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HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Vann, Wallace most valuable players
The Forestburg High School football team may have lost on Thursday to Motley County, but the Longhorns had a historic season.
To that end, Matthew Wallace was named District 12-1A-II most valuable player on offense with Taten Vann chosen as the MVP for defense.
Stevie Carroll was chosen as the newcomer of the year. The entire Forestburg coaching staff – head coach Wayne Tuckwell and assistants Steve Sandusky and John Metzler – was named coaching staff of the year.
Forestburg (8-4 overall record) won the District 12-1A-II championship, with Throckmorton second.
Woodson was third and Gold-Burg fourth.
Vann and Malaci Moore are all-star representatives for Forestburg, with Stetson McPherson from Woodson and Keith Balthrop of Throckmorton the alternates.
District 9-1A-I
Honors were released for District 9-1A-I on Monday since Newcastle suffered a 20-12 loss to Zephyr in the area round this past weekend.
Saint Jo finished winless in the district, with Newcastle as the winner and Bryson taking second spot. Tioga was third.
Micah Villa from Tioga was the offensive most valuable player while Newcastle’s Mikey Walker was the defensive most valuable player.
No Panthers were on the first team; however, there were some accolades to go around.
Mario Lopez was named second-team spread center and kicker. He was second-team kicker along with Newcastle’s Paul Davidson.
Matthew Wallace, shown here running during an Oct. 29 home game versus Woodson, was named District 12-1A-II most valuable player on offense. Click on the image itself for the complete photo. (News photo by Eric Viccaro)
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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