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Bowie boys lose close one against Vernon
The Bowie Jackrabbits lost a tough game at home on senior night against Vernon on Tuesday.
The Lions won 53-51 as a last second mid-range shot clanged out off the back rim for Bowie that would have forced overtime.
The Jackrabbits needed the win against a Vernon team it beat the first time around in district play, but was now sitting several games in front of Bowie and in a three-team race to compete for the district title.
The Jackrabbits started the game strong up 14-10 after the first quarter, but the Lions unorthodox 1-3-1 zone defense was giving Bowie some pause.
On the other side, Vernon had some great athletes who were either quick to the basket on drives with its speedy point guard or a tall, long, athletic post player inside who could score if help was not sent fast enough.
The Lions took the lead 31-27 heading into halftime.
The Jackrabbit defense were more locked in the third quarter and allowed Bowie to stay close but still trailing 41-39 heading into the fourth quarter.
The Jackrabbits were able to take their first lead of the second half with two minutes to play 50-49. Vernon responded with a layup 30 seconds later, a forced turnover on defense and two made free throws to go up 53-50 with 47 seconds left.
Bowie missed a 3-pointer that would have tied the game and it was rebounded by Vernon with 19 seconds left. The Jackrabbits were pressing and stole the ball back and missed another potential game tying 3-pointer that went out of bounds off a Lions player with 10 seconds left.
Brody Armstrong, who led the team with 13 points, then drew two free throw attempts. He made one to make it 53-51, but missed the other, which was rebounded by Vernon. After a previous inbound attempt went awry it forced the Lions last time out on their own end with five seconds left.
Bowie again was able to come away with as steal, but unfortunately a pull up mid-range shot was missed as time expired.
The Lions won 53-51.
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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