By ERIC VICCARO
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The Bowie and Nocona High School boys’ basketball teams both will be competing in the Texas Basketball Championships at Grapevine starting Friday.
“This will give our kids more comparable competition,” Bowie head boys’ basketball coach Doug Boxell said. “There’s a five-game guarantee. We will spend time together and develop chemistry.”
Bowie has been placed in Division II Pool No. 6 with Anna, Callisburg and Lipan. Nocona will play in a tough Pool No. 3. Other teams in Pool No. 3 are Melissa, Sabine, Burkburnett and Waskom.
Bowie’s first game is Friday at noon versus Callisburg, the team the Jackrabbits defeated for the bi-district title last season.
Nocona doesn’t play until 3 p.m. on Friday against Sabine.
Other games for Bowie are as follows: Anna, 4 p.m. on Friday and Lipan at 11 a.m. on Saturday.
Nocona also will play at 6 p.m. on Friday against Burkburnett, 1 p.m. on Saturday versus Melissa and 4 p.m. against Waskom.
Based on where the Jackrabbits and Indians finish, they will enter championship play starting as early as 5 p.m. on Saturday. Games will continue through 5 p.m. on Sunday. Read more in the mid-week Bowie News.

Bowie’s Spenser Meekins attempts to corral a rebound during Monday’s summer league action against Wichita Falls Hirschi. The Jackrabbits and Nocona both will play in the Texas Basketball Championships starting June 26. (News photo by Eric Viccaro)