SPORTS
Montague County all-district football awards
With the state championships in 1A-4A done, the football all-district awards have been released across the state.
For Bowie, Coleton Price and Jre Donnell earned district superlative awards. Price was named the district’s outstanding lineman. Freshman Donnell was named the district’s newcomer of the year.
The Jackrabbits had four players named to the first team.
Ty Harris was named first team on both sides of the ball at running back and defensive back. Bryan Arellano was also named first team on both sides of the line.
Fullback Devin Melton and defensive back Tru’Vion Sansom were also named to the first team.
The Nocona Indians highest honored members were four players named second team all-district. Sam Davis was named on offense and defense at tight end and defensive line.
Trent Sappington was named second team running back, Ian Hostetter and Trey Pepper were named second team linebackers and Bodie Davis was named second team safety.
Saint Jo had many players honored not just in its district, but region. Logan Brawner and Chance Bennett were named to the region’s first team as running back and linebacker. Both were also named the district’s offensive and defensive players of the year.
Named to the region’s second team were quarterback Cade Stevens, cornerback Tyler Cook and noseguard Jace Johnson.
All were also named first team all-district along with kicker Kyler Dunn and defensive lineman Dylan Brockman.
Gold-Burg had one player earn a superlative award. Freshman Jayon Grace was named the district’s newcomer of the year.
First team players included his brother Kani at running back, Will Hodges at wide receiver, Luke Skinner on the defensive line and Matthew Fatheree at cornerback.
Forestburg had two players named to the district’s first team. Braxton Osteen was the team’s punter and Jeremiah Perez for his play at linebacker.
To see all of the teams players who earned second team, honorable mention and all-academic honors, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.
The Bowie sports banquets was on Monday night. Olivia Gill and Tucker Jones were named Jackrabbit and Lady Rabbit of the year. Pick up the mid-week paper for all of the sports team awards and pictures.
The 72nd Chisholm Trail Rodeo was a big success on Friday and Saturday nights at Nocona.
The rodeo had big crowds and saw some good competition from both local and far reaching talent.
Winners in the events included Zach Hibler in bareback riding, Lindsey Muggli in barrel racing, Ashley Goforth in breakaway roping, Leanardo Lima in bull riding, Cody McCartney in calf roping, Thomas Moellering in ranch bronc riding, Wacey Hathcock in saddle bronc riding, Renato Finazzi in steer wrestling, Rowdy Jones and Rance Doyal in team roping.
To see full results and more pictures, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
The regional tennis tournaments were late last week in North Richland Hills and a doubles team is moving on to state.
The Saint Jo girl’s doubles team Kyler Dunn and Taylor Patrick won the 1A region III tournament and will return to state for the second straight year.
The pair rolled through teams from Morgan, Dodd City, Priddy before beating a Graford team in the finals. The pair did not lose a set and only lost five of the 53 games it played, never losing more than one in a set.
The team made it to state last year after finishing second at regionals and won a match at the state meet against a team from Vernon Northside. They then lost to the eventual state champion team from Utopia and finished tied for third place.
They will be the only tennis players from Montague County playing at state this week as others did not have as successful regional tournament.
The Saint Jo teammates and fellow girl’s doubles team Bailie Nobile and Maxey Johnson won their first match against Ector 6-1, 6-4, but fell in their next match against Lometa, 6-1, 6-1.
From Prairie Valley, Case Carpenter was competing in boy’s singles. His first match was a draining two and half hour battle against a player from Strawn Carpenter came through in the three-set battle, winning 6-4, 5-7, 6-4.
Unfortunately, the magic was not there in the second game. Paired against the eventual tournament champion from Gustine, Carpenter lost 6-0, 6-1.
From Gold-Burg, Alyson Rojas and Jimena Garcia competed in girl’s singles. Rojas won her first match against a girl from Avinger 7-6, 6-2. Unfortunately, the next match she lost to a girl from Graford 6-0, 6-0 to end her tournament.
Garcia lost a tough first match against a player from Ector. Both sets could have gone either way with the scores being 6-4, 7-5 to the winner.
The mixed doubles team from Forestburg, Jesse Wadsworth and Alli Cisneros, also did not make it through.
From Nocona, Kaygan Stone was playing in the girl’s singles 2A region II tournament.
Unfortunately, she got paired against the player who would go on to win the tournament in the first round to end her season.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
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