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Lady Rabbits season ends to Brock
The Bowie Lady Rabbits season came to an end on Tuesday night in their bi-district playoff game against Brock.
The Lady Eagles won in four sets, but a close fourth set that just didn’t go the Lady Rabbits made the sudden end to the season a sad one.
Bowie came into the game as the underdog, finishing third in the district standings and coming off losses to Breckenridge and Holliday. Brock’s only district losses came against district champion Peaster in the last month of the season.
The opening set of the match did not start the Lady Rabbits way. The Lady Eagles quickly got out to a 10-5 lead. For most of the set Brock was able to keep that margin, except when Bowie cut the lead down to two points 21-19.
Unfortunately, from there the Lady Eagles closed out the set, winning 25-20 to take the lead 1-0.
The second set was much different. The opening points were competitive, but slowly the Lady Rabbits started to pull away.
Bowie won five straight five-point exchanges 3-2, growing its lead to 15-10. From there the Lady Rabbits opened up the lead to 19-11 before closing out the set with little drama, winning 25-16 and tying the score at 1-1.
Unfortunately, Brock came out in the third set with some fury. Bowie fell behind early 10-5 and it only got worse before it got better. The Lady Eagles biggest lead at one point was 17-8.
Bowie did play better the rest of the set to make the final score more reasonable, but there was no miracle comeback to be had. Brock won the set 25-18 to take a 2-1 lead.
The Lady Rabbits would need to win the final two sets. From the two lost sets they suffered in the match already, they knew they could not get off to a rough start.
The opening 20 points were competitive as the teams were tied at 10-10. Down by one point 13-12, Bowie then opened up the biggest lead of the set, going on an 8-2 run to lead 20-15.
The Lady Rabbits still seemed like they were in control up 22-18, needing to win only three points to force a winner-take-all fifth set.
Unfortunately, Brock got on a run, scoring the next three points to cut the lead to 22-21 and forcing Bowie to call a timeout.
Eventually the teams were tied up at 23-23 before the Lady Eagles won the next point to take the lead and have their first match point. After another timeout from the Lady Rabbits, Bowie won the next point to tie the score at 24-24.
Teams have to win a set by two points, so it went past the 25 points teams usually need to secure the set.
Brock won the next point, but the Lady Rabbits won the next to tie the score at 25-25. The Lady Eagles then again won the next point to set up their third match point.
This time though, Bowie could not come up with the point.
A good hit ball into the back row against a scrambling defense went right between two Lady Rabbit players, who both dived into each other in their efforts to keep the ball in play.
Brock won the set 27-25 and the match 3-1.
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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