SPORTS
Bowie loses shoot-out at Burkburnett
The Bowie Jackrabbits traveled to Burkburnett to face the ever energetic and pressing Bulldogs on Tuesday.
It was a shootout and a track meet from the start as the teams combined for 178 points, but in the end Burkburnett came out on top 100-78.
The Jackrabbits came into the game fresh off of their hosted tournament. One of Bowie’s two wins came against the JV squad of the Bulldogs, but Tuesday it was going to play the varsity team.
Burkburnett plays an aggressive style of press defense that requires constant substitutions at almost every dead ball. The players on the floor feed their energy off the bench and the crowd as the Bulldogs look to push the pace of the game to its limit.
Coach Jonathon Horton and the team knew they had to be ready.
“We started the game better than we have started any game all year,” Horton said. “We were prepared to play. We understood the environment. We knew they had a good student section. We knew their gym had tradition. It was going to be loud. It was going to be a fun place to play.”
The teams went back and forth in the first quarter as Burkburnett held a small lead 25-22. In the second quarter, Bowie’s offense ticked below 20 points while the Bulldogs offense more than equaled their total from the first quarter. Burkburnett led 51-37 at halftime.
The Jackrabbits offense did better in the second half scoring 20 and 21 points in the third and fourth quarters. Unfortunately, they just could not catch the scorching Bulldogs, whose lead slowly grew even more. The final was 100-78.
Trevor Vann led Bowie with 25 points and five rebounds. Braden Armstrong scored 18 points, handed out six assists and grabbed four rebounds.
Boo Oakley scored 11 points and led the team with eight assists. Cade Thompson also finished in double figures scoring 11 points and grabbing four rebounds.
Offensively, it was easily the Jackrabbits best offensive showing. The team shot more than 50 percent from the field and from three-point range.
Bowie also worked the aggressive Bulldog defense against them, heading to the free throw line for 23 shots and knocking down 70 percent of them. Unfortunately, Burkburnett shot almost as well from the field though the Bulldogs had 16 more attempts.
The Jackrabbits next game is at Ponder at 7 p.m. on Dec. 17.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of weekend edition of the Bowie News.
Bellevue’s girl’s basketball team led at halftime but a quick 9-0 Jacksboro run in the opening moments of the second half would prove the difference in a 28-25 Lady Eagle loss June 15 in a Nocona Summer League game.
Leading 12-9 at the half, Bellevue continued to shut down the inside game of the Tigerettes. Jacksboro switched tactics and began firing from outside. Three 3-pointers in the span of just under two minutes gave Jacksboro an 18-12 lead.
Bellevue kept things close, however, getting on the second half scoreboard with Mattie Broussard’s basket and free throws cutting the deficit to two, 18-16. A Haven Jones 3-pointer put the Lady Eagles up 19-18 midway through the second half.
The Tigerettes had just one 3 -pointer the rest of the way but got inside for a pair of buckets to take a 25-21 lead with 4:50 to go. Both offenses shut down late.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Most school-age athletes start off playing everything. By the time they graduate, they whittle it down to just one or two.
New Bowie girl’s track and overall cross country coach Shawnda Childers is no exception. While at Iowa Park she competed in volleyball, cross country and track before cutting out volleyball and focusing on track and cross country to close out high school.
Childers did not stay with athletics while moving on to Midwestern State University, where she received her bachelor’s and master’s Degrees. After graduation, shestarted coaching in Electra. She came to Bowie for one year, then went back to her old stomping grounds in Iowa Park where she spent the next four years.
The return home also put her in contact with now-Bowie Coach Griffin Fields, who was a coach there at the time. From Iowa Park, she spent the next three years at City View.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
New Saint Jo Girl’s Basketball Coach Grant Gooch isn’t completely unfamiliar with the area.
“We went to Muenster quite a bit when I was a kid,” Gooch, who will be going into his 20th year as a coach, said. “We’d load up the cooler from the meat markets. It’s good to be back.”
Gooch worked with Saint Jo Athletic Director CJ Hantz when the pair were in Throckmorton. Gooch comes to town from Menard where he spent three years at the West Texas school.
Gooch says coaching and education kind of come naturally to him.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
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