SPORTS
Nocona basketball teams win at home
The Nocona basketball teams both played and won home games Friday night as the time for district play draws near for both.
The Indians beat Lindsay 47-36 while the Lady Indians won against Aledo 61-56.
The first game back after playing in the Caprock Holiday tournament, the Nocona girl’s team got off to a slow start in the first half. The Lady Cats had a great first quarter scoring 20 points and had a double-digit lead at halftime 34-23.
The defense tightened up in the second half and with it came the offense as the Lady Indians looked to race the ball up the floor. Nocona scored 24 points in the quarter to tie the game up at 47-47 heading into the final quarter.
With the momentum on their side and clutch free throws down the stretch, the Lady Indians would win the close game 61-56. Averee Kleinhans led the team with 34 points while Trystin Fenoglio finished with 13 points.
It was the first game with everyone healthy this year as post player Laramie Hayes played her first game of the season. It allowed the team to see what they could look like at full strength with district starting this week.
The win also was Coach Kyle Spitzer’s 100th career win.
The Nocona boy’s team competed tough against a Knights team.
The biggest scoring bunch came from the two senior starters Carter Horn and Jason Sparkman as both players had 14 points.
Coach Colby Schniederjan was pleased with his team’s overall performance getting the 47-36 win.
The Nocona girl’s team next game is the start of district play. The Lady Indians travel to City View to play at 6:30 p.m. on Jan. 10. The Nocona boy’s its final non-district game at Hirschi at 7 p.m. on Jan. 13.
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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