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COLLEGES: Kizer becomes NCTC’s first IHSA champion
Bethany Kizer earned first in beginner Western horsemanship at the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association (IHSA) National Competition at Alltech Arena inside the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Ky.
Kizer was the only North Central Texas College student to show at the national event.
She faced an extensive qualification process.
Kizer first had to earn enough points to be invited to the regional competition, at West Texas A&M University. She won that event as well.
She also placed fourth in the semifinals, which took place at Middle Tennessee State in Murfreesboro, Tenn., which was good enough to advance to the finals.
Kizer had to defeat 11 other entrants for first place.
NCTC baseball showcase set for June 6
North Central Texas College is one of four junior colleges set to have a showcase camp on June 6 at Darwin Field in Gainesville.
The Lions have averaged 39 wins the past four years, and won the 2001 National Junior College Athletic Association title in 2001.
Grayson College, Navarro College and Hill College also will appear.
The camp costs $100 if paid in advance. The cost is $120 on the day of the camp, and only cash or money orders will be accepted that day.
This will help local baseball players get name recognition for the upcoming recruiting process, and perhaps find a place to play college ball.
There will be individual evaluations including the 60-yard run, arm strength, fielding ability and hitting mechanics. There also will be a scrimmage to evaluate game conditions.
Note, if you want to pitch and play a position, a player will be evaluated for both. Due to the amount of players, you may only get to play in one spot during the scrimmage.
The rain date for the camp is June 7. Refunds will be available until June 3.
For information, call Donnie Randall at 1-940-668-4285 or email: [email protected]. Read more in the May 21 Bowie News.
North Central Texas College student Bethany Kizer earned first in beginner Western horsemanship at the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association national competition in Lexington, Ky., earlier this month. (Courtesy photo)
Prairie Valley
The Prairie Valley Bulldogs had a good final non-district warm-up on Friday at home against Ector.
The Eagles beat the Bulldogs 69-63 in a game where Prairie Valley was trying to play catch up all the way through.
The Bulldogs were coming off a tough tournament at Electra the previous week to try and knock the holiday rust off. Prairie Valley was familiar with Ector, having played the team to start its season back in early November and was hoping to compete better than it did in that first game.
The Eagles came out firing, splashing five 3-pointers, including several deep ones, to go out to a 21-8 lead in the first quarter. Even with the Bulldogs changing out of their preferred zone defense, the 3-pointers continued a bit and opened things up inside the arc.
Thankfully, Prairie Valley’s offense came alive in the second quarter, scoring 18 points and cutting the lead down to 38-26 at halftime.
The third quarter was more of the same, though a different player for Ector started to get hot from beyond the arc. Even as the Bulldogs were able to keep up their offensive production from the second quarter, they could not break through and cut the game to single-digits, trailing 54-42 heading into the final period.
The fourth quarter saw Prairie Valley break through to cut it the lead to single-digits, but just not close enough. Every time the Bulldogs were on the cusp of making it a one or two basket game, the Eagles would make a shot to keep that distance.
In the end, the final score was the closest Prairie Valley got as Ector won 69-63.
Nocona
The Nocona Indians bounced back with a competitive district win at Petrolia on Friday.
The Indians won 60-53 against the Pirates in a game where the middle quarters took drastic swings in momentum.
Nocona was coming off its first district loss against Windthorst as the team sat a 1-1 district record.
Petrolia came into the game at 0-1, but had a bit more time to prepare for the game.
The first quarter was competitive, but the Indians were able to get to the free throw line at will and led 16-11.
Then Nocona’s pressure defense turned up its intensity in the second quarter.
“Our pressure seemed to disrupt them and we were able to get out in transition after forcing turnovers,” Coach Brody Wilson said.
Nocona scored 25 points and led 41-25 at halftime.
Unfortunately, that intensity did not keep up at the start of the third quarter for Nocona.
The Indians took their foot off the gas a little bit which allowed Petrolia’s offense to get back into the game and make up some of the deficit.
The Pirates outscored Nocona 15-7 and trailed only 48-40 heading into the final period.
Thankfully, the Indians bounced back and competed a bit better in the fourth quarter. Nocona was able to keep offensive pace to keep Petrolia at a bit of a distance instead of making it a one score game.
The Indians held on to win 60-53.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekly Bowie News.
For more pictures from the Prairie Valley game, click here https://www.dotphoto.com/go.asp?l=bnews1&AID=6871971&T=1
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