SPORTS
Nocona basketball teams win at Holliday
Both of Nocona’s basketball teams picked up huge district wins at Holliday on Friday night.
The Lady Indians won a close game 55-51 to stay undefeated heading into the final week of the first round. The Indians kicked-off district play by beating last year’s district champs in a low scoring, closely contested game pulling out the win 35-33.
The Nocona boy’s team came in as underdogs. The Eagles were the defending district champions. Even though the team graduated many of its starters, Holliday still returned the district’s most valuable player Tucker Strealy.
The first half saw the Indians’ offense struggle, scoring six and seven points in the first two quarters. Holliday’s lead was in the double-digits 24-13 at halftime.
Nocona made some adjustments and had a great third quarter to close the gap. Carter Horn, who drew the assignment of guarding Strealy, scored 11 of his teams 13 points in the quarter to close the Eagles lead to 29-26 heading into the final quarter.
From there it was anyone’s game as every point took tremendous effort and a little bit of luck. The Indians were up 35-33 in the final seconds.
Holliday had the ball with the chance to either tie or take the lead. Nocona poked the ball loose and after a wild scramble took possession of the ball in the final seconds to close the game.
The Lady Indians knew the Lady Eagles would be tough. Holliday is a perennial playoff team from the district that makes teams pay who underestimate them.
“We knew going in that Holliday was going to shoot well in their gym, and they did just that,” Coach Kyle Spitzer said. “They were 50 percent from the field with six 3-pointers in the first half. So we were very lucky to only be down 32-28 at halftime.”
After some adjustments, Nocona’s defense played much better. The Lady Indians were able to gain the lead 44-41 heading into the fourth quarter.
The final quarter was low scoring and back and forth. Nocona put the ball in the hands of its ball handlers and matched everything the Lady Eagles through at them.
Leading scorer Averee Kleinhans scored nine of the teams 11 points in the fourth as the Lady Indians held on to win 55-51.
Both teams will host tough Childress teams earlier in the week before traveling to county rival Bowie to play on Jan. 24. The Lady Indians are scheduled to play at 6 p.m. on while the boy’s game will start when that game ends.
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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