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Lady Rabbits complete comeback win against the Lady Eagles

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In the closest game of district play so far, the Bowie Lady Rabbits on Tuesday pulled out a one point victory against Holliday in the final seconds in front of Bowie’s loudest home crowd they have played before all season.
Coming back from as many as 14 points down, the Lady Rabbits won 44-43 thanks to a made free throw from Aslyn Davis with 3.2 seconds left to play to improve to 4-0 in district play and an early look at first place.
That was the end of the game though. To start the game, the Lady Eagles came into the game with something to prove. Having lost the previous game to district favorite Nocona by the score of 61-35, Holliday came out swinging to start the game.
Quickly, Bowie’s zone defense was exploited as the Lady Eagles made two three-pointers and led 8-0 in the first two minutes. The Lady Rabbits switched to man-to-man that slowed Holliday’s offense down by limiting good looks from the perimeter.
Unfortunately, Bowie’s offense was struggling to create any goo shots against the Lady Eagles zone defense. Wanting to get the ball inside, but not able to, the Lady Rabbits ended up settling for a jump shots which is not their strength. Holliday led 12-5 heading into the second quarter.
It was more of the same in the second quarter. In every facet, Bowie was getting outplayed as the Lady Eagles lead grew. Some badly thrown steals led to easy points the other way for Holliday as the Lady Rabbits continued to struggle offensively.
It looked like the Lady Eagles were going to take a double digit 26-13 lead into halftime, but Bowie was able to score a couple quick baskets thanks to forcing steals with their press defense, something they had not been able to use since they could not score. The Lady Rabbits cut the lead under double digits, but still trailed 26-17 at halftime.
Needing a complete game turnaround not just on the court, but in energy, Bowie needed to come out of halftime and play with much more fire and passion then they played with in the first half, but early on it looked like more of the same.
Holliday made a three-pointer and scored another basket to go up 31-17 in the first minute of the third quarter. It looked like fans were about to see more of the same for another half as the Lady Rabbits let a game get away from them, but something happened.
The Lady Eagles had been sloppy with the ball all game, sometimes self inflicted, but they were the type of turnovers Bowie, who does not play too fast anyway, could take advantage of to score.
The press had been effective when they used it, but the Lady Rabbits needed to score to set it up and they never really got themselves going from using it in the first half.
Some sort of energy changed in Bowie as they executed offense to get shots they wanted to take and not settling.
They found leading scorer Hope Howard inside and when she finally got her hands on the ball, no one from Holliday could deny her from scoring. Held scoreless in the first half, Howard made up for lost time scoring a game high 13 points.
Another thing happened as the Lady Rabbits started to furiously crash the offensive glass as the Lady Eagles zone defense meant they had trouble boxing out Bowie. Some possessions for the Lady Rabbits had two, three, four shots. Then after scoring, Holliday would have to face a press defense that was playing with much more passion.
All of this led to Bowie cutting the lead to 34-30 heading into the fourth quarter with all the momentum they could want. It only took a little more than a minute to grab the lead. Midway through the fourth, the Lady Rabbits led 39-36, but the Lady Eagles would not go away. Out of a timeout, despite Coach Chuck Hall warning his team it was coming, Holliday hit a corner three-pointer to tie the game at 39-39.
From there it was on. The teams quickly traded baskets on their next two possessions as they scored from the post. Bowie took the lead on their next possession as Jayci Logan, who finished with 12 points, missed a mid-range shot but followed her shot and put on the offensive rebound to go up 43-41 with a little more than two minutes to go.
After playing defense, the Lady Rabbits were able to run a lot of time off the clock before the Lady Eagles fouled Davis. With a chance to make it a two score game, Davis missed the first free throw in the one and one scenario.
Holliday immediately pushed the ball and scored on a contested layup to tie the score 43-43 with 21 seconds left. Bowie was able to work the ball to Davis who put up a contested floater over a defender, who was called for a foul to send her to the free throw line for two shots with 3.2 seconds left, giving her a chance at redemption.
Davis missed the first shot off the back rim. With Davis’ last chance to get her team the win sans a miracle shot from the Lady Eagles, Davis swished the next free throw to give the Lady Rabbits a 44-43 lead. Holliday’s heave at the buzzer, taken just in front of the half court line from the right side, sailed wide to give Bowie the much needed win.

To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.

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Baseball Roundup

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Saint Jo vs Bellevue
The Saint Jo Panthers got out of their early season funk as they beat fellow 1A Bellevue twice last week on two different days.
The Panthers won the first high-scoring game 15-9 before shut out the Eagles 10-0 in the second game.
Saint Jo had a rough beginning to its season, with mostly ugly losses and only one win.
Bellevue came in with no wins, but it was not unexpected due to it being the Eagles first year as a program since the late 1990s.
Bellevue led the first game for most of it scoring five runs in the first inning and just holding off the Panthers 5-4 heading into the sixth inning.
Saint Jo then caught fire, scoring six runs in the sixth inning to take its first lead since the first inning. The Eagles kept it close and scored four runs to make it a one run game 10-9 heading into the final inning.
The game had to be postponed due to Bellevue’s new field not having any lights to play past a certain time.
When the game was picked up three days later, the Panthers added five more run to their lead. The Eagles could not answer and Saint Jo won the game 15-9.
Devein Stewart and Logan Hoover led the Panthers four RBIs each while Charlie Evans and R Forrester drove in two runs each.
Trent Gaston pitched 4.1 innings and allowed two runs and struck out seven batters to lead the team.
Saint Jo’s defense committed four errors.
For Bellevue, Brayden Moore led the team with three RBIs while Bryce Ramsey and Ryan Jones each drove in two runs.
Ramsey pitched five innings and allowed four runs while striking out nine batters to lead the team.
The second game picked up right after the end of the first game. Unfortunately for the Eagles, the second game went similarly to the end of first game.
Saint Jo scored three runs in the first inning, four in the second inning and three in the third inning.
The Panther defense shut out Bellevue and the game ended with Saint Jo winning 10-0 after four and half innings due to run rule.
Sam Martin led the Panthers with four RBIs while Evans drove in two runs. Stewart pitched three innings and allowed one hit and one walk while striking out six batters. Hoover pitched two innings and struck out four batters while allowing no hits and walking two batters. The team committed no fielding errors.
For Bellevue, River Trail got the only hit in the game for the team. The team drew three walks, but could not get on base.
Blake Reese led the team with two innings pitched and three earned runs on two hits and five walks while striking out two batters. The defense committed no fielding errors.

Nocona
The Nocona Indians lost their second game against Muenster on Friday on the road.
The Indians lost 10-0 after five innings due to run-rule as the Hornets picked up all of their runs in one horrible inning for Nocona.
The score was tied at 0-0 heading into the bottom of the third inning. The Indian defense had navigated one out singles the first two innings without letting it morph into anything threatening.
Unfortunately, the third inning saw Muenster get going from the first batter.
Five singles, two doubles, two walks and a hit batter later saw the Hornets score 10 runs.
Nocona’s bats had been able to get someone on base in most innings despite Walker Murphey getting the team’s only base hit, but could not get a run to score.
The Indian defense did bounce back to not allow any runs in the fourth or fifth inning, but with no runs coming through for Nocona, the game ended after five innings.
Muenster won 10-0.

To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.

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Softball Roundup

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Nocona
The Nocona Lady Indians lost at home on Friday night against Muenster.
The Lady Hornets won 9-0, with most of the damage coming in the fourth inning against the Lady Indians.
Nocona gave up two runs in the first inning, but kept the game within reach after shutting out Muenster in the second and third innings.
Then came the fourth inning. Five fielding errors and two singles contributed to the Lady Hornets scoring six runs to go up 8-0.
The Lady Indians struggled to get their bats going all game though they did get some base runners that could have been worked home with some timely plays in other games.
Muenster added one more run in the sixth inning to make the final score 9-0.

Saint Jo
The Saint Jo Lady Panthers lost a shootout at Era on Friday night.
The Lady Hornets won 25-15 in a game that ended early after six innings due to run-rule.
Saint Jo was trailing the early part of the game down 9-1 after three innings.
The Lady Panthers then had a huge offensive inning, scoring nine runs in the fourth inning to go up 10-9.
Era bounced back in the same inning and scored three runs to retake the lead 12-10, but Saint Jo then scored four runs in the fifth inning and one in the sixth inning as it lead 15-12.
The Lady Hornets then embarked on an inning from hell for the Lady Panthers, more than doubling their score and not ending until Era was up by 10 runs to end the game early.
The Lady Hornets had scored 13 runs to win 25-15.

To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.

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Nocona’s Stone signs to play football

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Nocona senior Johnny Stone, son of Chelsi and Haydan, signed his letter of intent to play football at Southwestern Assemblies of God University in Waxahachie on Monday. Stone played running back and linebacker for Nocona on varsity for three years, helping the Indians go from two wins his first season to winning 16 games the last two seasons that resulted in playoff berths and a district title this past season. Stone has also spent time playing baseball, golf, basketball and track during his four years at Nocona. “They have a great program there,” Stone said. “Their business and financing program, it is five years for a masters so I thought that was a really good choice. They have a nice indoor gym. They really focus on the relgious part of school.” Stone plans to focus on business and financing major with maybe a minior in religious beliefs.

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