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Bowie baseball beats City View
The Bowie baseball team easily won at City View on Friday so it took a trip to play at private school Fort Worth Country Day on Saturday in a double-header.
The Jackrabbits beat the Mustangs 14-1 due to run rule after five innings and then loss both games against the Falcons 7-5 and 8-7.
City View has routinely struggled to compete well in recent seasons and this year was no different. Bowie won the first game 10-0 by run rule. After closely losing at Holliday earlier in the week, the Jackrabbits have second place locked up if they didn’t lose either of their final two district games against non-playoff teams.
Still, Bowie did not want to have an off game despite playing a team it expected to easily beat.
The Jackrabbits took a 5-0 lead in the first inning. City View’s only success came in the opening inning as well. The Mustangs led off with their only hit of the game. That was followed up with an error from Bowie trying to field a bunt.
This later allowed City View to score a run on a fielder’s choice, cutting the lead to 5-1.
The Jackrabbit defense bounced back, not committing an error for the rest of the game while pitcher Kynan DeMoss allowed only one other base runner for the next four innings by walking one batter.
The offense did not slow down, scoring four runs in the second inning and five more in the third before taking its foot off the gas in the fourth and fifth inning while subbing in bench players to get some valuable at-bats.
Still, it was enough to win after five innings with the score 14-1.
Carson Sanders and Colby Nichols each drove in two runs each to lead the team. Sanders hit his second home run of the season. Tucker Jones had a team high three hits and was able to score each time he got on base. Brody Armstrong had a team high three stolen bases as well.
DeMoss’s one run allowed came unearned due to the fielding error as he allowed only one hit and walked one batter while striking out seven through five innings.
With the playoffs on the horizon the tough district games looking like it might be behind Bowie, Coach Tyler Price wanted to further challenge his team by scheduling a double-header against private school Fort Worth Country Day on Saturday.
The first game saw the Jackrabbits trail for most the game. After scoring the game’s first run in the top of the first inning, the Falcons came back to retake the lead 2-1 heading into the second inning.
Country Day added one more run in the second and sixth inning to lead 4-1 heading into the final inning.
Bowie staged a comeback. With two outs and two runners on base, Cy Egenbacher hit an RBI single followed by Armstrong driving in two runs with double then followed by Jones driving in a run with a single. The Jackrabbits now led 5-4 heading into the bottom of the seventh.
Unfortunately, similar to what happened at Holliday, a three-run home run ended the game for the Falcons in walk-off fashion as they won 7-5.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week 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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