SPORTS
Nocona loses to Holliday 11-1
The Nocona Indians lost to Holliday in their final home game on Tuesday.
The Eagles won 11-1 in five innings due to run rule.
Holliday looked like it was going to get things started early in the first inning. An error, a single and a walk loaded the bases with only one out. Pitcher Kooper Hansard got out of the jam with two consecutive strike outs.
The Indians did not have much luck with the bat as all three batters were sat down.
Four singles, an error and a walk allowed the Eagles to score four runs in the second inning. Nocona again failed to get any batter on base.
Holliday scrapped two runs in the third inning. With two runners on base, a sacrifice fly and a passed ball allowed both to score to make it 6-0.
The Indians found some success in response as Vinit Patel got on base with a single with one out. Two batters later Trey Pepper hit a single and Hansard got on base due to a fielding error to load the bases.
Ty Presley came through with a single to right field to drive in one run and cut the score to 6-1. Unfortunately, the next batter flew out for out three.
Holliday scored four run in the fourth inning thanks to three walks, one hit and one error to extend its lead to 11-1. Nocona’s Miguel Olivares and Johnny Stone had back-to-back singles with one out.
Unfortunately, Olivares was called out for offensive interference and the next batter struck out to end the fourth inning.
Holliday was held to only one hit in the fifth inning with one out, followed by two strike outs from Presley to end the scoring chance.
The Indians needed to score one run to prevent the game from ending early due to the run rule. Unfortunately, the team failed to get any batters on base.
To read the full story, 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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