderosa and quickly learned that the Bulldogs were a different team than the one that previously defeated them with 46-43 with Howe only having seven players. Since that night, Howe has reeled off 7-straight wins allowing opponents only 32.14 points per game while scoring 45.57. The difference in Howe during the streak has been the outstanding post play from Wilson, Zak Defrange, and (Continued on page 6)

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Howe’s Jacob Campbell guarded tightly by Leonard’s D.J. Brown. Photo by Michelle Carney.

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Jones. Each of those have contributed mightily in their own way using their different strengths of their game.

Leonard’s defensive tactic was to match up the overly athletic D.J. Brown against Howe’s leading scorer Campbell. The matchup was amazing to watch as two great players went 1-on-1 for all but a few minutes when Brown had to leave the game due to early foul trouble. Campbell never left the floor and Brown’s high energy defense had Campbell working on fumes in the fourth period. But Campbell had just enough fumes to push over the hump as Howe finished with a 54-39 win.

Howe controlled the game from beginning to end. The Dogs jumped out to an 11-3 lead which prompted a timeout by the Tigers. Wilson had seven rebounds in the first period, five of which were on the offensive side.

Leonard would not go away quietly early and fought back to an 11-8 score at the end of the first quarter. Luke Lopez began the second quarter scoring with a 3-pointer . Moments later, Haley followed with one of his own and the Dogs stormed out of the second in full force. Jones made huge contributions on both ends of the floor during the second and Howe took a 27 -22 lead into intermission.

After the half, Howe completely controlled the game as Campbell attacked the basket and shot 15-of-16 at the line on the night with most coming late in the game. He finished with 26 points for the Bulldogs and added seven rebounds. No other Howe player reached double digits in points as Lopez reached eight, Jones had six, Haley tallied six, Defrange had five, Wilson had two. Wilson led Howe with eight rebounds while Campbell had seven.

Howe will host Whitewright Tuesday at 7:30 pm at The Ranch. The 48-33 win over the Tigers on Jan. 21 began the winning streak.

The Bulldogs are selling playoff tshirts. Those interested in ordering have until Feb.16. Shirts will be available on Feb. 18. The link to order a shirt is here. https://specialtsprinting.com/howebasketball/shop/home

Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar announced recently he will send cities, counties, transit systems and special purpose taxing districts $1.22 billion in local sales tax allocations for February, 16.4 percent more than in February 2021. These allocations are based on sales made in December by businesses that report tax monthly; October, November, and December sales by quarterly filers; and 2021 sales by businesses that report tax annually.

In Howe, the total came to $56,677.50 which is a record high for any month in the city’s history. The previous high water mark was set in October 2020 at $55,011.32. The total on the early year for Howe is $99,267.75.

City

Sherman Denison aGainesville Celina Melissa Anna Van Alstyne Bonham Whitesboro Gunter Pottsboro

Howe

Whitewright Leonard Collinsville Southmayd Bells Tioga Tom Bean Oak Ridge Savoy Ector Dorchester

Jan. 2022

$2,944,550.06 $953,910.97 $863,887.55 $684,440.94 $577,295.98 $552,138.06 $290,419.16 $269,488.99 $210,183.42 $160,200.19 $79,032.95

$56,677.50

$54,196.47 $44,287.13 $37,027.98 $31,169.31 $30,402.95 $26,556.94 $14,195.60 $11,832.99 $8,084.41 $3,498.76 $1,147.60

City

Sherman Denison Gainesville Celina Anna Melissa Van Alstyne Bonham Whitesboro Gunter Pottsboro

Howe

Whitewright Leonard Collinsville Bells Tioga Southmayd Tom Bean Oak Ridge Savoy Ector Dorchester

Total 2021

$5,283,937.29 $1,942,910.90 $1,500,588.09 $1,328,030.50 $1,035,693.68 $979,271.81 $584,168.92 $481,713.06 $354,866.34 $309,540.49 $151,653.66 $99,267.75 $97,029.68 $82,608.14 $66,109.94 $53,031.73 $52,524.32 $48,478.26 $26,010.98 $23,283.74 $13,714.08 $6,972.07 $2,104.76

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Logan Nitchman, a seventhgrader from Howe Middle School, Jude Christman, a fourthgrader from Howe Intermediate School, and Rosanna Kim, an eighthgrader from Sherman Middle School, were the last three standing at the end of the tenth round.

The three went head-to-head for the next 3 rounds, spelling words such asmisconception,windbaggery, andlexicon. Finally, Logan defeated his competition by correctly spellingdim sumandvulpine, and he was declared the 2022 Grayson County Spelling Champion.

After a spell off between the two runners up, it was determined that Rosanna Kim would be the alternate if Logan is unable to compete in the next round of competition.

The Dallas Regional Spelling Bee will be held on Saturday, March 19, and will be televised on WFAA. The The top two winners of the Dallas Regional Spelling Bee advance to the National Spelling Bee to be held in June, and Logan is already studying hard to be one of those top spellers.

Logan Nitchman is not a newcomer to spelling bees. In the 2020/2021 school year, he also won the Howe Middle School bee and advanced to the Grayson County Bee. It appears that experience, as well as strong study habits, pay off.

The Scripps National Spelling Bee is the nation’s largest and longestrunning educational program, having launched in 1925. The purpose of the Scripps National Spelling Bee is to help students improve their spelling, increase their vocabularies, learn concepts, and develop correct English usage that will help them all their lives. Visitspellingbee.comfor more information about the Scripps National Spelling Bee, which is administered on a not-for-profit basis by The E. W. Scripps Company.

Bulldogs football schedule

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The final game of the season will be at Lone Oak on Nov. 4.

The non-district schedule will begin Aug. 26 at Honey Grove followed by three consecutive home games with Tom Bean, Commerce, and Tioga. The final non-district game will be at S&S.

Howe will have six home games in 2022, but that means they will have six road games in 2023.

The Bulldogs will begin with two scrimmages against Whitewright and Scurry-Rosser with dates and times to be determined.