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Area 1A athletes compete at S&S; 47 advancing

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Area 1A athletes converged on S&S Consolidated High School’s track Wednesday to compete in the combined area/district meet for a chance to qualify for regionals on April 27-28 at Whitney High School.
The top four competitors from each event advanced with multiple athletes from Montague County one step closer to a state appearance.
Prairie Valley’s Molly Gilleland swept past the competition in the 200-meter dash with a time of 30.26 to take first place. Teammate Shelby Roof was right behind her in second with a time of 30.69.
For the boy’s 200-meter race, it was a Saint Jo athlete who beat out the competition for first place as Chance Bennet crossed the finish line with a time of 27.20.
Meanwhile, Saint Jo’s Paityn Holley blew past the other runners in the 800-meter with a time of 2:27.36 to solidify her place at the regional meet.
“Paityn’s race was huge on Wednesday. She has been working all season to break 2:30 so to finally break that and earn a area title was such a reward for all her hard work this season,” said Saint Jo Coach Taylor Klement. She’s been improving her time with each meet, so I’m excited to see her compete at regionals for a trip to Austin.” In the boys 800-meter run, Mark Gill will represent Bellevue after finishing fourth with a time of 2:22.65. In the 1,600, Prairie Valley’s Julian Rohde was the lone area athlete to advance with a second place finish and a time of 5:26.70.
However, in the 3,200-meter run, Bellevue’s Kaylee Trail (17:17.61) and Prairie Valley’s Julian Rohde (12:16.95) both earned third place.
Sky Embry (first), Alyssa Hennessey (second) and Bear Osteen (first) advance in the 100-meter dash.
For the relay teams, Prairie Valley girls will advance in the 4X100-meter relay with a third place finish, as will Bellevue who finished in fourth.
The Lady Eagles also will advance in the 4X200-meter relay with a second place finish, while Prairie Valley goes after earning third. The Saint Jo Lady Panthers finished second in the 4X400-meter relay for their chance to advance.
For the boys, Forestburg goes on to regionals with a third place finish in the 4X100-meter relay, while Prairie Valley (second) and Forestburg (third) earned a spot with their strong performances. Prairie Valley is the lone boy’s team to advance in the 4X400-meter relay.
Lady Horn Cayla Smelser hurdled her way to a first place finish with a time of 17.27 in the 100-meter division, while Saint Jo’s Emily Haney finished a close second and Zoe Berry, Bellevue, earned fourth.
Haney also will compete at regionals in the 300-meter hurdles after a second place finish with a time of 55.35. Prairie Valley’s Kaden Fleming (third) and Calvin Smith (fourth) advance from the district meet.
“The boys competed well. They have practiced hard all year in preparation for the Area Meet. Their hard work paid off by advancing eight of our athletes. We are going to continue working going into the regional meet next week,” said Prairie Valley Coach Zac Tabor.
Several athletes advance to regionals in field events, including Smelser, who earned first in long jump with a distance of 15-11 1/2. Saint Jo’s AlTrack
Continued From Page 1Byssa Hennessey finished second with a distance of 15 – 1 3/4. In the boy’s division, Anthony Roof, Prairie Valley, finished second (18-5 3/4) and Blake Allen, Gold-Burg (18-5 1/2) earned third. Forestburg’s Alexia Britain edged out the competition in girl’s shot put with a first place finish (34-6 1/2) ahead of Saint Jo’s Rachael Vogel in second (29-9). Lady Panther Hannah Reyling took third and Gold-Burg’s Kiley Jones took fourth.
“I am so excited that we had four kids qualify for regionals, which is half of our small team,” said Gold-Burg Coach Cheryl Cromleigh. “Our kids have a great chance at regionals, I am so thrilled for them.”
Area athletes also took the top three spots in boy’s shot put with a first place finish from Forestburg’s Zach Bradley (41 – 5 3/4), Gold-Burg’s Will Hamilton (39- 3 3/4) and Saint Jo’s Ethan Wagner (35- 7 3/4).
Britain will not only compete in shot put at regionals but will throw the discuss after earning second with a throw of 85 – 1 1/2. Gold-Burg’s Ashley Rainey will join her with a throw of 76- 6.
It was the Osteen brothers from Forestburg who led the competition in boy’s discuss, with a first place throw from Bear (129- 10 3/4) and Bannon (108 – 4 1/2). Their teammate Zach Bradley finished right behind them in third while Saint Jo’s Jose Gam advanced with the fourth place spot.
In triple jump, Prairie Valley’s Hailey Winkler goes after a third place finish with a 29’ – 9 1/2”.
FreeDom Morris, Bellevue, finished third for girls high jump and Prairie Valley’s Chase Edwards took first. In pole vault, Saint Jo’s Maddie Ogden (first) and Caitlyn Holley (second) will compete at regionals.
For boy’s pole vault, the cousin combo of Anthony Roof (first) and Lane Roof (second) beat out the competition. Saint Jo’s Hunter Garrett finished third.
“I was super proud of the way all of our athletes competed. We had several athletes earn personal bests in their events so to see that type of effort so late in the season is a big notion to how hard our kids work,” said Klement. “I expect the same type of work ethic next week at regionals. It’s a much bigger meet and the stakes are a bit higher but our kids are ready to go out there and compete for a chance to advance.”
Forestburg Coach Tommy Tritz also feels his school will be represented well at regionals with strong performances.
“We had a great area track meet. Our teams competed well and came away 4th in area for the boys and 5th for the girls. We had nine boys advance and two girls advance to the Regional meet next week in Whitney,” said Tritz. “Overall, Forestburg will be well represented in Regionals.”

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Saint Jo vs Bellevue
The Saint Jo Panthers got out of their early season funk as they beat fellow 1A Bellevue twice last week on two different days.
The Panthers won the first high-scoring game 15-9 before shut out the Eagles 10-0 in the second game.
Saint Jo had a rough beginning to its season, with mostly ugly losses and only one win.
Bellevue came in with no wins, but it was not unexpected due to it being the Eagles first year as a program since the late 1990s.
Bellevue led the first game for most of it scoring five runs in the first inning and just holding off the Panthers 5-4 heading into the sixth inning.
Saint Jo then caught fire, scoring six runs in the sixth inning to take its first lead since the first inning. The Eagles kept it close and scored four runs to make it a one run game 10-9 heading into the final inning.
The game had to be postponed due to Bellevue’s new field not having any lights to play past a certain time.
When the game was picked up three days later, the Panthers added five more run to their lead. The Eagles could not answer and Saint Jo won the game 15-9.
Devein Stewart and Logan Hoover led the Panthers four RBIs each while Charlie Evans and R Forrester drove in two runs each.
Trent Gaston pitched 4.1 innings and allowed two runs and struck out seven batters to lead the team.
Saint Jo’s defense committed four errors.
For Bellevue, Brayden Moore led the team with three RBIs while Bryce Ramsey and Ryan Jones each drove in two runs.
Ramsey pitched five innings and allowed four runs while striking out nine batters to lead the team.
The second game picked up right after the end of the first game. Unfortunately for the Eagles, the second game went similarly to the end of first game.
Saint Jo scored three runs in the first inning, four in the second inning and three in the third inning.
The Panther defense shut out Bellevue and the game ended with Saint Jo winning 10-0 after four and half innings due to run rule.
Sam Martin led the Panthers with four RBIs while Evans drove in two runs. Stewart pitched three innings and allowed one hit and one walk while striking out six batters. Hoover pitched two innings and struck out four batters while allowing no hits and walking two batters. The team committed no fielding errors.
For Bellevue, River Trail got the only hit in the game for the team. The team drew three walks, but could not get on base.
Blake Reese led the team with two innings pitched and three earned runs on two hits and five walks while striking out two batters. The defense committed no fielding errors.

Nocona
The Nocona Indians lost their second game against Muenster on Friday on the road.
The Indians lost 10-0 after five innings due to run-rule as the Hornets picked up all of their runs in one horrible inning for Nocona.
The score was tied at 0-0 heading into the bottom of the third inning. The Indian defense had navigated one out singles the first two innings without letting it morph into anything threatening.
Unfortunately, the third inning saw Muenster get going from the first batter.
Five singles, two doubles, two walks and a hit batter later saw the Hornets score 10 runs.
Nocona’s bats had been able to get someone on base in most innings despite Walker Murphey getting the team’s only base hit, but could not get a run to score.
The Indian defense did bounce back to not allow any runs in the fourth or fifth inning, but with no runs coming through for Nocona, the game ended after five innings.
Muenster won 10-0.

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Nocona
The Nocona Lady Indians lost at home on Friday night against Muenster.
The Lady Hornets won 9-0, with most of the damage coming in the fourth inning against the Lady Indians.
Nocona gave up two runs in the first inning, but kept the game within reach after shutting out Muenster in the second and third innings.
Then came the fourth inning. Five fielding errors and two singles contributed to the Lady Hornets scoring six runs to go up 8-0.
The Lady Indians struggled to get their bats going all game though they did get some base runners that could have been worked home with some timely plays in other games.
Muenster added one more run in the sixth inning to make the final score 9-0.

Saint Jo
The Saint Jo Lady Panthers lost a shootout at Era on Friday night.
The Lady Hornets won 25-15 in a game that ended early after six innings due to run-rule.
Saint Jo was trailing the early part of the game down 9-1 after three innings.
The Lady Panthers then had a huge offensive inning, scoring nine runs in the fourth inning to go up 10-9.
Era bounced back in the same inning and scored three runs to retake the lead 12-10, but Saint Jo then scored four runs in the fifth inning and one in the sixth inning as it lead 15-12.
The Lady Hornets then embarked on an inning from hell for the Lady Panthers, more than doubling their score and not ending until Era was up by 10 runs to end the game early.
The Lady Hornets had scored 13 runs to win 25-15.

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Nocona’s Stone signs to play football

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Nocona senior Johnny Stone, son of Chelsi and Haydan, signed his letter of intent to play football at Southwestern Assemblies of God University in Waxahachie on Monday. Stone played running back and linebacker for Nocona on varsity for three years, helping the Indians go from two wins his first season to winning 16 games the last two seasons that resulted in playoff berths and a district title this past season. Stone has also spent time playing baseball, golf, basketball and track during his four years at Nocona. “They have a great program there,” Stone said. “Their business and financing program, it is five years for a masters so I thought that was a really good choice. They have a nice indoor gym. They really focus on the relgious part of school.” Stone plans to focus on business and financing major with maybe a minior in religious beliefs.

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