SPORTS
County athletes take part in FCA All-Star games Thursday night
The Fellowship of Christian Athletes had its second area softball and baseball all-star game on Thursday night at Iowa Park.
Seven Montague County athletes who recently graduated took part in the games as a chance to put the jersey on one last time and represent their schools.
In the softball game, Bowie’s battery of Bailey Grant and Carrington Davis were on the red team while Nocona outfielder Gisel Hernandez was on the blue team.
Hernandez and the blue team were able to keep the red team’s bats at bay for most of the game and won easily 9-2. Hernandez drove in a run on a blooper over the second basemen to help get the win.
Grant pitched a little more than two innings for the red team and also one inning at first base.
Davis picked up one hit and got the luxury of running the bases, something she did not get to do playing for the Lady Rabbits too often. She scored the game’s final run and also filled in at first base for the first base when not playing catcher, a position she had little familiarity with.
The baseball game featured pitcher Payton Price and infielder Evan Kennedy from Bowie and outfielders Logan Barnes and Tyler Richards from Nocona. All four played on the blue team, which wound up being the losing side as the red team put together back-to-back seven run innings to win 14-2.
Price came in during the second seven run inning and put out the fire while pitching a scoreless inning afterwards. He later drove in one of the blue team’s only runs. Despite the one sided game, the boys relished getting to play high school baseball one last time.
To read the full story and see photos of all seven athletes, pick up a copy of the weekend 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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