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Lady Rabbits win last home game

Published

2 years ago

02/05/2022

The Bowie Lady Rabbits were able to secure at least a third place finish in the district with their win against City View on Tuesday night.
The Lady Rabbits won with little drama this time around 59-47 against the athletic Lady Mustangs.
Bowie was coming into the game knowing it needed to win in order to not lose its place in the district standings. The first game went into overtime after City View came storming back in the fourth quarter. The Lady Rabbits barely won that game 52-50.
Tuesday’s game started with the Lady Mustangs leading first in slow paced quarter that ended with a bang. Down 9-8 with less than two minutes to play, Bowie went on a 10-4 run to end the quarter. The team made three 3-pointers against City View’s zone in the quarter that forced the Lady Mustangs to switch defenses and the Lady Rabbits also drew five free throws.
Both teams were nearly in the bonus after the first quarter as Bowie was up 18-13.
The second quarter saw the Lady Rabbits go on an even more impressive run in the first 3:30.
The team continuously got stops, pushed the ball up the floor and either scored layups or got to the free throw line. Bowie went on a 14-0 run before City View scored its first basket of the quarter.
The run allowed the Lady Rabbits to take a comfortable lead into halftime 36-21.
The second half saw Bowie struggle a bit more scoring the ball once transition opportunities dried up. City View tried to use its size advantage inside, as well as the Lady Rabbits attention to double-teaming one of its players in the post, to get close shots around the basket.
The Lady Mustangs seemed to slow the game down and with their defense making it harder to drive to the basket or make 3-pointers. Bowie did a good enough job on defense to not let the bigger and taller Lady Mustangs bully them. City View only outscored them 10-8 to make the smallest dent in the lead 44-31 heading into the fourth quarter.
This was a similar position Bowie found itself in in the first game. A frantic City View team turned up the pressure and came back from a big lead to tie the game up and force overtime.
The Lady Mustangs switched things up on defense starting the fourth quarter, switching to a half court trapping scheme to try and up the pressure. This allowed Bowie to take advantage of the aggression and make them pay.
Even with City View drawing even more free throws and starter Macon Chambers fouling out as a result, the Lady Rabbits never got nervous or let the Lady Mustangs start to build any sort of comeback momentum.
Even win the final three minutes when City View switched to a full-court press, Bowie did not let that change much. The Lady Mustangs were never able to get the lead closer than 10 points, especially with them going 5-12 from the free throw line in the quarter.
The Lady Rabbits closed out the game well winning 59-47.

To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.

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Nocona new press box put into place

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2 days ago

07/20/2024

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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.

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Richey repeats at IFYR

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2 days ago

07/20/2024

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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.

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Youth rodeo awards presented

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2 days ago

07/20/2024

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The Chisholm Trail Youth Rodeo presented awards for its summer season this week. Tess Egenbacher won the top cowgirl buckle for the 13-18 age division, which was presented to her by Kyle Bishop. (Courtesy photo)

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.