SPORTS
Lady Rabbits lose to Iowa Park
The Bowie Lady Rabbits struggled in their district home opener on Tuesday against Iowa Park.
The Lady Hawks won 45-32 in a game where one bad quarter proved to be the major downfall for the Lady Rabbits.
Bowie was coming into the game following an opening district loss at Holliday by a decent margin.
The Lady Rabbits will be without leading scorer and ball handler Ziba Robbins for the foreseeable future due to an injury and Bowie is still working things out without her even though it’s the most important time of the regular season.
Despite that, the Lady Rabbits started Tuesday’s game positively, getting out to a 6-0 lead in the first two minutes and still leading 6-3 midway through the first quarter.
Bowie was shadowing Iowa Park’s best player to try and limit her touches within the flow of offense. The Lady Hawks started to generate some offense thanks to off-ball movement while also driving the ball off of the pick-and-roll while kicking out to open corner 3-point shots.
The Lady Rabbits limited it enough while scoring well against Iowa Park’s half-court press to lead 11-10 after the first quarter.
Things went wrong in the second quarter as the Lady Hawks were able to take advantage of a quick whistle to draw free throws and made two corner 3-pointers.
Bowie made some free throws as well, but only made one basket as Iowa Park outscored the Lady Rabbits 16-6 to take a 26-17 lead at halftime.
Neither team played good in the third quarter. Every 30 seconds there seemed to be a stop in play either due to a jump ball, travel, unforced turnover or foul call.
Both teams drew a lot of free throws and the Lady Hawks made one more basket, a 3-pointer, to outscore Bowie 11-8 as the Lady Rabbits fell further behind.
The pace slowed down in the fourth quarter as Iowa Park tried to work the clock up double-digits. Bowie could not score enough to get back into the game.
The Lady Hawks won 45-32.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.
Bowie softball had a historic season, where the squad made the postseason for the first time since 2019 and knocked a top seed from the playoffs, come to an end April 29.
No-4 ranked Tuscola Jim Ned got out to a quick start and took an 11-1, five inning win in the area round of the Class 3A Division I playoffs. Bowie had its season end at 19-15.
With a large crowd at Weatherford High rooting them on, Bowie took the field looking to knock out another top seed, as they did with Early last week.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Bowie will have two track athletes at the State track and field meet May 14 with top two finishes at the Region 1-3A track meet at Abilene Christian University May 1-2.
Tyler Richey finished 2nd in the pole vault with a 15’ leap. Richey was also 9th in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 15.39. Sophomore Braden Willett was 3rd in the 1,600-meters with a school record best of time of 4:21.93. Willett was 4th in the 3,200-meter run with a time of 9:29.71.
Several other Rabbits and Lady Rabbits competed at the regional meet. The 800-meter relay foursome of Colton Dosch, Richey, Finn Riddle and Jaxon White finished 6th with a time of 1:30.24 while the 1,600-meter relay team of Dosch, Judah Livsey, Riddle and Blaine Leonard finished 8th with a time of 3:30.76.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Saint Jo’s boys and girls track teams took top honors at the Region III-A track meet at Hewitt Midway High School May 1-2 and will send several athletes to the state track and field meet May 16 in Austin.
The boys were led by Damon Byrd who won both the long jump with a 22’9 ¾” leap and triple jump with a 45’ 10 ½”. Byrd also won the 100-meter dash with a time of 1.03 and was a member of the victorious 800-meter relay along with Trent Gaston, Barrett Johnson and Lee Yeley with a time of 1:30.80.
Yeley won the high jump with a 6’ leap. Byrd, Yeley, Dominic Luna and Gaston combined for a 2nd-place finish in the 1,600-meter relay with a time 3:32.81. Gaston was 2nd in the 110-meter hurdles with a tie of 16.09. Johnson was 2nd in the 400-meter dash in 50.75, Ayden Giambruno was 6th in the 3200-meter run in 11:05.24 with Yeley 8th in the 200-meters with a time of 25.61.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
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