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Saint Jo baseball beats Nocona
The Saint Jo baseball team won at 2A Nocona on Monday night.
The Panthers won 14-0 in five innings due to run rule, picking up Saint Jo’s fourth straight district win.
Monday’s game was the first the Indians would play in district against fellow Montague County team Saint Jo.
The Panthers jumped out to a lead in the top of the first inning.
Trevor O’Neal led off with a single and Matthew Everson followed with a bunt he was able to reach first base on. After steals from both players, Collin Thomas drove both in with a single.
Following two fly outs in the outfield, Thomas would score on a passed ball. Kile Thurman drew a walk and then stole second base before a hit groundball from Logan Hoover to the shortstop induced an error and allowed Thurman to score and Hoover to reach second base.
Mathew Sampson then drove him in with a single to right field to make the score 5-0.
Nocona did not have any luck with its bats to try and get any runs back. Saint Jo pitcher O’Neal struck out one and induced fly outs to the other two batters.
In the second inning, the Indians got the first two batters out with routine fielding play. Unfortunately for them, a walk to Cooper Harris started a two-out rally for the Panthers.
Caleb Hennessey hit a fly ball to centerfield that was just missed by the diving fielder. The error allowed Hennessey to reach third base.
Thurman then hit a groundball to the shortstop that induced an error that allowed one run to score to make it 6-0.
Nocona threatened offensively with Charlie Fuller hitting a single with one out.
A sacrifice bunt and later a balk by the Saint Jo pitcher allowed Fuller to reach third base, but the Panther’s O’Neal was able to strike out the next batter for out three.
In the third inning, Saint Jo’s Brice Durham was hit by a pitch with one out to get on base before O’Neal hit a hard ball to the wall for a double.
After a fly out, Thomas then hit single to right field that drove in both runners to put the Panthers up 8-0.
Nocona could not get anything going offensively as the game moved to the fourth inning.
The Indians were able to limit Saint Jo to no runs, with only a dropped third strike allowing a base runner on with two outs that led to nothing.
Nocona could not turn that momentum into anything as all three batters were retired and the game moved to the fifth inning.
Saint Jo put together another big inning. Durham drew a walk to lead off.
He reached third base thanks to steals and passed balls before O’Neal drove him in with a single. Everson followed with a walk after O’Neal stole second and third base.
A balk allowed O’Neal to come in and score. Collin Thomas hit a single a line drive to second base that induced another error.
A passed ball let Everson score a run before Henson drew a walk. Next Hennessey grounded into a fielder’s choice for an out at first base, but it allowed another run to come in for the Panthers.
Following a groundball hit to third base from Thurman that he was able to reach first base on, walk later loaded the bases.
Durham then hit a double that drove in two runs to make the score 14-0 before Nocona got the third out.
Needing to score at least five runs to keep the game from ending early, it was not in the cards for the Indians. Saint Jo’s Harris came in to pitch the final inning and struck out two of the three batters to close the game with little trouble.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
Boy powerlifters from Bowie, Nocona and Bellevue competed at Boyd on Feb. 20 in their final chance to qualify for the regional meet.
The Jackrabbits finished fourth overall as a team, Nocona finished seventh and Bellevue was tied for 10th place.
Bowie had five lifters finish in the top five in their weight class and score points toward the team total. One ended up winning his class.
Robert Zambrano won the 148 class with a total of 1,315 total pounds lifted.
Tyson Jordan and Tripp Brewer both got second in their weight classes, Jordan in the 198 pound and Brewer in the 220 pound. The final two athletes to score were Kaden Rutherford and Austin Komolosi who both got fourth place, Rutherford in the 114 class and Komolosi in the 165 class.
Unfortunately, Bowie had four lifters not complete all three of their lifts or bomb out.
Nocona only brought three of their lifters, but two of the three finished all three of their lifts and placed high enough to score points.
Kaedon Wallace won the 114 weight class as he lifted 690 total pounds. Teammate Omar Salinas finished second in the 123 class as he lifted 705 pounds.
For Bellevue, its two lifters completed their lifts, but neither were high enough to get into the top five in their weight class to score points.
Blake Reese finished eighth in the 181 class and Cam Blaylock finished 10th in the 220 pound weight class.
Bowie has six boys altogether along with one alternate that qualified: Tripp Brewer, Landyn Walker, Robert Zambrano, Jorge DeLeon, Tyson Jordan, Luis Covarrubias with Kaden Rutherford as an alternate. Nocona has three boys who qualified for the regional meet: Matthew Johnson, Omar Salinas and Kaeden Wallace.
To see results for all lifters from Bowie, Nocona and Bellevue who completed all three of their lifts at the meet, pick up a copy of the weekly edition of the Bowie News.
The Nocona Indians played their first official games of the season on Saturday at Alvord, picking up close wins against Poolville and Paradise.
The Indians won 3-2 against Poolville and 2-1 against Paradise to start the season on a good note.
Nocona was down 1-0 entering the third inning against the Monarchs. The Indians tied the score at 1-1 as Zyrus Moreno drew a walk with the bases loaded.
Nocona then took the lead in the fourth inning. Landon Fatheree dove in a run on a double. Later Brody Langford scored on a passed ball to make 3-1 in favor of the Indians.
Poolville cut the lead to one run when it scored thanks to a fielding error. However, Nocona got out three and the game ended after four innings played. The Indians won 3-2.
Played afterwards was the game against Paradise. The Panthers led initially 1-0 the first two innings. Nocona tied the game in the third inning with Brody Langford hitting an RBI single.
After a scoreless fourth inning, the Indians started a two-out rally in the fifth inning. Langford hit a single to get on base. He later advanced to second base thanks to an error trying to pick him off. Fatheree then came through with a single to drive him home.
It proved to be the winning run as Nocona won 2-1.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekly edition of the Bowie News.
Bowie’s first tournament of the season, the Archer County tournament, was cancelled due to weather concerns so the Lady Rabbits only played game last week was against Archer City on Saturday.
It did not go well for the Lady Rabbits as they lost 11-0 after five innings.
Archer City scored one run in the first inning, two in the second inning and three in the third inning. Bowie did shut out the Lady Cats in the fourth inning, but Archer City rebounded with five runs in the fifth inning.
The Lady Rabbits struggled on offense, finishing with three hits and three walks in the game, neither timely enough to score runs.
On defense, Bowie had nine fielding errors while giving up seven hits and walking six batters.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekly edition of the Bowie News.
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