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The Jackrabbits hang on to beat Burkburnett
| The Bowie Jackrabbits overcame the rough full-court pressure from Burkburnett on Tuesday to win their second game. The Jackrabbits held on to get the close win 68-64 against a Bulldogs team every area team must experience once early in the season if they want to see how how good they are at breaking presses. The 4A Burkburnett team does not just full-court press and trap, but with a fast offense full of 3-pointers and baskets off of turnovers, it is battling the energy from the Bulldogs team and trying to never let it grow out of control. Bowie got out to an early lead in the first quarter. The Jackrabbits knocked in three 3-pointers while also making the fundamental plays to break the press and make the Bulldogs pay. On defense, Bowie limited Burkburnett to only eight points as the Jackrabbits lead was double-digits 19-8 heading into the second quarter. While the Bulldogs picked up the pace a bit in the second quarter on offense, the Jackrabbits did not slow down any. The lead slowly increased as Bowie’s offense continued to get to its spots and score baskets. The Jackrabbits lead was 37-20 heading into halftime, but they knew there was a run coming from Burkburnett. Offensively it came in third quarter from the Bulldogs. Burkburnett made five 3-pointers in the quarter while more than doubling its first half point total with 27 points. The bench was loud and the energy increased as shots kept going in for the Bulldogs. Bowie scored at a similar pace it had in the first half to keep its lead, but Burkburnett were nipping at the lead down 55-47 heading into the fourth quarter. The Bulldogs offense cooled down a bit from 3-point range in the fourth, but eventually did tie the game up midway through the fourth quarter. Luckily, the Jackrabbits never let Burkburnett take the lead. Down the stretch clutch free throws from Drew Weber and A.J. Whatley made it a two possession game late in the game that Bowie never let up, winning 68-64. To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie New. |
The Bowie sports banquets was on Monday night. Olivia Gill and Tucker Jones were named Jackrabbit and Lady Rabbit of the year. Pick up the mid-week paper for all of the sports team awards and pictures.
The 72nd Chisholm Trail Rodeo was a big success on Friday and Saturday nights at Nocona.
The rodeo had big crowds and saw some good competition from both local and far reaching talent.
Winners in the events included Zach Hibler in bareback riding, Lindsey Muggli in barrel racing, Ashley Goforth in breakaway roping, Leanardo Lima in bull riding, Cody McCartney in calf roping, Thomas Moellering in ranch bronc riding, Wacey Hathcock in saddle bronc riding, Renato Finazzi in steer wrestling, Rowdy Jones and Rance Doyal in team roping.
To see full results and more pictures, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
The regional tennis tournaments were late last week in North Richland Hills and a doubles team is moving on to state.
The Saint Jo girl’s doubles team Kyler Dunn and Taylor Patrick won the 1A region III tournament and will return to state for the second straight year.
The pair rolled through teams from Morgan, Dodd City, Priddy before beating a Graford team in the finals. The pair did not lose a set and only lost five of the 53 games it played, never losing more than one in a set.
The team made it to state last year after finishing second at regionals and won a match at the state meet against a team from Vernon Northside. They then lost to the eventual state champion team from Utopia and finished tied for third place.
They will be the only tennis players from Montague County playing at state this week as others did not have as successful regional tournament.
The Saint Jo teammates and fellow girl’s doubles team Bailie Nobile and Maxey Johnson won their first match against Ector 6-1, 6-4, but fell in their next match against Lometa, 6-1, 6-1.
From Prairie Valley, Case Carpenter was competing in boy’s singles. His first match was a draining two and half hour battle against a player from Strawn Carpenter came through in the three-set battle, winning 6-4, 5-7, 6-4.
Unfortunately, the magic was not there in the second game. Paired against the eventual tournament champion from Gustine, Carpenter lost 6-0, 6-1.
From Gold-Burg, Alyson Rojas and Jimena Garcia competed in girl’s singles. Rojas won her first match against a girl from Avinger 7-6, 6-2. Unfortunately, the next match she lost to a girl from Graford 6-0, 6-0 to end her tournament.
Garcia lost a tough first match against a player from Ector. Both sets could have gone either way with the scores being 6-4, 7-5 to the winner.
The mixed doubles team from Forestburg, Jesse Wadsworth and Alli Cisneros, also did not make it through.
From Nocona, Kaygan Stone was playing in the girl’s singles 2A region II tournament.
Unfortunately, she got paired against the player who would go on to win the tournament in the first round to end her season.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
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