SPORTS

Lady Rabbits run out of steam at Holliday

Published

2 years ago

01/20/2021

The Bowie Lady Rabbits lost a tough game at Holliday on Friday to lose their second district game.
The Lady Eagles pulled away in the final minutes of a close a game to win 66-56.
The beginning of the game saw the Lady Rabbits come out shooting great from beyond the arc. Against Holliday’s zone defense, Bowie made four 3-pointers.
The Lady Rabbits were trying to show different looks on defense from possession to possession, sometime pressing and sometimes not. What the Lady Eagles did establish was grabbing offensive rebounds.
This created multiple chances, including high percentage shots around the rim as Holliday’s size on the front line proved to be a problem.
It was a close first half. Bowie trailed 19-16 after the first quarter and fell a little further behind at halftime 36-31.
The Lady Rabbits found more lanes to the basket in the third quarter as the game picked up in intensity a bit. Bowie would tie the score or get within one, but multiple times the Lady Eagles would come right back and make a crucial 3-pointer to gain momentum right back.
The game was still close heading into the fourth quarter, with the Lady Rabbits hanging around trailing 51-47.
Bowie started to try and press on defense, cutting the lead to 51-49 early in the quarter. Unfortunately, Holliday did a good job of avoiding crucial mistakes and forcing fouls. Even when the action got crazy with a loose ball, the Lady Eagles always seemed to come out on top during this time.
Maybe because the defense wore them out or because the game was slipping away, but Bowie’s offense struggled to make any baskets in the quarter. The Lady Rabbits did get to the free throw line seven times and made them all, but only made one basket.
It wasn’t enough to keep up with the Lady Eagles, whose lead grew to eight and then 10 points during the quarter.
With both of Bowie’s leading scorers Abbi Gamblin and Jayci Logan fouling out in the final two minutes, there was little hope left.
Holliday made enough free throws down the stretch to win by double-digits 66-56.

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

SPORTS

Jackrabbit golfers struggle at Abilene

Published

3 days ago

03/25/2023

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By Jordan Neal
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The Bowie boys golf team competed at the Diamondback National Golf Course in Abilene for a big tournament on Monday.
Coach Matthew Miller did not report what place the team got, but indicated the tournament was both big and deep of players and schools from bigger schools than the team usually competes with.
The team’s total was not its best, but it was not far off what it has been shooting, but for this tournament that was not enough to finish as high as it usually does.
Cy Egenbacher led the team shooting 80. Zac Harris was one shot behind shooting 87. Rayder Mann and Andrew Sandhoff rounded off the team’s scoring shooting 87 and 89 for a 337 total.
Hunter Fluitt shot 106 for the team, but it did not count towards it.
Hunter Lea competed as an individual and ended up shooting 85.
Miller thought his players had trouble stringing good holes together.
The bump in the competition has hopefully prepared the team for the district tournament next week. The Bowie Lady Rabbits team spent time at the district course this week instead of competing in a tournament.
It is scheduled for a two-day tournament on March 29-30 at River Creek Golf Course in Burkburnett.

SPORTS

Bowie boys, girls compete at different track meets

Published

3 days ago

03/25/2023

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By Jordan Neal
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The Bowie track teams went to two different meets this week with the boys going to Jacksboro and the girls competing at City View.
The Bowie boy’s team finished fourth overall while the Lady Rabbits team standing was not shared.
The Jackrabbits changed meets to Wednesday to allow any powerlifting boys the chance to compete since five were going to the state meet and it would have conflicted with Thursday’s original meet at City View.
Bowie came away with two first place finishes.
For the Lady Rabbits competing at City View, Neely Price and Amylee Valdez had the best individual finishes.

Read the full story in the weekend Bowie News.

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Bowie Jackrabbits’ baseball takes district win against Vernon in final two innings

Published

3 days ago

03/25/2023

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By Jordan Neal
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The Bowie Jackrabbit baseball team came on in the fifth and sixth innings to steal the win from Vernon at home on Tuesday night.
The Jackrabbits scored six runs in their final two innings to pull ahead 7-5 against the Lions.
Bowie came into the game following a disappointing loss to Iowa Park the previous week which meant it was at 1-1 in district play so far. Vernon came into the game with two losses against Jacksboro and Holliday, the Lions had only lost to the reigning district champ Eagles 2-1 with Cross Durham on the mound.
Vernon started him on Tuesday and Bowie answered with freshman Edmond DeLeon, who despite his age has been the best pitcher this season for the Jackrabbits.
DeLeon got off to a rough start in the opening inning. The Lions loaded the bases after a single and two walks with one out. Next batter hit a double to left field that scored two runs to put Vernon up 2-0.
DeLeon had runners at third and second, but struck out the next batter and induced an infield pop out to shortstop for out three to limit the damage.