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HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL: Bowie boys top Peaster by 3
By ERIC VICCARO
bnewssports@gmail.com
The Bowie High School boys’ basketball team was locked in a defensive struggle against Peaster on Tuesday evening.
The Jackrabbits came into the game ranked 16th in the Texas Association of Basketball Coaches Conference 3A poll. Peaster was actually ranked higher at No. 13.
It was the type of playoff game you’d expect from these two regional powerhouses, as defenses reigned supreme.
“We had to stop their penetration,” said Bowie head coach Doug Boxell. “They have good 3-point shooters. We mixed up our defenses to prevent them from running set plays.”
Boxell didn’t think it would be such a low-scoring game. He rather imagined the final score somewhere in the 50s.
However, as the game flowed, players struggled to find open looks to shoot, penetration lanes were gated and closed for the most part and offenses bogged down. The teams also combined for a scant 10 free-throw attempts.
“Both teams had trouble getting looks and attack the basket,” Boxell said. Read more in The Bowie News.
Bowie’s Trace Hardee goes up for a shot during the second half of Tuesday’s non-district game with Peaster. The Jackrabbits won 37-34. (News photo by Eric Viccaro)
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Botanically speaking it is Heliopsis helioanthoides, native to the United States. Despite being native to 42 states, many new varieties, award winners and press coverage notwithstanding, it has not been an easy plant to find at the garden center.
Most likely you have never said, “Let’s go to the garden center and pick up a flat of false sunflowers.
Read the full Garden Guy column in today’s Bowie News.
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Make no mistake, I don’t believe this hosta was discovered in the shady soil under a Texas Madrone in Guadalupe National Park. It was actually a sport or morphological change in s hosta named Key West. That sounds like a fairy tale story all its own.
But Shadowland Giant Lone Star has winner written all over it. It is large and has thick leaves. When 12 straight days of rain brought out a rainforest of slugs and other forest floor creatures, the bane of hosta growers everywhere, it didn’t load up with holes but simply got more beautiful.
Read the full Garden Guy column in Thursday’s Bowie News.
Supertunia Mini Vista Pink Cloud petunia is having its debut year or thanks to Susan Middleton Turner in south Georgia’s zone 9 Miller County it’s breakout year.
Susan’s house looks quite like a movie set, and you would have to think that Supertunia Mini Vista petunias play a prominent role.
Last year it was the award-winning Supertunia Mini Vista Indigo that dazzled with incredible color. The petunias were planted in banister baskets across the front of the house. I featured her photos in an article I wrote about Mini Vista petunias.
Read the full Garden Guy column in your Thursday Bowie News.
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