SPORTS
Bowie to play Bangs in bi-district
The Bowie Jackrabbit baseball team is matched up with Bangs for their upcoming bi-district playoff series.
The Jackrabbits probably come in as slight favorites after finishing second in the district and giving district champion and state-ranked Holliday its only district loss and barely losing by one run in the second game.
Despite no seniors in the starting lineup and a team with little varsity experience due to last year’s canceled season, the team, along with first year head coach Tyler Price, has vastly exceeded expectations so far in the regular season.
With a 19-12 overall record and a 9-3 district record, the team was able to beat every team in district at least once. Several times the team has pulled off come from behind victories, with walk-off wins against Holliday, Jacksboro and Dodd City.
The Bangs Dragons come into the series after a 14-11 regular season record and an 8-6 record in district play. Price feels like his team will have to play their game to beat Bangs at least two times.
“They have a couple of good arms and can hit the ball,” Price said. “I believe they do a good job of capitalizing on other teams mistakes.”
The one big phrase for this Jackrabbits team is concentrating on playing their brand of baseball.
If they do that, they believe they can compete with anyone.
“We like to create chaos with our base running, athleticism and play great defensively,” Price said. We like our pitchers to work ahead, hit spots and trust their defense behind. Offensively, we look to drive the ball gap to gap and our goal is to spin the game out of control for the opposing team. Our brand of baseball is also playing as a team and not as an individual.”
The series is scheduled for 7 p.m. on May 7 and 1 p.m. on May 8 at Walt Driggers Field at McMurry University. Game three will follow game two if needed.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week 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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