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Lady Rabbits lose series to Iowa Park
The Bowie Lady Rabbits played one of the top-ranked teams in the state in their district series against Iowa Park last week.
The Lady Hawks won both games, with scores being 10-0 and 8-0.
The Lady Rabbits were coming off two losses against Jacksboro the previous week and were 2-2 in district.
Iowa Park scored three runs in the second inning thanks a to walk with the bases loaded and a pickoff attempt that went wrong that scored two. The Lady Hawks scored two more runs in the third inning on an RBI single and a fielding error at third base to go up 5-0.
In the fifth inning, Iowa Park started a two-out rally, scoring five runs on three singles, two fielding errors, a walk and a hit batter.
The Lady Hawks won 10-0, ending the game early due to run-rule.
Bowie avoided getting no-hit with KP Rutherford hitting a single.
The team drew two walks to get a few more baserunners, but could not put enough together to score runs.
On defense, the team committed four fielding errors and allowed eight hits and three walks.
The Lady Rabbits hoped they could compete better after a few days of practice and being at home. Despite the final score, they did.
Serenity Klump hit a leadoff double in the first inning that gave Bowie an early chance to score that it never had in game one, but could not get her home.
The second inning proved to be the worst for the Lady Rabbits. Two RBI singles and three-run inside the park home run allowed the Lady Hawks to score five runs to go up 5-0.
Then Bowie was able to play shut out defense for the next four innings of the game which gave the team a chance to respond offensively.
Besides the fourth inning, the Lady Rabbits were able to get at least one base runner on every inning to threaten to score.
Bowie’s best chance came in the sixth inning, loading the bases up with two outs. Unfortunately, the next batter popped it out to the shortstop for out three.
That seemed to affect the seventh inning on defense. A fielding error at third base got the first base runner on with one out. Two RBI singles and an RBI triple followed as Iowa Park scored three runs in the final inning.
The Lady Rabbits could not answer in their final at-bats and the Lady Hawks won 8-0.
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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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