SPORTS
Lady Rabbits lose to Jacksboro, Iowa Park
The Bowie Lady Rabbits softball team lost district games against Jacksboro and Iowa Park earlier in the week.
The Lady Rabbits lost 20-2 against the Lady Tigers and 15-2 against the Lady Hawks.
Against Jacksboro, Bowie knew it was going to be tough against historically one of the best teams in the district.
The Lady Rabbits started the game well, limiting the Lady Tigers to one run in the first inning on defense. Bowie then responded with its bats.
Chloe Kinney led off with a single and Victoria Cox hit a fly ball that induced an error that put runners at the corners. Two batters later, Imala Walker came up and hit a single to right field that drove in Kinney to tie the game up at 1-1.
Jacksboro then had a big offensive inning in the second, scoring seven runs on three singles, two triples and two fielding errors to go up 8-1.
The Lady Tigers added three more runs in the third inning with three singles and a double to go up 11-1.
Bowie got on the board in the same inning as Serenity Klump drove in a run with a single to cut the lead to 11-2.
Jacksboro tacked on four runs in the fourth inning with a single, a double and two fielding errors.
In the fifth inning, the Lady Tigers scored five runs with four singles, a triple and two fielding errors.
The game ended due to run-rule after the Lady Rabbits could not get anything going in the bottom of the fifth inning, Jacksboro winning 20-2.
Klump and Walker drove in both runs, which were both scored by Kinney.
Bowie then played the Lady Hawks on the road on Tuesday afternoon. Iowa Park did most of its offensive damage in the second inning.
The Lady Hawks led 1-0 after the first inning, but thanks to six singles, two doubles, two walks and two fielding errors, Iowa Park scored 11 runs to go up 12-0.
Bowie’s defense did a good job go limit the Lady Eagles to only one and two runs the final two innings, but the hole was already big.
The Lady Rabbits offense found some success in the fourth inning. Klump led off drawing a walk. She stole second bases. Walker grounded out, but Klump came in to score.
Laney Oliver then hit a single and Sadie Britt followed by getting hit by a pitch. Sage Gossett then hit a single that drove in Oliver. Cox was later hit by a pitch to load the bases, but Bowie could not bring any more runs home.
After five innings, Iowa Park won 15-2 due to run-rule.
Walker and Gossett led the team with one RBI each.
Bowie’s defense cut down the errors from 10 in the first game to four in the second game.
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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