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Red River Bass Club fishes in first tournament

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On Sept. 14 the Red River High School Bass Club competed at its first tournament at Lake Ray Roberts.
The club belongs to the Texas High School Bass Association with more than 1,500 teams in nine divisions.
Six teams of local youth were able to fish the highly competitive tournament against 190 other teams from the west division.
Based in Montague County, the club has representation from Bowie, Nocona, Prairie Valley, Henrietta and Wichita Falls.
Eleven of the youth are new this year to the club, with three returning from the Bowie High School Bass Club.
The first tournament turned out to be extremely tough with only a handful of the 198 teams weighing in a full bag of five bass.
A hot, humid day meant fishermen had to catch those fish at the most opportune time.
A majority of the 198 teams were blanked on fish large enough to weigh, but the club did have three of the six teams bring fish across the scales.
One team had a fish lost at the boat before it was landed, and another team had one exit out of the top of the live well. Lots of little bass were caught by all the teams, but not measurable or weighable to be considered a catch. Average fish weighed at the tournament was 2.5 pounds.
The teams consisted of: Baylen Farris and Gunnar Valverde with boat captain Mike Turner weighed in two fish at 5.22 pounds and placed 22nd; Cooper Harris and Finn Stevens with boat captain Brian Clark weighed in one fish at 2.02 pounds and placed 75th; Kooper Hansard and Spencer Uncel with boat captain Jason Uncel weighed in one fish at 1.72 pounds and placed 92nd; Jayden Corr and Heath Bell with boat captain Jeremy Corr; Konner Ritchie and Easton Womack with boat captain Randal Ritchie; Cole Scribner and Shane Chitwood with boat captain John Ballard.

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Nocona new press box put into place

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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.

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Richey repeats at IFYR

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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.

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Youth rodeo awards presented

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The Chisholm Trail Youth Rodeo presented awards for its summer season this week. Tess Egenbacher won the top cowgirl buckle for the 13-18 age division, which was presented to her by Kyle Bishop. (Courtesy photo)

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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