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With only one win between the teams before heading into the game Friday night, the winner would guarantee a playoff spot as Gold-Burg hosted Forestburg on senior night.
It was a back and forth, one-score game for most of the night until the Longhorns got a clutch stop in the fourth quarter to pull away, winning 39-27.
The two teams played earlier in September with no district ramifications. Forestburg won that game 75-26 and was hoping Friday night’s game would come just as easy despite knowing the stakes would be higher and the Bears that more motivated.
Gold-Burg kicked-off and was able to recover the onside kick. Lacking the size to run straight at the Longhorns, the Bears opted for some quick passes and outside runs that were not effective or missed their mark on the first drive.
Forestburg forced a turnover on downs and drove down the field easily, scoring on a short pass from Braxton Osteen to Tony Smith to go up 7-0.
Gold-Burg then took possession and let Will Hodges loose to do his scrambling magic. He bought time and hit Kolton Whitaker for a big gain down to the Longhorns’ goal line. Hodges eventually connected with Whitaker again on a short pass for the touchdown, tying the score at 7-7.
The Bears’ defense then stepped up, forcing a turnover on downs at midfield as Forestburg’s offense struggled to connect on passes. The Longhorns defense then stepped up as James Stokes intercepted a pass deep in his own territory to stop another promising Gold-Burg possession.
The Bear’s defense again came up big, limiting a Forestburg offense that was all out of sorts, forcing another turnover on downs to start the second quarter.
Gold-Burg’s offense again drove the ball down the field little by little with the mad scrambling of Hodges as no Longhorns rusher could consistently corral him by themselves. Hodges finished the drive with a short touchdown run, making the score 13-7.
After several frustraiting drives, Forestburg’s offense got some big plays going as big Zach Bradley rumbled his way for a 24-yard touchdown run. The successful conversion put the Longhorns ahead again 14-13.
Wanting to score before heading into halftime, but not wanting to leave too much time, Gold-Burg’s offense kind of meandered around midfield. Forestburg was starting to send multiple guys at Hodges while shadowing his check down targets.
With a little more than a minute left and facing fourth and long, Hodges bought time and found Kani Grace open down the field, who took it in for the touchdown to complete a 44-yard touchdown. The failed conversion put the Bears up 19-14.
With Gold-Burg receiving the ball to start the second half, Forestburg needed a response and fast. Opting to kick the ball a bit deeper, the Longhorn’s Levi Balthrop still returned the ball past midfield.
Bradley then went deep to Stokes for a 33-yard touchdown pass with 36 seconds left to take the lead 21-19 into halftime.
The Bears recovered the second half kick-off. Gold-Burg scraped for every yard it got on the drive as several times Forestburg’s defense looked like it might get a stop just before the Bears would pull off a first down.
In the red zone and facing fourth down, Hodges found Grace again for a touchdown. Gold-Burg converted on the kick to take a 27-21 lead.
The Longhorns came right back and scored quickly as Bradley capped off the drive with a 10-yard touchdown run. They missed the conversion as the score was tied 27-27 heading into the fourth quarter.
The Bears were driving down the field again hoping to retake the lead. Inside its own 20-yard line, Forestburg forced and recovered a fumble. The Longhorns moved the ball down and Bradley scored from 12 yards out to give Forestburg a 33-27 lead.
Thanks to a couple of killer penalties, Gold-Burg’s offense moved down the field again and got ball inside the five-yard line on first and goal. The Longhorn’s defense held up during the goal line stand and forced a turnover on downs with a little more than six minutes to go in the game.
After gaining some yards things almost went bad for Forestburg. An errant snap to Bradley almost forced the team back another 15 yards that would have made a first down tough. Bradley recovered and threw an incomplete pass, but saved the team from losing all of those yards.
Unfortunately for the Longhorns, Bradley broke his glasses on the play.
With no backup pair, it looked like Bradley might have to play with his vision impaired. Instead he came to the sideline, taped up his glasses with tape provided by the trainer and missed only one play.
Operating out of a power running set, Forestburg gave Bradley the ball as a running back to run time off the clock. A couple of carries later he broke a run for a 45-yard touchdown to put the Longhorns up 39-27 with 2:47 left to play.
The Bears offense was out of the magic it had for most of the game as their next drive ended with a turnover on downs near midfield. Forestburg kneeled the ball to end the game.

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

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Bowie softball season comes to an end

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The Bowie Lady Rabbits came up just short of winning their final game at City View on Friday.
The Lady Mustangs held off a furious Lady Rabbits rally in the seventh inning to scrape out a win 11-10.
Bowie was entering the game knowing it was the last game of the season no matter what so it came out loose and ready.
The Lady Rabbits took control early. Chloe Kinney scored due to an error trying to pick her off. Sage Gossett hit a single that drove in one run and an error on the throw allowed another run to score.
Several batters later, Beau Combs and Victoria Cox both hit RBI singles to make it 5-0 for Bowie.
The Lady Mustangs scored two runs to make cut the lead to 5-2 after the first inning.
Bowie scored one run in the second inning when Serenity Klump was able to score from third base due to an error by the catcher. City View equaled that run in the same inning with an RBI double.
After the teams exchanged scoreless innings in the third and fourth, things picked up in the fifth inning.
Kaylie Kinney hit an RBI double with two outs to extend Bowie’s lead to 7-3.
The Lady Mustangs answered with a huge inning to get back in the game. Three singles and two errors allowed City View to score four runs and tie the score up at 7-7.
After the Lady Rabbits offense could not get anything going in the sixth inning, the Lady Mustangs picked up where they left off.
Five straight singles, one walk and a passed ball allowed City View to score four more runs to take the lead 11-7 heading into the final inning.
With Bowie down to its last three outs of the season, the team buckled up to get something going.
Cox hit a one out double. Chloe Kinney followed with a single that drove her in. After a strikeout and Kinney advancing to second base after a passed ball, Klump drove her in with a double.
After a walk, Gossett came through and hit a single that drove in one more run to cut City View’s lead to one run.
With the tying run in scoring position, Bowie was in good condition but was also down to its last out.
Unfortunately, the next batter struck out looking to end the game and the Lady Rabbits season.
City View won 11-10.

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Bowie girls golf competes at regionals

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The Bowie Lady Rabbits finished ninth at last week’s regional golf tournament. (Photo by Tiffany Egenbacher)

While the Bowie boy’s golf team qualified for the state tournament, several other area teams and athletes competed last week at the regional tournament.
The Bowie girl’s team finished ninth while Prairie Valley and Bellevue girl teams placed ninth and 10th.
The Lady Rabbits played at the Shady Oaks course in Baird. Miley Thompson shot the lowest two-day total, shooting 94-95 for 189 and finishing tied for 30th individually.
Tess Egenbacher not far behind, shooting 99-94 for 193 total and finishing tied for 34th. Emily Cueva shot 104-99 for 203 total and placed 44th. Emma Read shot 107-104 for 211 total and got 57th. Kendall Fallis shot 106-115 for 221 total to finishing tied for 68.
The Prairie Valley and Bellevue girl teams played at the Mount Pleasant Country Club.
The first day scores were not as good as usual, but conditions were much improved on day two. The Lady Bulldogs improved their score by 51 strokes to jump ahead of the Lady Eagles, who posted nearly identical scores on both days.
Prairie Valley was led by Linzie Priddy who shot 131-115 for a 246 total. Avaree Woodyard shot 139-121 for a 260 total. Renee Stout shot 138-131 for a 269 total. Abbie Pepper shot 143-134 to combine for 277.
For Bellevue, Cirsten Allen shot 131-124 for a total of 255 that led the team. Callie Martin shot 126-134 for a 260 total. Karis Denson shot 135-147 to total 282. Patience Ramsey shot 154-134 to get 288.
There were two individual boy players who competed at regionals.
From Nocona, Johnny Stone played at the Old Brickyard course in Ferris.
The conditions on day one were good, but rain and wind affected his scores a bit on day two. He shot 84-92 for a total of 176.
From Saint Jo, Julian Luna competed in the boy’s tournament at Mount Pleasant. He shot 116-113 for a total of 229.

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Montague County sending 14 to state meet

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Bowie's Tucker Jones qualified for state in the 110 meter hurdles with a time of 14.73. (Photo by Cassie McFadden)

The regional track meets started on Friday and ended on Monday due to bad weather on day two. Montague County has 14 athletes who qualified for the state meet from six different schools.
Bowie competed at the 3A region I meet at Abilene Christian University. Nocona competed at the 2A region II meet at Springtown High School. All of the 1A schools competed in the region III meet at the University of North Texas.
The Jackrabbits have Tucker Jones heading back to the state meet for the second straight year in the 110 meter hurdles. He did it dramatic fashion.
Only the top two finishers in each event automatically qualify for the state meet. The one wildcard qualifier is the best of all third place finishers in the four regions.
Jones ran a personal best time of 14.73 seconds, which was not only the fastest time out of all the third place finishers, but was just six hundredths of a second faster than fourth place runner from Peaster in his race.
At Nocona, Graci Brown qualified in three of the four events she competed at state last year. Brown won the 400 meters, finished second in the 800 meters and elected to skip the long jump this year.
She anchored the 4×400 relay along with Ava Johnson, Ayden Patton and Meg Meekins. The team finished in third place, but like Jones got the wildcard spot with its time of 4:05 to qualify for state again.
At the 1A meet, there were several athletes who qualified for state after the first day of competition due to scheduling.
From Forestburg, Brenna Briles won the high jump by clearing 5-1. Reagan Ladewig finished second in the shot put with a throw of 32-10.
From Gold-Burg, Isaac Renteria qualified for the 3200 meter race for the second straight year. He finished third with a time of 10:19, also getting the wildcard position.
From Saint Jo, Damon Byrd won the long jump and got second in the triple jump. He jumped 21-3 in the long jump and 42-5 in the triple jump.
A few days later during the the running finals, Byrd would join the 4×200 meter relay team along with Blaine Penaluna, Devin Stewart and Lee Yeley that finished second with a time 1:33 to qualify for state.
From Prairie Valley, Linzie Priddy would earn her first state track appearance by finishing second in the 800 meter race with a time of 2:33, less than a second ahead of third place from Blum.

To read the full story and also see results for all area athletes who competed at the regional meets, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.

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