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Bowie completes comeback win against Cisco
The Bowie Lady Rabbits pulled off a remarkable comeback against Cisco on Friday night in the area playoff game at Mineral Wells.
The Lady Rabbits came back from 11 points down midway through the fourth quarter to win 50-45, upsetting the favored Lady Loboes who had led since the end of the first quarter.
The game got off to a slow start for both teams. Cisco came out in a full-court press defense that bothered Bowie before it could get anything going. The Lady Rabbits struggled to put the ball in the hoop, but did a good job of limiting the Lady Loboes with their zone trapping scheme. Cisco led 8-5 heading into the second quarter.
Bowie continued to struggle to score while the Lady Loboes started having success pushing the ball in transition off of rebounds despite relaxing on the press defense.
Cisco’s lead got into the double-digits and led 24-13 at halftime with the Lady Rabbits needing to find someone to get the offense going.
The third quarter was more even, but this meant Bowie did not make up much of the deficit. Abbi Gamblin provided a spark offensively as she nailed 3-pointers on back-to-back possessions. Still, the Lady Rabbits trailed 36-27 heading into the final quarter.
Camberley Gunter nailed a 3-pointer from the corner to cut the lead to 36-30 in the opening minute of the quarter. Bowie changed to press defense to change things up as well as prevent Cisco from holding the ball. The Lady Rabbits hoped with this good start and the change in defense things would turn around.
That did not happen right away. The Lady Loboes stretched their lead out to double-digits again in the next four minutes while Bowie’s offense continued to run cold. Cisco led 41-30 with 4:20 left to play when things started to change.
Jayci Logan scored while being fouled and made the free throw to complete the three-point play. Only a few seconds later Brysen Richey dribbled into a pull-up 3-pointer from the top of the arc and drilled it.
The Lady Rabbits now only trailed 41-36 with 3:45 left to play.
After time out, the Lady Loboes held the ball for a minute and scored a basket before Bowie got the ball back. Richey was fouled and sent to the free throw line and drilled both free throws to cut the lead to 43-38 with 2:12 left in the game.
On the inbounds afterwards, the team stole the ball and Taygon Jones scored on a quick layup. Another steal led to Hope Jones scoring a layup. Right after that the Lady Rabbits got another quick steal in the back court and Taygon was fouled under the basket, but not before scoring and giving Bowie a 44-43 lead with 1:31 left to play before her free throw.
After a time out, Taygon missed the free throw and the Lady Loboes drew a foul and were sent to the free throw line, making both to take back the lead 45-44 with 1:18 left to play.
The Lady Rabbis went inside to Hope on their next possession. After a variety of post moves and an extra defender coming late, Hope scored to give Bowie back the lead with just less than a minute to go.
The teams took turns throwing the ball the away out of bounds the next 10 seconds before the Lady Rabbits stole the ball away. After running some clock, Richey was sent to the free throw line with 27 seconds left for a one and one.
The shot hit the back rim, bounced high before rattling in, but not before the officials called the ball dead due to the ball being called out of the field of play.
What could have been a huge break for Cisco was thrown away as Hope jumped a pass at mid-court to steal another ball giving Bowie possession. Taygon was sent to the line with 16 seconds left and made both to up the Lady Rabbits lead to 48-45.
The Lady Loboes made their way to Bowie’s side of the court before calling timeout with 10 seconds left to try and set up the last shot. Another mistake from Cisco came when on the inbounds, the player caught the ball with a foot on the line, giving the ball back to the Lady Rabbits.
Taygon got fouled again and sank both free throws to ice the game. A final heave from the Lady Loboes that did not batter missed and Bowie completed the comeback win 50-46.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
The Red River High School Bass Club competed this past weekend, May 31 – June 1, at the State Tournament on Lake Conroe for the two-day tournament.
Two of the teams from Montague County traveled south to try their best at the culmination of the year for the state title. Teams were able to pre-fish on Friday before the Saturday and Sunday competition. On Friday, there was a flipping contest for the youth and Cooper Johnson won third overall and won a $500 scholarship and an Academy gift card.
The club’s two teams who competed were Lane Smith/Colt Henry with boat captain Jimmy Smith. The team placed 63rd with a total of 16.22 pounds. The second team of Cooper Johnson/Corbyn Patton and boat captain Jayson Toerck placed 169th with a total weight of 2.29 pounds.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekly edition of the Bowie News.
The Maskat Shrine Oil Bowl is this week on June 6-7 and graduating athletes from Bowie, Nocona and Saint Jo are confirmed to be playing.
In total, seven athletes from Bowie, five from Nocona and three from Saint Jo are planning to play in the all-star games this week. Nocona also will have a pair of coaches participating as well.
The girl’s basketball game kicks off events on June 6, scheduled for 6 p.m. at Wichita Falls Memorial High School. In the game, the east team will have Nocona players Avery Crutsinger, Meg Meekins and Reagan Phipps playing while Kyler Spitzer and Clayton Brown coach them one last time.
On the west team, Saint Jo’s Payzlie Cervantes is confirmed to be playing.
The boy’s basketball game is scheduled to follow at 7:30 p.m. On the east team, Bowie’s Boston Farris and Nocona’s Jose Gomez Jr. will be playing.
On June 7, the volleyball games are scheduled to start at 4 p.m. with the small school game. On the west team, Nocona’s Kaygan Stone and Saint Jo’s Taylor Patrick are confirmed to play. On the east team, Saint Jo’s Aubrey Morman will get to play her teammate.
There are no local athletes confirmed to be playing in the big school volleyball game.
The final event is the football game, scheduled for 7:30 p.m. at Memorial Stadium. It is an all Bowie affair with six players confirmed to be playing for the east team: Justin Clark, Jorge De Leon, Hunter Fluitt and Braden Rhyne, Preacher Chambers and Moh Azouak.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekly edition of the Bowie News.
Nocona Independent School District officials looked inward for a new athletic director/head football coach, selecting Jeff Hill for the position.
Hill, who served last year as Nocona football’s offensive coordinator and also led the softball program to the playoffs for the first time in a while as its head coach, was upgraded to the role.
This came on the heels of former Athletic Director Blake Crutsinger, who served in the role the last four years, resigned in May.
For Hill, the choice to apply for the position was a no brainer. His one year in Nocona had impressed upon him and his wife that it was the place they would like to be long term.
“I’m looking for a town to raise my kids in and Nocona has treated my family really well,” Hill said. “There are some really good people. The kids work hard. Everything I am looking for in a hometown is right here in Nocona and I want to try and make it as best as it can be, especially through athletics.”
Before Nocona, Hill served as the athletic director at S&S Consolidated while also spending time at Hebron and Whitewright in his coaching career.
Hill expresses great respect for the departing Crutsinger and besides changing a few small things in how he personally wants to do things, he is not trying to come in with a sweeping restructuring of the whole athletic department.
The program had five of its six team sports make the playoffs, with volleyball playing in the regional final and the girl’s basketball team winning the state championship.
That along with two athletes competing at the state championship in cross country and track with one earning a gold medal, it was one of the more successful school years in athletic program history.
“Coach Crutsinger was awesome and did a great job so honestly just little tweaks, a little bit of structure and cohesion amongst the coaching staff between boys and girls,” Hill said. “I hope to keep the winning tradition going overall in the athletic department.”
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekly edition of the Bowie News.
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