SPORTS
Nocona knocks down district leader; Prairie Valley, Gold-Burg grab wins at home
After losing the first two match-ups against Holliday, the Nocona Lady Indians ruined the Lady Eagles senior night by giving them their first district loss.
The Lady Indians won in four sets, taking control of the sets they won and not letting Holliday come back to battle for closely contested sets.
Nocona came out on fire, executing their strategy of staying aggressive and on the offensive at all times while capitalizing when the Lady Eagles big Breanna Box was in the back row. The Lady Indians won the first two sets 25-21 and 25-22.
The third set saw some inconsistent play from Nocona. Holliday was able to take advantage as they got a sizable lead. Coach Tiffany Clay wanted her girls to keep swinging despite the mistakes, knowing her girls would need to keep up their aggressive mentality for the fourth set after losing the third set 25-18.
They straightened things out in the fourth set and played their best volleyball as Nocona could see the finish line forming in front of them. They were able to close things out, winning the fourth set 25-19 to get the upset win against the district leader.
Averee Kleinhans led the team with 22 kills and 27 digs, while Trystin Fenoglio directed the teams attack with 33 assists. Grayson Trumbull was second with nine kills while Ella Nunneley led the team with three blocks. The team had nine aces during the match with Kleinhans and Laramie Hayes each contributing three.
Clay was proud her girls were able to achieve their goal on the road.
“Overall, my girls wanted this game so bad and to prove to not only themselves, but everyone else we were the better team,” Clay said. “They fought until the very end.”
Read the full story in the weekend edition of The Bowie News.
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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