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Lady Rabbits lose at Jacksboro
The Bowie Lady Rabbits had a tough outing at Jacksboro on Friday night.
The Lady Tigers won 16-4 in five innings due to run-rule against the Lady Rabbits.
Bowie was coming off a comeback win earlier in the week against rival Nocona and was hoping to have a chance to win this time around against Jacksboro.
The Lady Tigers won the first matchup 12-4, but only pulled ahead by a lot of runs late in the game.
The Lady Rabbits got on the board first. Traycee Stewart and Kenzie Short led off with back-to-back singles. Following a bunt that moved them both into scoring position and a strikeout Addie Farris drove them both in with a single to right field.
Bowie’s 2-0 lead did not stand for long though as Jacksboro’s bats were hot all game long. Four singles and a fielding error allowed the Lady Tigers to score four runs and take a 4-2 lead heading into the second inning.
The Lady Rabbits got a break with their leadoff batter Maddie Mandela getting on base thanks to a dropped third strike. She would later steal second base, but that would be as far as she would go.
The next three batters were retired with little trouble to end the scoring chance.
The same hot hitting from Jacksboro continued as two doubles and three singles allowed the team to score four more runs to up the lead to 8-2.
In the third inning, Short led off and hit a double. Two batters later Hannah Love drew a walk and Farris followed with a single to load the bases with one out.
Haley Webb then drove two runs in with a single up the middle to cut the lead to 8-4. Unfortunately, the next batter struck out for out three.
The Lady Rabbits had trouble preventing the Lady Tigers from scoring in their best innings. Two singles, a walk and a fielding error allowed Jacksboro to score two runs to make it 12-4 heading into the fourth inning.
Bowie tried to get a two-out rally going as Stewart got on base thanks to a fielding error. Short followed with a single to put two runners on base. Unfortunately, the next batter grounded into a fielder’s choice for out three to end the scoring chance.
The Lady Rabbit defense was not good in the final inning they played. Three fielding errors added to the three singles and a double to score four runs to make the score 16-4.
Bowie would need to score at least three runs in its final at-bat to continue the game and avoid being run-ruled. Despite Farris being hit by a pitch with one out to get a runner on base, the Lady Rabbits failed to score any runs to extend the game.
Jacksboro won 16-4.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
The Red River High School Bass Club competed this past weekend, May 31 – June 1, at the State Tournament on Lake Conroe for the two-day tournament.
Two of the teams from Montague County traveled south to try their best at the culmination of the year for the state title. Teams were able to pre-fish on Friday before the Saturday and Sunday competition. On Friday, there was a flipping contest for the youth and Cooper Johnson won third overall and won a $500 scholarship and an Academy gift card.
The club’s two teams who competed were Lane Smith/Colt Henry with boat captain Jimmy Smith. The team placed 63rd with a total of 16.22 pounds. The second team of Cooper Johnson/Corbyn Patton and boat captain Jayson Toerck placed 169th with a total weight of 2.29 pounds.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekly edition of the Bowie News.
The Maskat Shrine Oil Bowl is this week on June 6-7 and graduating athletes from Bowie, Nocona and Saint Jo are confirmed to be playing.
In total, seven athletes from Bowie, five from Nocona and three from Saint Jo are planning to play in the all-star games this week. Nocona also will have a pair of coaches participating as well.
The girl’s basketball game kicks off events on June 6, scheduled for 6 p.m. at Wichita Falls Memorial High School. In the game, the east team will have Nocona players Avery Crutsinger, Meg Meekins and Reagan Phipps playing while Kyler Spitzer and Clayton Brown coach them one last time.
On the west team, Saint Jo’s Payzlie Cervantes is confirmed to be playing.
The boy’s basketball game is scheduled to follow at 7:30 p.m. On the east team, Bowie’s Boston Farris and Nocona’s Jose Gomez Jr. will be playing.
On June 7, the volleyball games are scheduled to start at 4 p.m. with the small school game. On the west team, Nocona’s Kaygan Stone and Saint Jo’s Taylor Patrick are confirmed to play. On the east team, Saint Jo’s Aubrey Morman will get to play her teammate.
There are no local athletes confirmed to be playing in the big school volleyball game.
The final event is the football game, scheduled for 7:30 p.m. at Memorial Stadium. It is an all Bowie affair with six players confirmed to be playing for the east team: Justin Clark, Jorge De Leon, Hunter Fluitt and Braden Rhyne, Preacher Chambers and Moh Azouak.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekly edition of the Bowie News.
Nocona Independent School District officials looked inward for a new athletic director/head football coach, selecting Jeff Hill for the position.
Hill, who served last year as Nocona football’s offensive coordinator and also led the softball program to the playoffs for the first time in a while as its head coach, was upgraded to the role.
This came on the heels of former Athletic Director Blake Crutsinger, who served in the role the last four years, resigned in May.
For Hill, the choice to apply for the position was a no brainer. His one year in Nocona had impressed upon him and his wife that it was the place they would like to be long term.
“I’m looking for a town to raise my kids in and Nocona has treated my family really well,” Hill said. “There are some really good people. The kids work hard. Everything I am looking for in a hometown is right here in Nocona and I want to try and make it as best as it can be, especially through athletics.”
Before Nocona, Hill served as the athletic director at S&S Consolidated while also spending time at Hebron and Whitewright in his coaching career.
Hill expresses great respect for the departing Crutsinger and besides changing a few small things in how he personally wants to do things, he is not trying to come in with a sweeping restructuring of the whole athletic department.
The program had five of its six team sports make the playoffs, with volleyball playing in the regional final and the girl’s basketball team winning the state championship.
That along with two athletes competing at the state championship in cross country and track with one earning a gold medal, it was one of the more successful school years in athletic program history.
“Coach Crutsinger was awesome and did a great job so honestly just little tweaks, a little bit of structure and cohesion amongst the coaching staff between boys and girls,” Hill said. “I hope to keep the winning tradition going overall in the athletic department.”
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekly edition of the Bowie News.
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