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Lady Indians play second tournament at Henrietta
The Nocona Lady Indians softball team competed at its second tournament last weekend at Henrietta.
While the team competed well at the first tournament at Jacksboro the following week, the competition was fiercer at Henrietta as the Lady Indians went 1-4.
Nocona first faced off against Archer City. It was not a good start for the Lady Indians as they struggled to hit or get on base against the Lady Tigers pitcher.
On the flip side, Archer City scored 14 of their 15 total runs in two innings as they won 15-0 after three innings.
Things could only be better for Nocona and they bounced back in a big way.
Playing Seymour and down 9-5 in the bottom of the sixth inning, the Lady Indians rallied to score eight runs in the inning to go up 13-9.
They were able to shut out the Lady Panthers in the next inning to get the win. Laramie Hayes and Gisel Hernandez each drove in two runs to lead Nocona.
The Lady Indians started off Friday playing Iowa Park. While the Lady Hawks scored more than half of their runs in the fourth inning, Nocona struggled to get anyone on base in any way. Iowa Park won 13-0 after four innings.
The Lady Indians second game of the day was against Windthorst. The Lady Trojans scored 10 runs in the first two innings.
Nocona was able to score three runs in the top of the third inning, but Windthorst was able to tack on another seven runs to end the game early as they won 17-3.
The Lady Indians final game of the tournament was against Henrietta’s JV team on Saturday. Nocona was up 5-3 after three innings, but the Lady Bearcats scored 13 runs combined in the fifth and sixth innings to end the game early, winning 17-7.
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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