SPORTS
Bowie stays undefeated as it beats Henrietta 3-1
Even with a previous win against the team, the Bowie Lady Rabbits had to battle Tuesday night as they hosted Henrietta to kick off the second round of district play.
The Lady Rabbits were able to stay undefeated in district play as they beat the Lady Cats 3-1, with most sets coming down to the wire.
The first set showed Bowie just what it would take to win against Henrietta that night. The Lady Rabbits held some small leads during the set, but never more than one or two points as the teams went back and forth.
As the set was coming to a close, Bowie extended its lead from 21-19 to 24-21. Fighting against four set points, the Lady Cats fought to stay alive and eventually tied the score at 24-24. The teams went back and forth with set points until the Lady Rabbits were able to put the set away 30-28.
The second set was more of the same. Henrietta held narrow leads during the first 20 points, but ultimately the teams were tied at 10-10. The next 20 were even closer and the results were the same as the teams were tied at 20-20.
Bowie was able to gain some all important momentum as it strung together several points to win the set 25-21 to take a 2-0 lead.
The third set was erratic for both teams. Teams traded 4-1 five point runs to start the set and were tied at 10-10. The Lady Cats had their best run of the match during this set as they extended a 13-12 lead to a 17-13 lead.
The Lady Rabbits tried to close the lead down, but could not keep Henrietta from scoring as well. 20-15 lead was willed down to 24-21. Unfortunately, Bowie could not survive set point and lost 25-21.
Not being able to close the Lady Cats out after a two set lead, the fear is always of the team gaining confidence and momentum that signals a comeback in winner-take-all fifth set.
Early on in the fourth, it did seem like Henrietta still had some of the momentum from the third set with them. The Lady Cats led 7-3 in the opening 10 points and the size at the net and the long rallies were wearying on a Bowie team that was coming off of an exhausting five set match at Nocona three days before.
Still, the Lady Rabbits fought through. Bowie slowly cut into the lead until gaining its own 13-12. From there, the Lady Rabbits lead grew a little at a time from 16-14 to 19-16. Bowie was able to carry this bit of momentum into the end of the set as it won 25-21 to win the match 3-1.
Bowie next plays at City View at 5:30 p.m. on Oct. 22.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.
The Bowie sports banquets was on Monday night. Olivia Gill and Tucker Jones were named Jackrabbit and Lady Rabbit of the year. Pick up the mid-week paper for all of the sports team awards and pictures.
The 72nd Chisholm Trail Rodeo was a big success on Friday and Saturday nights at Nocona.
The rodeo had big crowds and saw some good competition from both local and far reaching talent.
Winners in the events included Zach Hibler in bareback riding, Lindsey Muggli in barrel racing, Ashley Goforth in breakaway roping, Leanardo Lima in bull riding, Cody McCartney in calf roping, Thomas Moellering in ranch bronc riding, Wacey Hathcock in saddle bronc riding, Renato Finazzi in steer wrestling, Rowdy Jones and Rance Doyal in team roping.
To see full results and more pictures, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
The regional tennis tournaments were late last week in North Richland Hills and a doubles team is moving on to state.
The Saint Jo girl’s doubles team Kyler Dunn and Taylor Patrick won the 1A region III tournament and will return to state for the second straight year.
The pair rolled through teams from Morgan, Dodd City, Priddy before beating a Graford team in the finals. The pair did not lose a set and only lost five of the 53 games it played, never losing more than one in a set.
The team made it to state last year after finishing second at regionals and won a match at the state meet against a team from Vernon Northside. They then lost to the eventual state champion team from Utopia and finished tied for third place.
They will be the only tennis players from Montague County playing at state this week as others did not have as successful regional tournament.
The Saint Jo teammates and fellow girl’s doubles team Bailie Nobile and Maxey Johnson won their first match against Ector 6-1, 6-4, but fell in their next match against Lometa, 6-1, 6-1.
From Prairie Valley, Case Carpenter was competing in boy’s singles. His first match was a draining two and half hour battle against a player from Strawn Carpenter came through in the three-set battle, winning 6-4, 5-7, 6-4.
Unfortunately, the magic was not there in the second game. Paired against the eventual tournament champion from Gustine, Carpenter lost 6-0, 6-1.
From Gold-Burg, Alyson Rojas and Jimena Garcia competed in girl’s singles. Rojas won her first match against a girl from Avinger 7-6, 6-2. Unfortunately, the next match she lost to a girl from Graford 6-0, 6-0 to end her tournament.
Garcia lost a tough first match against a player from Ector. Both sets could have gone either way with the scores being 6-4, 7-5 to the winner.
The mixed doubles team from Forestburg, Jesse Wadsworth and Alli Cisneros, also did not make it through.
From Nocona, Kaygan Stone was playing in the girl’s singles 2A region II tournament.
Unfortunately, she got paired against the player who would go on to win the tournament in the first round to end her season.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
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