SPORTS
Chisholm Trail Rodeo coming to Nocona this Friday and Saturday
It’s that time of year for the Chisholm Trail Rodeo to take place at Chisholm Trail Arena in Nocona June 8-9.
The Champion Rodeo Company based in Buffalo, TX had great success as stock contractor last year and are back this year. They are upping the money added from last year from $9,000 to $11,250.
Tickets cost $8 in advance, and they are available through all the rodeo queen and junior queen candidates or at Nocona City Hall. At the gate, the tickets will cost $10. Kids under six get in free.
Rodeo queen candidates include Hannah Detweiler, Nocona, and Maddie Ferguson, Nocona. Princess candidates include Karagan Ritchie, Nocona, and Rylie Berend, Bowie. For more information, look on page 1A.
The gates open at 6 p.m. with nightly performances starting at 8 p.m. The concessions are being provided by the Montague County Cowboy Church Chuckwagon Team. Prep for the calf fries has been in the works since May 23.
On Thursday night, there will be open team roping after slack, which starts at 8 p.m. The top 10 teams will run in the rodeo, with $200 going to the fastest team of both performances. There will be a limit of 200 teams.
In the junior barrels division, for girls ages 16 years old and under, there’s $250 in added money for the contestants both nights. Day of entries will only be taken, with an entry fee of $40. They will run 10 in the performance with all others running in the slack after the rodeo.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
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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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