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Bowie volleyball drops match to Holliday
The Bowie Lady Rabbits lost a tough match on Tuesday night at home against Holliday.
The Lady Eagles won in straight sets against the Lady Rabbits.
Bowie was coming off a disappointing five-set loss to City View on the road. Holliday provided a bigger challenge, with the program winning every matchup since 2020 between the two teams.
It was a tough start for the Lady Rabbits on Tuesday night.
The Lady Eagles quick setting offense had them up 10-5 and Bowie struggled to close the distance. Holliday would win the set 25-14 to take the early lead.
The second set start also was not good. The Lady Eagles went up 5-0 before later extending it to 14-6 and 20-10.
The Lady Rabbits did do a better job of fighting back at the end of the set. Bowie outscored Holliday 7-5 to close it as the Lady Eagles won 25-17 to go up 2-0.
The third set saw the Lady Rabbits compete the best they had all match. Holliday looked like it was starting to pull away up 12-8, but Bowie fought back.
The Lady Rabbits went on a 9-1 run to take their biggest lead of the match up 17-13. Unfortunately, that would be the highlight of the match.
The Lady Eagles grabbed control and went on their own run that lasted until the end of the set and match. Holliday won set three 25-18 to end the night.
Ziba Robbins led the team with six kills while Gracie Duke was second with five. Olivia Gill and Duke both had a team high three blocks each.
Allie Parr led the team with 12 digs while Callie Curry had 10.
Emily Cueva had a team high 14 assists and Kinley Russell was second with nine.
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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