SPORTS
Saint Jo baseball set to play Dodd City
After almost two weeks since its last game, the Saint Jo Panthers baseball team will play Dodd City in the regional quarterfinal round of the playoffs on Friday and Saturday.
The Panthers had a warm up game scheduled for last Friday, but the weather rained out the game and empty fields were scarce.
Despite splitting games against the only other 1A team in its district Perrin-Whitt, Saint Jo won the district title and earned itself a first round bye in the playoffs last week. The Hornets won both of their games against Ector by the scores of 5-0 and 15-2.
The Panthers’ dream season came to an end in the regional semi-finals last year against Dodd City. While both teams have some new players and Coach Derek Schlieve wants to keep the focus on this team, many players were on last year’s team.
“There is definitely an air of familiarity with the matchup, but new guys, new year,” Schlieve said.
The Panthers did not end their season on a hot streak. After beating Chico on April 5, Saint Jo lost its last five games, including the one against the Pirates from Perrin-Whitt.
While some of those games had players missing for outside reasons, it was enough to drop the Panthers out of the top 10 of the Texas High School Baseball Coaches Association poll they had been in for most of the season.
Dodd City is sitting at number four on the latest poll with only four recorded losses on the year. Nobody outside of Saint Jo believes the Panthers have a chance, which is right where Schlieve likes his team to operate.
Saint Jo plays Dodd City at 4 p.m. at Bells on May 10. Game two will be played afterwards. If game three is necessary, it will be played at noon on May 11.
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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