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Both Nocona teams beat Henrietta

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The Nocona basketball teams hosted and beat Henrietta on Tuesday night in games that were wildly different.
The Lady Indians blew out the Lady Cats 84-23 while the Indians held off a last minute rally from the Bearcats to win 44-37.
The Nocona girls team had little worry heading into the game. The undefeated district run had the Lady Indians sitting in first place while Henrietta was outside of the playoff picture.
Nocona did not let the Lady Cats breathe for the first quarter as the team pressed Henrietta on defense. Not normally a press team, Coach Kyle Spitzer knew he needed to make sure his team came out with good energy since there is no other way to play press defense.
This made the Lady Indians build a 27-6 lead after the first quarter and even as he called off the press it never did get better for Henrietta.
Nocona continued to push the ball up of the court off of defensive stops and the team scored 20 or more points in each of the first three quarters.
Even as key players were subbed out, Spitzer did not want his team to let up, though that inevitably happened in the fourth quarter with the margin stretching to 60 points.
The Lady Indians won 84-23.

Brady McCasland puts up a floater over a Henrietta defender.


The Nocona boy’s game had more at stake. The Indians finished the first round of district play tied with Henrietta as both had a 3-3 record. Unfortunately, the Bearcats 50-46 win against Nocona in the first round put Henrietta in front of the Indians in the standings, which would have them missing the playoffs.
The start of the game saw Nocona get out in front early as post player Sam Davis scored five points around the rim and Brady McCasland scored four points on drives to the basket in his first game back after missing the last two games with an injury.
The Indians played lights out man-to-man defense against the Bearcats and led 11-4 after the first quarter.
Nocona got dealt a blow in the opening minute of the second quarter when Davis picked up his second foul and had to sit the rest of the half. His size on defense had been more valuable than his offense had been in the first quarter since Henrietta was looking to score around the basket.
The Bearcats had switched their defense from man to zone and Nocona started settling for more perimeter shots and were able to make two 3-pointers in the quarter. This kept them ahead Henrietta still had trouble scoring.
The Indians led 19-13 at halftime.
Davis got hit for a third foul two minutes into the third quarter and was forced to sit. His replacement Ryder Oswald, who had missed a lot of games earlier in the season to injury, had done well enough in the first half on defense while scoring four points.
In the third quarter he six of his team’s 10 points that forced Henrietta to switch back to a zone. At one point Nocona led 25-13 midway through the quarter and looked fully in control.
The Bearcats rallied a bit before the quarter, but the Indians still held a double-digit lead 29-19 heading into the fourth quarter.
The fourth quarter saw Henrietta switch to 3-2 zone that started to aggressively trap on the perimeter and up to mid court. This would prevent Nocona from stalling in an already slow paced game.
The Indians did a good job of handling that and keeping their lead at 10 points for most of the quarter. As the time started to wind down Henrietta was forced to foul and send Nocona to the free throw line.
Lyndon Fenoglio made both of his to put the Indians up 37-25 with 1:02 left to play.
The final minute would prove to be wild.
The Bearcats had made one 3-pointer in the first three quarters, but in the final minute the team made four. Three of them came from Fisher Pullen and the looks were nothing more than desperation pull ups that were contested well.
The other once came off a stolen inbounds play right after a made 3-pointer and was made by Baron Brown.
The only thing that kept this 3-point barrage from turning into a dramatic comeback was Nocona’s free throw shooting. Starting with Fenoglio’s makes before the 3-pointers, the Indians went 9-10 to keep their lead at multiple possessions even as the absurdity kept mounting.
The Indians held on to win 44-37 as Henrietta ran out of time.

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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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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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