SPORTS
Bowie boy’s win district title
The district track meet wrapped up Thursday night at City View for both Bowie and Nocona teams.
The Bowie boy’s team repeated as overall team district champions for the second straight year despite some new faces in the district.
The Jackrabbits went into the final relay race with the title wrapped up and won by 12 points to district newcomer Childress thanks to a big first day in field events.
District champions included: Alex Shelton winning the 3200 and 1600 races; Joey Crawford winning the pole vault; A.J. Craddock winning the 110-meter hurdles; Logan Lawhorn winning the high jump and Daniel Mosley winning the shot put.
All of those athletes and some others also earned valuable points in many other events.
Up big after day one of field events, Coach Justin Prescott credits Childress cutting the lead close.
“We came out 40 points up and usually with a 40 point lead you feel secure, but they kept fighting back, fighting back until our guys just gutted it out,” Prescott said.
The Lady Rabbits came up a painful half point short of tying for the district lead with the district champions from Holliday. Bowie had the lead heading into the final relay and needed to finish at least one space behind the Lady Eagles to hold on to the win. Unfortunately, the Lady Cats from Childress finished in front of Bowie and a tie on a field event on day one ended up costing the Lady Rabbits winning back-to-back district titles like the boy’s team.
District champions for Bowie included: Abby Zamzow winning both the hurdle races and both the long and triple jumps; Jayci Logan winning the both the 100 and 200 meter races and Hope Howard winning the shot put. The 4×100 meter relay team of Zamzow, Logan, Brysen Richey and Landra Parr also won as well.
The teams from Nocona had trouble overall with both finishing sixth. However a couple athletes won their events and many more qualified for area. Tyler Richards and Kylie Rose each won the 400 meter race.
Top four finishers in each event qualify for the area meet.
To see the full list of results for athletes who finished in the top six, 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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