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Nocona basketball teams win at Holliday

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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.

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Interview with Bowie baseball players Boston Farris (left) and Trae Seigler following their district win against City View on April 8, 2025.
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RJ Walker pitched four perfect innings for Nocona and got his 100th career strike out. (Courtesy photo)

Nocona
The Nocona Indians picked up dominant wins against Chico in their series against the Dragons last week.
The Indians won both games 11-0 by run-rule after five innings to get their first district wins of the season.
Nocona was coming off losing both games against Lindsay the previous week in its first district series and bounced back in a big way.
In the first game at home last week, the Indians scored six runs in the first inning and five in the third inning which proved to be all the offense they needed.
Kutter Cabrera led the team with three RBIs while Miller Jentry was second with two RBIs. The team finished with nine hits and drew eight walks.
On the mound, Walker Murphey pitched a shut out while striking out seven and allowing three hits. Defensively, the team committed one fielding error.
The second game saw Nocona score all of its runs in the first three innings, highlighted by scoring six runs in the second inning.
Murphey hit a three-run home run to lead the team while Brody Langford and Landon Fatheree each had two RBIs.
On the mound RJ Walker had a big day, throwing a perfect four innings which means he did not allow a hit or walk anyone. He also struck out eight batters, which put him over 100 career strikeouts in high school. The defense committed no fielding errors.

Saint Jo
The Saint Jo Panthers lost their series against Bryson last week.
The first game was a close 3-0 loss, but the second game was 11-0, done after four and half innings due to run-rule.
The Panthers were coming off close losses to Perrin-Whitt from the previous week. They were hoping they could turn their fortune around playing another 1A program.
Unfortunately in the first game, the Cowboys got off to a good start, scoring three runs in the first inning, with two coming with two outs due to an error and a dropped third strike.
Saint Jo’s pitching and defense tightened up after that to not allow another run in the final six innings. Unfortunately, the Panthers had only two hits and four base runners all game as they lost the close game 3-0.
Charlie Evans and Rylan Forrest had the only two hits for Saint Jo in the game as the team struck out 18 times. Trent Gaston ended the game allowing three runs (one earned) on six hits while striking out five batters and walking two in six innings of work. The defense committed five fielding errors.
Unfortunately, things did not go as well several days later in game two. Bryson scored three runs in both the first and second innings before scoring five runs in the third inning. Saint Jo was not able to get a hit and drew two walks in the game.
The Panther defense committed six fielding errors which led to only three of the 11 runs given up were earned by the pitching staff who gave up five hits, walked six and hit four batters.

Bellevue
The Bellevue Eagles played Perrin-Whitt last week in a series.
The Pirates won the first game 11-1 by run-rule and the second game score was not updated on Game Changer.
The Eagles were coming off one-sided losses to Bryson the previous week in their first district series and was hoping to play better.
Bellevue did get out to an early lead in the first inning. River Trail hit an RBI single in the top of the first inning to go up 1-0, which proved to be the highlight of the game.
Perrin-Whitt scored three runs in the first inning, one in the second inning, two in the fourth inning and five in the fifth inning to win 11-1.

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