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HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Rabbit season begins Friday
By ERIC VICCARO
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The Bowie High School football team is set for another season-opening game against Wichita Falls Hirschi.
Hirschi will attempt to spread Bowie’s defense thin with a spread offensive formation. The same alignment the Huskies gashed the Jackrabbits for 427 yards on the ground a season ago.
Still, Bowie head football coach Dylan Stark said the team has to be ready for it all.
“Hirschi has given us tough games,” Stark said. “They are athletic. On offense, they like to run a spread, but they still like to run and pass it about 50-50.”
Tavion McKinney and Gerrick McKinney will be counted on to replace Cedric Battle for the Huskies.
“We can’t miss any tackles,” Stark said. “They had some big plays on offense against us last year. We have to run to the football and wrap up.”
As of earlier this week, second-year Hirschi coach Danny Youngs was still deciding between senior Clayton Richardson and sophomore Mar’tez Vrana to be the quarterback.
Bowie will counter with a 4-3 defense spearheaded by Kevin Stallcup, a defensive lineman who produced 70 tackles last season. Safety Brandon Hutto had a team-best 78 stops. Carter Shackelford, Cayden Cox and LB Clement will be counted on to contain the Huskies as well.
Like Bowie, Hirschi also will run a 4-3 defense with the likes of linebacker Dorian Norwood leading the unit. Norwood recorded 103 tackles. Mammoth near 300-pounder Deondre Clark will be tough to run on inside.
That means Bowie’s running game may need to flare toward the outside. Shackelford is completely healthy this season. In fact, Bowie is in much better physical shape to start the 2015 campaign. Read more from this preview in the midweek Bowie News.
Bowie High School starting quarterback Trace Hardee throws an out pattern early during Friday’s scrimmage with Burkburnett. Hardee threw for two touchdown passes to Jeffery Howard. See more photos, page 3B of the Bowie News. (News photo by Eric Viccaro)
SPORTS
Bowie Sports Banquet
The Bowie sports banquets was on Monday night. Olivia Gill and Tucker Jones were named Jackrabbit and Lady Rabbit of the year. Pick up the mid-week paper for all of the sports team awards and pictures.
SPORTS
Chisholm Trail Rodeo entertains crowd
The 72nd Chisholm Trail Rodeo was a big success on Friday and Saturday nights at Nocona.
The rodeo had big crowds and saw some good competition from both local and far reaching talent.
Winners in the events included Zach Hibler in bareback riding, Lindsey Muggli in barrel racing, Ashley Goforth in breakaway roping, Leanardo Lima in bull riding, Cody McCartney in calf roping, Thomas Moellering in ranch bronc riding, Wacey Hathcock in saddle bronc riding, Renato Finazzi in steer wrestling, Rowdy Jones and Rance Doyal in team roping.
To see full results and more pictures, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
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Saint Jo pair heading back to state tennis
The regional tennis tournaments were late last week in North Richland Hills and a doubles team is moving on to state.
The Saint Jo girl’s doubles team Kyler Dunn and Taylor Patrick won the 1A region III tournament and will return to state for the second straight year.
The pair rolled through teams from Morgan, Dodd City, Priddy before beating a Graford team in the finals. The pair did not lose a set and only lost five of the 53 games it played, never losing more than one in a set.
The team made it to state last year after finishing second at regionals and won a match at the state meet against a team from Vernon Northside. They then lost to the eventual state champion team from Utopia and finished tied for third place.
They will be the only tennis players from Montague County playing at state this week as others did not have as successful regional tournament.
The Saint Jo teammates and fellow girl’s doubles team Bailie Nobile and Maxey Johnson won their first match against Ector 6-1, 6-4, but fell in their next match against Lometa, 6-1, 6-1.
From Prairie Valley, Case Carpenter was competing in boy’s singles. His first match was a draining two and half hour battle against a player from Strawn Carpenter came through in the three-set battle, winning 6-4, 5-7, 6-4.
Unfortunately, the magic was not there in the second game. Paired against the eventual tournament champion from Gustine, Carpenter lost 6-0, 6-1.
From Gold-Burg, Alyson Rojas and Jimena Garcia competed in girl’s singles. Rojas won her first match against a girl from Avinger 7-6, 6-2. Unfortunately, the next match she lost to a girl from Graford 6-0, 6-0 to end her tournament.
Garcia lost a tough first match against a player from Ector. Both sets could have gone either way with the scores being 6-4, 7-5 to the winner.
The mixed doubles team from Forestburg, Jesse Wadsworth and Alli Cisneros, also did not make it through.
From Nocona, Kaygan Stone was playing in the girl’s singles 2A region II tournament.
Unfortunately, she got paired against the player who would go on to win the tournament in the first round to end her season.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
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