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Bowie boys improve to 3-0
The Bowie Jackrabbits improved to 3-0 in district play with a win against Henrietta at home on Friday night.
The Jackrabbits won 58-48 against the Bearcats in a game where Bowie got out to a huge lead to start the game and tried to keep it up the rest of the game.
The Jackrabbits first two district games easily could have been losses. Their overtime win against Iowa Park was won by two points (49-47) and the win against Jacksboro earlier last week was by three points (38-35).
Bowie finally had a chance against a young and struggling Henrietta team to win without raising its fans blood pressure and took advantage right away.
The Jackrabbits started the game on a 21-1 run to start the game and ended the first quarter up 21-3.
Bowie was pushing the ball in transition off the many misses and turnovers it got on defense. Leading scorers Andrew Sandhoff and Tucker Jones finished around the rim and combined for 15 of the team’s points while Aiden Lawhorn and Boston Farris knocked in 3-pointers.
The thing was there were still three more quarters to play. Eventually, Henrietta would wake up and the Jackrabbits would cool off a bit. When that happened, Bowie would have to play good enough to keep the Bearcats at bay and the lead comfortable enough to not give Henrietta enough hope to try and mount a comeback.
The second quarter saw both teams switch defenses. The Jackrabbits wanted to give the Bearcats a different look to keep them off balance and threw in some press defense and zone.
Henrietta could only play better. The team also switched up its defense to some press defense, if only to give the Bearcats some urgency down big.
Neither change did much. Henrietta started to make some shots, especially several 3-pointers, which Bowie was not expecting on defense.
With fewer opportunities to run and with the lead still in place, the Jackrabbits offense did cool down a bit, but still scored 14 points. It was enough to be leading at halftime by nearly double the Bearcats first half total 35-18.
The second half was more of the same though Bowie’s offense was bit more muted and Henrietta was starting to win the 50/50 balls and the hustle points.
The Bearcats made three more 3-pointers in the third quarter and again outscored the Jackrabbits. At one point Henrietta cut the lead down to 10 points late in the third quarter.
Bowie ended the quarter well to extend the lead up a bit and led 46-33 heading into the fourth quarter.
Early in the final period, the Bearcats cut the lead down to single-digits 46-37, setting up a scenario where they could come all the way back unless the Jackrabbits continued to score.
Bowie woke up and extended the lead back up to a comfortable margin, up 15 points with 1:57 left in the game.
Henrietta had a last gasp, scoring nine points during the final few minutes, but the Jackrabbits made their free throws and avoided catastrophic end of game mistakes to win comfortably 58-48.
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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