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Bowie girls lose district game at Childress 58-37
Facing their first big challenge during district play, the Bowie Lady Rabbits made the long trip to Childress on Tuesday night.
The Lady Cats took it to the Lady Rabbits, especially in the second and third quarters, leading to a big win 58-37.
The beginning of the game was slow and played to Bowie’s pace. The Lady Rabbits led 10-8 heading to the second quarter when Childress caught fire.
Lady Cat’s post player Grace Foster, the reigning district co-most valuable player, got to work scoring the ball in a myriad of ways both inside and outside. Childress more than doubled its total from the first quarter while Bowie’s offense suffered.
When everything was going right for the Lady Cats, things were going wrong for the Lady Rabbits. Shots weren’t going in. The turnovers increased.
Childress took the lead by double-digits heading into halftime up 29-16.
Bowie needed to turn things around coming out of halftime, but unfortunately the same play continued from the second quarter. Foster and the rest of the Lady Cats were making their shots while the Lady Rabbits offense continued to fall farther behind.
Heading into the final quarter Bowie trailed 48-25.
The Lady Rabbits closed out the game better than they played in the middle two quarters. By that time, Bowie had dug itself too big of a hole to climb out of to get the win. Childress would win 58-37.
Brysen Richey led the team with eight points and five steals. Hope Jones was second with six points and five rebounds. As a team the Lady Rabbits shot only 20 percent from the field and made only three 3-pointers.
While Bowie did get to the free throw line a lot, attempting 28, the team made less than 60 percent.
The Lady Rabbits will look to bounce back. They have another challenge when they next travel to Holliday to play at 6 p.m. on Jan. 21.
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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