SPORTS
Nocona girls open district with win at City View
The Nocona Lady Indians started off district play on the right foot Friday as they traveled to City View.
The Lady Indians easily ran through and by an overmatched Lady Mustang team to win 78-37.
Nocona got off to a fast start in the first quarter as it looked to push the ball. Averee Kleinhans made a couple 3-pointers and got the free throw line. She scored 17 of the teams 27 points in the quarter. The Lady Indians led 27-5 heading into the second quarter.
A lot of the bench started to get emptied in the quarter as the team was still successful scoring the ball. This did allow City View to almost match the scoring output in the quarter though, but Nocona was not worried as the lead was still large at 46-22 at halftime.
The Lady Indians defense then shut down the Lady Mustangs in the third quarter, allowing only two points to be scored. On offense, post player Karlee Brown got fed the ball a lot as she scored 19 of the teams 26 points in the quarter.
After this effort the team was able to coast through the fourth quarter towards a win, 78-37.
Brown led the team with 23 points. Kleinhans, Raylee Sparkman and Trystin Fenoglio also scored in double figures finishing with 19, 11 and 10 points.
Nocona’s first challenge in district should be later this week against Holliday, an expected playoff team. The Lady Indians will travel there to play at 6 p.m. on Jan. 17.
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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