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Jackrabbits bounce back with 63-40 win
The Bowie Jackrabbits picked up a good win at home against Breckenridge on Tuesday.
The Jackrabbits won the game with little drama 63-40 thanks to some lock down defense at one point.
Bowie started off the game hot, rushing out to a 15-2 lead midway through the first quarter. Cade Thompson scored 11 points and made three 3-pointers during this early stretch.
After a timeout, the Buckaroos got themselves together. Their big frontline provided some challenges for the Jackrabbits with their size and skill. Breckenridge won the rest of the quarter 10-5, cutting the lead to 20-12.
With a bit of momentum heading into the second quarter, it looked like the Buckaroos might continue cutting into the lead.
Bowie was forced to go small due to foul troubles and for whatever reason, the press defense picked up and started causing chaos for Breckenridge. Jackrabbit defenders were flying all over the court, contesting hard even when an open shot became available.
Bowie on offense was able to penetrate against the Buckaroos zone defense and challenge their post players at the rim while also scoring some in transition.
The Jackrabbits slowly, but surely pulled away as the quarter went along. It wasn’t until afterwards that everyone realized Breckenridge had failed to score a single point in the second quarter.
With Bowie’s lead now 34-12, the Jackrabbits just needed to avoid collapsing themselves offensively to secure a win.
The third quarter saw the teams return to much more competitive play as the Buckaroos started the quarter 10-6 midway through. This is when they took a big hit as their biggest post presence fouled out of the game, despite not a ton of foul calls in the game.
This allowed Breckenridge to throw out its standard offense and just put the ball in the hands of its other versatile post player who had some perimeter skills as he started shooting 3-pointers.
The Buckaroos scored 22 points in the third quarter as this more wide open offense seemed to work as he scored 15 of those points.
This also was good for Bowie on offense because now there was little resistance at the rim. Breckenridge tried to switch to man-to-man defense to give up fewer outside shots, but several Jackrabbits were able to drive by their man and get layups.
The press was still causing some problems and the up and down nature of the game still led to Bowie getting some easy baskets off of turnovers.
The Jackrabbits lead had shrunk a bit, but not by much as they led 50-34 heading into the fourth quarter.
The game seemed to get real loose and sloppy at times during this period. After several turnovers in a row from Bowie because players were trying to score in transition, the team started to try and slow things down.
The Buckaroos offense was significantly cooled off from their third quarter explosion and the Jackrabbits just needed to wind down the clock, which is what they did in the final few minutes of the game. Bowie won 63-40.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekend 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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