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Bowie loses heartbreaker in overtime
It was a hugely disappointing ending to Friday’s game for the Bowie Jackrabbits.
Iowa Park came back to not only tie the score in the final seconds, but eventually win in overtime 25-22.
The Jackrabbits came into the game still seeking their first win of the season, though they had come close more than once. After a better than expected showing against Jim Ned the previous week and facing a similarly struggling Hawks team that came in with only one win, expectations were high for Bowie to get its first win.
The first quarter went by scoreless as neither team had much success moving the ball. The Jackrabbit defense early on seemed to be winning the line of scrimmage and shutting down Iowa Park’s run game, pushing the Hawks backwards on most plays.
That did not spread to the offensive side of the ball as Bowie’s offense failed to get much push running the ball consistently.
Still, the Jackrabbits did have the most successful drive of the quarter as quarterback Brody Armstrong used his legs to extend a pass play before hitting deep on a pass that put Bowie into Iowa Park territory. Unfortunately, the Jackrabbits stalled at the Hawks 24-yard line.
A beautiful punt from Iowa Park was downed at the one-yard line and Bowie’s offense embarked on the first scoring drive of the game. Armstrong plunged in from a yard out about midway through the second quarter to put the Jackrabbits up 6-0.
The defense kept up its energy for Bowie and forced a turnover on downs near midfield. The offense took over and then drove down the field again, punctuating the drive with running back Matthew McCarty scoring on a short run. A successful two-point conversion put the Jackrabbits up 14-0.
Running out of time before halftime, the Hawks offense made their first real bid to score hitting on some big run plays from quarterback Parker Allen. With less than two minutes to play, Allen hit his receiver on a contested 14-yard catch in the end zone cut the lead to 14-7.
Bowie tried to answer, but ended up punting the ball away with a little more than a minute left to play. The Hawks bid to try and tie the score up before halftime was interrupted as Brycen Park intercepted a pass on the drive’s first play to keep the Jackrabbits lead heading into the second half.
Bowie’s offense started the second half driving into Iowa Park territory. A touchdown run that would have put the Jackrabbits up two scores was called back thanks to a taunting penalty during the run. Later in the drive a desperate throw to the end zone was intercepted by the Hawks, wiping out that score and coming back to haunt Bowie later in the game.
The Jackrabbit defense held strong on the next drive, forcing a turnover on downs at their own 24-yard line, but they could not hold forever now that Iowa Park’s offense had some momentum running the ball from the end of the first half.
After Bowie punted the ball away, the Hawks drove down the field and scored on a short jet sweep run to tie the score at 14-14 right before the end of the third quarter.
Coming into the final period, the Jackrabbit offense responded on their next drive. Armstrong scrambled up the middle of the defense mostly untouched on a 12-yard run. The good two-point conversion put Bowie up 22-14 with 9:08 left to play.
The Jackrabbit defense then tried to seal the game. On the next drive Braden Rhyne intercepted a pass near midfield.
After the offense could not do much, the Hawks drove down into Bowie territory before the defense again got a big stop, forcing a turnover on downs at its own 17-yard line with 1:42 left to play.
Iowa Park had two timeouts left and the Jackrabbit offense failed to move the ball after three plays and had to punt the ball back to the Hawks with less than a minute left.
Unfortunately, disaster struck as an Iowa Park player came through to the punt and recovered the ball at Bowie’s one-yard line with 34 seconds left.
The Jackrabbit defense somehow held on the first quarterback sneak attempt, but could not stop the second hurried attempt that was pushed over with seven seconds left.
The Hawks then needed to convert on the two-point conversion and succeeded to tie the game up at 22-22 to force overtime.
Bowie got the ball first at Iowa Park’s 25-yard line. If the Jackrabbits scored first and then held the Hawks then they would have won.
Unfortunately, the first offensive play saw Bowie throw an interception. Iowa Park then got the ball on the Jackrabbit’s 25-yard line and just needed to score in any way, even a field goal, to win the game.
The Hawks moved the ball to Bowie’s 12-yard line, but was stalled on third down.
This set up Iowa Park for a 29-yard field goal to win the game. The kick went through the uprights to give the Hawks the 25-22 overtime win.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
The Nocona Indians were able to beat Saint Jo at home on Thursday night in a tight contest.
The Indians won 55-48 against the Panthers in a game where both teams played hard, but made plenty of early season mistakes.
Nocona came into the game following a low-scoring win against Bells earlier in the week 35-30. For a young Indians team that only has a few players with varsity experience this year, every early season win builds confidence.
For Saint Jo, the Panthers were still without several returning starters since football is still going on. Despite that, new Coach Jacob Nocktonick is trying to build what he can with his group of basketball first players that include several key players even when the football team is integrated.
Despite Saint Jo being the smaller school, overall it had the height advantage in the front line since Nocona features only one player, Kasch Johnson, who is built like a post player. That is nothing new for the Indians, who featured a short team the previous year as Coach Brody Wilson emphasizes full-court pressure on defense and pushing the ball in transition in his system that makes up for a lack of height and size.
Initially Nocona’s pace and energy, grabbing several offensive rebounds, got it the lead 9-3. Eventually, the Panthers adjusted and trailed only 12-11 after the first quarter.
Saint Jo got the lead early in the second quarter. Post Trent Gaston took advantage of his size advantage, especially when the Indians had Johnson out, and led 17-12. Both teams had trouble scoring in a rough second quarter as open perimeter shots just were not going in and shots at the rim were tough to convert.
The Panthers led 23-20 heading into halftime.
Both teams had better offensive success pushing the ball when it could in the second half.
Saint Jo broke Nocona’s press and punished the Indians with quick baskets. Nocona ran whenever it could and seemed to put up an array of perimeter shots and drives, getting offensive rebounds it seemed at will to keep the pressure up and infuriate the Panthers coach.
The Indians got a big push from Landon Fatheree in the second half. After scoring eight points in the first half to lead the team, he scored 10 of his team’s 14 points in the third quarter.
Nocona got the lead back, but only led 34-33 heading into the final period.
The Indians had a comfortable lead up 44-36 when Saint Jo’s Gaston fouled out with 4:56 left in the game. Still, the Panthers did not give up and a minute later had whittled Nocona’s lead down to one basket 44-41 with 3:45.
The game stayed a one-possession game for the next two minutes as Saint Jo had several chances to tie or take the lead not go through.
Nocona made its free throws down the stretch to win with a little more comfort, with the final score being 55-48.
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Nocona senior Meg Meekins signed her official letter of intent to play college basketball at Lubbock Christian University on Wednesday. Meekins, the daughter of Brandi and Lance, is a four-year starter on the volleyball and basketball court. She has earned several accolades like being named to the All State Teams for TGCA, TABC, Associated Press and was selected to the All Tournament Team at the UIL State Basketball Tournament in San Antonio last year.“The coaching staff and the community of the LCU program and just knowing you have a staff that coaches you, but also looks over you just like Coach (Kyle) Spitzer did here was a huge part in the recruiting process,” Meekins said. She plans to pursue a degree in either physical or occupational therapy.
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The Bowie Lady Rabbits got more than they bargained for when they traveled to Bellevue on Tuesday night.
The Lady Rabbits escaped with the win 44-40, taking the lead with less than a minute to go after trailing whole game.
Bowie came into the game confident. The larger 3A school was supposed to play Windthorst, but had to reschedule because the Lady Trojans volleyball team was playing in the state tournament.
Finding a last minute replacement, the Lady Rabbits thought they would have an easy game playing the 1A program down the road. Little did they know.
Bellevue had a couple of players out with injury to limit its depth a bit and a new coach in Celsey Hoffman, but the Lady Eagles were coming off of nearly beating a Nocona team the previous week. While the Lady Indians were missing four starters who were still in volleyball, it still showed this was not a 1A team to take lightly.
Bellevue came out fast showing tough defensive pressure despite giving up size at nearly every position. Within a few minutes the Lady Eagles had used that pressure to force turnovers and convert those steals into transition opportunities.
Also, the energy showed in other areas as Bellevue seemed to grab every loose ball and fought for offensive rebounds despite lacking in height compared to Bowie.
After a little more than four minutes into the game the Lady Eagles led 15-0. The Lady Rabbits had barely been able to set up their offense or attempt a shot against the pressure.
Bowie Coach Matthew Miller had to reset his shell-shocked team during multiple timeouts. The young ballhandlers was reminded how the team was going to break the press defense so it could set up its offense.
Bellevue led 19-4 after the first quarter, led by Mary Grace Broussard and Brittany Gill who each scored six points.
The Lady Rabbits settled down and made some good progress in the second quarter. Their defense switched between man-to-man and 1-3-1 to keep the Lady Eagles off balance. With them taking care of the ball better, there were less chances for Bellevue in transition and the Lady Eagles offense struggled to consistently find ways to score against Bowie’s length.
The Lady Rabbits offense found some success as well. Five different players made at least one basket and the team made two 3-pointers.
While the game was physical from the start, now that Bowie knew what type of game it was in the team responded back. It was not pretty and only enough fouls were called to make the game watchable, but individual foul trouble affected Bellevue harder than the Lady Rabbits in the second quarter.
The Lady Eagles still led heading into halftime, but Bowie had gotten it down to single digits trailing 25-19.
The third quarter was more even between the two teams as both had trouble consistently scoring baskets. Bellevue made three baskets and a couple of free throws to keep ahead.
The Lady Rabbits got a big lift from Lanie Moore, who knocked in all three of her 3-pointers in the quarter, scoring nine of the team’s 12 points.
Bowie still trailed, but had cut the lead down to one point earlier in the quarter and one basket 34-31 heading into the fourth quarter.
Bellevue grew the lead to 38-32 early in the final period. The Lady Rabbits struggled to get anything going offensively and trailed 40-34 midway through the quarter.
Bowie’s Kendall Fallis made a 3-pointer in transition to cut the lead to one basket 40-37.
The score stayed there for the next several minutes even as the Lady Eagles had two starters, Karis Denson and Mattie Broussard, foul out of the game.
With a little more than a minute left, the Lady Rabbits drew up and out of bounds play that got Laney Segura an open shot in the corner. Despite not having made a basket all game, she sunk the 3-pointer to tie the game at 40-40 with a minute still to play.
Bowie had been in a pressure defense for the second half of the fourth quarter to prevent Bellevue from passively running clock. Still in the defense, the team next stole the in-bounds pass and Railey Martin made the undefended layup to give the Lady Rabbits their first lead of the game 42-40 with 48 seconds left.
The Lady Eagles could not tie the score on their next offensive possession. Bowie would made two more free throws to make the final 44-40.
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