SPORTS
Lady Rabbits lose on the road
The Bowie Lady Rabbits let the game get away from them at Jacksboro on Friday.
The Lady Tigers won 10-0 after five innings due to run-rule against the Lady Rabbits.
Bowie was coming off a loss against Henrietta, but the team had been competing better and even won two of its last four games.
The first game against Jacksboro also had gone only five innings, but the Lady Tigers scored a district high 20 runs in the game.
With Bowie playing better, the team was hoping it could compete better and at least avoid losing by run-rule like it had been against good teams.
The first two innings saw the Lady Rabbits defense shut Jacksboro down to keep them in the game despite not having much success with their bats.
Pitcher Kaylie Kinney allowed a walk and a single to get on base in the first inning, but came through with a groundout to shortstop to get out of that jam.
In the second inning, a fielding error in the outfield that put a runner on second base with two outs did not morph into anything horrific for Bowie’s defense. A groundout to second base and a strikeout followed to end the scoring chance.
Unfortunately, the third inning is when the luck ran out for the Lady Rabbits’ defense.
After walking two batters with one out and forcing a groundout, it looked like Kinney and Bowie would get out of the jam again. A groundball to the shortstop resulted in an error that allowed one run to score.
The next batter hit a fly ball to right field then resulted in another fielding error that allowed two more runs to score to put Jacksboro up 3-0. Thankfully, another fly ball into the outfield was caught for out three.
The Lady Rabbits got their first hit in the fourth inning with Serenity Klump hitting a single. Unfortunately, it did not lead to anything for Bowie.
The Lady Tigers followed up the third inning with a fourth inning the Lady Rabbits would like to forget.
Five singles, a triple, a walk and a fielding error allowed Jacksboro to add six runs to its lead as it broke open the game 9-0.
Bowie’s offense could not answer besides Sadie Britt getting hit by a pitch with one out in the fifth inning.
The Lady Tigers entered the inning needing to score one run to end the game due to run-rule.
A one out single was the beginning of the end. The base runner then stole second base before her teammate drove her in with a single to end the game.
Jacksboro won 10-0.
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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