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Lady Rabbits play a tough gauntlet of state-ranked teams
The Bowie Lady Rabbits got back into the swing of things with four games in two days blitz on Friday Saturday against some state-ranked teams at the prestigious Whataburger tournament in Saginaw.
The Lady Rabbits went 2-2 and played for the consolation championship on Saturday, but lost the final game against the number one ranked team in 1A Nazareth. It was not the only state-ranked team Bowie faced during the two days.
The Lady Rabbits kicked off the tournament against state ranked 4A Bridgeport. There was some rust from the holidays and the team did not play well. The Sissies took it to Bowie and won easily 61-18.
While the teams the Lady Rabbits played next were in smaller classifications, all three were ranked in the top five in the state within their classifications and could not be taken lightly.
Bowie finished the first day playing Panhandle. The Lady Panthers were ranked among the top five teams in 2A. It was a close game and the Lady Rabbits battled. In the end, Bowie was able to hold on to win a close game 42-39.
To start of Saturday, the Lady Rabbits next played Dodd City. The Lady Hornets are usually ranked among the top programs in 1A every year, with several area teams playoff runs ending to them every year. Dodd City is also coming off a three season run where it was the state runner-up.
Bowie took care of business and won a game it controlled from the start 51-38. The win set up the Lady Rabbits with the team that defeated the Lady Hornets in the state title game each of the last three years for the consolation championship.
The Lady Swifts’ defense was stifling. Bowie had an okay first quarter, but just had a tough time scoring for the rest of the game. The Lady Rabbits made a mini-run in the final few minutes to cut the lead down to single-digits, but could not catch up as Nazareth won the low scoring affair 35-26.
Jayci Logan was named to the all-tournament team as the long and athletic guard at the front of the team’s pressing defense was a key to the team’s success during the two days.
The Lady Rabbits next play at Lindsay at 6:15 p.m. on Jan. 7.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week 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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