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Bowie softball plays in first tournament
The Bowie Lady Rabbits’ softball team competed in its first tournament at Jacksboro last week and did quite well.
Despite missing more than half of their team to basketball, the Lady Rabbits still posted a 3-2 record after three days, outscoring their opponents 39-23 and playing in the gold bracket.
Bowie started the tournament on a good note, beating Mineral Wells 9-3 in just three innings. Highlights included freshman Kenzi Short hitting a 3-run home run and Kylie Fleming hitting a two RBI triple.
The same day the Lady Rabbits played Lake Worth, winning even more dominantly 14-0 in only two innings. Short again hit a home run and drove in five runs while Alexa Holzer drove two runs while pitching a perfect two innings.
Friday provided more of a challenge. Bowie had a good first two innings, but failed to score after that while Northside scored in the third and fourth innings to win 8-4 after five innings.
No one drove in more than one run, but Fleming did hit a triple and Holzer drove in a run on a double.
Saturday wrapped up the tournament for the Lady Rabbits with two tough games.
Bowie first played familiar area foe Paradise. Despite leading most of the game, the Lady Panthers made a run in the third inning to tie the game 6-6. The Lady Rabbits responded with three runs in the fourth to take the lead 9-6, with the game stopping after Paradise failed to answer.
Highlights included Holzer and Hannah Love each driving in two runs, with Love also hitting a double.
Bowie wrapped up the tournament facing district competitor Henrietta.
With neither team wanting to show the other anything close to their best stuff, both teams put out different pitchers than they will likely use when they meet up for district.
The Lady Cats broke tie 3-3 game in the third inning, scoring three runs to give them the win 6-3 after three and half innings.
Highlights for the Lady Rabbits included Layla Felts driving in two runs on a double.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week 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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