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Bowie girls continue to struggle in first tournament
The Bowie Lady Rabbits played in their first tournament of the season at their hosted Hoopin’ into the Holidays.
The Lady Rabbits continued to struggle as they finished fourth and lost all of their games during the two-day tournament Monday and Tuesday.
Bowie first started the against the eventual tournament champion Bridgeport. After a close first half the Sissies exploded for 24 points in the third quarter. That was enough to pull away as they won 56-34.
Tagyon Jones and Maddie Mandela led the team with eight points each.
The next game the Lady Rabbits lost to Burkburnett in overtime. The Lady Bulldogs pulled away in the extra period as Bowie did not score in overtime. Burkburnett won 52-45. Individual stats from the game were not sent.
The team then lost to Childress (score was not sent) to set up the Lady Rabbits playing the Lady Bulldogs for third place.
After a low scoring first half in which Bowie did not score in the second quarter, Burkburnett led 24-9.
The Lady Rabbits cut into the lead as a bit as they scored 15 points in the third quarter, led by three 3-pointers from Jones. The Lady Bulldogs still led by double-digits heading into the fourth quarter 35-24.
Bowie finished strong, making the game closer than the final score at certain points, but Burkburnett made enough shots and free throws down the stretch to close out the game with the win, 46-37.
Jones led the team with 15 points on five 3-pointers. Neely Price was second with six points.
Though the results were not what he wanted, Coach Matthew Miller is liking the way his team is playing as the health of this inexperienced team has not been good to start out the season.
“At times we really showed a lot of improvement,” Miller said. “It’s just hard to remember the fact that this is a long road ahead and we need to get healthy.”
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekend 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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