SPORTS

Friday night football mini previews

Published

2 years ago

08/24/2022

This Friday kicks off the Texas high school football season and all five Montague County teams are buckling down to try and come away 1-0 after the first week.

Bowie
The Bowie Jackrabbits travel to Graham this week to play the 4A Steers at 7:30 p.m.
It will be a good test for the mostly new look Bowie team as Graham is in a similar boat just having graduated a big senior class as well.
Coach Hugh Farmer mentioned sophomore quarterback Ty Thompson being the key to the Steers’ offense after playing a lot as a freshman last season.
He estimates the team leans a bit more on the run but are balanced on offense and has some receivers that have made plays on film.
On defense, Farmer said the Steers play a similar 3-3 stack defense as the Jackrabbits do which will give them some familiarity for the formation.
“It’s going to be a really good test for us against a good team with a lot of tradition,” Farmer said. “Those kids are going to walk out on the field and think they can win and we are going to have to match that.”

Nocona
The Nocona Indians open their season at home against Era at 7:30 p.m.
The 2A Hornets went 2-9 last year but return more than half their players on both sides of the ball and will be looking to improve with the continuity.
Nocona Coach Blake Crutsinger said Era will look to stay balanced out of the spread offensive formation and the defense will have to be ready for anything.
On offense, Crutsinger said he feels his team can move the ball if they continue to sharpen things up while also hinting they left some things out of the scrimmage the Hornets may not be ready for.

Saint Jo
The Saint Jo Panthers are scheduled to open their season at 7:30 p.m. at home against Wichita Christian.
The Stars are a private school that Stevens says likes to spread teams out and throw the football. Stevens feels like this year’s defense is one of the more athletic he has had and feels confident they will be equipped to handle it.
Offensively with the playmakers the Panthers have on offense, Stevens feels like his team should be able to run the ball well if they are to be successful in this game, though the team will try to diversify up the offensive formations this year.
“We have to get better at blocking than we did in our scrimmages,” Stevens said. “Blocking in a practice setting is a whole different thing. The other key will be can we tackle in space?”

Gold-Burg
The Gold-Burg Bears open their season on the road at 7:30 p.m. at Perrin-Whitt.
The Bears are familiar with the Pirates as the team have opened the season against the other several years in a row at this point.
That familiarity is even more so with new Coach Brady Hibbitt having spent the past two seasons as an assistant at Perrin-Whitt.
“Those kids we watched on film, we have to go into the game not expecting we are just going to beat them,” Hibbitts said. “They are a really good team and well coached. We are going to have to play one of our better games to beat them.”
Hibbitts noted Cassey Beach as a player to watch as a quick footed athlete on both sides of the ball and Dylan Trammell at a big kid who usually blocks but sometime carries the ball as well.

Forestburg
The Forestburg Longhorns are opening their season at home at 7 p.m. against the North Texas Spartan.
The Spartans out of Mckninney are a home school team that will be playing their first game ever. With no film from even a scrimmage to go off of, the Longhorns are going into the game blind.
The good news is the team will be getting three new players to expand to 12 players in time for the game, which will give Forestburg some much needed depth it has been missing for several years if they can get those players up to speed.
So in preparation, the Longhorns will be focusing on polishing up their fundamentals in practice to be as sharp as they can be.
Playing the best version of their type of football will hopefully lead to success against a team that will probably have less experience than they do.

SPORTS

Jackrabbits blow out City View

Published

2 days ago

04/24/2024

bowienews

The Bowie Jackrabbits beat down City View on the road on Monday by run-rule to pick up a district win.
The Jackrabbits won 15-0 after five innings due to run-rule as they dominated against the Mustangs.
Bowie was coming off a close loss at Holliday in a game it nearly came back to win, so took out its frustration on a struggling City View team.
The Jackrabbits got going early as Troy Kesey hit a solo home run with two outs to get a rally going for the team. Two batters later Edmond De Leon hit a two-run home run.
Rayder Mann hit a ground ball to third base that resulted in an error that drove in a run. Cy Egenbacher then hit an RBI single to put Bowie up 5-0 before the Mustangs had even hit.
After a scoreless second inning, the Jackrabbits got back going in the third. Boston Farris and Seth Mann both hit a two RBI doubles.
Kesey and Hayden Rodriguez followed with RBI singles to make it 11-0 for Bowie.
The Jackrabbits kept the pressure in the fourth inning. Farris hit a three-run home run and Kesey later drove in another run with a double to make it 15-0 for Bowie.
The game continued into the fifth inning and City View needed to score at least six runs to keep the game going. The Mustangs broke up Kesey’s no-hitter on the mound with three straight singles to load the bases up with no outs.
Kesey finished strong, striking out the next two batters before inducing a fly ball to center field for the final out.
The Jackrabbits won 15-0.

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

SPORTS

Baseball Roundup

Published

2 days ago

04/24/2024

bowienews

Nocona
The Nocona Indians got some revenge by beating Perrin-Whitt on Thursday at home.
The Indians won 5-3 to hopefully make up for losing the previous game in the final inning against the Pirates.
Nocona had lost two days earlier to Perrin-Whitt 3-2 after leading for the entire game until the final inning.
The second game it was the Pirates that led for the majority of the game, leading 2-1 after the first inning. The Indians tied the score 2-2 after the third inning, but Perrin-Whitt got the lead back in the fourth inning with one run to make it 4-3.
Nocona took control in the sixth inning when Wesley Murpehy drove in two runs with a double. Brody Langford followed him with an RBI single to double the Indians score and put them up 6-4.
This time around, Nocona’s defense held on in the final inning, allowing only one base runner before closing the game with little trouble.

Missing scores
Scores from Saint Jo and Bellevue are not updated due to games being delayed due to weather late last week.

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

SPORTS

Bowie softball season comes to an end

Published

2 days ago

04/24/2024

bowienews

The Bowie Lady Rabbits came up just short of winning their final game at City View on Friday.
The Lady Mustangs held off a furious Lady Rabbits rally in the seventh inning to scrape out a win 11-10.
Bowie was entering the game knowing it was the last game of the season no matter what so it came out loose and ready.
The Lady Rabbits took control early. Chloe Kinney scored due to an error trying to pick her off. Sage Gossett hit a single that drove in one run and an error on the throw allowed another run to score.
Several batters later, Beau Combs and Victoria Cox both hit RBI singles to make it 5-0 for Bowie.
The Lady Mustangs scored two runs to make cut the lead to 5-2 after the first inning.
Bowie scored one run in the second inning when Serenity Klump was able to score from third base due to an error by the catcher. City View equaled that run in the same inning with an RBI double.
After the teams exchanged scoreless innings in the third and fourth, things picked up in the fifth inning.
Kaylie Kinney hit an RBI double with two outs to extend Bowie’s lead to 7-3.
The Lady Mustangs answered with a huge inning to get back in the game. Three singles and two errors allowed City View to score four runs and tie the score up at 7-7.
After the Lady Rabbits offense could not get anything going in the sixth inning, the Lady Mustangs picked up where they left off.
Five straight singles, one walk and a passed ball allowed City View to score four more runs to take the lead 11-7 heading into the final inning.
With Bowie down to its last three outs of the season, the team buckled up to get something going.
Cox hit a one out double. Chloe Kinney followed with a single that drove her in. After a strikeout and Kinney advancing to second base after a passed ball, Klump drove her in with a double.
After a walk, Gossett came through and hit a single that drove in one more run to cut City View’s lead to one run.
With the tying run in scoring position, Bowie was in good condition but was also down to its last out.
Unfortunately, the next batter struck out looking to end the game and the Lady Rabbits season.
City View won 11-10.