SPORTS
Girl lifters compete at Boyd meet
The girl’s powerlifting teams from Bowie and Nocona competed at Boyd in the lifters’ final meet before the regional meet.
The Lady Rabbits finished first as a team as eight of their lifters finished in the top three of their weight classes, with four finishing first.
Jessie Henry, Emma Skinner, Kerstin Kindsfather and Chelsea Price each won their weight classes and set new season best weight totals.
Other Bowie lifters who finished within the top three of their weight classes included Sierra Skinner, Ashley Aguirre, Meridythe Metzler and Katie Boyles.
For the Lady Indians, both of their lifters finished second in their weight class. Natalie Pirkey finished second in the 123 pound weight class lifting 530 total pounds. Kaitlyn Winters finished second in the 165 pound weight class lifting 615 total pounds.
Heading into the regional meet, four lifters are sitting within the top two in their weight class in the standings. Three are in first place, with Sierra Skinner atop the 105 weight class, Kindsfather sitting atop the 165 pound weight class and Price leading the 220 pound weight class. Emma Skinner sits in second place in the 114 pound weight class.
Other lifters that are close are Henry sitting in fourth place in the 97 pound weight class and Boyles in fifth place in the 181 pound weight class.
Nothing is set in stone with powerlifting as lifters attempt to lift more than they ever have almost every time they compete as they get stronger throughout the season. Mistakes can happen at the worst time, especially when the sport is much more technical than it at first appears.
The girls regional powerlifting meet is scheduled for March 7 at Chico. Results are below.
To see the full results, 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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