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Bowie blows out Nocona 72-7
It was a one-sided beat down Friday night as Bowie started its season hosting rival Nocona.
The Jackrabbits won 72-7 against the Indians in a game where not much went right for Nocona and not much went wrong for Bowie.
It is the second straight year the team’s matched up to start the season after not playing for all of the 2010s. The Jackrabbits won last year’s game 35-6, though they did all of their damage in the first half. On Friday Bowie never let up.
After the Jackrabbits’ opening drive went nowhere, the Indians threw an interception to Bowie safety Devin Melton near midfield. The Jackrabbits then went down the field and scored the game’s first points as quarterback Colby Miller threw a 22-yard touchdown pass to Melton to make it 7-0.
Nocona’s offense had trouble trying to establish the run as Bowie kept getting penetration. The Indians tried to roll out quarterback Brady McCasland, who used his feet to try and extend plays, but struggled to connect on many passes.
The Jackrabbits scored on their next two possessions as Miller connected with Jake Fallis for a two-yard touchdown.
Bowie then ran a reverse with Landon Felts lined up at receiver who threw a deep pass to Kynan DeMoss for a 63-yard touchdown pass to make the score 21-0 heading into the second quarter.
The Jackrabbits scored midway through the quarter as running back Matthew McCarty scored on a 37-yard run to make the score 28-0. McCarty would scored twice more during the quarter on 12 and two-yard runs to make the score 41-0 heading into halftime.
The second half saw the Jackrabbits keeping the pressure on despite several flags, including several personal foul calls, being called on them. Despite being backed up at one point, Bowie’s Felts got lose for a long run that eventually set up Miller scoring a touchdown on a short run.
Nocona started to have its most successful drive despite several running backs getting hurt. Miguel Oliveras had the most success running the ball besides quarterback McCasland.
Unfortunately, the Indian fumbles started to add up in the second half, the first one coming when Nocona drove down to Bowie’s 29-yard line.
Ironically it did lead to the Indian only points in the game. The defense forced a Jackrabbit punt and tall Sam Davis blocked the kick which was recovered by Landon Wilson in the end zone for a Nocona touchdown to cut the score to 48-7.
Not wanting to give the Indians any hope of getting any more positive momentum, Bowie immediately responded as Felts rushed for a 34-yard touchdown right before the third quarter ended to make the score 54-7 heading into the fourth quarter.
Felts scored on another long run for Bowie midway through the period. Back-to-back fumble recoveries near midfield set up two more touchdowns. Back-up running backs Jax Johnson and Nathan Curry scored on long runs following the turnovers to bump the lead up to 72-7.
The Jackrabbits recovered one final fumble, this one on a kickoff, before kneeling the ball to run out the clock.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
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Lady Panthers fall in the regional final
The Saint Jo Lady Panthers came up short at the regional final for the third straight season, one game away from state, on Saturday at the regional tournament in Midlothian.
The Lady Panthers beat Evant in straight sets 3-0 on Friday to reach the final game against Harrold which they lost 3-0.
Saint Jo knew before the season even started it would likely come to this big challenge, but it still had to go through all the steps to get there.
The Panthers reached the regional finals the previous two seasons, losing both times to eventual state champion Blum.
With district realignment meant a new region so a rematch with a Blum program that had graduated several key players from those teams would have to wait until state possibly.
Instead, a showdown against last year’s state runner-up Harrold was forecast in the regional final.
With the team having six seniors, with five of them having been on varsity since they were freshman, it was this year or bust for Saint Jo.
First, the Lady Panthers had to beat Evant. The Lady Elks leaned heavily on a big front court player. When she rotated to the back row, Evant showed almost no net resistance which meant Saint Jo hitters had free reign during that time.
The Lady Panthers won each set pretty easily, with the scores being 25-17, 25-17 and 25-19.
This set up the match with Harrold the team had been anticipating. The Lady Hornets had been at or near the top of the state standings since the beginning of the season.
Harrold had so much respect it had even played bigger local schools this season, beating Bowie in straight sets and Nocona in five sets during its pre-district schedule.
The two teams had met earlier in the season when the Lady Hornets attended Saint Jo’s hosted tournament. The two teams met in the tournament championship where Harrold won 2-1.
Still, with the tournament format being a best of three instead of five and the match after playing an exhausting schedule of five matches the previous two days, that result was not gospel, especially two months later.
The challenge is Harrold had multiple big hitters at the net, which is a big deal since most 1A teams are lucky to have one or two, which meant constant pressure on Saint Jo’s defense.
This also meant the Lady Panthers constantly had to find ways to attack the Lady Hornet defense as well or it would face strong hit after strong hit which was unsustainable for any team.
The first set saw the Lady Hornets get out to a good start before the Lady Panthers rallied back and took a little lead 8-7. Unfortunately, it started turn from there.
Harrold had some good runs from the service line that Saint Jo struggled to make much offense out of and led to the Lady Hornets pulling away. Harrold won 4-1 to get the lead to 11-9 and then extended it to 14-11, 17-13. Another 4-1 run and the Lady Hornets could smell the end of the first set coming.
The Lady Hornets won 25-17 to take the lead 1-0.
Saint Jo needed to bounce back, but unfortunately never got anything going in set two.
Harrold led 4-1 and then 8-2. The Lady Panthers would have needed a huge run at some point from the service line to get back into the set, but it never came as the Lady Hornets lead grew more and more.
Harrold took set two 25-13 to go up 2-0 and had all of the momentum.
Saint Jo had its back against the wall, knowing the only option was to hope for a comeback that would lead to a fifth set, but to get there it needed to win set three.
The Lady Panthers initially started on the right foot. After falling being 4-1 to start the previous two sets, it was Saint Jo that started well up 4-1. Unfortunately, the Lady Hornets came roaring back, going on an 8-2 run as it led 9-6, then 12-8 and 15-10.
It looked like it was heading towards a similar place as set one with Harrold slowly running away with the set before the Lady Panthers made one last gasp.
Saint Jo eventually cut the lead down to one point, trailing 20-19 as the set entered the final stretch and the Lady Panthers had their best momentum of the match.
Unfortunately, it was Harrold that was able to close the set out with momentum, earning the final five points to win 25-19 and the match 3-0.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News. For pictures from Friday’s match, click here https://www.dotphoto.com/go.asp?l=bnews1&AID=6870620&T=1
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