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HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL: Optimism abounds for girls
By ERIC VICCARO
Around Montague County and the rest of Texas, basketball season started in earnest.
The Bowie High School girls’ team – buoyed by the returning Kamryn Cantwell – took on Conference 4A Burkburnett in the traditional home opener.
Nocona also opened the season with a home date against Iowa Park.
There were several other girls-boys doubleheaders on the docket, with Bryson at Gold-Burg, Poolville at Bellevue, Wichita Christian at Saint Jo and Christ Academy at Prairie Valley.
Forestburg doesn’t open the season until Nov. 18 at Perrin-Whitt.
The boys’ basketball preview will run in the weekend edition of the News for Nov. 19.
Bowie
The Lady Rabbits are under new management, per se, as Chuck Hall has replaced Colby Davis-Pastusek as the head coach. Bowie’s coming off a 27-9 season, advancing all the way to the regional quarterfinals before falling to Brock 55-39.
Nocona
Nocona’s biggest memory during the 2015-16 season was a two-point home victory over Bowie during district play.
The Lady Indians (14-16) barely missed the playoffs last year, falling to Henrietta in a play-in game to determine the fourth seed.
Bellevue
Bellevue took the third and last playoff spot in District 1A-21 a season ago, and the Lady Eagles advanced to area.
However, the team will need to find new leadership this season in absence of do-everything Devon Cassetty.
Saint Jo
Saint Jo also features a new coach in former Hardin-Simmons and Muenster High center Taylor Klement.
The Lady Panthers won their opener on Saturday versus Chillicothe, playing tenacious defense.
Prairie Valley
Prairie Valley has won one of its first three games this season, coming off a hard-fought loss to Wichita Christian this past Friday.
The Lady Bulldogs have a more experienced squad that’s expected to win more than they did last year (5-24 overall record).
Forestburg
Forestburg was one of three playoff qualifiers from Montague County in 2015-16, coming off a 16-9 campaign.
The Lady Horns finished second in 1A-21, and virtually the entire team is back minus Cheyenne Banks.
Gold-Burg
Cheryl Cromleigh returns for her second season as head coach of the Lady Bears, a team that narrowly missed the playoffs last year – taking fourth in 1A-21.
Expect to see Gold-Burg try to use the high-low offense to generate points, and hopefully improve on the 2015-16 marks of 13-14 overall and 7-7 in district play.
Saint Jo’s Emily Haney (00) will be asked to be one of the point guards this season for the Lady Panthers, who have a new coach this season in Taylor Klement. (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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