SPORTS
Montague football wins first game; volleyball wins last two games
The Montague junior high football team opened their season on Thursday against Victory Christian in Decatur.
The Eagles were impressive in their first outing, winning by a score of 40-20.
Montague won the toss and chose to kick to start the game. The Patriots put together a nice drive featuring the run and pass and capped it off with a touchdown.
However, the Eagles’ Conley Kleinhans would return the ensuing kickoff 65 yards for a touchdown to even the score, 7-7.
After some back and forth, Victory led at halftime by a score of 20-19.
The Eagles received the ball to start the second half and struck quickly with a 62-yard touchdown run by Kleinhans.
The Eagles never gave back momentum shutting out the Patriots in the second half by a score of 21-0.
Offensively, the Eagles ability to control the clock with the run game, protect the ball (no turnovers for the game), and effectively mix in the pass were key in the win.
The Eagles also had big rushes for 42, 30, 62, 40, and 75 yard touchdowns.
After a shaky start defensively for the Eagles, they were able to flip the switch in the second half, allowing very little yardage and no scores from the Patriot offense.
The Eagles were also able to force four Patriot turnovers.
Notable stats in the win for the Eagles include: Kleinhans with four touchdowns, 250 yards rushing, a 65-yard kick return for a touchdown, one rushing and three passing extra point conversions and had two interceptions.
Jack Contreras had one touchdown, 105 yards rushing, three extra point receptions and two fumble recoveries defensively. Caleb Carlton added 50 yards rushing.
The Eagles will face the Saint Jo Panthers next at 5 p.m. on Sept. 19 at Saint Jo.
The Montague Lady Eagles traveled to Prairie Valley on Sept. 10 for volleyball. Montague won in two sets 25-20, 25-12.
Outstanding performers were Skyler Smith three aces, five kills, five assists; Kaygan Stone five kills and five assists; Emilee Reed three aces, four kills; Railey Martin six aces.
The Lady Eagles hosted Saint Jo on Monday night.
Montague took down the Lady Panthers in two sets, 25-8, 25-10 behind the strong serving of Kaygan Stone.
They didn’t have an answer for her 16 aces for the match. Stone also had four kills with a .67 hitting percentage.
Skyler Smith led in assists with five and also had four kills with a .57 hitting percent. Emilee Reed added four aces while Charli Snow had three aces and four kills.
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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