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Bowie opens district with win

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The Bowie Jackrabbits started off district play hosting City View on Friday.
Playing the athletic and pressing Mustangs, the Jackrabbits put together one of their best efforts of the season to win 73-62.
With a week to prepare and coming off playing a tough non-district schedule featuring many teams from bigger classifications or that are held in high regard, Bowie was ready to play a district team more on its level.
The Mustangs came in with a solid record (13-5) and a hope its dream season in football would carry over into the basketball season. The program has continued to trend upward with playoff berths each of the past three seasons.
The first quarter was up and down as the Jackrabbits created several transition opportunities and took advantage. City View stayed right with Bowie though as its press created opportunities as well for easy scores.
Fouls were freely given out to both teams early and foul trouble cropped up. The Jackrabbits lead was a small 15-13 heading into the second quarter.
Similar play continued as Bowie executed its offense while the Mustangs made some shots while also having moments their press got to the Jackrabbits. Bowie’s lead did not waiver, but it never grew to the size of being comfortable. At halftime the Jackrabbits led 28-24.
The third quarter saw Bowie really separate. Transition opportunities became more abundant off turnovers and rebounds while the Jackrabbits were making shots. Bowie opened up a double-digit lead by the end of the third quarter as it scored 21 points, leading 49-35.
Early in the fourth quarter, City View charged back. The Mustangs scored the quarter’s first eight points in the first three minutes as their press created quick scoring chances.
The Jackrabbits were also dealt a blow as starter Trevor Vann fouled out, who had scored 10 points in the game. With its lead down to 49-43, a starter out, a City View team with momentum and plenty of time left Bowie could have started to panic.
A turning point came when the Mustangs got a clean steal and their player tried to dunk it. The score would have cut the lead to four and the dunk would have sent the City View bench into a frenzy.
Instead he missed and the Jackrabbits came down to score on their next two trips to up their lead to 53-46.
The Mustangs would not give up as they did cut the lead to 55-51 with three minutes still to play. Bowie continued to score at a good clip though as the team attempted 13 free throws in the quarter alone, making 10 of them.
Cade Thompson eventually fouled out late for the Jackrabbits, but not before he scored nine of his 17 points in the fourth quarter.
As the Jackrabbits continued to knock down free throws, the hot shooting from City View ran out of gas. Thanks to the good free throw shooting, Bowie would win by double-digits 73-62.
Bowie will have a tough first full week with a game at Holliday earlier in the week before hosting the county rival Indians at 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 24.

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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.

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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.

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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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