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Buckle Up for Lane’s Sake tourney recap

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Bowie
The Bowie Lady Rabbits wrapped up their final tournament of the season with their best stretch of play at Nocona’s Buckle Up for Lane’s Sake tournament.
The Lady Rabbits went 7-0 and won the overall tournament championship despite facing several tough teams.
Bowie did well earlier in the month at its first two tournaments at both Burkburnett (third place) and in a tougher field at Glen Rose (runner-up to consolation title).
The Lady Rabbits started the tournament with a familiar foe. Boyd had given Bowie its only loss in its first tournament and later won on the Lady Rabbits home court.
This third meeting was different as everything went Bowie’s way. The Lady Rabbits dispatched the Lady Jackets easily 25-16 and 25-18 to start off pool play on Thursday.
Bowie won its second match easily playing Henrietta’s JV team with scores 25-15 and 25-12. The toughest match ironically came against a 1A Bryson team that kept the sets close and easily could have won either one. The Lady Rabbits came out on top in both sets with scores 26-24 and 25-20.
Thursday pool play wrapped up against an Archer City team Bowie easily beat to open the season two weeks earlier. Things went much the same as it did in the first matchup, with the Lady Rabbits winning dominantly 25-8 and 25-15.
After going 4-0 in pool play and not dropping a set, this gave Bowie a one seed entering the gold bracket two days later on Saturday.
The Lady Rabbits started off playing the varsity Henrietta team, a district opponent that is expected to challenge them in the standings. Bowie beat the Lady Cats at last week’s previous tournament to get the early season mental edge, but would Saturday be a different story?
It was only the since the match ended after two sets instead of three. Bowie came out on top again, though both sets were pretty competitive with scores of 25-20 and 25-21.
The next match against an always tough Windthorst program only gave the Lady Rabbits pause for the first set. Bowie won the tightly contested set 25-22 before easily running away with the second set, winning 25-13.
This put the Lady Rabbits into the championship match against Lindsay. It was the most consistently close match of the tournament for Bowie, but the team kept up its streak of not losing a set throughout the whole tournament, winning both sets 25-22 to win the tournament championship.

Nocona
The Nocona Lady Indians wrapped up tournament season by hosting the always important Buckle Up for Lane tournament.
The Lady Indians went 5-2 overall and finished fourth overall in a field full of some of the toughest teams in the area.
Nocona first played pool games on Thursday. Old district opponent City View stole the first set off the Lady Indians, but that would be the only one they lost that day. Nocona went on to win that game 2-1.
Another former district opponent Jacksboro fell in straight sets along with matches against Wichita Falls and Petrolia to finish pool play undefeated. This meant the Lady Indians advanced to the gold bracket on Saturday.
Nocona started out the day with a good start, beating Iowa Park in straight sets to advance to the winner side of the bracket.
It was here where the Lady Indians had their first blemish of the tournament. A Lindsay team that wound up being tournament runners-up won the match in straight sets which meant Nocona played its final match for third place.
Unfortunately, the Lady Indians ran into Windthorst for the fourth time this season and who they played earlier in the week.
The Lady Trojans won the first three matches and unfortunately Saturday was no different. It went to three sets, but Nocona fell to Windthorst to finish fourth overall.

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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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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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