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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.
In its first match since last year’s state semifinal appearance, Saint Jo hosted Bryson Aug. 11 and took a 25-13, 25-12, 25-21 win over the Cowgirls.
The Lady Panthers lost some talent to graduation but have five seniors ready to have a successful season. Savannah Hil, one of the five, got Saint Jo rolling offensively with a four-point serving string, including a pair of aces. Abby Carter’s kill and Kamron Skidmore’s block helped put the Lady Panthers up 5-2 in game one.
Hadleigh Moore added a four-point string of her own to extend the lead to 10-3. Tatum Morman’s pair, helped by a Hill kill, gave Saint Jo a 14-5 lead. Bryson got within five before a Hill 3-pointer, with help by a Carter kill, put the lead back at 18-10.
After an Olivia Johnson kill broke serve, Jordyn O’Neal served up the final five points, with Johnson providing a kill to move things along.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Despite being the smallest school in the Brock varsity classic volleyball tournament, the Lady Indians finished 4th out of the eight teams there.
After losing to the host team in its first pool play match Aug. 14 18-25, 14-25 and also to Class 3A Wall 12-25, 8-25, Nocona rebounded to close out pool play with a 20-25, 25-23, 25-20 win over Christoval. Sy Parker had 16 kills and 7 blocks in the three matches. Raylea Bowles had 12 kills, 17 digs and served up three aces. Maddyn Bowles had seven kills and 14 digs while Paige Davis had seven kills and 15 digs. Baylee Thomas added 11 digs.
From the setter spot, Kasi Castro had 20 assists, served up five aces and contributed 14 digs. Leah Meekins added 18 assists and six digs during the three matches.
To open Saturday’s bracket play, the Lady Indians posted a 25-18, 18-25, 26-24, 25-19 win over Fort Worth Christian. Castro staked Nocona to a 2-0 lead in game one. Kills by Parker set up pairs of points from Raylea Bowles and Leah Meekins helped Nocona negate an early deficit and take a 10-9 lead.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
County football teams had their first scrimmage of the season Aug. 14 with mixed results.
Forestburg hosted Azle Christian and Victory Christian. Under a new system with new head coach Cori Hayes, the Longhorns looked pretty good in the coach’s eye.
“The first team looked good,” Hayes explained. “Overall we need to work on our pace and blocking assignments and blocking assignments. Overall we looked good for the new regime.”
Forestburg hits the road to scrimmage Newcastle Aug. 21.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
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