The Nocona High School boys’ track and field team placed eighth with 25 points, 23 behind Windthorst, at the Glen Eickman Relays on Thursday in Wichita Falls.
City View served as the meet host.
On the varsity girls’ side, Nocona was in a tie for ninth place with Olney, scoring 20 points.
As for Nocona’s junior varsity teams, Nocona’s boys scored 11 points and the girls six.
Tanner Cable scored most of the points for the Nocona varsity boys, with second-place finishes in both the 110-meter high and 300-meter intermediate hurdles. Cable’s time in the 110 hurdles was 17.46 seconds and 43.81 in the 300 hurdles.
Luis Rico came through with a fourth-place in the 800-meter run, clocking in at 2:16.22.
Nocona’s 1,600-meter relay foursome consisting of Tanner Cable, Joan Gomez, Dylan Parker and Rico was fifth in 3:52.50.
Connor Barrett earned gold for Nocona in the junior varsity discus, with a mark of 98-feet, 2 inches. John Womack was fourth in the JV 800 run (2:39.32).
On the girls’ side, Maria Hernandez was second in the 3,200-meter run with a time of 13:04.7, while she was fourth in the 1,600 run (6:01.64).

BASEBALL

Nocona 12, City View 2

Three triples helped Nocona defeat City View 12-2 as the Indians garnered their first District 3A-9 game of the season.
The Indians showed up ready to hit against the home team with Charles Evans, Robert Hawkins and Jose Ogeda all recording triples.

SOFTBALL

City View 14, Nocona 0

The Lady Indians’ struggles continued against City View on Friday evening and the home team went on to blank Nocona.
Deziray Graham and Sherese Price were the lone Lady Indians to record a hit. Read more, and see box scores, in the March 30 edition of The Bowie News.

Luis Rico, shown here at the Bowie Invitational from March 28, was fourth in the 800-meter run at the Glen Eickman Relays in Wichita Falls on March 24. (News photo by Eric Viccaro)