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Lady Rabbits open district with win
The Bowie Lady Rabbits started off district play on Tuesday with an impressive home win against Iowa Park.
The Lady Rabbits won 45-31 in a game that was not close for most of it as Bowie jumped out to a good lead.
The Lady Rabbits are coming off a season where they only had one district win and had a lot of new faces to varsity this year. Despite that, in its pre-district schedule Bowie has proven doubters wrong as it went 14-5. Now, the Lady Rabbits will prove how real that record is against a district team that pre-season was ranked to finish fourth in the district.
The Lady Rabbits also had another resource on their side as assistant coach Griffin Fields had spent the previous six seasons as the Lady Hawks head basketball coach. With his job being to come up with the team’s defensive game plan anyway, Bowie was even more equipped for Iowa Park.
That showed up in the first quarter as the Lady Rabbits’ defense zone defense just seemed to be playing in perfect unison.
Every shot thrown up was contested. Attempts to drive to the basket or get the ball to the free throw line were thwarted. Bowie’s defense shut out the Lady Hawks in the first quarter.
On offense, the Lady Rabbits were moving the ball around Iowa Park’s zone defense, getting the ball to a cutting Laney Enlow who scored six of the team’s 12 points as Bowie led 12-0.
The second quarter saw the Lady Hawks finally get some things going. It was not pretty, but they finally got some shots to go in around the basket.
The Lady Rabbits were going to live with allowing a few outside shooters letting it fly and living with the results. Iowa Park made one 3-pointer and scored 10 points in the second quarter, but Bowie’s offense kept things going as well.
Laney Segura made two 3-pointers and scored eight of the team’s 14 points in the second quarter.
The Lady Rabbits led 26-10 heading into halftime.
The Lady Hawks switched to more of a man-to-man defense in the second half and Bowie’s offense struggled.
Iowa Park’s offense did not have much success shooting from the perimeter, but were finding opportunities to score in transition as well as just continuing to pound the ball inside.
The Lady Hawks cut the lead to 35-24 heading into the fourth quarter.
Early in the period, Iowa Park cut the score to single-digits 37-30 and looked poised to push the Lady Rabbits in the final minutes.
From there Bowie’s defense locked in and allowed the Lady Hawks only one point the rest of the way.
The Lady Rabbits got some breathing room as Parker Riddle and Lanie Moore made 3-pointers down the stretch to push the lead back over double-digits.
A few made free throws in the final minute and Bowie won comfortably 45-31.
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In its first match since last year’s state semifinal appearance, Saint Jo hosted Bryson Aug. 11 and took a 25-13, 25-12, 25-21 win over the Cowgirls.
The Lady Panthers lost some talent to graduation but have five seniors ready to have a successful season. Savannah Hil, one of the five, got Saint Jo rolling offensively with a four-point serving string, including a pair of aces. Abby Carter’s kill and Kamron Skidmore’s block helped put the Lady Panthers up 5-2 in game one.
Hadleigh Moore added a four-point string of her own to extend the lead to 10-3. Tatum Morman’s pair, helped by a Hill kill, gave Saint Jo a 14-5 lead. Bryson got within five before a Hill 3-pointer, with help by a Carter kill, put the lead back at 18-10.
After an Olivia Johnson kill broke serve, Jordyn O’Neal served up the final five points, with Johnson providing a kill to move things along.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Despite being the smallest school in the Brock varsity classic volleyball tournament, the Lady Indians finished 4th out of the eight teams there.
After losing to the host team in its first pool play match Aug. 14 18-25, 14-25 and also to Class 3A Wall 12-25, 8-25, Nocona rebounded to close out pool play with a 20-25, 25-23, 25-20 win over Christoval. Sy Parker had 16 kills and 7 blocks in the three matches. Raylea Bowles had 12 kills, 17 digs and served up three aces. Maddyn Bowles had seven kills and 14 digs while Paige Davis had seven kills and 15 digs. Baylee Thomas added 11 digs.
From the setter spot, Kasi Castro had 20 assists, served up five aces and contributed 14 digs. Leah Meekins added 18 assists and six digs during the three matches.
To open Saturday’s bracket play, the Lady Indians posted a 25-18, 18-25, 26-24, 25-19 win over Fort Worth Christian. Castro staked Nocona to a 2-0 lead in game one. Kills by Parker set up pairs of points from Raylea Bowles and Leah Meekins helped Nocona negate an early deficit and take a 10-9 lead.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
County football teams had their first scrimmage of the season Aug. 14 with mixed results.
Forestburg hosted Azle Christian and Victory Christian. Under a new system with new head coach Cori Hayes, the Longhorns looked pretty good in the coach’s eye.
“The first team looked good,” Hayes explained. “Overall we need to work on our pace and blocking assignments and blocking assignments. Overall we looked good for the new regime.”
Forestburg hits the road to scrimmage Newcastle Aug. 21.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
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