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Jackrabbits lose to Eagles
The Bowie Jackrabbits lost to Holliday at home on Friday night in a one-sided game that ended early.
The Eagles won 16-2 after five innings due to run-rule as the Jackrabbits let two bad defensive innings get away from them.
Bowie came into the game following its first district win at Vernon earlier in the week. While defending district champs Holliday is always a tough game to win, the Jackrabbits can usually compete well and even beat the Eagles on any given night the last few years.
The first inning was the most competitive of stretch of the game.
Trae Seigler got the start on the mound. Holliday got on base with an infield single with one out. When the runner went to steal second base, an error on the throw allowed him to then advance to third base. A deep fly ball off the centerfield wall resulted in a triple and the run to score. Thankfully, Seigler induced an infield pop out to limit the Eagles to one run, up 1-0.
Bowie got the run back in the same inning. With two outs, Troy Kesey hit a fly ball to right field that resulted in an error that allowed him to reach second base. Seth Mann then followed with a single to get him home and tie the score at 1-1.
The problems started in the second inning for the Jackrabbits.
Holliday drew a leadoff walk. After a fly out and a stolen second base, a groundball to shortstop and some indecision allowed both runners at the corners to be safe.
The base runner then stole second base to put two runners in scoring position for the Eagles. The next batter then hit to shortstop and another fielding error allowed both runners to score.
Two hard hit singles followed that drove in two more runs and Cy Egenbacher came in to pitch relief.
After a line out for out two and an intentional walk, Holliday went to steal third and second base.
An error on the throw to third base allowed the runner to come in and score to put the Eagles up 6-1 before a fly out ended things for Bowie.
The Jackrabbit offense could not respond and things only got worse in the third inning.
Three pitchers took turns in the inning as Holliday scored nine runs on eight singles, a home run and a walk to go up 15-1 and essentially end the game.
Bowie got one of the runs back in the same inning.
Rayder Mann drew a walk with one out and would steal second and third base. Boston Farris then drove him in with a single to make it 15-2.
Seth Mann had come in to pitch later in the previous inning and besides hitting a batter, shut down Holliday’s offense and allowed no runs in the fourth inning.
He then led off the same inning with a triple, but unfortunately Bowie hitters could not get him home.
The Eagle hitters drew three straight walks to load the bases to start the fifth inning and Andrew Sandhoff came in to pitch relief.
After a strikeout, a groundout allowed one run to score to make it 16-2 before Sandhoff induced another groundout for out three.
Bowie needed to score five runs to keep the game from ending early due to run-rule.
Unfortunately, there would be no miracle come back.
All three batters struck out to end the ugly game for the Jackrabbits.
Holliday won 16-2.
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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