SPORTS
Nocona teams beat Tigers; Kleinhans meets milestone
The Nocona basketball teams both won at Jacksboro on Tuesday, with one individual achieving a career milestone.
The Lady Indians won with little trouble 66-29 while the boys won a tight game 45-41.
The big news of the night for the Nocona girl’s team was senior Averee Kleinhans scoring her 3,000 career point. She came into the game needing to score 20 points and she delivered scoring 35.
She joins elite company, becoming only the second girl basketball player in Montague County history to reach the milestone. Rene Hanebutt from Bowie scored 3,186 points playing in the early 1990s while she led the Lady Rabbits to the 1995 state title.
The game was not much of a contest. The Lady Indians kept the Lady Tigers from scoring double-digits in all but the third quarter, leading 29-7 at halftime.
Besides Kleinhans Sydni Messer scored 10 points and Kylie Rose scored nine points while making three 3-pointers.
The Nocona boy’s started out the game playing great. All five starting players scored at least one basket during the first quarter while playing shutdown defense, limiting Jacksboro to only one made basket.
The Indians led 15-4 heading into the second quarter. The Tigers woke up and played a much more competitive second quarter. Nocona still were in control, but the lead was only 28-20 heading into halftime.
The third quarter saw the Indians offense hit a snag. Only an Adam Meekins 3-pointer prevented Nocona from going scoreless.
This allowed the Tigers to cut the lead to one, trailing 31-30 heading into the fourth quarter and with the momentum.
Down the stretch the Indians were able to draw a ton of free throw attempts, 14 in all. Despite only one made basket during this time, Nocona made 10 free throws, which was enough to stave off the hard charging Jacksboro team.
The Indians held on to win 45-41.
Meekins led the team with 12 points and three made 3-pointers. Landry McCasland and Ryder Oswald each scored seven points.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekend 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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