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Lady Rabbits lose opening district game at Holliday
The Bowie Lady Rabbits fell in their opening district game at Holliday on Friday night.
The Lady Eagles won 55-30 against a Lady Rabbits team who is starting district in not the best health.
Bowie’s top ball handler and scorer Ziba Robbins is out for the foreseeable future with an injury and its top post scorer Kayleigh Crow is working her way back from a leg injury. While Crow played on Friday night, she did not start and her time on the court was limited.
Playing a Holliday team that graduated almost all of its key figures from last year’s state title, the Lady Eagles are still considered one of the top teams in the district even if they aren’t favored to win it this season.
Holliday showed it in the first quarter, getting out to a 19-5 lead as Bowie was trying to figure out how best to attack. The Lady Eagles showed multiple looks on defense that never allowed the Lady Rabbits to get comfortable while scoring at will in the first quarter.
Thankfully, Bowie started to play better.
The Lady Rabbits have had trouble in some games this season with scoring at a good pace even at full strength. Thankfully, Parker Riddle stepped up in this game, scoring eight of the team’s 12 points in the second quarter.
Bowie outscored Holliday 12-11 in the second quarter, which didn’t make up the big hole the Lady Rabbits were in, but showed the team they could play with and compete against the Lady Eagles.
Bowie outplayed Holliday again in an ugly, low-scoring third quarter, one in which the Lady Rabbits outscored them 5-4. Again, not enough to make up the double-digit deficit, but proving to Bowie players it can play winning basketball against one of the top teams in the district.
The Lady Eagles found success early in the fourth quarter by knocking down four 3-pointers as they increased their lead. While the Lady Rabbits could not keep up with that type of scoring, it was their most balanced quarter of the game as four different players made one field goal.
Holliday won 55-30.
Riddle led the team with 10 points while Hanna Bell was second with eight points.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
Bowie softball had a historic season, where the squad made the postseason for the first time since 2019 and knocked a top seed from the playoffs, come to an end April 29.
No-4 ranked Tuscola Jim Ned got out to a quick start and took an 11-1, five inning win in the area round of the Class 3A Division I playoffs. Bowie had its season end at 19-15.
With a large crowd at Weatherford High rooting them on, Bowie took the field looking to knock out another top seed, as they did with Early last week.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Bowie will have two track athletes at the State track and field meet May 14 with top two finishes at the Region 1-3A track meet at Abilene Christian University May 1-2.
Tyler Richey finished 2nd in the pole vault with a 15’ leap. Richey was also 9th in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 15.39. Sophomore Braden Willett was 3rd in the 1,600-meters with a school record best of time of 4:21.93. Willett was 4th in the 3,200-meter run with a time of 9:29.71.
Several other Rabbits and Lady Rabbits competed at the regional meet. The 800-meter relay foursome of Colton Dosch, Richey, Finn Riddle and Jaxon White finished 6th with a time of 1:30.24 while the 1,600-meter relay team of Dosch, Judah Livsey, Riddle and Blaine Leonard finished 8th with a time of 3:30.76.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Saint Jo’s boys and girls track teams took top honors at the Region III-A track meet at Hewitt Midway High School May 1-2 and will send several athletes to the state track and field meet May 16 in Austin.
The boys were led by Damon Byrd who won both the long jump with a 22’9 ¾” leap and triple jump with a 45’ 10 ½”. Byrd also won the 100-meter dash with a time of 1.03 and was a member of the victorious 800-meter relay along with Trent Gaston, Barrett Johnson and Lee Yeley with a time of 1:30.80.
Yeley won the high jump with a 6’ leap. Byrd, Yeley, Dominic Luna and Gaston combined for a 2nd-place finish in the 1,600-meter relay with a time 3:32.81. Gaston was 2nd in the 110-meter hurdles with a tie of 16.09. Johnson was 2nd in the 400-meter dash in 50.75, Ayden Giambruno was 6th in the 3200-meter run in 11:05.24 with Yeley 8th in the 200-meters with a time of 25.61.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
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