SPORTS
Bowie softball team struggles
It was a tough week for the Bowie softball team playing back-to-back district games on Monday and Tuesday.
The Lady Rabbits lost at Jacksboro 17-2 while losing to Holliday at home 14-0.
Bowie started Monday’s game against the Lady Tigers well. Leadoff Traycee Stewart bunt for a hit to get on base. Addie Farris followed with an infield hit.
Alexa Holzer then drove in Stewart with a single to right field. Madison Hartin followed, grounding out to first base, but driving in Farris in the process. Bowie led 2-0.
Jacksboro’s leadoff was able to score thanks to some errors in the outfield. The Lady Rabbits then pulled an impressive double play, but the Lady Tigers were not done.
A two out double and a passed ball put a runner on third base. A dropped third allowed her to score and tie the game up at 2-2.
A walk and an error loaded the bases up, but Bowie was able to get the third out before more damage was done.
Rylie Vieth led off the second with a single for the Lady Rabbits. Unfortunately, she would remain at first as the next three batters struck out.
Jacksboro was able to load the bases with no outs thanks to two walks and one hit. After a pop out, a hit batter allowed one runner to come in and give the Lady Tigers the 3-2 lead.
Bowie’s defense then stepped up by getting the force out at home on a ground out to short and another ground out to second base to end the inning.
Layla Felts tried to get something going with two outs with a single. Nothing came of it as the next batter grounded out.
It would the beginning of the end for the Lady Rabbits as the third inning proved to be the inning from hell. Six walks, three hits, two errors and several passed balls allowed Jacksboro to score 14 runs.
The game ended due to run rule with the Lady Tigers winning 17-2.
Losing a game one run game due to one never ending inning is a hard thing for any team to try and rebound from. Bowie did not have long as it hosted Holliday on Tuesday.
The Lady Eagles struck first scoring five runs in the first inning thanks to three hits, two errors and a walk. The Lady Rabbits failed to get any runner on base as the game moved to the second inning.
Four errors and a drawn walk allowed Holliday to score four more runs to up the lead to 9-0. Bowie had a hard time getting much contact with the ball as all three batters were struck out to end the second inning.
A leadoff double followed by a fielding error and two singles allowed the Lady Eagles to score three more runs to up the lead to 12-0. The Lady Rabbits batters again had trouble making much contact, sitting down due to strikeouts.
Bowie’s defense had a great fourth inning. Pitcher Kaylie Kinney forced a ground out and struck out two batters swinging.
Unfortunately, the Lady Rabbit offense continued to struggle making much contact as all three batters struck out to end the fourth inning.
Holliday added two more runs thanks to a leadoff walk and back-to-back two out singles to extend its lead to 14-0.
Bowie would need to score five more runs to avoid losing by run rule. With two outs, Vieth singled to left field for the team’s first hit in the game. Unfortunately, it was too little too late as the next batter struck out to end the game.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.
The Bowie sports banquets was on Monday night. Olivia Gill and Tucker Jones were named Jackrabbit and Lady Rabbit of the year. Pick up the mid-week paper for all of the sports team awards and pictures.
The 72nd Chisholm Trail Rodeo was a big success on Friday and Saturday nights at Nocona.
The rodeo had big crowds and saw some good competition from both local and far reaching talent.
Winners in the events included Zach Hibler in bareback riding, Lindsey Muggli in barrel racing, Ashley Goforth in breakaway roping, Leanardo Lima in bull riding, Cody McCartney in calf roping, Thomas Moellering in ranch bronc riding, Wacey Hathcock in saddle bronc riding, Renato Finazzi in steer wrestling, Rowdy Jones and Rance Doyal in team roping.
To see full results and more pictures, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
The regional tennis tournaments were late last week in North Richland Hills and a doubles team is moving on to state.
The Saint Jo girl’s doubles team Kyler Dunn and Taylor Patrick won the 1A region III tournament and will return to state for the second straight year.
The pair rolled through teams from Morgan, Dodd City, Priddy before beating a Graford team in the finals. The pair did not lose a set and only lost five of the 53 games it played, never losing more than one in a set.
The team made it to state last year after finishing second at regionals and won a match at the state meet against a team from Vernon Northside. They then lost to the eventual state champion team from Utopia and finished tied for third place.
They will be the only tennis players from Montague County playing at state this week as others did not have as successful regional tournament.
The Saint Jo teammates and fellow girl’s doubles team Bailie Nobile and Maxey Johnson won their first match against Ector 6-1, 6-4, but fell in their next match against Lometa, 6-1, 6-1.
From Prairie Valley, Case Carpenter was competing in boy’s singles. His first match was a draining two and half hour battle against a player from Strawn Carpenter came through in the three-set battle, winning 6-4, 5-7, 6-4.
Unfortunately, the magic was not there in the second game. Paired against the eventual tournament champion from Gustine, Carpenter lost 6-0, 6-1.
From Gold-Burg, Alyson Rojas and Jimena Garcia competed in girl’s singles. Rojas won her first match against a girl from Avinger 7-6, 6-2. Unfortunately, the next match she lost to a girl from Graford 6-0, 6-0 to end her tournament.
Garcia lost a tough first match against a player from Ector. Both sets could have gone either way with the scores being 6-4, 7-5 to the winner.
The mixed doubles team from Forestburg, Jesse Wadsworth and Alli Cisneros, also did not make it through.
From Nocona, Kaygan Stone was playing in the girl’s singles 2A region II tournament.
Unfortunately, she got paired against the player who would go on to win the tournament in the first round to end her season.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
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