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Bowie boys comes up short 47-43 against City View
The Bowie Jackrabbits lost a close game at home on Tuesday afternoon against district favorite City View.
The Mustangs held on to win 47-43, withstanding a great second half charge from the Jackrabbits, who cut the lead to one point in the final minute and had multiple chances to take the lead.
Before the game, the teams came together for a moment of solidarity to support City View after its Athletic Director Heath Aldrich passed away during the holidays.He succumbed to pancreatic cancer after fighting for nearly a year.
Bowie came into the game with a 0-1 district record after losing by one basket at Jacksboro before the holiday break. The Jackrabbits had recently bounced back well, going 3-1 the previous week after the holidays in a tournament at Bridgeport. Still, the team knew City View would be tough.
The Mustangs were pre-season favorites to win the district title after falling short last season to Holliday. The team was 1-0 after beating Henrietta before the holiday break and have spent most of the season ranked inside the top 25 teams in the state in 3A in the Texas Association of Basketball Coaches poll.
It was a clash of styles, with Bowie outsizing the Mustangs in the post, but City View making up for it by using its athleticism at every position to play aggressive press defense and rebound bigger than its size.
Initially the Jackrabbits were able to handle it. The Mustangs knocked in three 3-pointers while Bowie was able to finish around the basket since City View lacked a true rim protector. The Jackrabbits trailed 12-8, but finished the quarter strong.
The Mustangs dialed up their pressure in the second quarter and it seemed to knock Bowie out of any sort of offensive rhythm. While the Jackrabbits could break the initial press, the transition to either setting up their halfcourt offense or trying to play too fast caused them to not be successful for most of the period.
On the other hand, City View thrived with the pace going fast. The Mustangs were driving to the hoop more against the Jackrabbit’s zone defense and picking up free throw attempts. Scores in transition were happening. It was all going the Mustangs way.
City View broke the game open, outscoring Bowie 20-5 as it led 32-13 at halftime.
The Jackrabbits were challenged by Coach Ryan Dykes to make a game of it and they came out in the third quarter making the right strides.
Bowie attacked the basket, making calculated drives to the basket, both in transition and in the halfcourt by several players. The Jackrabbits scored the first nine points of the quarter to nearly cut the lead in half to 32-22.
City View’s perimeter shots seemed to abandon most of the team, but the Mustangs eventually tightened up its defense by employing a half-court trap that threw a wrench into Bowie’s plans.
City View then scored a few baskets and led 39-24 late in the quarter.
The Jackrabbits closed in the final two minutes by making their only 3-pointers of the game as Bradly Horton and Boston Farris knocked them down in short succession.
Bowie had cut the lead to single-digits, trailing 39-30 heading into the fourth quarter.
The Jackrabbits slowly clawed their way back while shutting down City View to only three points in the first six minutes of the final period. Bowie cut it to one point 42-41 with two minutes to go in the game and all of the momentum.
The Mustangs had free throws that they missed which give Bowie a chance to take the lead. Instead, City View stole the ball and was able to convert it to a layup to go up 44-41.
The Jackrabbits then answered with Gaige Goodman scoring on a layup with 58 seconds left to make it a one point game again 44-43.
Bowie was only able to get enough fouls to send the Mustangs back to the free throw line with 21 seconds left.
City View made one of the two to lead 45-43, but the Jackrabbits had the ball.
After getting passed the initial press defense and calling a time out to set up the final play, Bowie unfortunately threw the ball out of bounds for a turnover.
The Jackrabbits were forced to foul and the Mustangs player made both free throws to put the game out of reach with only seconds left to play.
City View won 47-43.
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A solid day was had by Montague county high school tracksters at the State Track and Field Meet May 16 in Austin.
Bellevue’s Mattie Broussard had a pair of second place finishes in both the 800-meter run with a time of 2:21.41 and the 3,200-meter run with a time of 11:31.33. Broussard also was 4th in the 1,600-meters with a time of 5:22.18.
Her teammate Brylie Hager was 9th in the 110-meter hurdles in 19.93.
Forestburg’s Brenna Briles was 4th in the triple jump with a 35’9 1’2” leap. Her teammate Jocelyn Rich was 4th in the pole vault with a 9’ leap.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Bowie had a pair of top four finishes at the State Track and Field Meet May 14.
Sophomore Brayden Willett made it onto the medal stand, finishing 3rd in the 1,600-meter run with a time of 4:17.89. Bowie junior Tyler Richey finished 4th in the pole vault after a 14’6” effort.
The top two finishers from Holliday, also in Bowie’s district, celebrated with him after he crossed the finish line.
“It was kind of surprising,” Willett said about Ryder and Noah Stroman embracing him in a celebratory hug. “They’re good guys, so it was kind of cool.”
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
This past week found your outdoor scribe doing some rather mundane things such as yard work, vegetable gardening and repairs around the old cabin. Oh, I also wrapped up a couple of magazine articles. I always enjoy sharing my adventures with all of you in this column but to be perfectly honest, not nearly as much as my ‘field work’ hunting and fishing which is an iatrical part of any good outdoor column. If you’re like me, you much prefer reading about an adventure that you can also partake.
I am far more comfortable telling you about an outdoor experience I had firsthand knowledge of rather than the reporting part of my job as an outdoor communicator. So, this week, I’d do a bit of ‘reporting’ and share some planned adventures I have scheduled for the next couple weeks. By the time you’re reading this, I will have already been in the woods in quest of a fat ‘eater’ hog and probably have some freshly caught blue catfish fillets in the freezer, details will follow in the next couple of weeks.
I’ll kick things off early in the week heading down to my friend Jeff Rice’s Buck and Bass Ranch located on the upper end of Lake Fork. Jeff produces our weekly TV show “A Sportsman’s Life” which airs on Carbon TV and YouTube. Our plan is to film a segment of our show on stalking wild hogs. It will be a challenge to capture the shot with all the thick grown spring vegetation. It could happen fast and require a fast shot. We will be breaking in my CVA Cascade scout rifle in 308 caliber. This short barrel little rifle is light and easy to handle in thick cover, ideal for this type of hunting. Our plan is to hit the woods during the last couple hours of daylight and ease along the trails, watching and especially listening for hogs. Wild porkers are vocal critters and it’s common to hear them before seeing them. We will play the wind and attempt to get downwind and then close the distance for a shot but you can never guess how a hog hunt will unfold. Wild pork or not, Jeff and I always have a great time together and I plan to bring a side of wild pork ribs already slow smoked and covered in brown sugar and BBQ sauce with a side of camp baked beans!
After a tasty dinner we plan to get a good night’s sleep and head out the next morning for a planned fishing trip with guide David Hanson at Lake Tawakoni. Both channel and blue catfish are on a very good bite right but it’s hard to pass up those snow white blue catfish fillets when the bite is good. David is, to my knowledge, the most veteran catfish guide on the lake and became friends close to a quarter-century ago when we first began fishing
together. The plan is to use freshy cut shad in shallow water and target eater size blues weighing between 2 and about 10 pounds but as every catfish angler knows, it’s always possible to connect with a big trophy size blue when fishing Tawakoni.
Next week, I plan to join my long-time friend J.C. McCollough on the Red River below the Texoma dam. I’ve been fishing and hunting with J.C. for many years and look forward to getting with him again. I would describe this to catching big catfish in a barrel but in this case the deep holes in the river are comprised of several acres. The water level in the river below Texoma are dictated by the water release at the dam by the Corp of Engineers. When there is a current in the river, fish move upstream to feed on baitfish coming through the dam. When the water recedes, they fish move into the deeper holes where baitfish also seek refuge from the falling water. Catching will be fast paced with the chance to connect with some big fish as well as limits of “eater” size fish. We’ll be rigging with big live gizzard shad fished weightless on a free line, using medium spinning gear. The bigger fish will often nail the frisky live shad and the fresh cut bait is a sure way to connect with lots of smaller fish. There is something very exciting about fishing big live baits on a slack line. One minute your bait will be darting around and you will occasionally feel it taking up slack and the next when a big blue catfish grabs the bait, the rod will bow and the fight will be on. There is usually no ‘setting the hook’, by the time you feel the fish, it will already be hooked and making a strong run to the nearest submerged brush. Your job will be to keep the drag set just enough to keep pressure on the fish but not so much as to cause the line to break.
J.C. uses his airboat to access these deeper holes because of the very shallow water. While it’s not impossible to portage a kayak or small boat in the river, it often requires a few miles travel to get to these deep holes, this is best accomplished by experienced kayakers with plenty of endurance. There was a time when I was game for this type fishing but I much prefer to do my river fishing these days from a boat designed to negotiate the shallow waters.
Squirrel season is underway in many of the east Texas counties and there’s some pretty good fox squirrel hunting here close to home in Kaufman county and I’ve been thinking about how tasty a big skillet of smothered squirrel with rice, gravy and biscuits would be. Bream are on the beds now and my friend Edgar Cotton invited me to come do some ‘perch jerking’ with him and his son David-it’s in the plans! Well, hopefully next week I will have a ‘sure nuff’ adventure of two to relate you you-I’m ready to get some relief from all this work around the homeplace! LC
You can contact Tawakoni/Fork catfish guide David Hanson at 902-268-7391. Contact J.C. McCollough at 580-372-0320.
Listen to Luke’s podcast, “Catfish Radio” just about everywhere podcast are found.
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