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CROSS COUNTRY: Gomez places 21st for Nocona boys
The Nocona High School boys’ and girls’ cross country teams opened the season on Saturday at the Boyd Invitational.
Nocona finished ninth out of 16 teams on the boys’ side, compiling 256 points. Valley View was the winner by one point over Holliday.
Joan Gomez was the top Indians finisher, clocking in at 18 minutes, 54.79 seconds for 21st overall.
Luis Rico was next in 34th place with a time of 19:30.61 over the 5,000-meter course. Other finishers were Landon Langford (73rd), John Womack (74th), Juan Rico (78th), Cooper Harris (97th) and Manuel Hernandez (115th).
Overall winner was Whitesboro’s Michael Urbina in 17:08.33, six seconds faster than Holliday’s Brady Gonzalez.
The boys’ field featured 131 runners. None of the Nocona boys ran in the junior varsity division.
Trey Pepper was Nocona’s top finisher in the junior high boys’ division, taking 89th (16:13.90).
Holley makes debut for Saint Jo
Saint Jo freshman Paityn Holley made her high school cross country debut at the Duncan Invitational in Oklahoma on Saturday.
Holley raced in with a 10th-place finish, clocking in at 13 minutes, 39.40 seconds for 10th place in the varsity girls’ 3,200-meter race.
Coletta Holland came next for Saint Jo, taking 27th in a time of 16:07.30.
Ashley Reyling and Destiny Diaz also ran for Saint Jo, finishing 30th and 31st, respectively with times of 16:19.78 and 16:38.78.
This week’s calendar
Bellevue competes at the Midwestern State University Jamboree set for Sept. 8 in Wichita Falls. Bowie will travel to Keene for a meet on Sept. 9, high school only. Saint Jo ventures to the Gerald Richey Invitational on Sept. 10 in Grand Prairie. Bowie Junior High competes at the Shade Tree Run in Muenster the same day.
Read more results in the Sept. 7 Bowie News.
Joan Gomez and Luis Rico from Nocona compete during the 2015 meet. Both Rico and Gomez opened the 2016 season on Saturday at the Boyd Invitational. (News file photo by Eric Viccaro)
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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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