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Bowie loses play-in game 71-63

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The Bowie Lady Rabbits lost their play-in game on Monday against Holliday.
The Lady Eagles won the third game between the teams 71-63 to secure the second seed in the district while Bowie now has the third seed.
With surprises out the window after two games played, with the Lady Rabbits winning the first game 49-48 at home before losing at Holliday 66-56, it came down to which team executed the best.
Bowie came in undersized at almost every position against the Lady Eagles starting five and knew keeping Holliday from scoring in the paint and dominating the offensive glass was key to victory.
Creating havoc with the full-court press to score off turnovers and making open shots from the perimeter would be critical as well.
The first quarter was a scoring blur for both teams. The Lady Rabbits press did its job of speeding up the game, but it was a double-edged sword.
The Lady Eagles did a good job of breaking through and capitalizing on scoring before the defense could get back.
Bowie did a good job of keeping up, making four 3-pointers in the quarter and never letting Holliday get too comfortable. The Lady Rabbits trailed 20-18 heading into the second quarter.
Bowie went away from its press defense and the pace grinded to a halt for both teams playing mostly in the half court. Despite the Lady Eagles size advantage and the team trying to use it by shooting around the basket, the Lady Rabbits did their best to make every basket tough.
On the other side of the court, Bowie’s offense seemed to dry up as well, with the team making only one field goal in the second quarter. With the physical nature of the game combined with the slow pace, the teams combined to score only 13 points after scoring 38 in the first quarter.
The Lady Rabbits still trailed at halftime, but was down only one basket 27-24.
Things picked up again on both sides in the third quarter. Bowie was more successful driving to the basket, picking up some more free throw attempts after drawing only four in the first half.
The Lady Rabbits decided to employ the press defense as a surprise a couple of times during the quarter, which worked a bit better when Holliday did not see it coming.
The Lady Eagles still kept their lead though, getting a big boost from post player Bree Zellers, who scored 12 of her team’s 19 points in the quarter.
At one point it looked like Holliday was poised to pull away by double-digits, but Bowie cut the lead down to 46-39 heading into the fourth and final quarter.
The first two minutes saw the Lady Eagles extend their lead to double-digits 52-42. The Lady Rabbits cut the lead all the way to 56-52 in the next three minutes thanks to forcing some turnovers with the press back on.
From there Holliday did a better job of running the clock and making free throws to go up 64-52 with less than two minutes to play. Two quick baskets, including one off a turnover thanks to the press, cut the lead to 64-57 with 1:36 left to play.
Another sequence like that would make it a one basket game if Bowie could get some stops.
Unfortunately, Holliday was a bit more careful with the ball and forced the Lady Rabbits to send them to the free throw line. The team made enough down the stretch to hold off the Bowie charge as Holliday won 71-63.

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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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