SPORTS
Basketball Roundup
Saint Jo boys
The Saint Jo Panthers hosted Midway on Friday to wrap up the first round of district play on a good note.
The Panthers won thanks to shut down defense in the first half, surviving a strong comeback attempt by the Falcons to win 58-47.
“It was the classic tale of two halves game,” Coach Lyndon Cook said. “In the first half we jumped on them with great execution and focus on defense and used that to spark our offense in probably our best half of basketball so far this year. Then, the second half they came out shooting the ball very well and we had to re-up our intensity to fight off their comeback. They cut it as close as nine a few times, but we always had somebody ready to step up and keep things from getting too close.”
The senior duo of Connor Thompson and Logan Morman scored 17 and 16 points to lead the team. Logan Brawner led the team with 10 rebounds to go along with eight points.
The win improves Saint Jo’s record to 5-1 after the first round of district.
With the only loss coming against state-ranked and undefeated Slidell, the Panthers are sitting good in the standings for the second seed.
The Panthers next host Gold-Burg at 7 p.m. on Feb. 4.
Prairie Valley
The Prairie Valley basketball teams hosted state-ranked and undefeated Slidell on Friday.
It would be no night of upsets for the Bulldogs and Lady Bulldogs as the Greyhounds won 71-39 and the Lady Greyhounds won 79-38.
The Prairie Valley girl’s team had to struggle to break Slidell’s press all of the first half. This allowed the Lady Greyhounds to build a big lead until they backed off in the second half.
On the positive side, Coach Jeannie Carpenter felt her team rebounded the ball well and 38 points against a team like Slidell is good news as the Lady Bulldogs have struggled to score even in games they have won.
With a playoff spot still open, Prairie Valley hopes to make it in as either one of the third or fourth seeds.
Things were not much different for the Bulldogs. The Greyhounds press kept Prairie Valley from doing what they wanted to do while Slidell’s athleticism allowed them to get to the rim at will.
Nicholas Bell and Tyler Reid each scored 10 points to lead the team. With the Greyhounds giving every team in the district this type of spanking, Coach Seth Stephens hopes he and the team can look at it as a learning experience that will serve the team in the second round of district.
Both Prairie Valley teams next host Midway on Jan. 31. The Lady Bulldogs game is scheduled to start at 6 p.m. The boy’s game will follow.
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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