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Lady Rabbits lose home opener to Boyd 3-1
The Bowie Lady Rabbits hosted their first game on Tuesday playing a young but talented Boyd team that had given the team its only loss of the season a few days earlier.
The Lady Jackets won 3-1, coming back from losing the first set to convincingly win the next three sets.
The Lady Rabbits were hoping to get another shot at a Boyd team that prevented them from playing in the Burkburnett tournament championship game three days earlier. Bowie instead lost in two sets and ended up beating Vernon to finish third overall.
Boyd has regularly been rated in the top 10 teams in the state in 3A in recent years, but a new coach and a young inexperienced team means the team is as vulnerable as it has been.
Tournament results are not always respected since the games are played only to a best of three sets instead of the normal five. Teams are also right in the middle of having played several games that day or the previous day that wears on them physically and mentally more than the normally scheduled games.
The Lady Rabbits were hoping being fresh and at home would give them a better chance against the Lady Jackets.
The first set saw Bowie come out ready to play. It was competitive for the first 25 points as neither team built any sort of a substantial lead over the other.
The Lady Rabbits led 13-12, but a 4-1 run saw that lead blossom to 17-13.
Boyd came back to close the lead down to one or two points, but Bowie was able to close things out in control and playing well 25-22, taking a 1-0 lead.
Unfortunately, that would be the highlight for the Lady Rabbits.
After starting set two down before rallying to tie, the Lady Jackets took control and led 9-6. That lead grew and never got any closer for Bowie. Hitting errors and mistakes not present in the first set seemed to happen frequently and the energy was noticeably down for the Lady Rabbits.
Boyd easily won the set 25-17 to tie the score at 1-1.
Unfortunately, it was rinse and repeat for sets three and four that were scored 25-17 and 25-19. Bowie fell behind early and could never play as solid or with as much energy as it did in set one to make up any of the deficits.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.
Bellevue’s girl’s basketball team led at halftime but a quick 9-0 Jacksboro run in the opening moments of the second half would prove the difference in a 28-25 Lady Eagle loss June 15 in a Nocona Summer League game.
Leading 12-9 at the half, Bellevue continued to shut down the inside game of the Tigerettes. Jacksboro switched tactics and began firing from outside. Three 3-pointers in the span of just under two minutes gave Jacksboro an 18-12 lead.
Bellevue kept things close, however, getting on the second half scoreboard with Mattie Broussard’s basket and free throws cutting the deficit to two, 18-16. A Haven Jones 3-pointer put the Lady Eagles up 19-18 midway through the second half.
The Tigerettes had just one 3 -pointer the rest of the way but got inside for a pair of buckets to take a 25-21 lead with 4:50 to go. Both offenses shut down late.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Most school-age athletes start off playing everything. By the time they graduate, they whittle it down to just one or two.
New Bowie girl’s track and overall cross country coach Shawnda Childers is no exception. While at Iowa Park she competed in volleyball, cross country and track before cutting out volleyball and focusing on track and cross country to close out high school.
Childers did not stay with athletics while moving on to Midwestern State University, where she received her bachelor’s and master’s Degrees. After graduation, shestarted coaching in Electra. She came to Bowie for one year, then went back to her old stomping grounds in Iowa Park where she spent the next four years.
The return home also put her in contact with now-Bowie Coach Griffin Fields, who was a coach there at the time. From Iowa Park, she spent the next three years at City View.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
New Saint Jo Girl’s Basketball Coach Grant Gooch isn’t completely unfamiliar with the area.
“We went to Muenster quite a bit when I was a kid,” Gooch, who will be going into his 20th year as a coach, said. “We’d load up the cooler from the meat markets. It’s good to be back.”
Gooch worked with Saint Jo Athletic Director CJ Hantz when the pair were in Throckmorton. Gooch comes to town from Menard where he spent three years at the West Texas school.
Gooch says coaching and education kind of come naturally to him.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
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