SPORTS
Bowie girls lose district game at Childress 58-37
Facing their first big challenge during district play, the Bowie Lady Rabbits made the long trip to Childress on Tuesday night.
The Lady Cats took it to the Lady Rabbits, especially in the second and third quarters, leading to a big win 58-37.
The beginning of the game was slow and played to Bowie’s pace. The Lady Rabbits led 10-8 heading to the second quarter when Childress caught fire.
Lady Cat’s post player Grace Foster, the reigning district co-most valuable player, got to work scoring the ball in a myriad of ways both inside and outside. Childress more than doubled its total from the first quarter while Bowie’s offense suffered.
When everything was going right for the Lady Cats, things were going wrong for the Lady Rabbits. Shots weren’t going in. The turnovers increased.
Childress took the lead by double-digits heading into halftime up 29-16.
Bowie needed to turn things around coming out of halftime, but unfortunately the same play continued from the second quarter. Foster and the rest of the Lady Cats were making their shots while the Lady Rabbits offense continued to fall farther behind.
Heading into the final quarter Bowie trailed 48-25.
The Lady Rabbits closed out the game better than they played in the middle two quarters. By that time, Bowie had dug itself too big of a hole to climb out of to get the win. Childress would win 58-37.
Brysen Richey led the team with eight points and five steals. Hope Jones was second with six points and five rebounds. As a team the Lady Rabbits shot only 20 percent from the field and made only three 3-pointers.
While Bowie did get to the free throw line a lot, attempting 28, the team made less than 60 percent.
The Lady Rabbits will look to bounce back. They have another challenge when they next travel to Holliday to play at 6 p.m. on Jan. 21.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.
Nocona got its new press box into place this week at Jack Crane Stadium. The old press box, which was in place for more than 60 years, was taken out in early June and moved to Indian Valley Raceway. The new press box was by the Southern Bleacher Company out of Graham. Athletic Director Black Crutsinger said they looked at a lot of press boxes and decided they liked the one at Lindsay High School and went with that model. Sean Hutson operated the crane from the Hurd Crane Service that put the press box up for Nocona.
Sunset native Cason Richey (right) and his team roping partner Beldon Cox from Weatherford repeated as the International Finals Youth Rodeo champions last weekend at Shawnee, OK. Richey and Cox won the previous year and were able to complete the repeat by catching three steers in a combined time of 16.6 seconds. Richey is expected to compete attend Texas Tech University this fall and compete on the rodeo team.
The Chisholm Trail Youth Rodeo had its awards ceremony this week, giving out plaques and buckles to the top competitors throughout the summer season.
There were four age categories with five events to compete in for the young athletes.
Along with the best results in each event, at the end the overall best cowboy and cowgirl in each age division was awarded as well.
The lead line division, in which an adult helps the young competitors, saw Rylee Stewart win the first in poles, barrel racing and mystery event on her way to win top cowgirl.
Hattie Snow got the fastest time in the flags event and Lany Shupak got the fastest goat time. Riggin Bishop got named the top cowboy in the division.
In the eight-and-under division, Whitley Goins won the top cowgirl and Trell Carpenter won top cowboy. Goins got the fastest times in barrel racing, flags and mystery event. Carpenter got the fastest time in poles and goats.
In the 9-12 age division, Sage Keck won the top cowgirl while Chisum Carpenter won the top cowboy. Keck got the fastest times in four of the five divisions. Only Layna Taylor getting the fastest goat time prevented her from winning in a clean sweep.
In the 13-18 age division, Tess Egenbacher won the top overall cowgirl award.
Kiley McCracken won both the barrel racing and flags event. Emma Strahan won the poles and mystery event. Hadlee Bryan won the goats event.
There was no top overall cowboy in the age division.
To see the times for the winners of each event in all four age categories along with pictures of all of the top cowboys and cowgirls, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.
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