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Basketball Roundup
Prairie Valley vs Forestburg girls
The Prairie Valley Lady Bulldogs won their rescheduled district game at Forestburg on Monday.
The Lady Bulldogs won 43-30 against the Lady Horns, getting out to a big lead in the first half.
Prairie Valley methodically passed through Forestburg’s two-three zone for open shots away from the basket, avoiding the Lady Horns tall post player Morgan Miller at all cost.
The Lady Bulldogs did well, with five different players scoring baskets in the first quarter, including Molly Gilleland who scored nine of the team’s 17 points.
Forestburg was trying to get the ball in to Miller in the post, but Prairie Valley tried to make it tough by pressuring ball handlers and stuffing the lane with multiple bodies.
The second quarter was similar as the Lady Bulldogs scored 12 points. Hailey Winkler scored eight points to lead the team as Prairie Valley led 29-6 at halftime.
The Lady Horns came out with more energy in the second half. They played smaller at times and found some success driving to the lane while making some 3-pointers. Unfortunately for them, the switch to man defense during some of these moments left the lane wide open as the Lady Bulldogs made them pay on offense.
Still, Forestburg outscored Prairie Valley 13-5 in the third quarter, cutting the lead to 34-19.
The Lady Horns would need a lot of things to break right for them to come back from a double-digit hole, but they fell short.
The Lady Bulldogs scored a bit more in the fourth, enough to make sure Forestburg never got the lead too close as they won.
Saint Jo boys
The Saint Jo Panthers first game back from the Christmas break against Muenster on Wednesday was a defensive struggle they would lose.
The Hornets won the low-scoring game 30-22 as both teams try to shake off the holiday rust.
The Panthers played good defense against the usual 2A power program from down the road. Unfortunately, they also struggled to score against good defense from Muenster.
“We came out hot taking a 10-7 lead in the first, but just couldn’t get anything going after that and they slowly pounded away at us and found ways to score by hitting the boards that we didn’t have on our end,” Coach Lyndon Cook said.
Despite the disappointing loss, Cook was proud how his team competed with the Hornets, a program he has a lot of respect for since he is a graduate from there.
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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