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Jackrabbits beat Henrietta 64-48
The Bowie Jackrabbits won at home against Henrietta on Tuesday thanks to a good second half.
The Jackrabbits won by double-digits 64-48 after a tight first half where they had to overcome some things.
The Bearcats came in with size and length and wanted to score posting up inside. Early on the foul troubles started to pile up for some of Bowie’s front court players.
The Jackrabbits did their best to weather the storm playing small against some of the big and skilled Henrietta players. By the end of the first quarter the Bearcats were already in the bonus while Bowie had drawn one foul.
The Jackrabbits got a lift from their shooting, making two timely 3-pointers and finishing at the rim over the big bodies.
Despite the foul troubles, Bowie came out of the first quarter on top 12-9.
The second quarter was similar. Both teams tried to play up-tempo to counter the full-court defenses employed by both teams at times.
In the half court, Henrietta decided to play man-to-man instead of the usual two-three zone defense the Jackrabbits were expecting, but they used this to their advantage. Bowie ball handlers were routinely able to get by their defender and into the lane before kicking it back outside for either an open perimeter shot or a more clear lane to drive.
All of the Jackrabbits scoring came from bench players led by Brody Armstrong, who knocked in a couple of 3-pointers and scored seven points during the quarter.
Henrietta slowly caught up to Bowie’s fast start to the quarter, cutting an 18-11 lead two minutes into the quarter to a 25-22 lead at halftime.
The pace picked up for both teams in the third quarter, which favored the Jackrabbits. The driving and kicking continued to flourish against the Bearcats defense. The team made three 3-pointers. Riley Blackburn came in and scored eight points around the rim after dump off passes by teammates.
Bowie almost doubled its first half total, scoring 21 points. Henrietta was not too far behind though. Long perimeter player Baron Brown woke up after a scoreless first half to score nine points in the third quarter.
It was not enough to keep up with the Jackrabbits, but Bowie’s lead 46-37 was far from safe heading into the final period of the game.
Any thought of the Bearcats coming back to make it a close game went away in the opening minutes of the fourth quarter. Bowie upped its lead to 53-39 and its offense did not look like it was going to be slowed down.
The teams played fairly even for the rest of the quarter. Henrietta had to start fouling and sending Jackrabbits to the free throw line to save time, but Bowie players made seven of 10 during the quarter to make the Bearcats pay.
By the end of the game, the bench was cleared for the Jackrabbits as they won with relative ease 64-48.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.
Bowie had six players play in the Maskat Shrine Oil Bowl football all-star game. For pictures from not just the football game, but the basketball and volleyball games as well that feature athletes from Bowie, Nocona and Saint Jo, click here https://www.dotphoto.com/go.asp?l=bnews1&AID=6875584&T=1
Nocona is welcoming back Coach Sandy Langford, former coach and alumnus for the Lady Indians, as its new volleyball head coach.
Langford comes back to Nocona after spending the past 11 years leading the Glen Rose volleyball program.
Her circumstances with her family allowed her to jump at the opportunity once she became aware the position at Nocona was available.
“My youngest graduated and is playing football at Midwestern (State University),” Langford said. “All of our family is here and I knew that Coach Kara (Lucherk) was leaving. We were eventually going to retire here. Our oldest son plays college football at West Texas A&M and we’ll be two hours closer to him as well.”
She again will lead the Lady Indians volleyball program, one that she led all the way to the state title game in 2011, which is the farthest the volleyball program has ever gone in its prestigious history.
Langford kept up that level of success during her 11 years at the bigger 4A Glen Rose. She won less than 20 games only twice during her time, winning her 500th career game back in 2023. Her teams were ranked among the top 10 in the state five times and Langford led Glen Rose to the state tournament in 2017, the best finish in program history.
With the Lady Indians also having its own string of success, appearing in back-to-back regional finals while finishing atop the district standings both years, Langford is excited to not just keep the success going, but shoot for the stars.
“We are not expecting anything less than a state championship,” Langford said.
She has stacked the non-district schedule with strong, state-ranked 3A and 4A teams as well as big tournaments that will test Nocona’s mettle early next season in the hopes it will prepare them for a long playoff run.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekly 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.
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