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Lady Rabbits win big at Rio Vista
The Bowie Lady Rabbits won their first game back from the holiday break on Tuesday in a non-district game at 2A Rio Vista.
The Lady Rabbits easily dispatched the Lady Eagles 52-22.
Bowie had not played in more than a week when it had won its first district game against Breckenridge. It was one of the team’s best played games of the season after struggling for most of its pre-district schedule thanks to injuries and inexperience.
The team seemed to pick up where it left off against Rio Vista in a game to get the Lady Rabbits ready to resume district play.
Bowie’s defense swarmed and limited the Lady Eagles in the first half, allowing only one basket in each quarter and only three free throw attempts.
The Lady Rabbits offense has had trouble scoring the ball at times this season, but has gotten better of avoiding long slumps by not just relying on shooting open perimeter shots.
It helps when the team is making them though. The team made two 3-pointers in the first quarter and scored 15 points to build a double-digit lead from the get go. The second quarter was more of the same as Bowie scored 15 more points as the team led 30-5 at halftime.
With such a dominating half of play, it was going to be next to impossible for the Lady Rabbits to keep it up in the second half. Rio Vista came out and actually outscored Bowie in the third quarter 13-12.
The Lady Rabbits did finish the game strong though as they limited the Lady Eagles to only four points in the fourth quarter to make up for the one quarter anomaly. With the pace slowed down a lot and bench players finishing out the game, Bowie was able to score in double-digits in the final quarter to not have any offensive slumps in the blowout win that was already decided.
The Lady Rabbits won 52-22.
Taygon Jones continued her recent good shooting while leading the team with 21 points and three 3-pointers. Maddie Mandela was second scoring nine points.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekend 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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