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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.
Kally Jump will be taking over as head volleyball coach at Bowe High School.
Jump comes to town after a three-year stint as head coach at Class 4A Alvarado. She will be entering her 7th year of coaching this Fall. She replaces Ashley Sanders, who guide the team to a 6-6 finish in District 7-3A and a bi-district loss to Peaster.
After graduating from Tarleton State in 2020, she went to Itasca before going to Alvarado. With a number of family and friends in the area, Jump and her family decided to make the trip North.
Jump, who taught geometry and Algebra 2 at Alvarado, is the daughter of educators, She decided she wanted to be an educator when she was in elementary school.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
A solid day was had by Montague county high school tracksters at the State Track and Field Meet May 16 in Austin.
Bellevue’s Mattie Broussard had a pair of second place finishes in both the 800-meter run with a time of 2:21.41 and the 3,200-meter run with a time of 11:31.33. Broussard also was 4th in the 1,600-meters with a time of 5:22.18.
Her teammate Brylie Hager was 9th in the 110-meter hurdles in 19.93.
Forestburg’s Brenna Briles was 4th in the triple jump with a 35’9 1’2” leap. Her teammate Jocelyn Rich was 4th in the pole vault with a 9’ leap.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Bowie had a pair of top four finishes at the State Track and Field Meet May 14.
Sophomore Brayden Willett made it onto the medal stand, finishing 3rd in the 1,600-meter run with a time of 4:17.89. Bowie junior Tyler Richey finished 4th in the pole vault after a 14’6” effort.
The top two finishers from Holliday, also in Bowie’s district, celebrated with him after he crossed the finish line.
“It was kind of surprising,” Willett said about Ryder and Noah Stroman embracing him in a celebratory hug. “They’re good guys, so it was kind of cool.”
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
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