SPORTS
Lady Rabbits hang with Decatur
The Bowie Lady Rabbits hosted 4A state-ranked Decatur on Tuesday fresh off their performance at the Whataburger holiday tournament.
The Lady Rabbits kept the game close throughout the game, but chasing the Lady Eagles all game and not being able to secure the lead after the first quarter led to Decatur winning 41-34.
Bowie did not feature their press defense in the game, which was carried over from the tournament where Coach Joe Crabb thought his team played better in its half-court zone defense.
The first quarter got off to a slow start. The Lady Rabbits tried to keep the bigger Lady Eagles out of the paint with their zone. Decatur initially featured a half-court trapping style defense that produced some turnovers and baskets. Bowie trailed 13-9 after the first quarter.
Bowie’s defense picked up for the rest of the game as the team’s active hands forced many turnovers from the Decatur team. Not many of the turnovers led to chances in transition.
The Lady Rabbits got the score within one point 16-15 with two minutes to go. A bad turnover and a three-pointer from the Lady Eagles made the score 19-15 heading into halftime.
Things continued on a slow scoring pace in the third quarter. Bowie’s defense continued to force turnovers, but Decatur did a good job of limiting any shots from the perimeter.
The Lady Rabbits were forced to drive into the lane where contesting defenders from the Lady Eagles sat with hands in the air. Free throws were only seldom rewarded for either side.
Bowie cut the score within two points 24-22 sometime in the third quarter, but just could not get over the hump. Decatur led 30-26 heading into the final quarter.
The Lady Eagles started to pull away a little bit with made three-pointers and better interior passing in the fourth quarter. Decatur led 37-28 with just four minutes left.
The Lady Rabbits started to full-court press to try and make stuff happen as time wound down. With all five starters playing anywhere from 25 to 31 minutes in the game, Bowie just could not summon the chaotic energy it needed to come back.
In the end, the Lady Eagles won 41-34.
Bowie next plays at Lindsay at 6:15 p.m. on Jan. 7 in its final non-district game.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekend 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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