SPORTS
Local teams compete at Texas championship
Competing in the Texas Basketball Championships tournament this weekend, the Bowie boys and both Nocona teams qualified for the tournament.
Played at various Grapevine area schools, the tournament featured many high school teams across the state who earned their entry at a state-qualifying tournament earlier in the month.
With no coaching allowed during the summer, teams are either coached by a parent, former player or by committee.
Last year, the Jackrabbit boys were able to win the division II crown at the tournament, propelling them to receive a lot of pre-season hype and the number one rated team in 3A when the polls came out.
In pool play, Bowie beat Lorena, Little River Academy, Blue Ridge and lost to Canton.
During bracket play, they lost the opening game to Graham, but was able to beat Big Spring and Kennedale. In the semifinals the Jackrabbits were matched up with Little River Academy, a team they beat in pool play.
Unfortunately, they did not play well and lost big to end the Texas Basketball Champions tournament.
Bowie finished with a 5-3 overall record.
Coach Jonathon Horton said he was pleased with what he saw from his team without him.
“We were able to match speed with some teams who are more athletic than us,” Horton said. “We are built well to match what every other team in the state has.”
The Indian boys had a rough time, especially in pool play.
They lost all three of their games, but geared up for bracket play and beat Denver City and Salado.
They then lost their next two games to Burnett and Palmer to finish their tournament with a 2-5 record.
The Lady Indians also struggled at the TBC tournament.
They lost their first three games in bracket play before beating Muenster to end the day.
In bracket play Nocona beat Leonard and then lost the rematch to Muenster by one point, who would go on to place second at the tournament. The Lady Indians finished with a 2-4 record.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
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.
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.
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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