SPORTS
Nocona baseball plays second tournament
The Nocona Indians baseball team traveled to Tulia last weekend to play in their second tournament of the season.
While the two games on Friday saw the Indians come out on the wrong side, Nocona ended the tournament in a positive fashion.
Nocona first played Muleshoe. The Mules struck first going up 7-0 in the first two innings. The Indians cut the lead to 7-2 with an RBI double from Trenten Womack and a hit batter with the bases loaded.
Nocona further cut into the lead as Womack drove in another run on a single. Two wild pitches allowed two more runs to score to make the score 7-5.
Muleshoe answered with three runs in the top of the fourth inning. The Indians Logan Barnes drove in a run on a single to cut the lead to 10-6.
Unfortunately for Nocona, that would be where the score would end after the teams traded a scoreless fifth inning.
The Indians next played Slaton and had another rough start. The Tigers put four runs on Nocona in the first inning.
Blayne Gomez was able to drive in a run to answer for the Indians, but Slaton score four more runs as they were up 8-1 after two innings.
After loading the bases, Jason Sparkman was able to drive two runs home on a double. The Tigers added one run in the bottom of the third to make it 9-3.
Nocona would not give up as they loaded the bases again and was able to get one run across when Hunter Fenoglio hit a single. Unfortunately, the Indians could not stop Slayton, who scored three more runs in the bottom of the fourth before the game was called. Nocona lost 12-4.
The Indians had one more game to play on Saturday against Friona. Again Nocona found themselves down big early in the game as the Chieftans scored three runs in the second and third inning.
The Indians were able to cut into the lead a little bit as Tyler Richards drove in a run to make the score 6-1 heading into the fourth inning.
After a scoreless fourth inning, Nocona further cut into the lead as Barnes drove in a run on a double. Two batters later Womack drove in another run to make it 6-3 heading into the sixth inning.
After another scoreless inning the Indians were down to their final at-bats. They were able to load the bases with no outs when Jacob Morris was able to drive in two runs with a double to cut the lead to within one.
Next batter Gomez was able to drive in the two base runners to give Nocona the walk-off win 7-6 in its final game.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
Bowie softball had a historic season, where the squad made the postseason for the first time since 2019 and knocked a top seed from the playoffs, come to an end April 29.
No-4 ranked Tuscola Jim Ned got out to a quick start and took an 11-1, five inning win in the area round of the Class 3A Division I playoffs. Bowie had its season end at 19-15.
With a large crowd at Weatherford High rooting them on, Bowie took the field looking to knock out another top seed, as they did with Early last week.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Bowie will have two track athletes at the State track and field meet May 14 with top two finishes at the Region 1-3A track meet at Abilene Christian University May 1-2.
Tyler Richey finished 2nd in the pole vault with a 15’ leap. Richey was also 9th in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 15.39. Sophomore Braden Willett was 3rd in the 1,600-meters with a school record best of time of 4:21.93. Willett was 4th in the 3,200-meter run with a time of 9:29.71.
Several other Rabbits and Lady Rabbits competed at the regional meet. The 800-meter relay foursome of Colton Dosch, Richey, Finn Riddle and Jaxon White finished 6th with a time of 1:30.24 while the 1,600-meter relay team of Dosch, Judah Livsey, Riddle and Blaine Leonard finished 8th with a time of 3:30.76.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Saint Jo’s boys and girls track teams took top honors at the Region III-A track meet at Hewitt Midway High School May 1-2 and will send several athletes to the state track and field meet May 16 in Austin.
The boys were led by Damon Byrd who won both the long jump with a 22’9 ¾” leap and triple jump with a 45’ 10 ½”. Byrd also won the 100-meter dash with a time of 1.03 and was a member of the victorious 800-meter relay along with Trent Gaston, Barrett Johnson and Lee Yeley with a time of 1:30.80.
Yeley won the high jump with a 6’ leap. Byrd, Yeley, Dominic Luna and Gaston combined for a 2nd-place finish in the 1,600-meter relay with a time 3:32.81. Gaston was 2nd in the 110-meter hurdles with a tie of 16.09. Johnson was 2nd in the 400-meter dash in 50.75, Ayden Giambruno was 6th in the 3200-meter run in 11:05.24 with Yeley 8th in the 200-meters with a time of 25.61.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
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