SPORTS
Texas Ranch Roundup coming up in mid August
The Texas Ranch Roundup (TRR) will celebrate 38 years of highlighting historic ranches, the hard work of genuine cowboys and many facets of ranch life on Aug. 17-18.
TRR will be at the Multi-Purpose Event Center in Wichita Falls.
TRR kicks off with the opening of the Traditional Bit, Spur and Collectible Tradeshow and Kids’ Roundup beginning at 9:30 a.m. The Kids’ Roundup is free to the public and features a petting zoo, pony rides, a mechanical bucking bull, rope making and live music.
Visitors may sign their children up for the Kids’ Stick Horse Barrel Race from 4– 5 p.m. in the Kay Yeager Coliseum on Friday. For just $8, kids receive a T-shirt, a stick horse and compete against kids in their age division in a barrel race at 5 p.m.
The two children with the fastest time in each division compete against one another during the Aug. 17 rodeo performance. (Participants and guardians must have a rodeo ticket to enter competition.)
The night will conclude with all 10 ranches competing in exciting arena events in the Kay Yeager Coliseum at 7 p.m.
Saturday morning kicks off at 7:30 a.m. with a ranch horse competition sanctioned by the Ranch Horse Association of America in the Kay Yeager Coliseum. The trade show opens again at 9 a.m.
Also during the morning, visitors may watch as participating ranches cook at their chuck wagons during the cookin’ competition. Throughout the day, (9–7 p.m.) the many skills of the ranch families including painting/drawing, photography, crafts/jewelry, furniture/home décor and western handiwork are displayed in Room five of the Ray Clymer Exhibit Hall. Tickets for this historic event are on sale now. They may be purchased at TexasRanchRoundup.com, at the MPEC box office or by calling (940) 716-5555.
Children’s tickets in each end of the arena are $5 on Friday and $6 on Saturday. All other upper level tickets range from $10 – $18.
Admission to the gates for all daytime activities is $5 per day.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
The Nocona Lady Indians beat Saint Jo at home on Saturday morning.
The Lady Indians won 16-1 after four innings due to run-rule against the smaller school.
Nocona was coming off a competitive loss at Collinsville earlier in the week while the Lady Panthers were hoping to compete after a busy week of their athletes doing everything else besides just softball.
The Lady Indians easily won the first matchup between the teams in March, 19-2 and it was more of the same on Saturday.
Saint Jo struck first to start the game off well. Jordyn O’Neal hit a one out single. Krista Reeves followed with a walk after O’Neal had stolen second base and had advanced to third thanks to an error trying to throw her out. A wild pitch then allowed her to score to put the Lady Panthers up 1-0.
The lead did not last long. Nocona’s first two batters drew walks which set up Abby Hill to drive them both in with a single to right field.
Despite giving up a single and a walk later in the inning, Saint Jo’s defense did not allow another run. A line out and groundout to the shortstop while picking off a runner attempting to steal got the Lady Panthers out of the inning unscarred.
The Lady Indians led 2-1.
That was about as competitive as it got. In the second inning, Nocona’s bats got going. Two singles and a hit batter loaded the bases up with no outs.
Reagan Phipps drew a walk that drove in a run. Hill hit another two RBI single. Skye Kirby followed with a two RBI double.
After the first out, Allie Sutton drove in one run with a single. There was a fly out for out two, before a runner came in to score after a passed ball. Finally, an error allowed two more runs to score on the base paths.
Nocona had scored nine runs and led 11-1 to break the game open heading into the third inning.
Taylor Patrick hit a double, with O’Neal and Reeves following with singles. Unfortunately for Saint Jo, Patrick was thrown out before the hits attempting to steal a base so the Lady Panthers scored no runs from this.
The Lady Indians kept pouring on the runs. Two singles and a walk loaded the bases up with no outs. Tinley Cable then hit an RBI single. Shelby Swell was hit by a pitch that drove in another run.
After two strikeouts, Evelyn Marquez drove in two more runs on a double to put Nocona up 15-1, coming up one run short of ending the game early.
The Lady Indians scored that one run in the fourth inning. After Phipps drew a leadoff walk, Hill hit a triple that drove her in to end the game.
Nocona won 16-1.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
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