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Bowie girls lose opening game
The Bowie Lady Rabbits kicked off their season on Saturday morning playing a top 10 ranked team in the state in 1A Slidell.
The Lady Greyhounds won 49-40 in a physical game where the Lady Rabbits are trying to figure things out.
With the volleyball team losing only four days before, new Coach Matthew Miller only had three days of practice with his full team before the game.
Still Bowie started the game well, playing physical defense and leading 8-2 late in the first quarter. Slidell scored two buckets late to cut the lead to 8-6 heading into the second quarter.
It was another close quarter with neither team breaking away. The Lady Greyhounds did make one adjustment a few minutes before halftime when they switched defenses from man-to-man to an aggressive zone.
This threw off Bowie and led to several turnovers that led to Slidell leading 18-17 at halftime.
The start of the third quarter went wrong for the Lady Rabbits. The not making one in the first half, the Lady Greyhounds started making some 3-pointers.
Within the first minute Slidell upped the lead to 24-17 and eventually increased it to double-digits.
Bowie was navigating the zone better, but could not do its drive-and-kick offense it wanted to do.
The zone did give up corner 3-pointers and the Lady Rabbits got several open shots. Unfortunately, only two went in during the quarter and not much else as the team got no free throw attempts.
Slidell had four go in and pushed the ball off of misses before dumping it to a tall post player to finish baskets inside.
The Lady Greyhounds led 39-25 heading into the fourth quarter and Bowie needed to find a way to turn the game around.
The Lady Rabbits did turn things around as they stopped settling for outside shots. Leading scorer Ziba Robbins scored nine of her team high 15 points during the fourth quarter as the team upped its defensive intensity.
At one point Bowie had cut the lead down to 39-34 with 4:20 left to play, but that would be as close as the Lady Rabbits got. Slidell made enough of its free throws down the stretch and did not turn the ball over a ton that led to quick scores.
The lead climbed back up while the Bowie struggled to score for the rest of the game as the Lady Greyhounds won 49-40.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
Nocona got its new press box into place this week at Jack Crane Stadium. The old press box, which was in place for more than 60 years, was taken out in early June and moved to Indian Valley Raceway. The new press box was by the Southern Bleacher Company out of Graham. Athletic Director Black Crutsinger said they looked at a lot of press boxes and decided they liked the one at Lindsay High School and went with that model. Sean Hutson operated the crane from the Hurd Crane Service that put the press box up for Nocona.
Sunset native Cason Richey (right) and his team roping partner Beldon Cox from Weatherford repeated as the International Finals Youth Rodeo champions last weekend at Shawnee, OK. Richey and Cox won the previous year and were able to complete the repeat by catching three steers in a combined time of 16.6 seconds. Richey is expected to compete attend Texas Tech University this fall and compete on the rodeo team.
The Chisholm Trail Youth Rodeo had its awards ceremony this week, giving out plaques and buckles to the top competitors throughout the summer season.
There were four age categories with five events to compete in for the young athletes.
Along with the best results in each event, at the end the overall best cowboy and cowgirl in each age division was awarded as well.
The lead line division, in which an adult helps the young competitors, saw Rylee Stewart win the first in poles, barrel racing and mystery event on her way to win top cowgirl.
Hattie Snow got the fastest time in the flags event and Lany Shupak got the fastest goat time. Riggin Bishop got named the top cowboy in the division.
In the eight-and-under division, Whitley Goins won the top cowgirl and Trell Carpenter won top cowboy. Goins got the fastest times in barrel racing, flags and mystery event. Carpenter got the fastest time in poles and goats.
In the 9-12 age division, Sage Keck won the top cowgirl while Chisum Carpenter won the top cowboy. Keck got the fastest times in four of the five divisions. Only Layna Taylor getting the fastest goat time prevented her from winning in a clean sweep.
In the 13-18 age division, Tess Egenbacher won the top overall cowgirl award.
Kiley McCracken won both the barrel racing and flags event. Emma Strahan won the poles and mystery event. Hadlee Bryan won the goats event.
There was no top overall cowboy in the age division.
To see the times for the winners of each event in all four age categories along with pictures of all of the top cowboys and cowgirls, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.
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