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HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL: Hill, Howard share honors in District 3A-9

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Bowie sophomore guard Jeffery Howard and Nocona senior guard Kameron Hill were named co-most valuable players in District 3A-9.
Howard helped the Jackrabbits reach the Conference 3A regional quarterfinals before exiting with a loss to Dallas Faith Family. He averaged 15.4 points per game.
Bowie finished the season with a record of 24-11, and 13-1 in 3A-9.
Hill was a focal point on a Nocona squad that qualified for the playoffs again, taking third in 3A-9 after a seeding victory over Holliday. He scored 20.5 points per game.
The Indians were 22-12 overall.
Bowie’s Chase Hall was co-defensive player of the year alongside Henrietta’s Riley Watson. Henrietta placed second in 3A-9 behind Bowie.
Henrietta’s Logan Carter and Holliday’s Carson Rogers were the co-offensive players of the year.
Nocona sophomore Cade Breeze and Jacksboro’s Clay Botello were named the co-newcomers of the year.
Henrietta’s Nick Offield, a senior, and Trey Henderson, a junior from Holliday, were selected as the sixth players of the year – which goes to the top bench players.
Bowie also was honored with the co-coaching staff of the year, along with Henrietta. The Jackrabbit coaching staff consists of head coach Doug Boxell along with Jonathon Horton and Chuck Hall. Read more in the March 9 Bowie News.

Jeffery Howard, shown here scoring a layup versus Gunter at Denton’s Guyer High School, was named co-District 3A-9 most valuable player with Nocona’s Kameron Hill. (News photo by Eric Viccaro)

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Bowie Sports Banquet

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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.

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Chisholm Trail Rodeo entertains crowd

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A steer wrestler gets a good grip as he comes off his horse to get the steer on the ground. (Photo by Benjimen Barker from J Bar S Photography)

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

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Saint Jo girl’s doubles team Kyler Dunn and Taylor Patrick won the 1A region III tournament to earn a second straight trip to state. (Courtesy photo)

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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