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Bowie loses in regional quarterfinals
The Bowie Jackrabbits playoff run came to an end on Tuesday night playing district foe City View for the third time this season.
The Mustangs won the game 65-50, marking their third win against the Jackrabbits this season to end Bowie’s unexpected playoff run.
The Jackrabbits were underdogs coming into the game, but that was nothing new. Bowie was not expected to win its last three games it had won against Holliday in the season finale, Peaster in the four overtime epic in the bi-district and against a solid Jim Ned team in the area round.
City View had more competition this season, but just finished ahead of Vernon and Holliday to win its third straight district title. The Mustangs had beaten the Jackrabbits twice in district by 19 and 17 points, but this was a different Bowie team hoping the third time would be the charm.
It was a packed and loud gym filled with supporters from both schools hoping to cheer their team on to a regional tournament appearance, City View hoping for its third straight and what would be Bowie’s first since the state title team in 2018.
The Jackrabbits came out swinging, scoring the game’s first six points and not allowing the Mustangs to score until halfway through the opening quarter.
Bowie’s biggest weakness in its matchup against City View is its lack of size in the post, which is where the Mustangs arguably top two players William Jordan and Kendrick Gibson do their best work.
City View was able to get some easy baskets in transition and in the halfcourt once the first shot went in and got the lead at the end of the quarter up 11-9.
The stretch in the second quarter was the most costly for Bowie in the game. Careless turnovers were turned into easy baskets. The Mustangs led by as many as 12 points at one point, but Bowie was able to cut the lead down to single-digits 31-22 at halftime.
The second half saw the Jackrabbits cut down on the turnovers, but were unable to stop City View’s offense. The Mustangs continuously drove into the paint in the second half against the man-to-man defense Bowie was playing. Even with extra defenders coming to try and help at the basket, it did not deter the City View players who drew a lot more free throw attempts than it did in first half.
The Jackrabbits were scoring at a decent pace, but with them unable to stop the parade of free throw attempts they found themselves trailing by more heading into the fourth quarter down 49-34.
It was the same story in the final period. Extra pressure from Bowie might have kept the game’s pace fast, but it did not stop the Mustangs enough for the Jackrabbits to make a big comeback.
City View would win with little drama at the end 65-50.
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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