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Bowie starts district with win
The Bowie Jackrabbits won their first game back after the break by beating Jacksboro at home in the opening district game.
The Jackrabbits pulled away down the stretch to win 60-43 against the Tigers to start off district play the right way. The rest of the game was a close back-and-forth battle.
The game started with both teams struggling to score despite foul calls being called right away.
Jacksboro wanted to attack the paint and score at the basket, but Bowie made sure to make that tough for the Tigers.
The Jackrabbits trailed only 8-7 heading into the second quarter, but took a blow when several starters got into foul trouble.
Things picked up for both teams offenses in the second.
The Tigers seemed to get to the free throw line at will. They were not too efficient though, going 8-14 from the line in the quarter.
Bowie got some good production from Brody Armstrong and Bayler Swint, who each scored six points in the quarter as the Jackrabbits grabbed a little bit of a lead. Bowie led 26-24 heading into halftime.
The Tigers started to make some baskets from the perimeter. They knocked in two 3-pointers and got to the line several times, but only made 50 percent of those attempts.
The Jackrabbits continued to attack Jacksboro’s man-defense by getting into the lane and kicking out for corner 3-pointers.
Bowie made three of them in the quarter and continued to find ways to the basket.
Five different players made a basket as the Jackrabbits still led heading into the fourth quarter, up 41-37.
Bowie tried to switch up its defense to avoid certain players fouling out, mixing in some zone at times.
Jacksboro’s offense continued to struggle as time wound down.
Bowie was up only 47-41 with three minutes to play as the Tigers got desperate. Full-court pressure came, but the Jackrabbits only had one bad error that led to a quick basket from Jacksboro.
The Tigers were forced to start sending Bowie players to the free throw line.
Unlike Jacksboro, the Jackrabbits took advantage of these free looks, making 10-12 in the quarter to extend their lead as Bowie won 60-43.
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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