SPORTS
Bowie shoots past Henrietta
The Bowie Jackrabbits won their home opening district game against Henrietta on Tuesday night.
The Jackrabbits won 54-38 in a game that was much closer than the final score would make it appear.
Both teams came into the game with wins in the first district games. Bowie had walloped Jacksboro 71-26 while the Bearcats won a close game at Nocona 50-46.
Henrietta came out in a 2-3 zone and despite not having a big post in the middle, the team had multiple long athletes who made drives to the rim tough nonetheless. On offense, the Bearcats tried a lot of backdoor cuts, pick and rolls and off ball screens all with the purpose of getting downhill to the rim.
It was a slow start in the first quarter. Bowie was getting some good looks from the perimeter and around the basket that were just not going in.
The team was down only 5-1 about midway through the quarter when Drew Webber and Kynan DeMoss checked into the game off the bench. Both hit two 3-pointers each by the end of the quarter to give the Jackrabbits their first lead at 10-8. Eventually Bowie held a one basket lead 13-10 at the end of the first quarter.
The second quarter saw Bowie diversify its scoring more. DeMoss did hit two more 3-pointers to lead all scorers with 12 points in the first half. The team also started to penetrate and look to score at the rim instead of just passing it back out for an open shot.
The team found post Riley Blackburn inside for a couple of baskets and Brody Armstrong finished on a drive to the basket.
For most of the second quarter, Bowie had both of its tall post players, Blackburn and Weber, at the same time to try and provide rim protection from Henrietta’s constant pressure. While it continued to stifle the Bearcats from scoring in bunches, Henrietta did a good job of getting to the free throw line. The team went 7-10 in the quarter alone which kept the game close.
Bowie led 25-19 heading into halftime.
The third quarter saw Henrietta switch to a 1-3-1 zone, but the Jackrabbits did a better job of finding driving lanes to the basket or opportunities on the offensive glass. The Bearcats finally started making some 3-pointers, scoring all nine of their points by making three of them in the quarter.
It was not enough to close the distance, though the score was still close as the Jackrabbits lead was 36-28 heading into the fourth quarter.
Even with Henrietta switching back to a 2-3 zone, it did not change much. Bowie was able to find Blackburn on dumpoffs for six points and Cade Thompson knocked in two 3-pointers as he scored eight points in the quarter.
Some of this was helped when the Bearcats switched to a press in the last few minutes with the lead now in the double-digits and the Jackrabbits making them pay after breaking it.
Bowie won by the biggest lead of the game 54-38.
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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