SPORTS
Bowie boys lose at City View
The Bowie Jackrabbits suffered a setback on Friday with a loss at district leader City View.
The Mustangs won 74-47, beating the Jackrabbits for the second time this season by an almost identical score.
Bowie came into the contest hopeful, riding a three-game winning streak and feeling like their outside shooting was starting to peak. Three weeks since the first game, this time it was going to be different.
The Mustangs also were looking vulnerable. After sweeping through district beating every team by at least 20 or more points besides Holliday, City View had just barley escaped beating Nocona in overtime by one point.
The game started and the teams traded shots on offense. Bowie avoided complete disaster against the Mustangs full-court press.
The Jackrabbits were able to find some penetration, but with the long athletes City View had, the help defense made many shots at the rim a tough contest.
Bowie did a good job of kicking it out to shooters and the team made three 3-pointers in the first quarter. The Mustangs made three as well and had a one basket advantage 15-12 heading into the second quarter.
The Jackrabbits went small to try and match up more athletically with City View. Shots were not going in as much for Bowie, but the team was still hanging around down 26-22 late in the quarter.
The Mustangs would go on one of their runs though, closing the quarter scoring seven straight points, upping their lead to 33-22 at halftime. The Jackrabbits looked like they had just been stunned, with the first half being much closer before City View’s quick run all of sudden put them in a double-digit hole.
Bowie would need to come out in the third quarter to try and change the momentum of the game, but that did not happen.
The first two minutes saw the Mustangs score every possession, upping their lead to 41-26.
The Jackrabbits flow on offense was not there like they would have needed to come back from double-digit deficit.
Every shot proved tough, open 3-pointers that needed to go in missed. The physicality from City View grew wearisome.
While the Mustangs did a good job of taking advantage of transition opportunities while attacking defenders in isolation in the first game, City View also made more 3-pointers on Friday night at the right times.
Bowie did a good job to fight back from what was once a 20 point lead in the third quarter to trailing 51-34 heading into the fourth quarter.
Unfortunately the Mustangs’ offense exploded for 23 points in the final period, not giving the Jackrabbits a chance to try and come back. City View’s lead grew and grew as the game wore on, with the final score 74-47.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week 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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