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Bowie softball struggles in second tournament
The Bowie Lady Rabbits had a tough second tournament at the Bowie/Henrietta tournament late last week.
With half the team seeing its first softball action fresh off of basketball ending two days before, the Lady Rabbits went 1-4 overall as the team tries to get up to speed.
Bowie started the tournament with a morning game against Archer City. The Lady Rabbits had trouble scoring any runs against the Lady Cats. Bowie only gave up one big inning in the fifth as Archer City scored five runs, but the Lady Rabbits struggled to threaten the defense enough.
In the end the Lady Cats won 9-1. The highlights included Gracie Bentley hitting a double to drive in Jayci Logan for Bowie’s only run.
Later in the afternoon, the Lady Rabbits faced Sanger. It was a much higher scoring game as the Bowie trailed only 8-7 after the first three innings. After that though, the Lady Rabbits were unable to score while the Lady Indians scored big in the fifth and sixth inning to pull ahead and win 15-7.
Highlights for Bowie included a two RBI double from Addie Farris and a triple hit by Kenzi Short.
Things did not get much easier for the Lady Rabbits the second day. Bowie played Vernon to start the day. While the Lady Rabbits did a good job to not let the Lady Lions score in bunches, Vernon still scored at least one run in four different innings.
On offense Bowie struggled to put its bat on the ball as the team struck out 10 times and only had three hits as the team failed to score in seven innings. The Lady Lions would win 7-0.
Highlights included Short hitting a double, a double play turn in the infield and pitcher Alexa Holzer not allowing a walk.
The Lady Rabbits had to turn around and play a late game against Windthorst that did not last long. The Lady Trojans had big offensive innings in the first and second, scoring five and then 10 runs in the inning.
Bowie answered with three in the bottom of the second, but with a couple more runs from Windthorst in the third inning the game was called. The Lady Trojans won 17-3.
Highlights included extra base hits from Farris, Jasmine Jones and Season Eudey. Farris and Jones also both drove runs in separately.
The Lady Rabbits finished the tournament on Saturday playing Bland.
The offense had things going great from the opening at bat, with runs scored in all three innings of the short game blowout.
Bowie would win 11-1 with RBIs from four players, led by two from Eudey who hit a double. Holzer only allowed one hit in four innings of work as the Lady Rabbits would end the tournament on a positive note.
The Lady Rabbits play in their final tournament this weekend at Iowa Park.
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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