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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.
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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