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Bowie boys beat Slidell 43-40 in overtime

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Gaige Goodman uses his size to go over the top of his defender as he finished with 10 points and nine rebounds.

The Bowie Jackrabbits picked up their biggest profile win of the short season so far on Tuesday with an overtime win against Slidell.
The Jackrabbits won 43-40 against the Greyhounds, holding on just enough in the overtime period to get the win against the state-ranked team.
Bowie was coming off a disappointing loss last week to Bells more than a week ago before the holiday break. The Jackrabbits had a heck of test for themselves waiting after several off days.
Slidell, the program that had won the district title against all of the Montague County 1A teams for nearly a decade, is looking to keep results the same even as it moves up to 2A.
The Greyhounds are ranked 10th in the state in 2A according to the most recent Texas Association of Basketball Coaches poll.
Also, Slidell is the definition of a full-court press team that goes a hundred miles per hour almost all of the time.
With both teams coming off a week long break, conditioning was about to be tested.
The Jackrabbits had the height and length advantage in the front court and used that to their advantage on defense in a half court setting.
The Greyhounds were looking to get to the rim on drives and routinely were thwarted by Bowie’s size.
The Jackrabbit offense wanted to be methodical in their approach. Slidell wanted to speed the game up to suit its pace of play. Bowie will look for opportunities to push, but did not want to fall into the trap of trying to match the Greyhounds.
The Jackrabbits scored inside and made some free throws as they led 9-4 after the first quarter and looked to be controlling the game.
Slidell was able to turn things around with a quick score in the second quarter, which allowed it to get into its press defense and change the pace of the game.
Bowie struggled to routinely break the press, committing several turnovers by not being able to cross half court in 10 seconds.
The Greyhounds were led by their leading scorer in the period, who scored eight of their 10 points, all inside the arc.
The Jackrabbits were not having much luck scoring a ton either while dealing with the pressure, making only two baskets.
The Greyhounds took the lead and while Bowie only trailed 16-14 at halftime, it seemed like Slidell grabbed the momentum and were on the verge of breaking things open at any time.
The Jackrabbits answered the bell and came out in the third quarter ready to establish control again. It was easily Bowie’s best stretch of offensive play, doubling its first half total with 14 points as five different players made at least one basket.
The Jackrabbit defense continued to make things tough for the Greyhounds with less chances to push the ball in transition. Still, after only getting to the free throw line twice in the first half, Slidell was starting to earn trips to the charity stripe much more starting in the third quarter.
Bowie still led 28-23 heading into the fourth quarter, but the Greyhounds were going to give up.
The Jackrabbits looked to serve a death blow early in the final period, scoring five points in the first two minutes to open up the biggest lead of the game 33-23.
It took Slidell only two minutes to cut the lead down to one 33-32 with 4:12 still to play as the Greyhounds could not be kept off the free throw line and Bowie failing to score.
Slidell took the lead 34-33 with two made free throws with 1:19 left to play and all of the momentum since the Jackrabbits had not scored in the last five minutes.
Bowie then got a huge play from big post player Gaige Goodman. His size had bothered the Greyhounds all game on defense and he also scored in every quarter. He made a tough basket through contact while also getting the foul call for a shot at an old fashioned 3-point play. He sunk the free throw to give the Jackrabbits back the lead 36-34 with 45 seconds left.
Unfortunately, Bowie could not keep Slidell off the free throw line. With 31 seconds left, the Greyhounds sunk both clutch free throws to tie the game at 36-36.
Attempts at winning in regulation did not go either team’s way as the game went to overtime.
It was back and forth through the early going. Bowie scored on a basket from Rayder Mann and Slidell answered with a 3-pointer to lead 39-38.
The Greyhounds added one point to their lead with a made free throw to lead 40-38 with less than two minutes left in the overtime period.
The Jackrabbits got the lead back with Mann sinking a 3-pointer from the corner with 1:28 left in the game to give Bowie a 41-40 lead.
The Jackrabbit defense was able to come up with stop after stop. Bowie had three trips to the free throw line to extend its lead and only made two of its six shots.
Still, the Jackrabbits held on to win 43-40.

To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.

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Bowie track runs at Peaster in final meet before district

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The Bowie track team competed in its final meet before district last week on March 27 at Peaster.
The boy’s team finished fourth overall while the girl’s team got seventh place.
The boy’s team had three athletes who won their events.
Russell Anderson won the 400 meter race, Braden Rhyne won the triple jump and Tyler Richey won the pole vault events.
Some other highlights for the team included Cody West getting second in the shot put, the 4×400 relay team getting second place, Richey getting fourth in the 110 meter hurdles, Rhyne getting third in the 300 meter hurdles and Jorge De Leon getting fourth in both the discus and shot put.
Brayden Willett got second place in the 3200 meters, third place in the 1600 meters and fourth place in the 800 meter race.
The Lady Rabbit highlights included Dallie Monroe getting fourth in the shot put, Laney Segura getting fifth in the 800 meters and Olivia Richey getting sixth in the 100 meters.
The 4×200 relay got fifth place and the 4×100 relay got sixth place to earn points.
Bowie competes in the district rack meet this week at Iowa Park. The running finals are scheduled for 5 p.m. on April 4.

Results for all Bowie varsity athletes who finished sixth or better are in the weekly edition of the Bowie News.

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Montague County has nine named all-region basketball players

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Nocona’s Meg Meekins (above) not only earned all-region honors, she also earned all-state honors and was named the Texas Girls Coaches Association 1A-4A Player of the Year.

Other Montague County basketball athletes who were named to all-region teams including Rayder Mann from Bowie and Reagan Phipps from Nocona. From Saint Jo, Payzlie Cervantes, Taylor Patrick and Barrett Johnson were named to the all-region team. From Forestburg, Jesus Sanchez, Brenna Briles and Kyler Willett were named to the all-region team.

For pictures of all nine athletes, pick up a copy of the weekly edition of the Bowie News.

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Baseball Roundup

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Logan Hoover dives head first into home plate, beating the tag to score one of Saint Jo’s three runs in the game. (Photo by Jennifer Gaston)

Saint Jo
The Saint Jo Panthers lost a close game at home against Perrin-Whitt on March 28.
The Pirates won 8-3, only taking the lead in the seventh inning after the Panthers had come back to tie up the game.
Saint Jo was coming into the game after a close one-run loss in extra innings against Perrin-Whitt earlier last week.
The second game started with two scoreless innings before the Pirates got on the board in the third inning. A line drive into left field resulted in a fielding error that allowed one run to score. A double followed that drove in another run as Perrin-Whitt went up 2-0.
The Pirates added to the lead in the fourth inning, driving in a run on a single to extend its lead to 3-0.
Saint Jo answered back in the same inning. Charlie Evans drove in one run with a single. Later in the inning, with a runners on second on third base, the Perrin-Whitt pitcher balked twice, an illegal pitching motion, that allowed both runners to advance to home plate. The Panthers had tied the score at 3-3.
After a scoreless fifth and sixth inning, the Pirates had the pressure on in the seventh inning.
With the bases loaded, a hit batter and later a walk scored two runs for Perrin-Whitt. Then a bases clearing double scored three more runs to break the game open in the final inning.
Saint Jo tried to answer in its final at-bats, getting two singles and drawing a walk but could not get enough things going to score.
The Pirates won 8-3.
Evans led the team with one RBI and two hits as the team finished with five hits and drew six walks.
Sam Martin allowed eight runs (two earned) on seven hits while striking out six and walking three batters in 6.2 innings of work. The defense committed three fielding errors overall.

Nocona
The Nocona Indians had a tough start to district last week, losing both games in their series against Lindsay.
The Knights won 11-4 and 7-3 against the Indians last week as Nocona hopes to get back into the playoffs.
Nocona was coming off a string of good wins the previous week against smaller schools, but knew Lindsay would be tough.
The first game saw Lindsay continually score runs in the first four innings, building a 9-0 lead before the Indians could get on the board in the bottom of the fourth inning with two runs.
Nocona added two more runs in the fifth inning to cut the lead to 9-4 and get some momentum heading into the final two innings.
After a scoreless sixth inning, the Knights scored two runs in the seventh inning to extend their lead and eventually win 11-4.
Miller Jentry led the team with two RBIs while RJ Walker also drove in two runs. The team had only two hits, but drew nine walks in the game.
Brody Langford allowed six runs (two earned) on five hits while striking out three in three innings pitches. Landon Fatheree allowed five runs (two earned) on seven hits while striking out one and walking four. The defense committed five fielding errors.
Nocona knew it could play better and tried to in the second game later in the week while playing on the road at Lindsay.
The Knights again took the early lead, scoring in three of the first four innings and going up 6-0. The Indians scored two runs in the fifth inning and one in the top of the sixth inning to initially cut the lead to 6-3. Lindsay answered with one run in the bottom of the sixth inning and held on to win 7-3.
Walker Murphey led the team with two RBIs after hit a double. Kutter Cabrera drove in the other run for Nocona. The Indians finished with three hits and drew only two walks, making the most of their limited opportunities.
Walker got the start on the mound and allowed seven runs (two earned) on eight hits while striking out six batters and walking two in six innings of work. The defense committed six fielding errors overall.

Bellevue
The Bellevue Eagles started district last week playing a series against fellow 1A team Bryson.
Unfortunately, the Cowboys won both games handily 11-1 and 10-1.
Bellevue was coming off a tough week where it hung tough playing 2A teams Nocona and Chico, not getting wins but competing well against the more experienced and bigger schools.
Unfortunately against Bryson in the first game, a few bad defensive innings threw away a good start to the game. Bryce Ramsey drew a leadoff walk in the first inning and stole his way around to second base, third base before eventually coming home on a steal.
Bellevue led 1-0 after the first inning.
That was the highlight as the Cowboys scored four runs in both the third and fourth inning to take control of the game. Bryson eventually added three more in the sixth inning.
The Eagles needed to score at least one run to avoid getting run-ruled and play the seventh inning, but could not do it. The Cowboys won 11-1.
Walker Strahan, Ryan Jones and Ramsey each had one hit to lead the team. With the Eagles drawing only one walk, it was a tough day swinging the bats for Bellevue.
Defensively, the Eagles allowed 12 hits and walked four batters, though avoided committing any fielding errors.
The second game on the road was not much better.
Bryson built up a 6-0 lead before Bellevue scored in the fifth inning. Cam Blaylock scored on the base paths to cut the lead to 6-1. The Cowboys responded in the same inning scoring four runs to go up 10-1.
The game cuts off on the Game Changer app from there.
Ramsey led the team with three hits in the game and Strahan was behind him with two hits as the team finished with six total and drew one walk.
Defensively, Bryson had nine hits and drew eight walks, but Bellevue did not commit any fielding errors.

To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekly edition of the Bowie News.

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