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Lady Indians lose close game at Jacksboro 12-8
In their most competitive district game so far, the Nocona Lady Indians came up just short on the road at Jacksboro on Friday.
The Lady Indians got it to within one heading into the bottom of the sixth before the Lady Tigers found some breathing room as they ended up winning 12-8. In a district run where Nocona has struggled to prevent that one inning from blowing up, they did their best job so far and had a chance to win.
After neither team could get on base in the first, the Lady Indians Lexi Towery was hit by a pitch to leadoff the top of the second. She was able to steal second, third and home to give Nocona an early 1-0 lead.
Jacksboro was able to tie things up in the bottom of the second. Back-to-back one out singles put runners at the corners and a ground out scored the runner on third to tie the game 1-1 heading into the third inning.
Back-to-back singles from Taylor Rivera and Caitlyn Pepper with two outs gave the Lady Indians another chance to score, but one of them got caught stealing a base to end that chance. Jacksboro was able to get a runner to third with one out. A fly out to left field was deep enough to score the runner and put the Lady Tigers up 2-1 heading into the fourth inning.
A two out double from Laramie Hayes put her in scoring position. Kycelynn Contreras drove her in with a base hit up the middle to tie the game 2-2 in the top of the fourth.
Jacksboro was able to load up the bases with no outs to start the bottom of the fourth. A single scored two runs and it looked like it was going to be the inning where the game would get away from Nocona.
Three more singles scored two more runs to put the Lady Tigers up 6-2. Fortunately, they were able get a force out at home and flew out to centerfield for the final two outs to stop the bleeding before it got worse.
The Lady Indians responded in the top of the fifth. Rivera got on base with a one out single. Next batter Pepper hit a triple to drive her home. Pepper was then able to score on a wild pitch to cut the lead to 6-4.
Jacksboro was able to extend their lead in the bottom of the fifth. A leadoff drawn walk and single put two runners on base. Two singles and a wild pitch scored three runs to put the lead up to 9-4 as the fifth inning ended.
Nocona was not giving up though. Contreras led off with a home run. A single and a hit batter later, Rivera drove in another run. Taylor Richards was able to steal home for another run and then Pepper grounded out to first to score Rivera to cut the lead down to 9-8 before the next batter struck out to end the inning.
Unfortunately, the Lady Tigers responded with a four run inning of their own with three hits, a drawn walk, two errors and a wild pitch to go up 12-8 heading into the final inning.
The Lady Indians ran out of responses offensively as their three batters were sat down one-two-three to end the game.
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The Red River High School Bass Club competed this past weekend, May 31 – June 1, at the State Tournament on Lake Conroe for the two-day tournament.
Two of the teams from Montague County traveled south to try their best at the culmination of the year for the state title. Teams were able to pre-fish on Friday before the Saturday and Sunday competition. On Friday, there was a flipping contest for the youth and Cooper Johnson won third overall and won a $500 scholarship and an Academy gift card.
The club’s two teams who competed were Lane Smith/Colt Henry with boat captain Jimmy Smith. The team placed 63rd with a total of 16.22 pounds. The second team of Cooper Johnson/Corbyn Patton and boat captain Jayson Toerck placed 169th with a total weight of 2.29 pounds.
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The Maskat Shrine Oil Bowl is this week on June 6-7 and graduating athletes from Bowie, Nocona and Saint Jo are confirmed to be playing.
In total, seven athletes from Bowie, five from Nocona and three from Saint Jo are planning to play in the all-star games this week. Nocona also will have a pair of coaches participating as well.
The girl’s basketball game kicks off events on June 6, scheduled for 6 p.m. at Wichita Falls Memorial High School. In the game, the east team will have Nocona players Avery Crutsinger, Meg Meekins and Reagan Phipps playing while Kyler Spitzer and Clayton Brown coach them one last time.
On the west team, Saint Jo’s Payzlie Cervantes is confirmed to be playing.
The boy’s basketball game is scheduled to follow at 7:30 p.m. On the east team, Bowie’s Boston Farris and Nocona’s Jose Gomez Jr. will be playing.
On June 7, the volleyball games are scheduled to start at 4 p.m. with the small school game. On the west team, Nocona’s Kaygan Stone and Saint Jo’s Taylor Patrick are confirmed to play. On the east team, Saint Jo’s Aubrey Morman will get to play her teammate.
There are no local athletes confirmed to be playing in the big school volleyball game.
The final event is the football game, scheduled for 7:30 p.m. at Memorial Stadium. It is an all Bowie affair with six players confirmed to be playing for the east team: Justin Clark, Jorge De Leon, Hunter Fluitt and Braden Rhyne, Preacher Chambers and Moh Azouak.
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Nocona Independent School District officials looked inward for a new athletic director/head football coach, selecting Jeff Hill for the position.
Hill, who served last year as Nocona football’s offensive coordinator and also led the softball program to the playoffs for the first time in a while as its head coach, was upgraded to the role.
This came on the heels of former Athletic Director Blake Crutsinger, who served in the role the last four years, resigned in May.
For Hill, the choice to apply for the position was a no brainer. His one year in Nocona had impressed upon him and his wife that it was the place they would like to be long term.
“I’m looking for a town to raise my kids in and Nocona has treated my family really well,” Hill said. “There are some really good people. The kids work hard. Everything I am looking for in a hometown is right here in Nocona and I want to try and make it as best as it can be, especially through athletics.”
Before Nocona, Hill served as the athletic director at S&S Consolidated while also spending time at Hebron and Whitewright in his coaching career.
Hill expresses great respect for the departing Crutsinger and besides changing a few small things in how he personally wants to do things, he is not trying to come in with a sweeping restructuring of the whole athletic department.
The program had five of its six team sports make the playoffs, with volleyball playing in the regional final and the girl’s basketball team winning the state championship.
That along with two athletes competing at the state championship in cross country and track with one earning a gold medal, it was one of the more successful school years in athletic program history.
“Coach Crutsinger was awesome and did a great job so honestly just little tweaks, a little bit of structure and cohesion amongst the coaching staff between boys and girls,” Hill said. “I hope to keep the winning tradition going overall in the athletic department.”
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