By ERIC VICCARO
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The Bowie High School football team will try and find a way to bounce back from Friday’s 30-26 Homecoming loss to Henrietta.
The task is front of them is daunting, however, as the Jackrabbits face a tough Pottsboro team that has outscored opponents 141-14 so far. Last week, Pottsboro bounced Boyd 54-14 and the Cardinals whitewashed Gunter – another team Bowie will face – by 42 points.
“They’ve been clicking on all cylinders,” Bowie head coach Dylan Stark said. “They have played very well this season.”
Stark said the Cardinals have generated plenty of turnovers, and that has snowballed against the opposition.
Meanwhile, Bowie couldn’t catch a break with turnovers in its most recent game. Several defensive players forced turnovers – six of them in fact – but the Jackrabbits only pounced on one of them.
Pottsboro will run a spread offense and quarterback Zane Pritchett will be a handful for the Bowie defense.
“They also have good receivers and No. 8 for them (Carson Rein) runs the ball well,” Stark said.
Pritchett has thrown for 353 yards and eight touchdowns, with just one interception.
Bowie’s defense, which gave up nearly six yards per play last week, will have to keep an eye on Pritchett at all times.
“We have to make them work for everything” Stark said. “We have to make them drive the field if they are going to score. We have to make them earn every point they get.”
Defensively, Bowie can’t give up the big play and stop the Cardinals on third down. Henrietta converted most of its third- and fourth-down plays when it mattered most in the fourth quarter last week. Read more, and see complete game statistics, in the mid-week Bowie News.

GAME TIME
Who: Bowie at Pottsboro
When: 7:30 p.m., Friday
Where: Jim Henderson Memorial Stadium
Ticket Prices: Adults are charged $5 and students $3.
Why it’s important: Can Bowie, bounce back from a Homecoming loss, and defeat Pottsboro on the road?
Last year’s game: Pottsboro 52, Bowie 13 here in Bowie.

Bowie High School’s Daniel Mosley tried to spark the Jackrabbits in the punt return game during Friday’s game versus Henrietta. Mosley helped give Bowie better field position during Homecoming at Jackrabbit Stadium. Click on the image itself for the complete photo. (News photo by Eric Viccaro)