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Jackrabbits lose at Ponder 36-21
The Bowie Jackrabbits traveled to Ponder on Friday night in hopes of scoring their first win of the season.
It was not meant to be as the Lions led most of the game on their way to beating the Jackrabbits 36-21.
Bowie was trying out a new offense with the loss of quarterback Colby Miller for the season. Running back Ty Harris lined up at quarterback and did a lot of read-option plays with Hunter Pullen at running back.
Despite only a week to get the offense ready, the Jackrabbits took their opening drive for a touchdown when Harris got loose for a 65-yard run. Bowie led 7-0, but it would not last long.
Ponder drove down the field in a little more than a minute mostly running the ball, scoring from 17 yards out. The Lions went for two and converted to take the lead 8-7.
The defenses settled down and forced punts on the next two possessions. The Jackrabbits had the ball near midfield and it was fourth and long. Bowie elected to go for it and did not convert.
Ponder turned the things around and scored on a 27-yard run to extend the lead to 16-7 after another good two-point conversion.
The Jackrabbits were able to get another drive going as early penalties backed them up in previous drives. Bowie drove all the way down to the goal line where Pullen scored from three yards out to cut the lead to 16-14.
Unfortunately, the Lions turned things around as their quarterback scrambled around for an 89-yard touchdown run. The Jackrabbits snuffed out the two-point conversion to make the score 22-14.
Bowie had another drive going, but a lost fumble near midfield put an end to that as the teams went into halftime.
The Jackrabbits needed a good start to the second half, but things did not work out that way. Ponder received the ball and scored on a 49-yard run in less than a minute to make the lead 30-14.
Bowie tried to respond on offense, but another drive stalled out at midfield with a failed fourth down conversion. The Lions capitalized as they threw a bubble screen to a receiver who took the ball 44 yards for a touchdown. The Jackrabbits trailed 36-14 heading into the fourth quarter.
Bowie’s offense struggled as the game went along as the limited playbook became predictable for a Ponder defense that keyed in on trying to stop Harris, who still was making plays with his legs, but they came less often the longer the game went on.
The Jackrabbits were finally able to complete a pass down the field as Harris threw a pass to Tyler Darland behind the defense for a 64-yard touchdown pass.
The lead was cut to 36-21, but with 3:37 left in the game, it would require a miracle of things for Bowie to have a chance to come back with so little time left. No such magic occurred as Ponder won.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week 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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