SPORTS
Nocona Indians open 2018 season
After only a few days of practice with roughly one third of their team fresh from their football playoff exit, the Nocona boy’s basketball team opened their season Nov. 20 at home against Archer City.
The Indians showed some rough patches as they ended up losing 48-40 to the Wildcats as they showed some vulnerabilities inside as they dealt with foul trouble throughout.
With new systems to learn and not enough time to implement them for every player, the first half was especially rough.
The first quarter was low scoring, but Nocona’s defense kept the score close despite them turning the ball over a lot and not making shots.
They trailed Archer City 7-6 heading to the second quarter.
The Wildcats started to take advantage of some things that were working inside as Jacob Wilhelm got some of the Indian’s post players in foul trouble while scoring inside. Nocona’s offense continued to struggle in the second quarter and trailed 20-13 at halftime.
The second half saw both teams pick up the scoring a bit as some shots for the Indians started to go in.
Near the end of the third quarter Nocona trailed 29-21, but they were able to close the gap to 29-26 heading into the fourth quarter.
By this time Archer City was taking advantage of Wilhem’s matchups in the post as he fouled out a few of the Indians post players with his physical nature as he scored 11 of his team’s 19 points in the fourth quarter.
While the Indians were able to cut the lead down to 38-37 with 2:20 to go, free throws down the stretch from the Wildcats was the difference in the final margin. Archer City won 48-40.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week 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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