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HIGH SCHOOL TRACK AND FIELD: Today’s qualifiers at the District 3A-9 meet
Here are the qualifiers for today’s District 3A-9 track and field meet at Jacksboro High School.
GIRLS
400-meter relay: Bowie, Carli Shields, Addy Cook, Kaley Parnell and Taylor Thompson; Nocona: Brooke O’Neal, Trinity Franklin, Magye Fenoglio and Hailey Kelly
Junior Varsity 800 run: Bowie, Shelby Avara, Shelby Witt and Sage Bullock; Nocona: Veronica Hernandez
800 run: Bowie, Lauren Gill and Valerie Walker; Nocona, Rachel Patrick, Yesenia Duarte and Crystal Duarte
100 hurdles: Nocona, Theresa Lemons
JV 100 dash: Bowie, Jasmine Hernandez and Haily Brinson
100 dash: Nocona, Hailey Kelly
800-meter relay: Bowie, Taylor Thompson, Emmy Thomas, Addy Cook and Kaley Parnell
JV 400 dash: Bowie, Jasmin Hernandez; Nocona, Veronica Hernandez and Katherine Houston
400 dash: Nocona, Crystal Duarte
300 intermediate hurdles: Nocona, Payton Ferguson
JV 200 dash: Bowie, Haily Brinson and Jasmine Hernandez
200 dash: Bowie, Addy Cook; Nocona, Hailey Kelly
JV 1,600 run: Bowie, Sage Bullock; Nocona, Isabella Encio
1,600 run: Bowie, Lauren Gill and Valerie Walker; Nocona, Maria Hernandez and Yesenia Duarte
1,600 relay: Nocona, Rachel Patrick, Jordan Dingler, Lexi Malone and Crystal Duarte
BOYS
JV 400-meter relay: Nocona, Parker Marshall, Tyler Richards, Hunter Fenoglio and Charles Evans; Bowie: Matthew Wallace, Dustin Van Wey, Tate Tomlin and Billy Brown
Varsity 400 relay: Bowie, Brandon Hutto, Chandler Allison, Daniel Mosley, Gage Posey
JV 800 run: Bowie, Orlando Martinez, Blake Cambre and Dustin Feazel; Nocona: John Womack, James Stone and Joan Gomez
800 run: Bowie, Dillon Swaim, Justin Franklin and Logan Lawhorn; Nocona, Luis Rico
JV 110-meter high hurdles: Bowie, Joey Crawford
110 high hurdles: Bowie, Zeke Vaughan and Brandon Hutto; Nocona, Tanner Cable and Cade Breeze
JV 100 dash: Nocona, Parker Marshall
100 dash: Bowie, Gage Posey
JV 800 relay: Bowie, Matthew Wallace, Dustin Van Wey, Tate Tomlin and Billy Brown; Nocona, Tyler Richards, Riley McCasland, Marcus Carter and Charles Evans
800 relay: Bowie, Chandler Allison, Logan Boyd, Daniel Mosley and Jeffery Howard; Nocona, Luis Rico, Jeremy James, Tanner Cable, Tristan Cable
JV 400 dash: Bowie, Matthew Wallace
400 dash: Bowie, Jeffery Howard
JV 300 intermediate hurdles: Bowie, Joey Crawford
300 intermediate hurdles: Bowie, Gary Mosley, Zeke Vaughan and Brandon Hutto; Nocona, Tanner Cable and Cade Breeze
JV 200 dash: Bowie, Dustin Van Wey
200 dash: Bowie, Logan Boyd
JV 1,600 run: Bowie, Orlando Martinez, Landon Langford and Blake Cambre; Nocona, John Womack and Nash Parker
1,600 run: Bowie, Deagon Kurz, Justin Franklin and Spenser Meekins; Nocona, Brayden Skinner, Luis Rico and Dylan Parker
1,600 relay: Bowie, Tate Tomlin, Joey Crawford, Trent Walker and Matthew Wallace; Nocona, Tyler Richards, Riley McCasland, Manuel Hernandez and Joan Gomez
1,600 relay: Bowie, Dillon Swaim, Jeffery Howard, Gary Mosley and Zeke Vaughan
Nocona’s Brayden Skinner has already advanced to area in the 3,200-meter run, and today he has a shot to do the same in the 1,600 at the District 3A-9 meet in Jacksboro. (News photo by Eric Viccaro)
SPORTS
Nocona baseball breaks playoffs drought
The Nocona Indians wrapped up their first playoff berth since 2005 with a dominant win against Chico on Thursday at home.
The Indians won 10-0 in four and half innings due to run-rule to earn the district’s final playoff spot and break a nearly two decade drought.
Nocona was in a similar situation last year after beating Chico in the first game before losing twice more to the Dragons, once in the regular season finale and then in the play-in series.
The Indians won the first game earlier in the week 9-4, but knew they could play better. On Thursday they then proved it.
In the bottom of the first inning, Nocona got the scoring going as Wesley Murphey hit an RBI double. Two batters later, Landon Fatheree drove in two runs with a double.
Konnor Harrington followed with a groundout that scored another run as the Indians led 4-0.
In the second inning, Nocona kept up the pressure. Brody Langford drove in a run with a single. Later with the bases loaded, Caden Belcher was hit by a pitch that scored a run. A later passed ball allowed one more run to score as the Indians extended their lead to 7-0.
Nocona got one more run in the third inning. With the bases loaded, Wesley Murphey grounded into a fielder’s choice out that scored one run to make it 8-0.
The Indians got the final two runs they needed in the fourth inning. Walker Murphey and RJ Walker hit back-to-back RBI singles to put Nocona up 10-0.
Chico needed to score at least one run to prevent the game from ending early due to run-rule. Instead Walker Murphey completed the shutout performance by retiring the next three batters to end the game and the Dragon’s season.
The Indians won 10-0 and earned the district’s final playoff spot.
Wesley Murphey and Fatheree drove in two runs each to lead the team. Walker Murphey led the team with three hits. The team finished with 11 hits and drew six walks.
Walker Murphey also allowed zero runs and one hit while striking out five batters and walking none. The defense behind him committed only one fielding error.
Coach Zach Denson was beyond proud of this team for breaking the playoff drought.
“The amount of growth that they have shown throughout the year has been the most incredible I’ve seen in 13 years of coaching,” Denson said. “We went on a little skid in the middle of the year and that could have derailed our young team, but it actually brought us closer together as a unit.”
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
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Bowie baseball clinches playoff spot
The Bowie Jackrabbits were able to clinch the final playoff spot on Thursday with a senior night home win against Henrietta.
The Jackrabbits won 6-1 in a game where all of the offensive action happened in the first three innings for both teams.
Bowie came into the game needing to win. Failing to do so would mean setting up a series with the Bearcats for the final playoff spot. If the Jackrabbits just took care of business against a team they had already beaten once pretty easily then they could avoid that whole situation.
Henrietta knew it was playing for the future of its season and struck first. A one out double followed by a single two batters later put the Bearcats up 1-0 against Bowie’s top pitcher Edmond De Leon on the mound.
The offense responded in the same inning with a two-out rally. Troy Kesey hit a single and Hayden Rodriguez drew a walk. De Leon then hit a double to drive one run in.
Cooper Hammer was then hit a by a pitch to load the bases up. Rayder Mann then drew a walk that scored one run and the Jackrabbits led 2-1 before the next batter popped up for out three.
Bowie added to that lead in the second inning. Boston Farris led off with a triple. Tucker Jones then hit a groundball to second base that resulted in an error that allowed Farris to score and make it 3-1 for the Jackrabbits.
Bowie then extended the lead in the third inning. Hammer hit a one-out single. Mann and Cy Egenbacher followed with hits that resulted in fielding errors for the Bearcats. The Jackrabbits scored one run on the second error.
Farris then hit a single that drove in another run. After a strikeout, a wild pitch then allowed another runner to score as Bowie was up 6-1. Another strikeout ended the scoring for the Jackrabbits.
The next three and half innings saw neither team score runs, though both had several chances with two runners getting on at times.
Henrietta’s best chance came in the fifth inning with two singles, but De Leon and Bowie’s defense shut that down. De Leon retired the final seven batters he faced as the Jackrabbits won 6-1.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
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10 qualify for regional tennis after competing in district
Last week all of the area schools competed in their district’s tennis tournament and several schools had athletes qualify for the regional tournament.
In the end, 10 athletes finished second or better at district to move on for a chance to qualify for state.
Unfortunately, no players from Bowie were able to break through and qualify.
Many faced early seeding opponents from tennis power Vernon that ended their tournament.
The highest finish for a Bowie player was Lily Hodges who placed fourth in girls singles.
From Nocona, one girl was able to break through as Kaygan Stone finished second in girls singles to qualify for regionals.
Stone has had a tough year, dealing with shoulder problems that shortened both her volleyball and basketball seasons, but she bounced back this spring to qualify for regionals in tennis.
Her teammate Melissa Segura was not so lucky, as she finished third in girls singles and just missed the cut, having to settle for an alternate spot
At the 1A tournament, several schools had multiple athletes in one division qualify.
From Saint Jo, last year’s state qualifying girl’s doubles team of Kyler Dunn and Taylor Patrick won the division.
They beat out the second place finisher and their teammates, the girl’s doubles team of Maxey Johnson and Bailey Nobile, who also qualified for regionals.
From Gold-Burg, Jimena Garcia and Alyson Rojas placed first and second in girls singles to move on to the regional tournament.
Other schools only had one team or individual.
From Forestburg, the mixed doubles team of Jesse Wadsworth and Alli Cisneros finished second as they qualified for regionals.
From Prairie Valley, Case Carpenter finished second in the boys singles division.
To read the full story and see pictures of all of the qualifiers, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
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