SPORTS
STORM CENTER: Texas plays classic with Toronto
Wednesday wasn’t the easiest sports day for me – well, from a fan perspective that is.
My first priority was to cover the District 1A-21 cross country meet at Twisted Oaks Golf Club near Amon G. Carter Lake.
That meant only casually glancing to check the score from Game Five of the American League Championship Series between the Toronto Blue Jays and Texas Rangers.
Interestingly enough, junior high school awards were presented just as the seventh inning was about to begin.
Yes, that seventh inning – which spanned 53 minutes inside Rogers Centre, the building formerly known as the SkyDome.
Toronto Blue Jay Jose Bautista said the only time he experienced a seventh inning like that was in winter ball.
The seventh inning had everything a baseball fan could ask for; it was like going to one of the many buffet lines at the Golden Corral.
It was the greatest seventh inning I never saw live – only with accounts through Major League Baseball’s gameday scoreboard service and the radio. I later saw highlights and cobbled together some notes for this piece.
There were questionable umpiring decisions, a benches-clearing incident, errors aplenty, and Bautista’s bat flip heard around the world.
Yes, I became a Blue Jays fan this season, and that’s because Toronto general manager Alex Anthopolous traded for third baseman Josh Donaldson.
Donaldson is my favorite current player in baseball, and he plays the game like my favorite third baseman all time in Michael Jack Schmidt of the 548 home runs and Hall of Fame career.
I know you Rangers are dealing with heartbreak, and I can say I have been there, too. After all, I grew up in Connecticut rooting for the Philadelphia Phillies.
The Phillies have lost the most games in major league baseball, with more than 10,000 of them. They lost several times in the National League Championship Series.
Philadelphia lost to Baltimore in the 1983 World Series after winning the first game. The Phillies lost to the Blue Jays in 1993 as Joe Carter smacked an epic home run off reliever Mitch Williams in Game Six. Read more of this column in the weekend edition of The Bowie News.
Editor’s Note: The Storm Center column is the expressed written views of sports editor Eric Viccaro and not The Bowie News.
Texas Rangers. (Graphic provided by the team and Major League Baseball, used with permission)
Nocona got its new press box into place this week at Jack Crane Stadium. The old press box, which was in place for more than 60 years, was taken out in early June and moved to Indian Valley Raceway. The new press box was by the Southern Bleacher Company out of Graham. Athletic Director Black Crutsinger said they looked at a lot of press boxes and decided they liked the one at Lindsay High School and went with that model. Sean Hutson operated the crane from the Hurd Crane Service that put the press box up for Nocona.
Sunset native Cason Richey (right) and his team roping partner Beldon Cox from Weatherford repeated as the International Finals Youth Rodeo champions last weekend at Shawnee, OK. Richey and Cox won the previous year and were able to complete the repeat by catching three steers in a combined time of 16.6 seconds. Richey is expected to compete attend Texas Tech University this fall and compete on the rodeo team.
The Chisholm Trail Youth Rodeo had its awards ceremony this week, giving out plaques and buckles to the top competitors throughout the summer season.
There were four age categories with five events to compete in for the young athletes.
Along with the best results in each event, at the end the overall best cowboy and cowgirl in each age division was awarded as well.
The lead line division, in which an adult helps the young competitors, saw Rylee Stewart win the first in poles, barrel racing and mystery event on her way to win top cowgirl.
Hattie Snow got the fastest time in the flags event and Lany Shupak got the fastest goat time. Riggin Bishop got named the top cowboy in the division.
In the eight-and-under division, Whitley Goins won the top cowgirl and Trell Carpenter won top cowboy. Goins got the fastest times in barrel racing, flags and mystery event. Carpenter got the fastest time in poles and goats.
In the 9-12 age division, Sage Keck won the top cowgirl while Chisum Carpenter won the top cowboy. Keck got the fastest times in four of the five divisions. Only Layna Taylor getting the fastest goat time prevented her from winning in a clean sweep.
In the 13-18 age division, Tess Egenbacher won the top overall cowgirl award.
Kiley McCracken won both the barrel racing and flags event. Emma Strahan won the poles and mystery event. Hadlee Bryan won the goats event.
There was no top overall cowboy in the age division.
To see the times for the winners of each event in all four age categories along with pictures of all of the top cowboys and cowgirls, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.
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