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Lady Rabbits win 50-46 in overtime; start home tourney on a sour note
The Bowie Lady Rabbits played in another thriller Friday night at Wichita Falls High School.
A bad first quarter saw them playing catch up most of the game before winning in overtime 50-46 to go to 4-0.
The Lady Rabbits scored only two points in the first quarter and trailed 29-14 at halftime.
“We were not good early, we did not come out ready to play,” Coach Chuck Hall said. “They got after us.”
Bowie played a better third quarter, but still trailed 40-27 heading into the fourth quarter. The fourth quarter saw the Lady Rabbits climb all the way back as their defense held the Lady Coyotes to only four points as they tied the game up in regulation 44-44. By then, Bowie had the momentum and was able to secure the win by playing better in overtime to get the 50-46 win.
With a 4-0 start and with three of the four games close, Hall was not expecting his team would make it through their hosted Hoopin’ into the Holidays tournament this week without a loss and his prediction was correct.
The Lady Rabbits opened the tournament Monday morning against Graham and lost on a layup at the buzzer 37-36.
The game was slow paced and low scoring from both sides. Bowie struggled to handle the Lady Blues full court press at times and turned the ball over and struggled to score inside against the bigger girls from Graham.
Conversely, the Lady Rabbits packed the paint in a 2-3 zone to prevent the Lady Blues from getting good position inside for most of the game.
Neither team could get much of an advantage in the first half as the score was tied 16-16 at halftime.
The third quarter saw more scoring from both teams as they both ran cleaner offenses that found easier shots as the Lady Blues made a couple of three-pointers to take advantage of the zone while Aslyn Davis made two three-pointers of her own for Bowie. The Lady Rabbits led 28-26 heading into the fourth quarter.
Bowie slowly extended its lead to 34-30 midway through the fourth quarter. With 2:39 to go, the Lady Rabbits started to stall forcing Graham to foul them. After a missed free throw, the Lady Blues got to the free throw line and made one of two. They then were able to steal the ball from Bowie and score in transition to cut the lead to 34-33 with a little more than a minute left.
After another steal, Graham was able to take the lead 35-34 with 32 seconds left. The Lady Rabbits were able to quickly get the ball inside to Howard, who was fouled on the shot attempt with 21 seconds left. She made both clutch free throws to give Bowie a 36-35 lead.
The Lady Blues were able to run the clock down and found a driving lane where one of their players made a contested layup/floater over her defender as the clock wound down to win 37-36.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
The Red River High School Bass Club competed this past weekend, May 31 – June 1, at the State Tournament on Lake Conroe for the two-day tournament.
Two of the teams from Montague County traveled south to try their best at the culmination of the year for the state title. Teams were able to pre-fish on Friday before the Saturday and Sunday competition. On Friday, there was a flipping contest for the youth and Cooper Johnson won third overall and won a $500 scholarship and an Academy gift card.
The club’s two teams who competed were Lane Smith/Colt Henry with boat captain Jimmy Smith. The team placed 63rd with a total of 16.22 pounds. The second team of Cooper Johnson/Corbyn Patton and boat captain Jayson Toerck placed 169th with a total weight of 2.29 pounds.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekly edition of the Bowie News.
The Maskat Shrine Oil Bowl is this week on June 6-7 and graduating athletes from Bowie, Nocona and Saint Jo are confirmed to be playing.
In total, seven athletes from Bowie, five from Nocona and three from Saint Jo are planning to play in the all-star games this week. Nocona also will have a pair of coaches participating as well.
The girl’s basketball game kicks off events on June 6, scheduled for 6 p.m. at Wichita Falls Memorial High School. In the game, the east team will have Nocona players Avery Crutsinger, Meg Meekins and Reagan Phipps playing while Kyler Spitzer and Clayton Brown coach them one last time.
On the west team, Saint Jo’s Payzlie Cervantes is confirmed to be playing.
The boy’s basketball game is scheduled to follow at 7:30 p.m. On the east team, Bowie’s Boston Farris and Nocona’s Jose Gomez Jr. will be playing.
On June 7, the volleyball games are scheduled to start at 4 p.m. with the small school game. On the west team, Nocona’s Kaygan Stone and Saint Jo’s Taylor Patrick are confirmed to play. On the east team, Saint Jo’s Aubrey Morman will get to play her teammate.
There are no local athletes confirmed to be playing in the big school volleyball game.
The final event is the football game, scheduled for 7:30 p.m. at Memorial Stadium. It is an all Bowie affair with six players confirmed to be playing for the east team: Justin Clark, Jorge De Leon, Hunter Fluitt and Braden Rhyne, Preacher Chambers and Moh Azouak.
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Nocona Independent School District officials looked inward for a new athletic director/head football coach, selecting Jeff Hill for the position.
Hill, who served last year as Nocona football’s offensive coordinator and also led the softball program to the playoffs for the first time in a while as its head coach, was upgraded to the role.
This came on the heels of former Athletic Director Blake Crutsinger, who served in the role the last four years, resigned in May.
For Hill, the choice to apply for the position was a no brainer. His one year in Nocona had impressed upon him and his wife that it was the place they would like to be long term.
“I’m looking for a town to raise my kids in and Nocona has treated my family really well,” Hill said. “There are some really good people. The kids work hard. Everything I am looking for in a hometown is right here in Nocona and I want to try and make it as best as it can be, especially through athletics.”
Before Nocona, Hill served as the athletic director at S&S Consolidated while also spending time at Hebron and Whitewright in his coaching career.
Hill expresses great respect for the departing Crutsinger and besides changing a few small things in how he personally wants to do things, he is not trying to come in with a sweeping restructuring of the whole athletic department.
The program had five of its six team sports make the playoffs, with volleyball playing in the regional final and the girl’s basketball team winning the state championship.
That along with two athletes competing at the state championship in cross country and track with one earning a gold medal, it was one of the more successful school years in athletic program history.
“Coach Crutsinger was awesome and did a great job so honestly just little tweaks, a little bit of structure and cohesion amongst the coaching staff between boys and girls,” Hill said. “I hope to keep the winning tradition going overall in the athletic department.”
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekly edition of the Bowie News.
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