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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.
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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