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Bowie softball lights it up
In their final tournament of the season, the Bowie Lady Rabbits softball team had a winning record at Iowa Park last week.
The Lady Rabbits went 3-2 during three days of games, winning in dominating fashion while also being challenged.
The Bowie team did not start the tournament well. The Lady Rabbits played Archer City and lost in frustrating fashion. No Bowie pitcher could find the strike zone. The Lady Rabbits walked 12 Lady Cat batters and hit seven batters during four innings.
Despite only giving up three hits and committing only one fielding error, Archer City still scored 12 runs.
On offense, Bowie had trouble stringing hits together or finding its way on base in any other way. The Lady Cats would go on to win 12-0.
Highlights included extra base hits from Jasmine Jones and Season Eudey.
The Lady Rabbits had nowhere to go but up. Facing Rider next, Bowie bounced back to win in five innings 13-5, scoring at least one run in every inning on offense.
Kyle Fleming led the team with three RBIs while Jayci Logan and Kenzi Short each drove in two. The team had six extra base hits and stole 13 bases, led by Hannah Love swiping three bases.
The next day started bad again for Bowie. Petrolia hit all over the Lady Rabbits, scoring eight runs in the first inning and never looking back. Bowie did good to recover, giving up only one more run in the next three innings, but unfortunately its offense failed to get anything going.
The Lady Rabbits had four hits, with one being an extra base hit from Season Eudey, and failed to draw any walks. Bowie would lose 9-0 to the Lady Pirates.
The Lady Rabbits came into the final day on Saturday looking to finish the tournament strong. Playing a tough game against Tascosa, the teams exchanged runs the entire game.
The Lady Rebels had the lead for most of the game, up 8-3 heading into the bottom of the third inning. Bowie would tie the game the next two innings where the score would stay until Tascosa scored one run in the sixth inning to take a 9-8 lead.
The Lady Rabbits rallied in the final inning, drawing two walks with one out before an RBI single by Love tied the game. With runners in scoring position and only one put, the Lady Rebels allowed a pitch to get by the catcher, allowing Addie Farris to score the winning run on a passed ball. Bowie won 10-9.
Highlights included Jones hitting a three-run home run in the fourth inning to initially tie the game up. She finished with a team high four RBIs. Kenzi Short had two doubles in the game and Jayci Logan had a team high three steals to go with the team’s eight for the game.
The final game of the tournament against Seymour turned out to be a fun one. Both teams were scoring runs in bunches and the Lady Panthers actually led 7-6 after two innings.
Bowie would more than double its run total in the third inning and take over from there. The Lady Rabbits would score three runs or more in five of the six innings in the game while their defense shut Seymour out from the fourth inning on. Bowie would win big 21-9.
Highlights included Gracie Bently driving in a team high four RBIs, including a home run a two doubles.
Logan drove in four runs as well as hitting two doubles. Jones hit her second home run of the day as she drove in three runners.
Holzer only allowed one walk while striking out five batters in four innings of work while the defense had two fielding errors.
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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