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County teams compete at regionals

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The Regional Cross Country meets took place Monday with several teams and individuals from Montague County competing for a chance to qualify for the state meet in Round Rock on Nov. 2.
With hundreds of competitors and many teams, only the top four teams and the top 10 individuals whose teams did not make it were able to qualify. Sadly no teams from Montague County qualified, but two individuals did qualify individually from Saint Jo and Prairie Valley.
The 1A Region III race location was moved from the standard course at Lynn Creek, Grand Prairie to the Jesse Owens Memorial Complex at the University of Texas at Arlington due to the heavy rain. The ground was still a bit soft and with 1A being the last group of runners to compete, the course had turned pretty muddy anyway.
Still, it did not slow down the two state qualifiers as they ran their best times of the year. Saint Jo’s Logan Morman finished third with a time of 16:44. It is Morman’s second straight year qualifying for the state meet.
Prairie Valley’s Cosima Ermert qualified individually by finishing 13th overall with a personal best time of 13:44. Ermert helped the Lady Bulldogs to a 10th place finish as a team, one spot better than last year’s team. A foreign exchange student, this is the first time Ermert has competed in cross country. Ermert is one of the first girl runners from Prairie Valley to qualify for the state meet in several years.
For Bowie and Nocona’s runners, they traveled to Lubbock to run at Mae Simmons Park at Texas Tech. In contrast the runners had great course and weather conditions. Unfortunately, no teams or individuals were able to qualify for the state meet.
The Lady Indian’s team had the highest finish for any team in the county as they earned ninth place. Maria Hernandez finished first for Nocona in 23rd place with a time of 12:48. She was just five spots away from qualifying individually. The Nocona boy’s team finished 21st with top runner Joan Gomez finishing 39th individually with a time of 17:56.
The Bowie boys team finished 19th with Alex Shelton finishing 50th overall to pace the Jackrabbits with a time of 18:16. The Lady Rabbits had Abby Zamzow qualify individually. Zamzow was trying to recover from a back injury she suffered weeks previously that she had to play through due to her playing volleyball at the same time.  She finished 90th with a time of 13:36.
Other teams were the boys and girls from Bellevue. The Lady Eagles finished 20th overall as a team, with Sky-Lar Embry finishing first for Bellevue in 63rd with a time of 15:35. The Bellevue boys finished 13th with Jacob Ekeberger finishing 70th with a time of 20:51. Dylan Edwards and Mark Gill were not far behind him finishing 72nd and 73rd. The experience will help the Eagles greatly as they transition into basketball season.
Other runners competing individually in 1A was William Winkler from Prairie Valley and Kassidy Pitman from Saint Jo.
Winkler was trying to return to the state meet after qualifying last year. He was coming off an ankle injury that troubled him two weeks ago at the district meet. He tried to balance recovery with training since, but it was not enough as Winkler finished 45th with a time of 19:21.
Pitman was trying to improve her performance after competing at regionals for the first time last year as a freshman. She did as she finished 58th with a time of 15:11.

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Baseball Roundup

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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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Softball Roundup

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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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