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Bowie volleyball wins ninth straight
The Bowie Lady Rabbits kept their winning streak alive as they traveled to Paradise on Tuesday night.
The Lady Rabbits made it nine straight wins by beating the Lady Cats in four sets.
Bowie was coming off a perfect 7-0 run at its last tournament in Nocona. Before that, the Lady Rabbits had also beaten Burkburnett easily to make it eight straight.
Bowie kept that good momentum going in the first set of the match. The Lady Rabbits easily closed out set one with a comfortable lead 25-17.
In those eight wins before Tuesday, Bowie had also not lost a set.
Maybe the Lady Rabbits were a bit too confident after easily winning set one because set two was a dud.
Bowie failed to get anything going as the Lady Cats put their foot down and never let up.
Paradise won the ugly one-sided set 25-9 to tie the score and maybe deliver a wake up call to the Lady Rabbits that they were not going to easily win this match.
Set three proved all the more decisive after wildly different sets one and two. It was the most competitive part of the match as neither team could build a comfortable lead.
In the end, Bowie was able to squeak by the narrowest of margins 25-23 to take a 2-1 lead.
Back in the driver’s seat, the Lady Rabbits made sure not let up again in the fourth set and closed things out in a competitive, but quite as close set winning 25-21.
Junior High
The Lady Rabbits hosted their home opener versus Henrietta on Monday. The Lady Rabbits came away with two wins and two losses. Both B Teams handled their opponents quite nicely, beating them in two sets each. Unfortunately, both A Teams struggled to finish in this first game of the season against the Lady Cats.
To read the full high school 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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