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Bowie girls continue to struggle in first tournament
The Bowie Lady Rabbits played in their first tournament of the season at their hosted Hoopin’ into the Holidays.
The Lady Rabbits continued to struggle as they finished fourth and lost all of their games during the two-day tournament Monday and Tuesday.
Bowie first started the against the eventual tournament champion Bridgeport. After a close first half the Sissies exploded for 24 points in the third quarter. That was enough to pull away as they won 56-34.
Tagyon Jones and Maddie Mandela led the team with eight points each.
The next game the Lady Rabbits lost to Burkburnett in overtime. The Lady Bulldogs pulled away in the extra period as Bowie did not score in overtime. Burkburnett won 52-45. Individual stats from the game were not sent.
The team then lost to Childress (score was not sent) to set up the Lady Rabbits playing the Lady Bulldogs for third place.
After a low scoring first half in which Bowie did not score in the second quarter, Burkburnett led 24-9.
The Lady Rabbits cut into the lead as a bit as they scored 15 points in the third quarter, led by three 3-pointers from Jones. The Lady Bulldogs still led by double-digits heading into the fourth quarter 35-24.
Bowie finished strong, making the game closer than the final score at certain points, but Burkburnett made enough shots and free throws down the stretch to close out the game with the win, 46-37.
Jones led the team with 15 points on five 3-pointers. Neely Price was second with six points.
Though the results were not what he wanted, Coach Matthew Miller is liking the way his team is playing as the health of this inexperienced team has not been good to start out the season.
“At times we really showed a lot of improvement,” Miller said. “It’s just hard to remember the fact that this is a long road ahead and we need to get healthy.”
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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