SPORTS
Lady Rabbits run out of steam at Holliday
The Bowie Lady Rabbits lost a tough game at Holliday on Friday to lose their second district game.
The Lady Eagles pulled away in the final minutes of a close a game to win 66-56.
The beginning of the game saw the Lady Rabbits come out shooting great from beyond the arc. Against Holliday’s zone defense, Bowie made four 3-pointers.
The Lady Rabbits were trying to show different looks on defense from possession to possession, sometime pressing and sometimes not. What the Lady Eagles did establish was grabbing offensive rebounds.
This created multiple chances, including high percentage shots around the rim as Holliday’s size on the front line proved to be a problem.
It was a close first half. Bowie trailed 19-16 after the first quarter and fell a little further behind at halftime 36-31.
The Lady Rabbits found more lanes to the basket in the third quarter as the game picked up in intensity a bit. Bowie would tie the score or get within one, but multiple times the Lady Eagles would come right back and make a crucial 3-pointer to gain momentum right back.
The game was still close heading into the fourth quarter, with the Lady Rabbits hanging around trailing 51-47.
Bowie started to try and press on defense, cutting the lead to 51-49 early in the quarter. Unfortunately, Holliday did a good job of avoiding crucial mistakes and forcing fouls. Even when the action got crazy with a loose ball, the Lady Eagles always seemed to come out on top during this time.
Maybe because the defense wore them out or because the game was slipping away, but Bowie’s offense struggled to make any baskets in the quarter. The Lady Rabbits did get to the free throw line seven times and made them all, but only made one basket.
It wasn’t enough to keep up with the Lady Eagles, whose lead grew to eight and then 10 points during the quarter.
With both of Bowie’s leading scorers Abbi Gamblin and Jayci Logan fouling out in the final two minutes, there was little hope left.
Holliday made enough free throws down the stretch to win by double-digits 66-56.
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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