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Bowie boys and girls get challenged at tournaments
Bowie girls
The Bowie Lady Rabbits had a tough final tournament at Poolville last week to get them ready for the rigors district play that starts this week.
The Lady Rabbits went 2-3 overall while playing some tough teams and learning a lot.
Bowie started off the tournament with a dominant win against Chico 41-15. Ziba Robbins led the team with 13 points and Parker Riddle was second with 11 points.
The difficulty quickly ramped up as the Lady Rabbits next played the top ranked 3A private school in the state Lubbock Christian. Bowie lost 55-25 as Robbins had a team high seven points.
In bracket play the next day, Bowie had its best win of the tournament, beating a tough Windthorst team 43-35. Robbins had a team high 12 points followed by Hanna Bell who scored 11 points.
The Lady Rabbits moved on, but ran into eighth ranked team in the state in 3A Paradise. The Lady Wildcats showed why as they beat Bowie 58-30. Emily Cueva led the team with nine points.
The Lady Rabbits final game of the tournament was against Gordon. It was the lowest scoring game of the tournament for Bowie as the defense played lights out, but the ball would not go into the basket for the Lady Rabbits.
Bowie lost 26-18. Riddle led the team with seven points.
Robbins and Cueva each were named to the all-tournament team individually.
Bowie boys
The Bowie boy’s basketball team had a much tougher time playing its second tournament at Graham last week.
The Jackrabbits went 1-3 overall while playing mostly bigger schools after finishing runners-up at S&S Consolidated the previous weekend.
Bowie played well at times and competed well, but just could not do enough of the small things to give it a chance to win in the end of these games.
The Jackrabbits lost to Wichita Falls High School 51-40. Andrew Sandhoff led the team with 19 points while Tucker Jones was second with 11.
Bowie then lost its closest game of the tournament against Lubbock Coranado 57-51. Sandhoff had a team high 18 points while Rayder Mann was second with 11 points.
The Jackrabbits then lost to Sweetwater 54-42 in a game where a bad third quarter dug Bowie too deep of a hole to get out of. Sandhoff scored 17 and Jones scored 10 to lead the team on the scoresheets.
The Jackrabbits got to end the tournament on a high note, dominating Olney 60-23. Sandhoff scored 21 points and Mann scored 16 to lead the team.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
In its first match since last year’s state semifinal appearance, Saint Jo hosted Bryson Aug. 11 and took a 25-13, 25-12, 25-21 win over the Cowgirls.
The Lady Panthers lost some talent to graduation but have five seniors ready to have a successful season. Savannah Hil, one of the five, got Saint Jo rolling offensively with a four-point serving string, including a pair of aces. Abby Carter’s kill and Kamron Skidmore’s block helped put the Lady Panthers up 5-2 in game one.
Hadleigh Moore added a four-point string of her own to extend the lead to 10-3. Tatum Morman’s pair, helped by a Hill kill, gave Saint Jo a 14-5 lead. Bryson got within five before a Hill 3-pointer, with help by a Carter kill, put the lead back at 18-10.
After an Olivia Johnson kill broke serve, Jordyn O’Neal served up the final five points, with Johnson providing a kill to move things along.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Despite being the smallest school in the Brock varsity classic volleyball tournament, the Lady Indians finished 4th out of the eight teams there.
After losing to the host team in its first pool play match Aug. 14 18-25, 14-25 and also to Class 3A Wall 12-25, 8-25, Nocona rebounded to close out pool play with a 20-25, 25-23, 25-20 win over Christoval. Sy Parker had 16 kills and 7 blocks in the three matches. Raylea Bowles had 12 kills, 17 digs and served up three aces. Maddyn Bowles had seven kills and 14 digs while Paige Davis had seven kills and 15 digs. Baylee Thomas added 11 digs.
From the setter spot, Kasi Castro had 20 assists, served up five aces and contributed 14 digs. Leah Meekins added 18 assists and six digs during the three matches.
To open Saturday’s bracket play, the Lady Indians posted a 25-18, 18-25, 26-24, 25-19 win over Fort Worth Christian. Castro staked Nocona to a 2-0 lead in game one. Kills by Parker set up pairs of points from Raylea Bowles and Leah Meekins helped Nocona negate an early deficit and take a 10-9 lead.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
County football teams had their first scrimmage of the season Aug. 14 with mixed results.
Forestburg hosted Azle Christian and Victory Christian. Under a new system with new head coach Cori Hayes, the Longhorns looked pretty good in the coach’s eye.
“The first team looked good,” Hayes explained. “Overall we need to work on our pace and blocking assignments and blocking assignments. Overall we looked good for the new regime.”
Forestburg hits the road to scrimmage Newcastle Aug. 21.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
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