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Bowie tennis loses district match
The Bowie Jackrabbit tennis team came up just short in their district opener against Holliday on Tuesday.
The Eagles won the closely contested dual 11-8, withstanding a great comeback attempt from the Jackrabbits during the singles matches.
Bowie last played a match almost a month previously in early August when it played seven pre-district matches. The Jackrabbits were supposed to open district the previous week against Vernon, but it got rained out and was rescheduled for Sept. 27.
Bowie’s last pre-district dual was against Holliday. The Eagles won it 11-8, which was close enough to give the Jackrabbits hope they could turn the result around with a couple more matches going their way.
Unfortunately, Tuesday did not start out great. Out of the seven doubles matches, the Jackrabbits won two. The second and third position girl’s doubles teams, made up of Willow Siebert/Alyssa Airington and Cassidy Brison/Gentry Gray took care of business.
Heading into the singles matches, Bowie was down 5-2. With 19 total matches in the dual, the first team to 10 wins overall.
The Jackrabbits made a good attempt to comeback. The girl’s side had four of its six matches go their way. Willow Siebert dominated her match in the second position 8-2.
Laney Enlow pulled out all of the stops to win her third position match in tie breakers, eventually winning 14-12. Alyssa Airington’s fourth position match also went to tie breakers, though she won with relative ease at the end 7-1. Ava Dalme then won her pretty competitive sixth position match 8-5.
On the boy’s side, Rush Williams dominated at first position, winning easily 8-2. The sixth position match for Bryson Mills went down to the wire in tie breakers where Mills pulled out the win by the smallest of margins 7-5.
To read the full story, pick up a copy weekend 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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