SPORTS
Last game gets away from Rabbits
With nothing to play for Friday except pride, the Bowie baseball team came up short at Paradise on Friday in their final game of the season.
The Panthers capitalized on a big fifth inning to extend their lead to a comfortable 8-3 win.
Neither team got anything going in the first inning. A Paradise hitter hit a two out double, but pitcher Payton Price was able to get the next batter to line out to center field to end the first inning.
Riley Partridge was able to get on base for the Jackrabbits with a two out single. A passed ball allowed him to go to second. Unfortunately, the next batter struck out to end the scoring chance. A similar story happened for the Panthers, with a two out base hit leading to nothing as Price forced the next batter to ground out to third.
In the top of the third inning, Taylor Pigg was able to get himself on base with a two out single. This time, action did follow. The next two batters drew walks to load the bases. Price then came up and lined a triple into the gap to clear the bases and give Bowie a 3-0 lead.
Paradise responded in the bottom of the third. Three singles loaded the bases with one out. The next batter hit a ground ball to the shortstop. He flipped it to second base for an out, but there was not enough time for the double play that would have ended the inning and saved a run. Price was able to force another ground out the next at bat, but the Panthers had cut the lead to 3-1 heading into the fourth inning.
The Jackrabbits could not get anything going as they were sat down in order. Paradise started the inning with a leadoff single and walk. A sacrifice bunt moved them both to second and third. Third baseman Evan Kennedy made a great play snaring a ball that would have gone over his head for the second out, but the next batter hit a double to left field that scored both runners to tie the game. He was then hit home with a single to give the Panthers a 4-3 lead.
Bowie looked to answer. Pigg got on with a one out single up the middle. Next batter Keck Jones was allowed to reach base due to fielding error in the outfield. Even after a double steal that put both runners in scoring position, the next two batters popped out to end the scoring chance.
Paradise was able to keep things moving offensively along with some help from the Jackrabbits. A hit, fielding error and hit batter loaded the bases with no outs. The next batter hit a double to left field that scored two runs. Two wild pitches scored two more runs to give the Panthers an 8-3 lead. Pigg came in and struck out the next batter for the final out of the fifth inning.
Bowie tried to answer back. Boo Oakley was able to get on base due to a dropped strike three with two outs. Next batter Weston Partridge was put in to pinch hit. He hit a single to center field, but was thrown out trying to stretch it to a double.
Pigg was able to sit down the three batters in order in the bottom of the sixth to keep the lead where it was heading into the final inning.
The Jackrabbits were able to get two runners on with Pigg hitting a single and Jones drawing a walk with only one out. Unfortunately, the next two batters got out to end the game with Bowie losing 8-3.
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The Red River High School Bass Club competed this past weekend, May 31 – June 1, at the State Tournament on Lake Conroe for the two-day tournament.
Two of the teams from Montague County traveled south to try their best at the culmination of the year for the state title. Teams were able to pre-fish on Friday before the Saturday and Sunday competition. On Friday, there was a flipping contest for the youth and Cooper Johnson won third overall and won a $500 scholarship and an Academy gift card.
The club’s two teams who competed were Lane Smith/Colt Henry with boat captain Jimmy Smith. The team placed 63rd with a total of 16.22 pounds. The second team of Cooper Johnson/Corbyn Patton and boat captain Jayson Toerck placed 169th with a total weight of 2.29 pounds.
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The Maskat Shrine Oil Bowl is this week on June 6-7 and graduating athletes from Bowie, Nocona and Saint Jo are confirmed to be playing.
In total, seven athletes from Bowie, five from Nocona and three from Saint Jo are planning to play in the all-star games this week. Nocona also will have a pair of coaches participating as well.
The girl’s basketball game kicks off events on June 6, scheduled for 6 p.m. at Wichita Falls Memorial High School. In the game, the east team will have Nocona players Avery Crutsinger, Meg Meekins and Reagan Phipps playing while Kyler Spitzer and Clayton Brown coach them one last time.
On the west team, Saint Jo’s Payzlie Cervantes is confirmed to be playing.
The boy’s basketball game is scheduled to follow at 7:30 p.m. On the east team, Bowie’s Boston Farris and Nocona’s Jose Gomez Jr. will be playing.
On June 7, the volleyball games are scheduled to start at 4 p.m. with the small school game. On the west team, Nocona’s Kaygan Stone and Saint Jo’s Taylor Patrick are confirmed to play. On the east team, Saint Jo’s Aubrey Morman will get to play her teammate.
There are no local athletes confirmed to be playing in the big school volleyball game.
The final event is the football game, scheduled for 7:30 p.m. at Memorial Stadium. It is an all Bowie affair with six players confirmed to be playing for the east team: Justin Clark, Jorge De Leon, Hunter Fluitt and Braden Rhyne, Preacher Chambers and Moh Azouak.
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Nocona Independent School District officials looked inward for a new athletic director/head football coach, selecting Jeff Hill for the position.
Hill, who served last year as Nocona football’s offensive coordinator and also led the softball program to the playoffs for the first time in a while as its head coach, was upgraded to the role.
This came on the heels of former Athletic Director Blake Crutsinger, who served in the role the last four years, resigned in May.
For Hill, the choice to apply for the position was a no brainer. His one year in Nocona had impressed upon him and his wife that it was the place they would like to be long term.
“I’m looking for a town to raise my kids in and Nocona has treated my family really well,” Hill said. “There are some really good people. The kids work hard. Everything I am looking for in a hometown is right here in Nocona and I want to try and make it as best as it can be, especially through athletics.”
Before Nocona, Hill served as the athletic director at S&S Consolidated while also spending time at Hebron and Whitewright in his coaching career.
Hill expresses great respect for the departing Crutsinger and besides changing a few small things in how he personally wants to do things, he is not trying to come in with a sweeping restructuring of the whole athletic department.
The program had five of its six team sports make the playoffs, with volleyball playing in the regional final and the girl’s basketball team winning the state championship.
That along with two athletes competing at the state championship in cross country and track with one earning a gold medal, it was one of the more successful school years in athletic program history.
“Coach Crutsinger was awesome and did a great job so honestly just little tweaks, a little bit of structure and cohesion amongst the coaching staff between boys and girls,” Hill said. “I hope to keep the winning tradition going overall in the athletic department.”
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