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Lady Rabbits out-physical Graham
The Bowie Lady Rabbits played their only home game of the month on Friday as they hosted a tall and tough Graham team before the holiday break.
The Lady Rabbits would lead most of the way after the first half, going on to win 43-37.
It was a low scoring start to the game. The Lady Blues wanted to go inside to tall Cammi Teplicek, who had several inches on every other player on the court. Bowie played a tight zone defense and did its best to keep a body on Teplicek.
To start the game, Teplicek and the rest of Graham crashed the offensive boards for second and third shot attempts per possession. The Lady Blues led 6-2 midway through the quarter.
The Lady Rabbits tightened up on the boards and started to grind away points inside when Teplicek was on the bench.
Bowie did not allow Graham to score for the rest of the quarter and was able to take the lead 8-6 heading into the second quarter.
It was back and forth as the Lady Blues retook the lead and held it for most of the quarter. The Lady Rabbits upped their intensity and was rebounding better, getting lose balls and their press were forcing turnovers. The only issue was shots were not going in at a good rate.
Right before halftime, Bowie would retake the lead 17-16 and would not relinquish it.
The great play for the Lady Rabbits, especially their defense, went up even more in the third quarter. Bowie forced multiple steals and there were times Graham could not get to even half court before the Lady Rabbit would punch the ball lose.
Unfortunately, even with two-on-one advantages after forcing turnovers or getting multiple shots a possession due to great offensive rebounding, Bowie just could not get much to go in the basket.
The Lady Rabbits led 32-25 heading into the fourth quarter, but with how much they dominated every other aspect of the game it felt like it should have been by more.
The Lady Blues scored two baskets in the first two minutes to cut the lead to 32-29.
Bowie continued its strong play and after knocking down some shots upped its lead to double-digits 39-29 with 3:38 to go.
Graham scored two quick baskets by forcing turnovers to make it 39-33, but then had to resort to fouling.
Hope Jones made all four of her free throws down the stretch to keep the Lady Blues at bay. Bowie held on to win 43-37.
Jones led all scorers with 20 points. Brysen Richey, along with poking balls from Graham ball handlers all night, scored 12 points and made two three-pointers.
The Lady Rabbits next play at the Whataburger tournament against Bridgeport at 10:30 p.m. on Dec. 27 at Sanger High School.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
In its first match since last year’s state semifinal appearance, Saint Jo hosted Bryson Aug. 11 and took a 25-13, 25-12, 25-21 win over the Cowgirls.
The Lady Panthers lost some talent to graduation but have five seniors ready to have a successful season. Savannah Hil, one of the five, got Saint Jo rolling offensively with a four-point serving string, including a pair of aces. Abby Carter’s kill and Kamron Skidmore’s block helped put the Lady Panthers up 5-2 in game one.
Hadleigh Moore added a four-point string of her own to extend the lead to 10-3. Tatum Morman’s pair, helped by a Hill kill, gave Saint Jo a 14-5 lead. Bryson got within five before a Hill 3-pointer, with help by a Carter kill, put the lead back at 18-10.
After an Olivia Johnson kill broke serve, Jordyn O’Neal served up the final five points, with Johnson providing a kill to move things along.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Despite being the smallest school in the Brock varsity classic volleyball tournament, the Lady Indians finished 4th out of the eight teams there.
After losing to the host team in its first pool play match Aug. 14 18-25, 14-25 and also to Class 3A Wall 12-25, 8-25, Nocona rebounded to close out pool play with a 20-25, 25-23, 25-20 win over Christoval. Sy Parker had 16 kills and 7 blocks in the three matches. Raylea Bowles had 12 kills, 17 digs and served up three aces. Maddyn Bowles had seven kills and 14 digs while Paige Davis had seven kills and 15 digs. Baylee Thomas added 11 digs.
From the setter spot, Kasi Castro had 20 assists, served up five aces and contributed 14 digs. Leah Meekins added 18 assists and six digs during the three matches.
To open Saturday’s bracket play, the Lady Indians posted a 25-18, 18-25, 26-24, 25-19 win over Fort Worth Christian. Castro staked Nocona to a 2-0 lead in game one. Kills by Parker set up pairs of points from Raylea Bowles and Leah Meekins helped Nocona negate an early deficit and take a 10-9 lead.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
County football teams had their first scrimmage of the season Aug. 14 with mixed results.
Forestburg hosted Azle Christian and Victory Christian. Under a new system with new head coach Cori Hayes, the Longhorns looked pretty good in the coach’s eye.
“The first team looked good,” Hayes explained. “Overall we need to work on our pace and blocking assignments and blocking assignments. Overall we looked good for the new regime.”
Forestburg hits the road to scrimmage Newcastle Aug. 21.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
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