SPORTS
Lady Rabbits open district play
The Bowie Lady Rabbits fell on the road Tuesday night in four sets 3-1.
Playing at Holliday, a program usually in the running for the district title, the struggle came in the middle sets.
Bowie started the match well and authoritative as it attacked the Lady Eagles. The Lady Rabbits controlled most of the first set. Holliday tried to make a late run to steal the set, but Bowie held on to win 25-22.
The second set was competitive the first 20 points as the score was locked at 10-10. The Lady Eagles started to pull away as their defense started to lock down.
Blockers at the net were affecting the quality of hits at the net while Holliday’s offense was quick to transition to devastating counters.
The Lady Eagles lead grew to 17-13 and 21-14, coasting to the finish to tie the match winning 25-16.
The only thing the Lady Rabbits could do was try to brush that off and move forward, but the third set saw them immediately fall behind. Holliday was up 15-5 after the first 20 points.
Bowie’s offense continued to effectively attack the Lady Eagles. While the Lady Rabbits serve-receive was relatively fine during this, Bowie just could not crack Holliday enough to keep pace.
The Lady Eagles won the set 25-15 to go up 2-1. The Lady Rabbits would have to figure something out if they wanted to have a chance to win the match in five sets, but first they would have to win the fourth set.
It was a back-and-forth affair for all of the set, with neither team able to pull ahead by more than two points at a time. With the score tied at 20-20, it was either team’s set to win if it could catch fire down the stretch.
It looked like Bowie was going to pull it off. Up 23-22, Holliday would not go away easily as the scores were tied at 25-25.
With the set going to the first team to pull ahead by two points, the Lady Rabbits had two chances to win the set, but the Lady Eagles came back to win the next point both times.
Eventually Holliday pulled away by the two points to win the set 29-27 and win the match overall.
Bowie plays its first home district game at 6 p.m. on Sept. 15 against Henrietta.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.
The Nocona Lady Indians beat Saint Jo at home on Saturday morning.
The Lady Indians won 16-1 after four innings due to run-rule against the smaller school.
Nocona was coming off a competitive loss at Collinsville earlier in the week while the Lady Panthers were hoping to compete after a busy week of their athletes doing everything else besides just softball.
The Lady Indians easily won the first matchup between the teams in March, 19-2 and it was more of the same on Saturday.
Saint Jo struck first to start the game off well. Jordyn O’Neal hit a one out single. Krista Reeves followed with a walk after O’Neal had stolen second base and had advanced to third thanks to an error trying to throw her out. A wild pitch then allowed her to score to put the Lady Panthers up 1-0.
The lead did not last long. Nocona’s first two batters drew walks which set up Abby Hill to drive them both in with a single to right field.
Despite giving up a single and a walk later in the inning, Saint Jo’s defense did not allow another run. A line out and groundout to the shortstop while picking off a runner attempting to steal got the Lady Panthers out of the inning unscarred.
The Lady Indians led 2-1.
That was about as competitive as it got. In the second inning, Nocona’s bats got going. Two singles and a hit batter loaded the bases up with no outs.
Reagan Phipps drew a walk that drove in a run. Hill hit another two RBI single. Skye Kirby followed with a two RBI double.
After the first out, Allie Sutton drove in one run with a single. There was a fly out for out two, before a runner came in to score after a passed ball. Finally, an error allowed two more runs to score on the base paths.
Nocona had scored nine runs and led 11-1 to break the game open heading into the third inning.
Taylor Patrick hit a double, with O’Neal and Reeves following with singles. Unfortunately for Saint Jo, Patrick was thrown out before the hits attempting to steal a base so the Lady Panthers scored no runs from this.
The Lady Indians kept pouring on the runs. Two singles and a walk loaded the bases up with no outs. Tinley Cable then hit an RBI single. Shelby Swell was hit by a pitch that drove in another run.
After two strikeouts, Evelyn Marquez drove in two more runs on a double to put Nocona up 15-1, coming up one run short of ending the game early.
The Lady Indians scored that one run in the fourth inning. After Phipps drew a leadoff walk, Hill hit a triple that drove her in to end the game.
Nocona won 16-1.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
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