SPORTS
Lady Indians win first two games
The Nocona Lady Indians kicked off their season with two wins last week.
The Lady Indians picked up one-sided wins against Springtown, 64-45, and against Vernon in their home opener 78-55.
Besides a little bit of a slow start against the Lady Porcupines, neither game saw Nocona trail or sweat too much.
Returning all-state player and last years’ area’s leading scorer Averee Kleinhans is back for her junior campaign and led the Lady Indians in both games with 16 and 25 points. Her cousin and senior point guard Trystin Fenoglio also put up double figures in both games with 14 and 13 points, but this year Coach Kyle Spitzer hopes is more than just a retread of last year’s success.
Gone are tough defenders Brooke O’Neal and Rachel Patrick. Last year starting post player Laramie Hayes is out for the season with an injury she suffered during volleyball. Valuable bench player and potential starter Chloe Daughtry hopes to be ready to play sooner rather than later, but will not be rushed back.
While last year’s team accomplished a lot of things a Nocona team had not done in awhile with a district title and run in the playoffs that ended in the regional quarterfinals, Spitzer wants this year’s team to be judged for this season.
“We had a lot of things go our way last year,” Spitzer said. “We won a lot of close games and had some balls bounce our way at the end of games. Some people may say if we don’t win as many games as we did last year that we are not as good, but I want this year’s team to be measured by what they do and not what last year’s team did.”
Last year’s district race was tight with Childress and the Lady Indians splitting their games. A Kleinhans buzzer-beater at home gave Nocona its win last year and the Lady Tigers return big post presence Grace Foster.
Within Montague County, an experienced Bowie team returns the majority of last year’s players that took everything the Lady Indians could throw at them to win both games.
A coaching change and revenge on the mind could be the difference for that team looking to take the crown from its rivals.
Holliday is always a program to respect and is never an easy out in any sport. They were the odd playoff team out and will be trying to make noise in a tough district.
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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