SPORTS
Indians win rematch at Bowie
In a rematch between Bowie and Nocona boy’s basketball teams on Tuesday, a controversial late call seemed to turn the tide.
The Indians avenged their earlier loss to the Jackrabbits, winning 45-38 at Bowie’s court in a similar physical game.
Up until the fourth quarter it had been a back-and-forth affair with neither team establishing any sort of big lead.
With Bowie up 32-30 with 3:36 left in the game, there was a tussle on the ground for a loose ball. The whistle sounded and there was some extra curricular stuff after the play. After some confusion, a foul call and a technical foul were issued against the Jackrabbits.
Because the Indians were already in the bonus, they were awarded four free throws and the ball.
Senior guard Landry McCasland then stepped up to make all four free throws to give Nocona the lead 34-32. After running some clock with the lead, the Jackrabbits were forced to foul. Younger brother Brady McCasland then stepped up and made both of his free throws to give the Indians a 36-32 lead with three minutes to play.
Nocona would go on to make nine of its next 12 free throw attempts in the final minutes to ice the game as Bowie just did not make enough shots down the stretch to come back.
The game was physical and tense throughout. Despite the intentional free throws at the end of the game, free throws were not give out freely for most of the night which allowed both teams defenses to aggressively contest.
This led to the Jackrabbits leading only 6-5 after the first quarter.
The Indians started to try and attack in isolation with both McCasland brothers finding crafty ways to penetrate and get up shots and even drawing some of those elusive free throws. Nocona led 18-14 at halftime.
Bowie made a couple of shots in the third quarter that did not come regularly in the first half. Drew Weber and Cade Thompson each made 3-pointers while combining to score 11 of the team’s 14 points during the quarter.
The Jackrabbits continued to have trouble with anyone with the last name McCasland, as both brothers combined to score nine of the team’s 10 points in the third quarter. The score was tied at 28-28 heading into the fourth quarter.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.
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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