SPORTS
Bowie volleyball loses opening district match
The Bowie Lady Rabbits started district on Tuesday at home with a tough match against one of the district’s favorites in Henrietta.
The Lady Cats won in straight sets against the Lady Rabbits on Tuesday, though Bowie showed growth during the match as the results got better each set.
The Lady Rabbits were not coming into the match with high spirits. Bowie lost its last three full matches and still had lineup rotations to nail down.
Henrietta played the Lady Rabbits almost a month earlier at the first tournament of the season at Burkburnett.
It was a battle to see who would finish third overall at the tournament.
The Lady Cats came out on top that day.
A month later and the first set made it seem like nothing was going to be different.
Bowie fell behind early, down 13-7 after 20 points and 18-12 after 30 points. Henrietta finished on a 7-1 run to win the set 25-13.
The second set seemed like a repeat of the first as the Lady Cats were up 14-6 at one point. The Lady Rabbits closed the distance by going 7-3 to make it 17-13. Unfortunately, Henrietta closed the set strong, winning eight of the next 10 points to win set two 25-15 to go up 2-0.
Bowie could have laid down as it seemed nothing was going its way. The Lady Rabbits initially were down 4-1 super early, but instead came back and competed for the rest of the set.
At one point, Bowie led 13-12 but Henrietta came back to take a three-point lead 19-16. The Lady Rabbits kept it close until the end, but could not get the lead back as the Lady Cats closed the set out, winning 25-23 and the match 3-0.
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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