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Jackrabbits beat feisty Bearcats 49-40 at home improving to 3-1
The Bowie Jackrabbits were able to secure the team’s first home district win Tuesday night as they took on Henrietta.
Despite the Bearcats having no answer for Bowie’s players inside, the Jackrabbits less than stellar outside shooting allowed the final score to be 49-40.
The first quarter was relatively slow offensively for both teams. With a little less than three minutes to go, Bowie only led 6-3. The Jackrabbits were able to end the quarter well by doubling their score and leading 12-5.
The second quarter was more of the same, except no momentous push came from either team’s offense. To counteract Bowie’s strength of size and skill in the post, the Bearcats sat back in a tight two-three zone and dared the Jackrabbits to take good three-point shots.
While the Jackrabbits have had moments where the team has been on fire from deep, they have not shot a good percentage on the year and were not having their best night Tuesday.
The two teams each scored only six points in the second quarter as Bowie led 18-11 at halftime.
The pace picked up in the second half and especially in the third quarter. The Jackrabbits started pushing the ball and were able to finish several two on one and three on two situations with guard Justin Franklin getting his teammates easy looks to score as he dished out a season high 11 assists in the game.
Henrietta made enough shots from three while scoring through gritty means to keep pace. While Bowie did go up by double digits 32-21 with 3:30 to play in the third, the Bearcats closed the score to 36-28 heading into the fourth quarter, refusing to go away.
In fourth quarter Henrietta’s Jonah Lyde, who was held scoreless in the first half, scored 11 of his game high 18 points with a couple of three-pointers and getting to the free throw line. The Jackrabbits scored and played just well enough not to feel threatened even as the Bearcats cut the lead to 43-39 with 3:06 left to play.
Bowie takes awhile to run its offense under normal circumstances, but when trying without actually stalling, only the most aggressive of teams have succeeded in rattling the Jackrabbits with the lead.
Bowie was able to stay calm and play the game out normally as they won 49-40.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.
Nocona got its new press box into place this week at Jack Crane Stadium. The old press box, which was in place for more than 60 years, was taken out in early June and moved to Indian Valley Raceway. The new press box was by the Southern Bleacher Company out of Graham. Athletic Director Black Crutsinger said they looked at a lot of press boxes and decided they liked the one at Lindsay High School and went with that model. Sean Hutson operated the crane from the Hurd Crane Service that put the press box up for Nocona.
Sunset native Cason Richey (right) and his team roping partner Beldon Cox from Weatherford repeated as the International Finals Youth Rodeo champions last weekend at Shawnee, OK. Richey and Cox won the previous year and were able to complete the repeat by catching three steers in a combined time of 16.6 seconds. Richey is expected to compete attend Texas Tech University this fall and compete on the rodeo team.
The Chisholm Trail Youth Rodeo had its awards ceremony this week, giving out plaques and buckles to the top competitors throughout the summer season.
There were four age categories with five events to compete in for the young athletes.
Along with the best results in each event, at the end the overall best cowboy and cowgirl in each age division was awarded as well.
The lead line division, in which an adult helps the young competitors, saw Rylee Stewart win the first in poles, barrel racing and mystery event on her way to win top cowgirl.
Hattie Snow got the fastest time in the flags event and Lany Shupak got the fastest goat time. Riggin Bishop got named the top cowboy in the division.
In the eight-and-under division, Whitley Goins won the top cowgirl and Trell Carpenter won top cowboy. Goins got the fastest times in barrel racing, flags and mystery event. Carpenter got the fastest time in poles and goats.
In the 9-12 age division, Sage Keck won the top cowgirl while Chisum Carpenter won the top cowboy. Keck got the fastest times in four of the five divisions. Only Layna Taylor getting the fastest goat time prevented her from winning in a clean sweep.
In the 13-18 age division, Tess Egenbacher won the top overall cowgirl award.
Kiley McCracken won both the barrel racing and flags event. Emma Strahan won the poles and mystery event. Hadlee Bryan won the goats event.
There was no top overall cowboy in the age division.
To see the times for the winners of each event in all four age categories along with pictures of all of the top cowboys and cowgirls, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.
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