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Lady Rabbits win at City View
The Bowie Lady Rabbits won on the road Friday night at City View in a game they are happy to escape.
The Lady Rabbits held on to win 69-63 in a game they were usually comfortably ahead until the end.
Bowie came out on fire in the first quarter making six 3-pointers. The last half of the quarter saw the Lady Rabbits end on a 15-2 run, building their lead to 24-8.
Bowie had a tough time trying to corral some of the Lady Mustangs quick guards, but when the team did with full court trapping, some turnovers were converted to points.
The Lady Rabbits offense calmed down a bit in the second quarter. The team scored pretty well and outscored City View 14-10, extending its lead to 20 points at halftime 38-18.
The game changed significantly in the second half. The physical full-court trapping defense from Bowie started getting fouls called at a much more rapid pace than the first half.
Before the third quarter was over the Lady Mustangs were already in the double-bonus, drawing more than 10 fouls and having attempted 14 free throws after only six in the first half.
This made the Lady Rabbits turn away from full-court pressure on defense to try and avoid committing more fouls, but that did not work.
With all of the free throw attempts and no longer having to worry about navigating the press, the Lady Mustangs more than doubled their first half total in the third quarter, scoring 22 points.
Thankfully for Bowie, despite dealing with foul issues, the team’s offense picked back up. Even with younger players playing large chunks, the Lady Rabbits had seven different players score while putting up 25 points.
Bowie still had more than a 20 point lead heading into the fourth quarter up 63-40, with the foul issue seeming like more of an annoyance that extended the game longer delaying the inevitable.
The Lady Rabbits played a lot of the fourth quarter with bench players with the game wrapped up and since most starters were in some sort of foul trouble. Unfortunately, Bowie’s offense went away in the fourth quarter while City View had a head of steam.
Midway through the quarter with the lead on the brink of shrinking to single digits, Lady Rabbit Coach Joe Crabb inserted his starters back into the game, but little changed.
One of the team’s leading scorers, Abbi Gamblin, quickly picked up her fifth and final foul.
At the end Bowie players started getting sent to the line to preserve time. The Lady Rabbits struggled, making only three out of 12 attempts in the quarter.
The Lady Mustangs kept getting closer, cutting the score to 69-63 with 43 seconds left. Fortunately for Bowie, City View ran out of fire power and time as the Lady Rabbits held on to win.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
In its first match since last year’s state semifinal appearance, Saint Jo hosted Bryson Aug. 11 and took a 25-13, 25-12, 25-21 win over the Cowgirls.
The Lady Panthers lost some talent to graduation but have five seniors ready to have a successful season. Savannah Hil, one of the five, got Saint Jo rolling offensively with a four-point serving string, including a pair of aces. Abby Carter’s kill and Kamron Skidmore’s block helped put the Lady Panthers up 5-2 in game one.
Hadleigh Moore added a four-point string of her own to extend the lead to 10-3. Tatum Morman’s pair, helped by a Hill kill, gave Saint Jo a 14-5 lead. Bryson got within five before a Hill 3-pointer, with help by a Carter kill, put the lead back at 18-10.
After an Olivia Johnson kill broke serve, Jordyn O’Neal served up the final five points, with Johnson providing a kill to move things along.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Despite being the smallest school in the Brock varsity classic volleyball tournament, the Lady Indians finished 4th out of the eight teams there.
After losing to the host team in its first pool play match Aug. 14 18-25, 14-25 and also to Class 3A Wall 12-25, 8-25, Nocona rebounded to close out pool play with a 20-25, 25-23, 25-20 win over Christoval. Sy Parker had 16 kills and 7 blocks in the three matches. Raylea Bowles had 12 kills, 17 digs and served up three aces. Maddyn Bowles had seven kills and 14 digs while Paige Davis had seven kills and 15 digs. Baylee Thomas added 11 digs.
From the setter spot, Kasi Castro had 20 assists, served up five aces and contributed 14 digs. Leah Meekins added 18 assists and six digs during the three matches.
To open Saturday’s bracket play, the Lady Indians posted a 25-18, 18-25, 26-24, 25-19 win over Fort Worth Christian. Castro staked Nocona to a 2-0 lead in game one. Kills by Parker set up pairs of points from Raylea Bowles and Leah Meekins helped Nocona negate an early deficit and take a 10-9 lead.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
County football teams had their first scrimmage of the season Aug. 14 with mixed results.
Forestburg hosted Azle Christian and Victory Christian. Under a new system with new head coach Cori Hayes, the Longhorns looked pretty good in the coach’s eye.
“The first team looked good,” Hayes explained. “Overall we need to work on our pace and blocking assignments and blocking assignments. Overall we looked good for the new regime.”
Forestburg hits the road to scrimmage Newcastle Aug. 21.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
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