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The Regional Cross Country meets took place Monday with several teams and individuals from Montague County competing for a chance to qualify for the state meet in Round Rock on Nov. 2.
With hundreds of competitors and many teams, only the top four teams and the top 10 individuals whose teams did not make it were able to qualify. Sadly no teams from Montague County qualified, but two individuals did qualify individually from Saint Jo and Prairie Valley.
The 1A Region III race location was moved from the standard course at Lynn Creek, Grand Prairie to the Jesse Owens Memorial Complex at the University of Texas at Arlington due to the heavy rain. The ground was still a bit soft and with 1A being the last group of runners to compete, the course had turned pretty muddy anyway.
Still, it did not slow down the two state qualifiers as they ran their best times of the year. Saint Jo’s Logan Morman finished third with a time of 16:44. It is Morman’s second straight year qualifying for the state meet.
Prairie Valley’s Cosima Ermert qualified individually by finishing 13th overall with a personal best time of 13:44. Ermert helped the Lady Bulldogs to a 10th place finish as a team, one spot better than last year’s team. A foreign exchange student, this is the first time Ermert has competed in cross country. Ermert is one of the first girl runners from Prairie Valley to qualify for the state meet in several years.
For Bowie and Nocona’s runners, they traveled to Lubbock to run at Mae Simmons Park at Texas Tech. In contrast the runners had great course and weather conditions. Unfortunately, no teams or individuals were able to qualify for the state meet.
The Lady Indian’s team had the highest finish for any team in the county as they earned ninth place. Maria Hernandez finished first for Nocona in 23rd place with a time of 12:48. She was just five spots away from qualifying individually. The Nocona boy’s team finished 21st with top runner Joan Gomez finishing 39th individually with a time of 17:56.
The Bowie boys team finished 19th with Alex Shelton finishing 50th overall to pace the Jackrabbits with a time of 18:16. The Lady Rabbits had Abby Zamzow qualify individually. Zamzow was trying to recover from a back injury she suffered weeks previously that she had to play through due to her playing volleyball at the same time.  She finished 90th with a time of 13:36.
Other teams were the boys and girls from Bellevue. The Lady Eagles finished 20th overall as a team, with Sky-Lar Embry finishing first for Bellevue in 63rd with a time of 15:35. The Bellevue boys finished 13th with Jacob Ekeberger finishing 70th with a time of 20:51. Dylan Edwards and Mark Gill were not far behind him finishing 72nd and 73rd. The experience will help the Eagles greatly as they transition into basketball season.
Other runners competing individually in 1A was William Winkler from Prairie Valley and Kassidy Pitman from Saint Jo.
Winkler was trying to return to the state meet after qualifying last year. He was coming off an ankle injury that troubled him two weeks ago at the district meet. He tried to balance recovery with training since, but it was not enough as Winkler finished 45th with a time of 19:21.
Pitman was trying to improve her performance after competing at regionals for the first time last year as a freshman. She did as she finished 58th with a time of 15:11.

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Bowie Baseball Interview

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Interview with Bowie baseball players Boston Farris (left) and Trae Seigler following their district win against City View on April 8, 2025.
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Interview with Bowie softball players Hanna Bell (left) and Sadie Britt following their district win against City View on senior night on April 8, 2025.
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Baseball Roundup

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RJ Walker pitched four perfect innings for Nocona and got his 100th career strike out. (Courtesy photo)

Nocona
The Nocona Indians picked up dominant wins against Chico in their series against the Dragons last week.
The Indians won both games 11-0 by run-rule after five innings to get their first district wins of the season.
Nocona was coming off losing both games against Lindsay the previous week in its first district series and bounced back in a big way.
In the first game at home last week, the Indians scored six runs in the first inning and five in the third inning which proved to be all the offense they needed.
Kutter Cabrera led the team with three RBIs while Miller Jentry was second with two RBIs. The team finished with nine hits and drew eight walks.
On the mound, Walker Murphey pitched a shut out while striking out seven and allowing three hits. Defensively, the team committed one fielding error.
The second game saw Nocona score all of its runs in the first three innings, highlighted by scoring six runs in the second inning.
Murphey hit a three-run home run to lead the team while Brody Langford and Landon Fatheree each had two RBIs.
On the mound RJ Walker had a big day, throwing a perfect four innings which means he did not allow a hit or walk anyone. He also struck out eight batters, which put him over 100 career strikeouts in high school. The defense committed no fielding errors.

Saint Jo
The Saint Jo Panthers lost their series against Bryson last week.
The first game was a close 3-0 loss, but the second game was 11-0, done after four and half innings due to run-rule.
The Panthers were coming off close losses to Perrin-Whitt from the previous week. They were hoping they could turn their fortune around playing another 1A program.
Unfortunately in the first game, the Cowboys got off to a good start, scoring three runs in the first inning, with two coming with two outs due to an error and a dropped third strike.
Saint Jo’s pitching and defense tightened up after that to not allow another run in the final six innings. Unfortunately, the Panthers had only two hits and four base runners all game as they lost the close game 3-0.
Charlie Evans and Rylan Forrest had the only two hits for Saint Jo in the game as the team struck out 18 times. Trent Gaston ended the game allowing three runs (one earned) on six hits while striking out five batters and walking two in six innings of work. The defense committed five fielding errors.
Unfortunately, things did not go as well several days later in game two. Bryson scored three runs in both the first and second innings before scoring five runs in the third inning. Saint Jo was not able to get a hit and drew two walks in the game.
The Panther defense committed six fielding errors which led to only three of the 11 runs given up were earned by the pitching staff who gave up five hits, walked six and hit four batters.

Bellevue
The Bellevue Eagles played Perrin-Whitt last week in a series.
The Pirates won the first game 11-1 by run-rule and the second game score was not updated on Game Changer.
The Eagles were coming off one-sided losses to Bryson the previous week in their first district series and was hoping to play better.
Bellevue did get out to an early lead in the first inning. River Trail hit an RBI single in the top of the first inning to go up 1-0, which proved to be the highlight of the game.
Perrin-Whitt scored three runs in the first inning, one in the second inning, two in the fourth inning and five in the fifth inning to win 11-1.

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