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Lady Rabbits get back on track with win at Iowa Park
The Bowie Lady Rabbits were able to start the second round of district play on Friday at Iowa Park by breaking up their four game losing skid with a win.
The Lady Rabbits won the close, low-scoring game 36-30 against the Lady Hawks to hopefully get them going in the right direction down the stretch.
Bowie came into the game with a 2-4 district record. After starting off district 2-0 before the holiday break, the Lady Rabbits lost the next four district games and were sitting just outside of the playoff picture with the start of round two.
Bowie had beaten the Lady Hawks pretty easily the first time around, winning by 15 points as it played one of its best defensive games of the season.
The Lady Rabbits would need that again in a game that was a slobber knocker from start to finish. From the start, Iowa Park showed it was not going to shoot as badly from 3-point range as it did in the first game, making only one in that game.
The Lady Hawks first points came off a 3-point shot and the team finished with five in the game.
Thankfully, Bowie held up well and made the other 15 points Iowa Park had to score hard to come by.
The Lady Rabbits led 8-7 after the first quarter and 14-11 at halftime in the type of low-scoring game they can thrive in.
Bowie pulled away a bit to start third quarter, up 23-16. The Lady Hawks closed the quarter strong to cut the lead down to four points 26-22 heading into the final period.
The Lady Rabbits were playing well with a small lead, up 31-25 with four minutes left to play in the fourth quarter. Iowa Park brought a full-court press on defense to try and prevent Bowie from comfortably running clock.
This led to an Iowa Park steal and a pull-up jumper from its leading scorer Raylee Huse to again cut the Lady Rabbits lead to four points 31-27.
Thankfully, Bowie did a better job of taking care of the ball and forcing the Lady Hawks to foul and send its players to the free throw line. Hanna Bell and Ollie Gaston stepped up and made both of their free throws to extend the Lady Rabbits lead to 35-29 following an Iowa Park score.
Both teams added one more point from free throws as Bowie held on to win 36-30.
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In its first match since last year’s state semifinal appearance, Saint Jo hosted Bryson Aug. 11 and took a 25-13, 25-12, 25-21 win over the Cowgirls.
The Lady Panthers lost some talent to graduation but have five seniors ready to have a successful season. Savannah Hil, one of the five, got Saint Jo rolling offensively with a four-point serving string, including a pair of aces. Abby Carter’s kill and Kamron Skidmore’s block helped put the Lady Panthers up 5-2 in game one.
Hadleigh Moore added a four-point string of her own to extend the lead to 10-3. Tatum Morman’s pair, helped by a Hill kill, gave Saint Jo a 14-5 lead. Bryson got within five before a Hill 3-pointer, with help by a Carter kill, put the lead back at 18-10.
After an Olivia Johnson kill broke serve, Jordyn O’Neal served up the final five points, with Johnson providing a kill to move things along.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Despite being the smallest school in the Brock varsity classic volleyball tournament, the Lady Indians finished 4th out of the eight teams there.
After losing to the host team in its first pool play match Aug. 14 18-25, 14-25 and also to Class 3A Wall 12-25, 8-25, Nocona rebounded to close out pool play with a 20-25, 25-23, 25-20 win over Christoval. Sy Parker had 16 kills and 7 blocks in the three matches. Raylea Bowles had 12 kills, 17 digs and served up three aces. Maddyn Bowles had seven kills and 14 digs while Paige Davis had seven kills and 15 digs. Baylee Thomas added 11 digs.
From the setter spot, Kasi Castro had 20 assists, served up five aces and contributed 14 digs. Leah Meekins added 18 assists and six digs during the three matches.
To open Saturday’s bracket play, the Lady Indians posted a 25-18, 18-25, 26-24, 25-19 win over Fort Worth Christian. Castro staked Nocona to a 2-0 lead in game one. Kills by Parker set up pairs of points from Raylea Bowles and Leah Meekins helped Nocona negate an early deficit and take a 10-9 lead.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
County football teams had their first scrimmage of the season Aug. 14 with mixed results.
Forestburg hosted Azle Christian and Victory Christian. Under a new system with new head coach Cori Hayes, the Longhorns looked pretty good in the coach’s eye.
“The first team looked good,” Hayes explained. “Overall we need to work on our pace and blocking assignments and blocking assignments. Overall we looked good for the new regime.”
Forestburg hits the road to scrimmage Newcastle Aug. 21.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
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