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Bowie girls play in hosted tournament
The Bowie Lady Rabbits had an up and down first tournament at their hosted Gayno Shleton’s Hoopin’ into the Holidays Tournament on Monday and Tuesday.
The Lady Rabbits went 1-3 overall during the two days, but every game was close and competitive.
Bowie was coming into the tournament following a close loss against Burkburnett the previous game.
The Lady Rabbits were first matched up with a good 2A Stamford team coached by previous Bowie coach Joe Crabb. It was a low scoring game and Bowie was able to keep the game close with some good defense. Unfortunately, the Lady Rabbits fell behind early and struggled to score against the Lady Bulldogs full-court trapping defense as they lost 35-29.
Bowie ended the first day on a positive with its win against Millsap. The Lady Rabbits were trailing 25-17 at halftime before turning things around in the second half, outscoring the Lady Bulldogs 26-12. Bowie would win 43-37 to finish 1-1 after the first day.
The beginning of the second day saw the Lady Rabbits get a rematch against Burkburnett. It was a tale of two halves as the first half was a defensive struggle between both teams.
Neither team scored in double-figures in the first or second quarters and the Lady Bulldogs went into halftime leading 13-9.
Both teams came out of halftime on fire, more than doubling the first half total in the third quarter alone. Bowie outscored Burkburnett 22-20, which meant the Lady Rabbits were still trailing heading into the fourth quarter down 33-31.
The final period was not quite as frenetic as the third, with both teams scoring at a more normal pace. Unfortunately, the Lady Rabbits fell four points short of the Lady Bulldogs again like they did the previous week, losing 45-41.
Bowie’s final game of the tournament was against Graham. While the Lady Rabbits had spouts of limited success offensively during the tournament and earl this season, it kept up for the entirety against the Lady Blues.
Luckily, Bowie’s defense kept the game close as it was a defensive slog for both teams as points were hard to come by. Graham led 17-13 at halftime.
Unfortunately, the Lady Rabbits could never get anything going despite also holding the Lady Blues to only 13 points in the second half.
Graham won the dogfight 30-26 to end Bowie’s tournament.
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The Red River High School Bass Club competed this past weekend, May 31 – June 1, at the State Tournament on Lake Conroe for the two-day tournament.
Two of the teams from Montague County traveled south to try their best at the culmination of the year for the state title. Teams were able to pre-fish on Friday before the Saturday and Sunday competition. On Friday, there was a flipping contest for the youth and Cooper Johnson won third overall and won a $500 scholarship and an Academy gift card.
The club’s two teams who competed were Lane Smith/Colt Henry with boat captain Jimmy Smith. The team placed 63rd with a total of 16.22 pounds. The second team of Cooper Johnson/Corbyn Patton and boat captain Jayson Toerck placed 169th with a total weight of 2.29 pounds.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekly edition of the Bowie News.
The Maskat Shrine Oil Bowl is this week on June 6-7 and graduating athletes from Bowie, Nocona and Saint Jo are confirmed to be playing.
In total, seven athletes from Bowie, five from Nocona and three from Saint Jo are planning to play in the all-star games this week. Nocona also will have a pair of coaches participating as well.
The girl’s basketball game kicks off events on June 6, scheduled for 6 p.m. at Wichita Falls Memorial High School. In the game, the east team will have Nocona players Avery Crutsinger, Meg Meekins and Reagan Phipps playing while Kyler Spitzer and Clayton Brown coach them one last time.
On the west team, Saint Jo’s Payzlie Cervantes is confirmed to be playing.
The boy’s basketball game is scheduled to follow at 7:30 p.m. On the east team, Bowie’s Boston Farris and Nocona’s Jose Gomez Jr. will be playing.
On June 7, the volleyball games are scheduled to start at 4 p.m. with the small school game. On the west team, Nocona’s Kaygan Stone and Saint Jo’s Taylor Patrick are confirmed to play. On the east team, Saint Jo’s Aubrey Morman will get to play her teammate.
There are no local athletes confirmed to be playing in the big school volleyball game.
The final event is the football game, scheduled for 7:30 p.m. at Memorial Stadium. It is an all Bowie affair with six players confirmed to be playing for the east team: Justin Clark, Jorge De Leon, Hunter Fluitt and Braden Rhyne, Preacher Chambers and Moh Azouak.
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Nocona Independent School District officials looked inward for a new athletic director/head football coach, selecting Jeff Hill for the position.
Hill, who served last year as Nocona football’s offensive coordinator and also led the softball program to the playoffs for the first time in a while as its head coach, was upgraded to the role.
This came on the heels of former Athletic Director Blake Crutsinger, who served in the role the last four years, resigned in May.
For Hill, the choice to apply for the position was a no brainer. His one year in Nocona had impressed upon him and his wife that it was the place they would like to be long term.
“I’m looking for a town to raise my kids in and Nocona has treated my family really well,” Hill said. “There are some really good people. The kids work hard. Everything I am looking for in a hometown is right here in Nocona and I want to try and make it as best as it can be, especially through athletics.”
Before Nocona, Hill served as the athletic director at S&S Consolidated while also spending time at Hebron and Whitewright in his coaching career.
Hill expresses great respect for the departing Crutsinger and besides changing a few small things in how he personally wants to do things, he is not trying to come in with a sweeping restructuring of the whole athletic department.
The program had five of its six team sports make the playoffs, with volleyball playing in the regional final and the girl’s basketball team winning the state championship.
That along with two athletes competing at the state championship in cross country and track with one earning a gold medal, it was one of the more successful school years in athletic program history.
“Coach Crutsinger was awesome and did a great job so honestly just little tweaks, a little bit of structure and cohesion amongst the coaching staff between boys and girls,” Hill said. “I hope to keep the winning tradition going overall in the athletic department.”
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekly edition of the Bowie News.
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