SPORTS
Five athletes qualify for state meet
Athletes from the surrounding areas competed at the regional track meets on Friday and Saturday for a chance to qualify for the state meet in Austin.
When the smoke cleared on Saturday, five athletes in The Bowie News coverage zone qualified for the state meet.
Daniel Mosley and Logan Lawhorn qualified from Bowie, Tyler Richards qualified from Nocona, Zach Bradley qualified from Forestburg and FreeDom Morris qualified from Bellevue.
The athletes from Bowie and Nocona competed at Abilene Christian University. Mosley won the shot put event, throwing 49-10.
Lawhorn had a career best jump at 6-5 in the high jump. It was equal to the top two jumpers, but because they made the jump in less attempts, Lawhorn finished third.
While he missed out on the automatic state qualification from not finishing in the top two, Lawhorn’s jump was the highest of all third place finishers across the state to earn the wild card spot.
Richards barley edged out his competition to finish second in the 400 meter race. His personal best time of 49.66 was only seven hundredths of a second faster than third place.
The 1A schools competed at Whitney High School. Bradley earned his second straight state appearance by winning the regional title in the shot put again with a best throw of 47-9¼. Morris finished second in the high jump with a jump of 4-10 qualifying for the state meet.
A few athletes also earned third place finishes, but were unlucky in not earning the wild card position to qualify for state. Abby Zamzow from Bowie finished third in the 300-meter hurdles and was just nine one hundredths of a second behind second place.
Mark Gill from Bellevue finished third in the high jump with a jump of 5-10. William Winkler from Prairie Valley also finished third despite tying with second place vaulting 11-6. Unfortunately, it took him more attempts to clear the height.
With competition from the best athletes in the region, just making the finals at certain events were accomplishments for some athletes involved. Zamzow and Mosley each earned points for their schools in other events by finishing in the top six. Mosley finished sixth in the discus and Zamzow fifth in the triple jump. Bannon Osteen from Forestburg also scored points by finishing sixth in the discus.
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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