SPORTS
Lady Rabbits win home opener
The Bowie Lady Rabbits won their home opener on Tuesday night against Poolville.
The Lady Rabbits won in blowout fashion 67-41 in a game that was only competitive for about a quarter.
Bowie came into the game fresh off its first win against Era that it won in a blowout.
The Lady Rabbits started the game on the right foot, driving to the basket and scoring enough to go up 8-0 midway through the first quarter.
The Lady Monarchs turned to their best player Emery Bryan who used her big frame and ball handling to score in many different ways. Her 13 points the rest of the quarter kept Poolville in the game even as Bowie continued to score at a good pace.
The Lady Rabbits led 17-13 heading into the second quarter.
Bryan could not keep that up for Poolville though. Bowie changed to a zone defense to try and wall off the paint while also allowing their guards to harass anyone out on the perimeter knowing there was help behind them.
Outside of a couple corner 3-pointers, the Lady Rabbits defense controlled the Lady Monarchs in the second quarter.
On offense, Bowie kept scoring at a good clip even with much of the bench getting valuable playing time. Ziba Robbins scored 11 of the teams 16 points during the quarter as the Lady Rabbits lead was up to 33-19 at halftime.
The third quarter was more of the same. Bowie players were now jumping passing lanes for steals and Poolville dealing with some foul trouble was never able to get back into the game.
Bowie played its regular rotation in the third as Maddie Mandela scored eight of her team high 18 points during the quarter to help lead the team.
Up nearly 20 points heading into the fourth quarter and with Poolville’s Bryan now fouled out, the Lady Rabbits started clearing the bench and playing everyone in platoon like shifts.
The lead stayed secured even with a lot of early season mistakes happening as girls were eager to make plays, sometimes too eager.
Bowie won 67-41.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.
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.
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.
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.
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