SPORTS
Nocona baseball wins 8-3
Some big late innings led to the Nocona Indians first district win on Tuesday as they hosted City View.
The Indians won 8-3, with seven runs coming in the final two innings from Nocona.
The Mustangs were able to get two runners on base in the first inning with a single and a walk with two outs. Pitcher Logan Barnes was able to strike out the next batter for the third out.
The Indians had their chance to score in the first as well with a single from Barnes and a drawn walk with one out. Nothing came of it until their next time up to bat.
Tyler Richards led off with a walk. Two batters later, John Womack doubled to center field. It was enough for the speedy Richards to score from first to give Nocona a 1-0 lead.
That proved to be enough to hold for an inning as both teams struck out the sides in the third inning and prevented any base runners.
In the fourth inning City View put together three hits and a walk that scored three runs to go up 3-1. Duece Glasker singled with one out to try and get something going for the Indians, but they could not as they still trailed heading into the fifth inning.
Richards came in to pitch for Nocona. It did not start well as four straight balls walked the leadoff batter. Fortunately, he was able to retire the next three batters to strand the runner at second base.
Nocona was able to load the bases with a walk, a single from Barnes and hit batter with no outs. A single from Jason Sparkman singled to score two runs and tie the game 3-3 heading into the sixth inning.
After not giving up any runners on the mound, the Indians offense exploded. After loading the bases again to start the inning, Barnes hit a triple to left field to clear the bases and score three runs. Two batters later Treneten Womack drove him in with a single.
With the bases loaded again, Glasker pulled a sacrifice bunt to score one more run before Nocona was called for the third out with the next batter flying out to right field. By then, the Indians were up 8-3.
Sparkman came in the final inning to get the save. He was able to strike out the side to end the game and secure Nocona’s first district win.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.
The Bowie sports banquets was on Monday night. Olivia Gill and Tucker Jones were named Jackrabbit and Lady Rabbit of the year. Pick up the mid-week paper for all of the sports team awards and pictures.
The 72nd Chisholm Trail Rodeo was a big success on Friday and Saturday nights at Nocona.
The rodeo had big crowds and saw some good competition from both local and far reaching talent.
Winners in the events included Zach Hibler in bareback riding, Lindsey Muggli in barrel racing, Ashley Goforth in breakaway roping, Leanardo Lima in bull riding, Cody McCartney in calf roping, Thomas Moellering in ranch bronc riding, Wacey Hathcock in saddle bronc riding, Renato Finazzi in steer wrestling, Rowdy Jones and Rance Doyal in team roping.
To see full results and more pictures, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
The regional tennis tournaments were late last week in North Richland Hills and a doubles team is moving on to state.
The Saint Jo girl’s doubles team Kyler Dunn and Taylor Patrick won the 1A region III tournament and will return to state for the second straight year.
The pair rolled through teams from Morgan, Dodd City, Priddy before beating a Graford team in the finals. The pair did not lose a set and only lost five of the 53 games it played, never losing more than one in a set.
The team made it to state last year after finishing second at regionals and won a match at the state meet against a team from Vernon Northside. They then lost to the eventual state champion team from Utopia and finished tied for third place.
They will be the only tennis players from Montague County playing at state this week as others did not have as successful regional tournament.
The Saint Jo teammates and fellow girl’s doubles team Bailie Nobile and Maxey Johnson won their first match against Ector 6-1, 6-4, but fell in their next match against Lometa, 6-1, 6-1.
From Prairie Valley, Case Carpenter was competing in boy’s singles. His first match was a draining two and half hour battle against a player from Strawn Carpenter came through in the three-set battle, winning 6-4, 5-7, 6-4.
Unfortunately, the magic was not there in the second game. Paired against the eventual tournament champion from Gustine, Carpenter lost 6-0, 6-1.
From Gold-Burg, Alyson Rojas and Jimena Garcia competed in girl’s singles. Rojas won her first match against a girl from Avinger 7-6, 6-2. Unfortunately, the next match she lost to a girl from Graford 6-0, 6-0 to end her tournament.
Garcia lost a tough first match against a player from Ector. Both sets could have gone either way with the scores being 6-4, 7-5 to the winner.
The mixed doubles team from Forestburg, Jesse Wadsworth and Alli Cisneros, also did not make it through.
From Nocona, Kaygan Stone was playing in the girl’s singles 2A region II tournament.
Unfortunately, she got paired against the player who would go on to win the tournament in the first round to end her season.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
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