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Bowie loses five-set thriller
The Bowie Lady Rabbits hosted Peaster on Tuesday in front of a loud crowd that got into the close five-set match.
The Lady Rabbits came up just short at the end as the Lady Eagles won the fifth set with the narrowest of margins to win the match 3-2.
Bowie came out looking good early in the first set, building a small 4-1 lead. Peaster slowly came back and tied the score at 10-10, before taking a small lead 13-12.
Despite the lead being small, the Lady Rabbits could not break through. Down 21-19, the Lady Greyhounds won the next five points 4-1 to close out the set, winning 25-20.
Bowie built a subtle lead slowly to start the second set. Winning four five-point exchanges 3-2 made the lead 12-8.
That four point lead would hold for the rest of the set as the Lady Rabbits size at the net on defense and the offensive firepower allowed them to play even to win the second set 25-21.
The third set had the right amount of competitive play and drama to it the set deserved. Putting the winner up 2-1 and forcing the loser of the set to win the two sets in a row if it wanted to win.
The first 20 points saw the Lady Greyhounds early two-point lead vanish as the teams were locked at 10-10. Bowie took control and led 18-15 before things started to come loose.
Peaster won the next seven straight points to go up 22-18 as the Lady Rabbits struggled to stave off the attack. After a timeout, Bowie turned things around by winning the next three points to cut the lead to 22-21.
After exchanging points, the Lady Rabbits tied the score at 24-24 before winning the next two points to win the set 26-24, going up 2-1 after winning the last two sets.
The Lady Greyhounds were either going to lay down from losing such a close set or go down fighting in the fourth set, with no in-between. Peaster chose the latter and Bowie was not ready.
An early 6-4 lead from the Lady Greyhounds quickly got out of hand as Peaster won 13 of the next 15 points to grow the lead to 19-6. No matter how many timeouts Coach Breanna Jones took, the competitive play of the first three sets gave way to a Bowie team that just could not attack or defend at a level they had been.
The set was lost and could not be redeemed as the Lady Greyhounds won 25-10. All Jones and the Lady Rabbits could do was turn around and get focused in a winner-take-all fifth set in which they could only play better than they had in the fourth set.
With the format the first to 15 instead of 25, every point matters even more than in other sets as there are fewer points to win.
Bowie took a small 4-2 lead early, but Peaster closed the gap to tie the score 4-4. After trading some points back and forth, the Lady Greyhounds took an 8-6 lead. This time the Lady Rabbits cam back to tie the score at 9-9.
The two teams traded points for the next six points, tied at 12-12. Peaster then won the next two points to take a 14-12 lead and had match point. Bowie staved off match point to make it 14-13 and was looking to tie the score up again.
A double block on the right side against a Lady Greyhound hitter at the net was deflected out of bounds and that was all she wrote. Peaster won the set 15-13 to win the match 3-2.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekend 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.”
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