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Bowie girls lose to Henrietta
The Bowie Lady Rabbits continued to struggle as they lost to Henrietta at home on Friday night.
The Lady Cats won 35-27 as they held off a furious second half comeback attempt by the Lady Rabbits.
Both teams were coming into the game seeking its first district win. Bowie nearly upset first place Jacksboro earlier in the week.
The Lady Rabbits have struggled scoring during district play with their top scorer, Ziba Robbins, out with an injury. Bowie knew the best chance was to play lights out defense and hope it could gut out some wins by having points come from somewhere.
Unfortunately, despite playing a struggling and young Henrietta team, the points did not show up in the first half.
The Lady Rabbits scored only four points in both the first and second quarter, as they just could not crack the Lady Cats 2-3 zone.
To make things worse, Henrietta was taking advantage of any crack it could find in Bowie’s defense and made four 3-pointers and scored 12 points in both the first and second quarters. Even with the Lady Rabbits switching their defense up to a full-court press, the Lady Cats seemed to be able to quickly break it and score during several sequences.
It upped Bowie’s energy a bit more than in the first quarter as the girl’s started crashing the offensive glass with ferocity and got second, third and fourth chances at the baskets in some cases.
Unfortunately, the lid on the basket seemed to remain shut even with extra chances. The Lady Rabbits went into halftime down 24-8.
Coach Matthew Miller implored his team that just playing with more energy and want to would get better results in the second half.
Thanks to back-to-back possessions where Maycie Metzler knocked in a pair of 3-pointers, Bowie cut the lead down to single-digits at one point in the third quarter. Henrietta went on a 6-1 run to close the quarter as it led 32-18.
The Lady Rabbits offense had more than doubled their first half total, but would need to pick it up on defense even more for a chance to come back.
Bowie did play almost lock-down defense all of the fourth quarter.
The press-defense was tightened up and the Lady Rabbits forced some turnovers and created some scoring chances with their energy and pressure.
The Lady Cats scored only three points in the final period, which gave Bowie a chance if they could put together a really good offensive quarter.
While the Lady Rabbits again scored more than they did in the first half combined in the fourth quarter, the nine points was not enough to come all the way back.
Henrietta ran the clock out and survived Bowie’s second half onslaught to win 35-27.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week 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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