SPORTS
The Eagles, weather rain over Bowie’s homecoming game
It was not the happy end to homecoming week the Bowie Jackrabbits would have liked as they lost to Holliday on Friday night.
A spiraling second quarter led to a one sided game and a forgetable second half as the Eagles won 44-6.
The whole game was accompanied by a constant downpour that started Friday morning and did not let up all weekend. This favored Holliday, whose triple option and big offensive line favored them running the ball the majority of the time.
It did not start out well for the Jackrabbits. A three-and-out on the opening offensive possession was a sign of things to come as Bowie failed to get a first down in the first half and did not complete a pass.
The Eagles were able to take the ball on their opening possession and, thanks to a big run from Holliday’s Tristin Boyd down inside the Jackrabbits red zone, scored on a six-yard run to go up 7-0.
After that opening possession, the Bowie defense stepped up and did a good job containing the Eagles ground attack. Holliday did not help themselves as they had a game high 10 penalties. This put their offense behind the sticks and the Jackrabbit defense held up and only allowed four of 12 third down conversions throughout the game.
Bowie’s offense continued to struggle and punting near its end zone a bad exchange between the long snapper and punter allowed Holliday to get back and affect the punt. After a mad scramble, the ball went out the back of the end zone for a safety as the Eagles led 9-0 heading into the second quarter.
Despite how one-sided the first quarter seemed, the score was still within reach if the offense could get anything going in the second quarter. Unfortunately, the only thing that got going was Holliday.
It started with a short Eagles touchdown run that finished the drive they had started following the safety. On the kickoff, the kick was squibbed to an unsuspecting player on the second row who could not gather it as Holliday recovered. They capitalized by scoring on a short touchdown pass to make it 23-0.
Bowie then fumbled on their next possession deep in their territory and Holliday scored again on a short run. The Jackrabbits tried to get something going before the half, but went three-and-out again.
It was the Eagles who were able to score before the half, again on a short run. The final nail in the coffin for the quarter was Holliday intercepting a pass. Thankfully, they did not turn this into more points as the halftime score was 37-0.
The good news was the Jackrabbits could only play better in the second half and playing against an Eagles team with a mix of second teamers as the half went on, they did. Bowie got their first first down on their opening drive of the second half and were able to complete a few big pass plays in the second half.
The big one went to Jed Castles from 30 yards out on the last play of the third quarter that kept Bowie from getting shutout as the score was cut to 44-6. The teams played to a standstill in the fourth quarter as the game ended with that final.
To read the full story, including full stats, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
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.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekly edition of the Bowie News.
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.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekly edition of the Bowie News.
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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