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Bowie boys fall to Jacksboro
The Bowie Jackrabbits dropped their third straight game on senior night Friday against Jacksboro.
The Tigers won 54-44 against the Jackrabbits as they just played better than Bowie all of the night.
The Jackrabbits were coming off a disappointing loss on the road at Iowa Park, a team Bowie narrowly beat in the first round of district play and also needs to hold off for the fourth spot in district.
Jacksboro was a spot back of the Hawks even, with one win in district. Still, the Jackrabbits knew it would be tough as Bowie only escaped with a 38-35 win the first time the two teams played earlier in January.
The Jackrabbits had prepared for a new look defenses were throwing at them, with teams trying to shadow and deny the ball to Bowie’s leading scorer Andrew Sandhoff. The Tigers also threw a press defense at the Jackrabbits, but Bowie was not bothered early on.
Still, the team was having trouble scoring out of the gate as the flow of the offense was disrupted and other shots were tough.
Rayder Mann made a couple of 3-pointers, but it was not enough to keep up with Jacksboro.
The Tigers offense came out playing great. While Bowie paid plenty of attention to the Tiger’s big post player, it was a team effort as Jacksboro had all five of its starters making at least one basket against the Jackrabbits zone defense. The Tigers also created second and third chances with their offensive rebounding early on.
Jacksboro led 18-8 after the first quarter.
Even with Bowie changing defenses to man-to-man, it did not make things easier. The Tigers were running several actions off of screens that made things tough.
The Jackrabbits were still struggling to find consistent ways to score. The team made two 3-pointers in the second quarter, but could not find ways to attack the paint more often against Jacksboro’s front line.
Bowie trailed 31-19 at halftime.
The Jackrabbits had to try something drastic to try and get back into the game. Bowie started employing a full-court press so it could maybe get some transition opportunities going from its defense.
It worked in a sense as the Jackrabbits found ways to attack the paint and not just drive and kick for 3-point shots.
Unfortunately, it was a double-edged sword as Jacksboro broke through the press several times and could equal a score with a quick basket of its own.
The Tigers lead grew and they led 48-30 heading into the fourth quarter.
Bowie’s defensive intensity grew down so much and the team was able to convert some turnovers into transition baskets as the Jackrabbits scored the most points in any other quarter.
Unfortunately, it would not have been enough even if Bowie had shut out Jacksboro in the final period. The Tigers from the start slowed their pace down and was trying to run clock to limit the amount of time the Jackrabbits had to come back.
Despite holding Jacksboro to only one basket and six points as the Tigers went only 4-12 from the free throw line, Bowie ran out of time.
Jacksboro won 54-44.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
Two former Bowie boy’s golf members played in the PGA University Championship on Nov. 12-13. (L-R) Cy Egenbacher and Imanol Walker are both in the Sam Houston University PGA Golf Managerment program. The team finished 16th overall. Egenbacher shot 168 during the two rounds and finished tied for 67th. Walker shot 180 and finished 84th. The tournament is a fun one for univesities that have PGA Golf Management programs, which is for individuals who want to work in the golf industry after graduation.
The Saint Jo Lady Panthers came up short at the regional final for the third straight season, one game away from state, on Saturday at the regional tournament in Midlothian.
The Lady Panthers beat Evant in straight sets 3-0 on Friday to reach the final game against Harrold which they lost 3-0.
Saint Jo knew before the season even started it would likely come to this big challenge, but it still had to go through all the steps to get there.
The Panthers reached the regional finals the previous two seasons, losing both times to eventual state champion Blum.
With district realignment meant a new region so a rematch with a Blum program that had graduated several key players from those teams would have to wait until state possibly.
Instead, a showdown against last year’s state runner-up Harrold was forecast in the regional final.
With the team having six seniors, with five of them having been on varsity since they were freshman, it was this year or bust for Saint Jo.
First, the Lady Panthers had to beat Evant. The Lady Elks leaned heavily on a big front court player. When she rotated to the back row, Evant showed almost no net resistance which meant Saint Jo hitters had free reign during that time.
The Lady Panthers won each set pretty easily, with the scores being 25-17, 25-17 and 25-19.
This set up the match with Harrold the team had been anticipating. The Lady Hornets had been at or near the top of the state standings since the beginning of the season.
Harrold had so much respect it had even played bigger local schools this season, beating Bowie in straight sets and Nocona in five sets during its pre-district schedule.
The two teams had met earlier in the season when the Lady Hornets attended Saint Jo’s hosted tournament. The two teams met in the tournament championship where Harrold won 2-1.
Still, with the tournament format being a best of three instead of five and the match after playing an exhausting schedule of five matches the previous two days, that result was not gospel, especially two months later.
The challenge is Harrold had multiple big hitters at the net, which is a big deal since most 1A teams are lucky to have one or two, which meant constant pressure on Saint Jo’s defense.
This also meant the Lady Panthers constantly had to find ways to attack the Lady Hornet defense as well or it would face strong hit after strong hit which was unsustainable for any team.
The first set saw the Lady Hornets get out to a good start before the Lady Panthers rallied back and took a little lead 8-7. Unfortunately, it started turn from there.
Harrold had some good runs from the service line that Saint Jo struggled to make much offense out of and led to the Lady Hornets pulling away. Harrold won 4-1 to get the lead to 11-9 and then extended it to 14-11, 17-13. Another 4-1 run and the Lady Hornets could smell the end of the first set coming.
The Lady Hornets won 25-17 to take the lead 1-0.
Saint Jo needed to bounce back, but unfortunately never got anything going in set two.
Harrold led 4-1 and then 8-2. The Lady Panthers would have needed a huge run at some point from the service line to get back into the set, but it never came as the Lady Hornets lead grew more and more.
Harrold took set two 25-13 to go up 2-0 and had all of the momentum.
Saint Jo had its back against the wall, knowing the only option was to hope for a comeback that would lead to a fifth set, but to get there it needed to win set three.
The Lady Panthers initially started on the right foot. After falling being 4-1 to start the previous two sets, it was Saint Jo that started well up 4-1. Unfortunately, the Lady Hornets came roaring back, going on an 8-2 run as it led 9-6, then 12-8 and 15-10.
It looked like it was heading towards a similar place as set one with Harrold slowly running away with the set before the Lady Panthers made one last gasp.
Saint Jo eventually cut the lead down to one point, trailing 20-19 as the set entered the final stretch and the Lady Panthers had their best momentum of the match.
Unfortunately, it was Harrold that was able to close the set out with momentum, earning the final five points to win 25-19 and the match 3-0.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News. For pictures from Friday’s match, click here https://www.dotphoto.com/go.asp?l=bnews1&AID=6870620&T=1
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