SPORTS
Looking back: 1953 state title
During the next few weeks The Bowie News will be looking back at sports teams that accomplished big things for their communities.
The third team we are looking at is Bowie High School’s 1952-53 boy’s basketball team that would win the program’s third straight state title.
Both the photo and text were taken from the school’s yearbook from that year. If you have any memories of this team or time in Bowie’s history, we would love to hear from you.
The Bowie High School Jackrabbit basketeers fashioned another record-breaking cage season in 1952 and 1953 with their third consecutive state championship and an unbeaten season of thirty four wins.
The state top honor gave Bowie High School the honor of being the only team in 33 years of state tournament play to win three consecutive titles.
Five other schools had shared the honor with Bowie of winning two straight state championships.
The cage squad coached by R.E. Mattingly and M.L. Massey proved best in three invitation tournaments against the best high school teams in North Texas. The first tourney win for Bowie was in the First Annual North Texas College Meet at Denton. The Rabbits won over a field of sixteen teams and topped Poly of Ft. Worth in the finals 56- to 51. Poly was defending class 4-A champions.
The Bowie quintet then sacked up the championship of the Decatur Invitation Meet and made their record four titles in five years in that meet. In their own meet the Bowie boys downed a strong field including a decisive 87 to 60 victory over Wichita Falls in the finals.
Individual honors were won in each meet. Temple Tucker, Stanley Airington, and John Carver were selected on all three all-tournament teams and repeated the honor in the state meet by making all-state along with Bennie Hill.
Tucker was selected for the ‘Best Sport’ award at Decatur, and Bennie Hill won this honor in the Bowie Meet. The Bowie game starting five included Tucker, Carver, Airington, Hill, and White for most of the season games.
This combination established a state meet scoring record in the final game by chalking up 81 points against Dumas.
The 81 to 44 victory over Dumas was also a record in margin for a final game in the meet.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
Bowie, playing on a short rest, held with host Jacksboro for most of the volleyball match Oct. 1, but the Tigerettes pulled away late and defeated the Lady Rabbits 3-1 (26-24, 12-25, 25-14, 22-25).
The match was scheduled for Oct. 2 but was moved. Both teams are now 2-2 in District 6-3A.
Jacksboro got out to a quick lead in game one before Olivia Stewart’s kill and a three-point Olivia Richey serving run put the visitors up 8-7. Junior Abby Reneau broke things open with a six-point string to give Bowie a 15-8 cushion and force Jacksboro into a timeout.
The Tigerettes came back and took an 18-16 lead. KP Rutherford’s kill broke the serve and allowed Molly Enlow to tie the game at 18.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Gold-Burg Football Coach Austin Norman called his Bears’ 35-32 loss to host Perrin a “barn burner”.
It most definitely was as Gold-Burg, now 1-5 for the year gave the 5-1 Pirates everything they wanted for four quarters. Gold-Burg scored on the last play of the first half on a Peyton Epperson run with the two point conversion cutting the deficit to 20-16.
The Bears were their own worst enemy to open the third quarter with face mask and offside penalties moving the Pirates downfield setting up a first-and-goal at the Bear three. Defense by Epperson, Keelyn Case and Barrett Allen and a pair of Perrin penalties helped stop the drive and force a turnover on downs.
Gold-Burg was slapped with an intentional grounding penalty on the first play, giving Perrin a safety and extending the Pirate lead to 22-16. Defense by Epperson and JoJuan Grace after a first down run closed out the third quarter.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Nocona and Prairie Valley cross country teams took part in the Prairie Valley Invitational Sept. 20 while Bowie varsity runners competed in the Lubbock Invitational.
Lubbock
Leading the Rabbits was Kellen Rater who finished 10th among 162 runners with a time of 17:24.50. Finishing behind Rater was Shawn Willett with a time of 19:33.20. Hayden Sutton ran a 20:27.10 followed by Taven Melton in 20:39.20, Coleman Holloway in 20:53.80 and Jaxon Castro with a time of 21:31.60.
Laney Segura led the Lady Rabbits with a time of 14:41.30. She was followed by Kylee Waldrep in 15:56.80, Bella Lozano in 16:04.80, Angeles Alvarez with a time of 16:15.40, AnDee Miller in 16:23.70 and Isabella Caswell in 16:51 flat.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
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