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Bowie girls lose opening game
The Bowie Lady Rabbits kicked off their season on Saturday morning playing a top 10 ranked team in the state in 1A Slidell.
The Lady Greyhounds won 49-40 in a physical game where the Lady Rabbits are trying to figure things out.
With the volleyball team losing only four days before, new Coach Matthew Miller only had three days of practice with his full team before the game.
Still Bowie started the game well, playing physical defense and leading 8-2 late in the first quarter. Slidell scored two buckets late to cut the lead to 8-6 heading into the second quarter.
It was another close quarter with neither team breaking away. The Lady Greyhounds did make one adjustment a few minutes before halftime when they switched defenses from man-to-man to an aggressive zone.
This threw off Bowie and led to several turnovers that led to Slidell leading 18-17 at halftime.
The start of the third quarter went wrong for the Lady Rabbits. The not making one in the first half, the Lady Greyhounds started making some 3-pointers.
Within the first minute Slidell upped the lead to 24-17 and eventually increased it to double-digits.
Bowie was navigating the zone better, but could not do its drive-and-kick offense it wanted to do.
The zone did give up corner 3-pointers and the Lady Rabbits got several open shots. Unfortunately, only two went in during the quarter and not much else as the team got no free throw attempts.
Slidell had four go in and pushed the ball off of misses before dumping it to a tall post player to finish baskets inside.
The Lady Greyhounds led 39-25 heading into the fourth quarter and Bowie needed to find a way to turn the game around.
The Lady Rabbits did turn things around as they stopped settling for outside shots. Leading scorer Ziba Robbins scored nine of her team high 15 points during the fourth quarter as the team upped its defensive intensity.
At one point Bowie had cut the lead down to 39-34 with 4:20 left to play, but that would be as close as the Lady Rabbits got. Slidell made enough of its free throws down the stretch and did not turn the ball over a ton that led to quick scores.
The lead climbed back up while the Bowie struggled to score for the rest of the game as the Lady Greyhounds won 49-40.
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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