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Jackrabbits win at Henrietta 5-1
The Bowie Jackrabbits baseball team won a decisive game at Henrietta on Friday as they continued to play good baseball with a playoff berth already guaranteed.
The Jackrabbits won 5-1 in a game they led for most of the way after the second inning.
Evan Kennedy led off for Bowie with a drawn walk. After stealing second base, Kennedy was thrown out at third. It was unfortunate because Payton Price then hit a ground ball single into the outfield. The next batter grounded out for the third out.
The leadoff got on base with a single for the Bearcats. After stealing second base, a wild pitch allowed the runner to advance to third base. A ground out to first base allowed the runner to score to give Henrietta a 1-0 lead after the first inning.
The Jackrabbits did not take long to respond. Braden Armstrong led off with a single. Weston Partridge then came up to knock a double to left field. It was enough for Armstrong to score from first to tie up the score.
Ozzie Phillip then laid down a bunt, but the pitcher was too slow to field it and both Bowie runners were safe at the corners with no outs.
Phillips stole second base, but Henrietta tried the throw him out. The second basemen could not gather the throw, allowing both Phillips and the pinch runner on third base Camden Starnes to score. The Jackrabbits led 3-1.
Bowie’s pitcher Price started to get going in the second inning as he struck out the side to move the game into the third inning.
Taylor Pigg drew a walk to lead off for the Jackrabbits. He stole both second and third bases. After a ground out at first base, an error at third base trying to keep Pigg from scoring allowed him to advance home. The run extended Bowie’s lead to 4-1. Price did not allow a base runner for the second straight inning as he struck out two of the three batters.
The fourth inning did not see much offense from the Jackrabbits. A fly out to center field, a ground out to second base and a strike out prevented Bowie from getting any base runners on for the first time in the game.
The Bearcats hit a one out double to right field in just their second hit of the game and the first in last three innings. A ground out moved the runner to third base, but that is where he stayed as Price struck out his seventh batter of the game.
The fifth inning saw Kash Stockard lead off with a drawn walk. A ground out somehow saw Stockard advance all the third base. Next batter Pigg then grounded out to the shortstop, but not before Stockard scored to bump the Jackrabbit’s lead up 5-1.
Henrietta’s leadoff batter hit a single to get on base. A sacrifice bunt moved him to second base, but two fly outs left him stranded there as the game moved to the sixth inning.
Besides Partridge drawing a walk with one out, the Jackrabbits did not get much going with their bats. The pinch runner for Partridge was thrown out trying to steal second base for the third out.
The Bearcats leadoff man drew a walk to get on base. Bowie neutralized this by turning a double play with the next batter. A single to center field followed, but Price forced a pop fly for the third out.
The seventh inning was more of the same. Kennedy hit a two out double to center field, but it went nowhere. Price hit two batters in the final inning, but made up for it with two strikeouts and a pop up to get the complete game win. Bowie won 5-1.
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.
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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.”
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