SPORTS
Lady Bulldogs win at home
The Prairie Valley Lady Bulldogs came back from the holiday break with a good win at home against Petrolia on Tuesday.
The Lady Bulldogs had their best offensive performance of the season, winning 46-33 and easily proving too much for the Lady Pirates most of the game.
The first quarter proved slow as Prairie Valley only led 9-7.
The second quarter saw the Lady Bulldogs build their first big lead as their active zone defense led to forced and unforced turnovers from Petrolia. Prairie Valley took advantage with Hailey Winkler and Emily Carpenter combining to score all 13 points for the team. The Lady Bulldogs led 22-9 with two minutes to go before halftime.
The Lady Pirates would not go away though. Petrolia crashed the offensive glass and was able to either score or get to the free throw line enough to close the gap to 22-16 at halftime.
The defense had its stingiest performance in the third quarter while the offense put the game out of reach. Shelby Roof scored five of the team’s 15 points in the quarter, who came out with cramps briefly before going back in and finishing the game.
Prairie Valley led 37-20 heading into the fourth quarter and the game looked wrapped up. As some players started to foul out, like post Taylor Franklin who came off the bench and scored six points and grabbed five rebounds, Petrolia would not go away.
The Lady Pirates again hit the offensive glass and found ways to the free throw line.
Even with the game out of reach, Petrolia made it a grind towards the end for the Lady Bulldogs, who would still go on to win by double digits 46-33.
To read the full story, 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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