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1A district cross country results
Bowie’s Pellham Park was the sight for the county’s 1A schools district meet on Wednesday.
With the top three teams or a top 10 finish individually being the key to qualify for the regional meet, Students from Prairie Valley, Bellevue, Saint Jo and Forestburg qualified.
The Lady Bulldogs’ team won the program’s third straight district title, edging out a Slidell team by the barest of margins. With both teams tied after their top five runners places were added up, Prairie Valley’s sixth runner Carmen Gomez was the difference as she finished 19th compared to Slidell’s sixth runner finishing 21st.
The Lady Bulldogs were led by Shelby Roof finishing fourth overall with a time of 14:04. Hailey Winkler and Karagan Ritchie joined her in the top 10 in eighth and ninth place. Molly Gilleland and Emily Carpenter got 11th and 14th to round out the top five runners.
On the boy’s side, Saint Jo finished second overall as a team to Slidell. The Panthers were led by two-time state qualifier Logan Morman, who won the race with a time of 17:53. Kile Thurman and Collin Thomas also finished in the top 10 with third and sixth place finishes. The team was rounded out with Joshua Vogal finishing 13th and Connor Thompson finishing 18th.
Another team qualifying was the Bellevue girl’s team. The Lady Eagles were led by Sky-Lar Embry, who finished second overall with a time of 13:51. Among the top five runners for Bellevue included Austin Ford finishing 12th, Grace Martin 13th, Hailey Hanvey 17th and Cecilie Fjeldborg 26th place.
As far as individuals who qualified, Prairie Valley boy’s had Tyler Winkler finish ninth as he ran 19:29. On the girls side, Forestburg had Constance White finish 10th as her time was 14:50.
The regional meet will be on Oct. 28 at Jesse Owens Memorial Complex in Dallas.
To read the full story and see results for all area high school runners, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.
SPORTS
Bowie Sports Banquet
The Bowie sports banquets was on Monday night. Olivia Gill and Tucker Jones were named Jackrabbit and Lady Rabbit of the year. Pick up the mid-week paper for all of the sports team awards and pictures.
SPORTS
Chisholm Trail Rodeo entertains crowd
The 72nd Chisholm Trail Rodeo was a big success on Friday and Saturday nights at Nocona.
The rodeo had big crowds and saw some good competition from both local and far reaching talent.
Winners in the events included Zach Hibler in bareback riding, Lindsey Muggli in barrel racing, Ashley Goforth in breakaway roping, Leanardo Lima in bull riding, Cody McCartney in calf roping, Thomas Moellering in ranch bronc riding, Wacey Hathcock in saddle bronc riding, Renato Finazzi in steer wrestling, Rowdy Jones and Rance Doyal in team roping.
To see full results and more pictures, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
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Saint Jo pair heading back to state tennis
The regional tennis tournaments were late last week in North Richland Hills and a doubles team is moving on to state.
The Saint Jo girl’s doubles team Kyler Dunn and Taylor Patrick won the 1A region III tournament and will return to state for the second straight year.
The pair rolled through teams from Morgan, Dodd City, Priddy before beating a Graford team in the finals. The pair did not lose a set and only lost five of the 53 games it played, never losing more than one in a set.
The team made it to state last year after finishing second at regionals and won a match at the state meet against a team from Vernon Northside. They then lost to the eventual state champion team from Utopia and finished tied for third place.
They will be the only tennis players from Montague County playing at state this week as others did not have as successful regional tournament.
The Saint Jo teammates and fellow girl’s doubles team Bailie Nobile and Maxey Johnson won their first match against Ector 6-1, 6-4, but fell in their next match against Lometa, 6-1, 6-1.
From Prairie Valley, Case Carpenter was competing in boy’s singles. His first match was a draining two and half hour battle against a player from Strawn Carpenter came through in the three-set battle, winning 6-4, 5-7, 6-4.
Unfortunately, the magic was not there in the second game. Paired against the eventual tournament champion from Gustine, Carpenter lost 6-0, 6-1.
From Gold-Burg, Alyson Rojas and Jimena Garcia competed in girl’s singles. Rojas won her first match against a girl from Avinger 7-6, 6-2. Unfortunately, the next match she lost to a girl from Graford 6-0, 6-0 to end her tournament.
Garcia lost a tough first match against a player from Ector. Both sets could have gone either way with the scores being 6-4, 7-5 to the winner.
The mixed doubles team from Forestburg, Jesse Wadsworth and Alli Cisneros, also did not make it through.
From Nocona, Kaygan Stone was playing in the girl’s singles 2A region II tournament.
Unfortunately, she got paired against the player who would go on to win the tournament in the first round to end her season.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
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