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Bowie softball loses
After starting out district play with a win, the Bowie Lady Rabbits lost their next two district games.
Henrietta beat them on the road on Saturday 17-7 and Jacksboro won 12-4 on Monday.
The game against the Lady Cats was rescheduled for Saturday due to the weather on Friday. Coming off a big win where Bowie scored a lot of runs in its win against Nocona, the Lady Rabbits started the game on the right foot.
Stephanie Allen hit an RBI triple in the first inning and would later score on a passed ball to put Bowie up 2-0. The Lady Cats would tie the score in the same inning before a scoreless second inning.
In innings three, four and five Henrietta would score nine runs to take control of the game. Bowie answered back in the sixth inning.
Allen drove in a run with a single. Katie Boyles followed with an RBI single. Later in the inning Addie Farris drove in two runs with a triple. She would later score on a passed ball to cut the lead down to 11-7.
Unfortunately, Bowie’s defense could not feed off the momentum change. Henrietta scored six runs to end the game one inning early due to run-rule as the Lady Cats won 17-7.
Allen and Farris both led the team with two RBIs each while both also hit triples in the game.
The defense was not good as the team committed six fielding errors. Of the nine runs given up by starting pitcher Kaylie Kinney in the first three innings, only two were earned. Sadie Britt came in to pitch the final two innings.
Monday’s game at home against Jacksboro again started well for the Lady Rabbits. After giving up no runs to the Lady Tigers in the first inning, Bowie scored three runs.
With two runners on base, Allen hit a ball to second base that induced an error that allowed one run to score.
Allen then successfully stole second base thanks to another error on the throw, which allowed two more runs to score and make it 3-0.
The next three innings saw Jacksboro score two runs each inning to take the lead. The Lady Tigers added one more in the fifth inning to lead 7-3. Bowie answered in the bottom of the fifth inning as Maddie Mandela grounded out to second base, but drove in a run to cut the lead to 7-4.
The defense then came through and prevented the Lady Tigers from scoring in the sixth inning for the first time since inning one. Unfortunately, Bowie’s offense could not make up the three run lead as the game moved to the seventh inning.
Jacksboro then exploded for its biggest offensive inning of the game, scoring five runs to build up its lead to 12-4. Unfortunately, the Lady Rabbit offense could not get any base runners on and ended the game.
Mandela got the team’s only RBI in the game as the three runs in the first inning came on the base paths. Farris hit the only extra base hit of the game for Bowie with a triple.
The defense played better with only two fielding errors, but they still cost big. Of the 12 runs given up, eight were earned. Jacksboro did most of its damage by getting 14 hits in the game.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
It was announced last week Nocona Athletic director/football coach Blake Crutsinger is resigning from his position at the school after serving four years.
Crutsinger said now is the time for his family to make the move, with his daughter Avery graduating after spending four years at Nocona and with his son Kellar about to enter high school and wanting the same for him at another school.
“With her going off to college, she had a really good four years here and just looking at Keller heading into high school and exploring some opportunities that might be better for him, it is just time,” Crutsinger said.
Crutsinger went 19-22 overall, helping the Indians to two playoff appearances in 2022 and 2023. The team’s best season was 2023, when it went 8-2 and won the district title, the first one in 11 years for the program.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekly edition of the Bowie News.
Saint Jo senior Payzlie Cervantes signed her letter of intent to play college basketball last week at Highland College in Kansas. She also played volleyball, softball and ran track at Saint Jo. “After talking with Coach Tana Coleman, I really connected with her and loved the campus vibe and direction she wants for the team,” Cervantes said. “I’m looking forward to continuing my basketball career while getting my associates degree in nursing to become a registered nurse.”
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekly edition of the Bowie News.
Last week Montague County had five girls from Bowie and Saint Jo compete at the state tennis tournament, and one team brought back some hardware.
Sisters from Bowie, junior Heidi and freshman Willow Siebert brought back a bronze medal competing in the 3A girl’s doubles bracket.
The pair were the first people from the program to make it back to state since their half sisters, Meagan and Myah Russell, advanced nine years previously.
The Sieberts came into state as a two-seed, having finished second at the regional tournament the previous week.
The duo was ready as they blew through their first two matches. They beat a team from Hondo in the first round with the scores being 6-1, 6-1 and dominated even more in the second round against a team from Tatum, winning 6-0, 6-1.
That got them through to the second day of the tournament, but Coach Dayna Boothe was worried they had had it too easy on day one.
Playing in the semifinals, the Lady Rabbits faced a familiar foe, a team from Peaster they had beaten in the regional tournament the previous week. Unfortunately, near the end of the first set, with the Sieberts fighting to stay alive, Heidi went after a high lob and slammed into the fence. She hurt her right arm and had to play through it for the rest of the match.
They lost the match with the scores being 6-3, 6-3.
It was an all Peaster final, with the other side of the bracket producing the team that both beat the Sieberts at the regional tournament and won their second straight state title.
Still, despite the disappointment, Bowie is bringing back a bronze medal. According to Boothe, after contacting people who would know dating back to the late 1970s, it could possibly be the program’s first medals from the state tournament in tennis.
Of course, Bowie was not the only school represented. Saint Jo had Taylor Patrick competing in girl’s singles and the team of Bailie Nobile and Maxey Johnson competing in girl’s doubles in the 1A classification.
Senior Patrick was making her third appearance at the state tournament, but her first in the singles competition.
She finished third at the regional meet which meant she had a tough first round matchup against a second seed from Fort Davis.
It took everything from Patrick in a match that lasted two and a half hours. She went down in the first set 6-2, but rebounded in a tight second set to win 6-4 to force a third and final set. She had the momentum and won 6-2 to move on.
She had to summon the energy to play later that day against a fresh one-seed player from Utopia. Patrick lost 6-1, 6-1 to end her Saint Jo career. Her opponent would go on to finish second.
Juniors Johnson and Nobile were making their first appearances at the state meet after finishing second at the regional tournament. In the first round they played a tough match against a team from Marathon. It seemed evenly matched throughout, but small mistakes at inopportune times cost them throughout the match. In the end, the team lost by the scores of 6-3, 6-3.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekly edition of the Bowie News.
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