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Lady Rabbits win big at Rio Vista
The Bowie Lady Rabbits won their first game back from the holiday break on Tuesday in a non-district game at 2A Rio Vista.
The Lady Rabbits easily dispatched the Lady Eagles 52-22.
Bowie had not played in more than a week when it had won its first district game against Breckenridge. It was one of the team’s best played games of the season after struggling for most of its pre-district schedule thanks to injuries and inexperience.
The team seemed to pick up where it left off against Rio Vista in a game to get the Lady Rabbits ready to resume district play.
Bowie’s defense swarmed and limited the Lady Eagles in the first half, allowing only one basket in each quarter and only three free throw attempts.
The Lady Rabbits offense has had trouble scoring the ball at times this season, but has gotten better of avoiding long slumps by not just relying on shooting open perimeter shots.
It helps when the team is making them though. The team made two 3-pointers in the first quarter and scored 15 points to build a double-digit lead from the get go. The second quarter was more of the same as Bowie scored 15 more points as the team led 30-5 at halftime.
With such a dominating half of play, it was going to be next to impossible for the Lady Rabbits to keep it up in the second half. Rio Vista came out and actually outscored Bowie in the third quarter 13-12.
The Lady Rabbits did finish the game strong though as they limited the Lady Eagles to only four points in the fourth quarter to make up for the one quarter anomaly. With the pace slowed down a lot and bench players finishing out the game, Bowie was able to score in double-digits in the final quarter to not have any offensive slumps in the blowout win that was already decided.
The Lady Rabbits won 52-22.
Taygon Jones continued her recent good shooting while leading the team with 21 points and three 3-pointers. Maddie Mandela was second scoring nine points.
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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