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, playing on a short rest, held with host Jacksboro for most of the volleyball match Oct. 1, but the Tigerettes pulled away late and defeated the Lady Rabbits 3-1 (26-24, 12-25, 25-14, 22-25).
The match was scheduled for Oct. 2 but was moved. Both teams are now 2-2 in District 6-3A.
Jacksboro got out to a quick lead in game one before Olivia Stewart’s kill and a three-point Olivia Richey serving run put the visitors up 8-7. Junior Abby Reneau broke things open with a six-point string to give Bowie a 15-8 cushion and force Jacksboro into a timeout.
The Tigerettes came back and took an 18-16 lead. KP Rutherford’s kill broke the serve and allowed Molly Enlow to tie the game at 18.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Gold-Burg Football Coach Austin Norman called his Bears’ 35-32 loss to host Perrin a “barn burner”.
It most definitely was as Gold-Burg, now 1-5 for the year gave the 5-1 Pirates everything they wanted for four quarters. Gold-Burg scored on the last play of the first half on a Peyton Epperson run with the two point conversion cutting the deficit to 20-16.
The Bears were their own worst enemy to open the third quarter with face mask and offside penalties moving the Pirates downfield setting up a first-and-goal at the Bear three. Defense by Epperson, Keelyn Case and Barrett Allen and a pair of Perrin penalties helped stop the drive and force a turnover on downs.
Gold-Burg was slapped with an intentional grounding penalty on the first play, giving Perrin a safety and extending the Pirate lead to 22-16. Defense by Epperson and JoJuan Grace after a first down run closed out the third quarter.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Nocona and Prairie Valley cross country teams took part in the Prairie Valley Invitational Sept. 20 while Bowie varsity runners competed in the Lubbock Invitational.
Lubbock
Leading the Rabbits was Kellen Rater who finished 10th among 162 runners with a time of 17:24.50. Finishing behind Rater was Shawn Willett with a time of 19:33.20. Hayden Sutton ran a 20:27.10 followed by Taven Melton in 20:39.20, Coleman Holloway in 20:53.80 and Jaxon Castro with a time of 21:31.60.
Laney Segura led the Lady Rabbits with a time of 14:41.30. She was followed by Kylee Waldrep in 15:56.80, Bella Lozano in 16:04.80, Angeles Alvarez with a time of 16:15.40, AnDee Miller in 16:23.70 and Isabella Caswell in 16:51 flat.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
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