SPORTS
Nocona teams play at City View
The Nocona basketball teams traveled to City View on Tuesday and had drastically different experiences.
While the girls won a high scoring game easily 77-43 against a team they had beaten before, the boys lost a close game 48-43 against a team that is emerging as a possible playoff team.
The Lady Indians got up early, exploding to a 27-9 lead. Despite that, Coach Kyle Spitzer was not happy with some of the things he was seeing on defense.
“Our defense was sloppy in the first quarter,” Spitzer said. “We kind of got it fixed in the second quarter.”
Despite that, the Lady Mustangs were able to make a couple shots, knock down their free throws and score relatively well despite trailing big for all of the game.
They could not keep up with the scoring pace from Nocona. While the Lady Indians could not equal their first quarter barrage, they did not have a down quarter offensively for the rest of the game as City View had no answer defensively as Nocona won 77-43.
Averee Kleinhans had another game where her total, 38 points, was almost equal to or better than the other team’s output. Trystin Fenoglio was second with 15 points while Laramie Hayes joined them in double digits with 11 points.
The boy’s game was much more competitive. Both teams came out swinging in a relatively high scoring first quarter as the teams were tied 15-15 heading into the second quarter.
The Indians offense faltered a bit the next two quarters as they could only equal their first quarter total. Luckily, their defense kept them in the game as they trailed only 32-30 heading into the fourth quarter.
Both teams picked up the pace a bit as Nocona was able to knock in three three-pointers as they almost equaled their first quarter total. Unfortunately, the Mustangs played with the lead and were able to knock in eight of their nine free throws in the quarter as they held on to win 48-43.
Carter Horn led the Indians with 12 points, all scored in the second half. Jason Sparkman was second with 10 points.
Nocona is still looking for its first district win in a district that is looking much more competitive than what was initially believed.
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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