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Bowie baseball beats Seymour 4-1
The Bowie Jackrabbit baseball team won its official last home game on Tuesday playing a non-district game against Seymour on senior night.
The Jackrabbits won 4-1 against the Panthers.
Bowie was trying to get a good game in with an off date in its schedule. Seymour is a 2A team, but is heading to the playoffs as well and is sitting second in its district so both teams could benefit from the game despite no stakes.
Kynan DeMoss got the start on the mound and despite a two-out single later advancing to second on a wild pitch, nothing came of it as the next batter grounded out to third base.
The Bowie bats came out looking to grab control of the game. Tucker Jones and Carson Sanders took advantage of some early control problems from the Panther pitcher and drew walks with one out.
DeMoss then came through with his bat, hitting a single that drove in one run, advancing to second base on the throw home and putting two runners in scoring position on second and third.
Troy Kesey then took advantage with a deep fly ball to left field that drove in both base runners. He advanced to second base on the throw and Bowie led 3-0. Unfortunately, that would be the end despite Kesey eventually making it to third base.
The next three innings were a scoreless affair. The only highlights for either team offensively were both drawing two out walks that did not lead to anything.
The fifth inning saw some offense pick up for both sides. Seymour led off with a single. The base runner took advantage of two passed balls and a wild pitch to work around bases before scoring, cutting the lead to 3-1. DeMoss responded by striking out the next two batters and forcing a groundout at shortstop.
Bowie responded the same inning. With two outs, Jones was hit by a pitch to get on base. He successfully stole second and then third base during the next at-bat before Sanders drove him in with a single to right field. Getting the run back, the Jackrabbits now led 4-1.
DeMoss followed and a hard hit ground ball got past the shortstop for an error that put two runners on base. Unfortunately the next batter struck out on a foul tip for out three.
The sixth inning saw one runner get on for both teams, but each were caught on the base paths for out three. The Panthers got one runner on thanks to a dropped third strike that was a passed ball with one out. He was later caught trying to steal second by catcher Connor Earp.
With two outs, Bowie’s A.J. Whatley was able to get on base with a single. Trying to use his speed to get into scoring position, unfortunately he was caught at second base as well.
DeMoss and the defense then ended the game in the top of the seventh inning.
A groundout to the shortstop for out one, a strikeout swinging for out two and then a groundout to third base for out three ended the game with little drama.
Bowie won 4-1.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.
The Bowie sports banquets was on Monday night. Olivia Gill and Tucker Jones were named Jackrabbit and Lady Rabbit of the year. Pick up the mid-week paper for all of the sports team awards and pictures.
The 72nd Chisholm Trail Rodeo was a big success on Friday and Saturday nights at Nocona.
The rodeo had big crowds and saw some good competition from both local and far reaching talent.
Winners in the events included Zach Hibler in bareback riding, Lindsey Muggli in barrel racing, Ashley Goforth in breakaway roping, Leanardo Lima in bull riding, Cody McCartney in calf roping, Thomas Moellering in ranch bronc riding, Wacey Hathcock in saddle bronc riding, Renato Finazzi in steer wrestling, Rowdy Jones and Rance Doyal in team roping.
To see full results and more pictures, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
The regional tennis tournaments were late last week in North Richland Hills and a doubles team is moving on to state.
The Saint Jo girl’s doubles team Kyler Dunn and Taylor Patrick won the 1A region III tournament and will return to state for the second straight year.
The pair rolled through teams from Morgan, Dodd City, Priddy before beating a Graford team in the finals. The pair did not lose a set and only lost five of the 53 games it played, never losing more than one in a set.
The team made it to state last year after finishing second at regionals and won a match at the state meet against a team from Vernon Northside. They then lost to the eventual state champion team from Utopia and finished tied for third place.
They will be the only tennis players from Montague County playing at state this week as others did not have as successful regional tournament.
The Saint Jo teammates and fellow girl’s doubles team Bailie Nobile and Maxey Johnson won their first match against Ector 6-1, 6-4, but fell in their next match against Lometa, 6-1, 6-1.
From Prairie Valley, Case Carpenter was competing in boy’s singles. His first match was a draining two and half hour battle against a player from Strawn Carpenter came through in the three-set battle, winning 6-4, 5-7, 6-4.
Unfortunately, the magic was not there in the second game. Paired against the eventual tournament champion from Gustine, Carpenter lost 6-0, 6-1.
From Gold-Burg, Alyson Rojas and Jimena Garcia competed in girl’s singles. Rojas won her first match against a girl from Avinger 7-6, 6-2. Unfortunately, the next match she lost to a girl from Graford 6-0, 6-0 to end her tournament.
Garcia lost a tough first match against a player from Ector. Both sets could have gone either way with the scores being 6-4, 7-5 to the winner.
The mixed doubles team from Forestburg, Jesse Wadsworth and Alli Cisneros, also did not make it through.
From Nocona, Kaygan Stone was playing in the girl’s singles 2A region II tournament.
Unfortunately, she got paired against the player who would go on to win the tournament in the first round to end her season.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
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