SPORTS
Bowie has up and down first tournament
The Bowie Jackrabbit basketball team participated in their first tournament at their hosted Gayno Shelton Tournament Classic last weekend.
Bowie went 3-2 against some quality competition that tested them, but early on in the tournament, the Jackrabbits were making things look easy.
They started off the tournament against Lake Worth. Bowie was up 28-20 at halftime, but started to separate itself even more in the second half. It was a game where everyone off the bench got to play down the stretch as the Jackrabbits won 54-36.
The same day, Bowie next played Mineral Wells. The Rams had no chance as the Jackrabbits shut them out in the first quarter on the way to a 24-0 lead. Bowie repeated the feat in the third quarter on its way to a 61-19 win.
Bowie started the second day of the tournament with a big test against 5A school Saginaw. The Jackrabbits trailed 27-22 at halftime as it got off to a slow start offensively.
Bowie ramped things up in the third quarter and was able to wrestle control of the game away as it led 40-32 heading into the fourth quarter.
Unfortunately for the Jackrabbits, they struggled to play with the lead as the offense went away while the Rough Riders took control of the game late and held on to win 48-44.
Bowie then played Braemer, a team from Australia. After an even first quarter both teams went crazy in the second, but it was the Jackrabbits who were up 41-29 at halftime.
Bowie was able to slowly extend its lead in the second half as the game got to a much more manageable pace for both teams. The Jackrabbits won 67-48.
Bowie then finished up its first tournament against another challenging 5A team, Boswell. The Jackrabbits had a narrow 29-27 lead at halftime, but the score was tied at 37-37 heading into the fourth quarter.
Despite Bowie having a lead late, it was the Pioneers who were able to make the plays at the end to win the game 49-47.
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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