SPORTS
LOCAL SPORTS: Cancellations rule this past weekend
Plenty of sporting events were cancelled because of the icy weather that plagued north Texas throughout the weekend.
The Bowie softball team was expected to compete in a tournament at Stephenville, but that was cancelled with no make-up dates announced.
The Bowie JV softball team’s tournament at Krum was completely scrapped, with no make-up announced yet.
Bowie’s baseball team was expected to compete in the North Texas Tournament of Champions and Nocona was to have its own tournament. Also, Bowie was to have been the site of a junior varsity baseball tournament.
All three events were cancelled, with no make-up dates (if any) reported to The Bowie News.
Bowie and Nocona track and field teams were expected to compete at the City View Invitational in Wichita Falls last Thursday, but the event was cancelled. Bowie will compete at Nocona on Thursday, March 5.
The Texas High School Women’s Powerlifting Association Region 6 Division 3 meet originally slated for Saturday at Whitesboro will now take place on March 7 at the same location.
The Bowie High School girls’ basketball team had its Conference 3A regional semifinal game moved from Friday to Saturday at Rockwall Heath High School. The Lady Rabbits lost 59-53 that day.
The Bowie High School boys’ basketball team had its 3A Area game moved from Friday to Monday. Forestburg’s 1A Area game was moved from Friday to Monday, at McKinney Boyd.
Bellevue played its 1A Area game on Saturday, one day later than originally scheduled, at Lake Ridge in Mansfield.
Bowie Junior High School’s track and field team didn’t participate in the Nocona Invitational on Monday.
Other games were moved to Monday as well, at Bowie, with 2A Area game between Petrolia and Muenster and a 4A Area game between Decatur and Wichita Falls Hirschi.
The Bowie-Petrolia ninth-grade baseball game originally scheduled for Monday here in Bowie was scrapped as well.
Nocona’s baseball team moved its game versus Tioga to Bowie and Krum and Nocona softball will play at Bowie as well. Both games start at 7 p.m.
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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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