The Bowie Lady Rabbits softball team lost district games against Jacksboro and Iowa Park earlier in the week.
The Lady Rabbits lost 20-2 against the Lady Tigers and 15-2 against the Lady Hawks.
Against Jacksboro, Bowie knew it was going to be tough against historically one of the best teams in the district.
The Lady Rabbits started the game well, limiting the Lady Tigers to one run in the first inning on defense. Bowie then responded with its bats.
Chloe Kinney led off with a single and Victoria Cox hit a fly ball that induced an error that put runners at the corners. Two batters later, Imala Walker came up and hit a single to right field that drove in Kinney to tie the game up at 1-1.
Jacksboro then had a big offensive inning in the second, scoring seven runs on three singles, two triples and two fielding errors to go up 8-1.
The Lady Tigers added three more runs in the third inning with three singles and a double to go up 11-1.
Bowie got on the board in the same inning as Serenity Klump drove in a run with a single to cut the lead to 11-2.
Jacksboro tacked on four runs in the fourth inning with a single, a double and two fielding errors.
In the fifth inning, the Lady Tigers scored five runs with four singles, a triple and two fielding errors.
The game ended due to run-rule after the Lady Rabbits could not get anything going in the bottom of the fifth inning, Jacksboro winning 20-2.
Klump and Walker drove in both runs, which were both scored by Kinney.
Bowie then played the Lady Hawks on the road on Tuesday afternoon. Iowa Park did most of its offensive damage in the second inning.
The Lady Hawks led 1-0 after the first inning, but thanks to six singles, two doubles, two walks and two fielding errors, Iowa Park scored 11 runs to go up 12-0.
Bowie’s defense did a good job go limit the Lady Eagles to only one and two runs the final two innings, but the hole was already big.
The Lady Rabbits offense found some success in the fourth inning. Klump led off drawing a walk. She stole second bases. Walker grounded out, but Klump came in to score.
Laney Oliver then hit a single and Sadie Britt followed by getting hit by a pitch. Sage Gossett then hit a single that drove in Oliver. Cox was later hit by a pitch to load the bases, but Bowie could not bring any more runs home.
After five innings, Iowa Park won 15-2 due to run-rule.
Walker and Gossett led the team with one RBI each.
Bowie’s defense cut down the errors from 10 in the first game to four in the second game.

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