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Bowie goes 3-2 in first tournament
The Bowie Lady Rabbits wrapped up their first tournament Wednesday, playing five games in three days at their hosted Hoopin’ into the Holiday Classic.
They made it out with a positive 3-2 record with some promising things seen as the tournament went along.
The Lady Rabbits started the tournament against Graham. It was a low scoring affair that was back and forth.
Bowie had a small lead at the end, but the Lady Blues were able to pull the 37-36 win on a last second shot to give the Lady Rabbits their first loss of the season.
Aslyn Davis led the team with 11 points and was the only player to score in double figures.
Bowie’s second game was a rematch against Burkburnett. The Lady Rabbits had beaten the Lady Bulldogs the previous week, but Burkburnett was able to exact some revenge.
In another low scoring game, Bowie fell behind in the second quarter and despite pulling close in the lowest scoring fourth quarter, the Lady Rabbits came up short 37-35.
Abbi Gamblin and Landra Parr each scored nine points to lead the team.
Bowie played one more game on Monday as they played Callisburg. The Lady Rabbits led at halftime, but the Lady Cats cut the lead to 34-32 heading into the fourth quarter.
Luckily, Bowie was able to hold Callisburg to five points and was able to win 45-37 to end the first day on a positive note.
Hope Howard led the team with 13 points while Davis was second with 12.
The Lady Rabbits played Iowa Park on Tuesday and unlike the games on Monday, Bowie ran away with it.
A second quarter scoring margin of 16-2 broke open the game and the Lady Rabbits was able to continue to pour it on in the second half as they won easily 54-23.
Gamblin led the team with 13 points while Taygon Jones and Howard each chipped in 11.
Bowie closed out the tournament against Windthorst. Again, a strong second quarter 19-5 difference broke the game open and the Lady Rabbits were able to coast to an easy victory 56-35.
Davis led the team with 23 points while Howard added 14 and Gamblin 10.
The Lady Rabbits next play at 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 27 at Mineral Wells.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.
Nocona got its new press box into place this week at Jack Crane Stadium. The old press box, which was in place for more than 60 years, was taken out in early June and moved to Indian Valley Raceway. The new press box was by the Southern Bleacher Company out of Graham. Athletic Director Black Crutsinger said they looked at a lot of press boxes and decided they liked the one at Lindsay High School and went with that model. Sean Hutson operated the crane from the Hurd Crane Service that put the press box up for Nocona.
Sunset native Cason Richey (right) and his team roping partner Beldon Cox from Weatherford repeated as the International Finals Youth Rodeo champions last weekend at Shawnee, OK. Richey and Cox won the previous year and were able to complete the repeat by catching three steers in a combined time of 16.6 seconds. Richey is expected to compete attend Texas Tech University this fall and compete on the rodeo team.
The Chisholm Trail Youth Rodeo had its awards ceremony this week, giving out plaques and buckles to the top competitors throughout the summer season.
There were four age categories with five events to compete in for the young athletes.
Along with the best results in each event, at the end the overall best cowboy and cowgirl in each age division was awarded as well.
The lead line division, in which an adult helps the young competitors, saw Rylee Stewart win the first in poles, barrel racing and mystery event on her way to win top cowgirl.
Hattie Snow got the fastest time in the flags event and Lany Shupak got the fastest goat time. Riggin Bishop got named the top cowboy in the division.
In the eight-and-under division, Whitley Goins won the top cowgirl and Trell Carpenter won top cowboy. Goins got the fastest times in barrel racing, flags and mystery event. Carpenter got the fastest time in poles and goats.
In the 9-12 age division, Sage Keck won the top cowgirl while Chisum Carpenter won the top cowboy. Keck got the fastest times in four of the five divisions. Only Layna Taylor getting the fastest goat time prevented her from winning in a clean sweep.
In the 13-18 age division, Tess Egenbacher won the top overall cowgirl award.
Kiley McCracken won both the barrel racing and flags event. Emma Strahan won the poles and mystery event. Hadlee Bryan won the goats event.
There was no top overall cowboy in the age division.
To see the times for the winners of each event in all four age categories along with pictures of all of the top cowboys and cowgirls, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.
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