SPORTS
Lady Indians clinch district title
The Nocona Lady Indians guaranteed at least a share of the district title with their win at home against Holliday on Tuesday.
A good second half garnered the Lady Indians a 21-point win 77-56 after a tight first half, thanks in large part to a record scoring performance from Averee Kleinhans.
Kleinhans’ 46 points broke the Nocona school record of 44 that was set by her grandmother Glenna Clay.
The first game between the two teams the Lady Eagles hurt Nocona with their 3-point shooting. The Lady Indians overcame that in the first half to end up winning a close one 55-51, but Coach Kyle Spitzer came into this game with the plan to not let Holliday shoot from distance.
Nocona started the game scorching offensively. Kleinhans was getting where she wanted to go and her two-back-to-back pull up 3-pointers extended the Lady Indians lead to 14-8 at one point.
The Lady Eagles still made three 3-pointers and were driving hard to the basket as they cut the lead to 19-16 heading into the second quarter.
The fouls had added up in the first quarter which led to many free throws in the second. Holliday was still nipping at Nocona’s heals midway through the quarter down 28-26, but the Lady Indians closed the quarter on a 13-7 run to go up 41-33 at halftime thanks to Kleinhans and Trystin Fenoglio getting to the free throw line and knocking them down.
Despite not allowing 3-pointers in the second quarter, the Lady Eagles were still within range and had enough fire power to come back strong in the second half. Instead, it was Nocona that came out strong.
The Lady Indians held Holliday to 10 points while the offense really clicked, scoring 22 points as Raylee Sparkman and Karlee Brown got in on the scoring. Nocona did a better job keeping the Lady Eagles off the free throw line while Kleinhans continued to get there.
The Lady Indians led by 20 points 63-43 heading into the fourth quarter. It was mostly even the rest of the way as Nocona kept finding its way to the free throw line and knocking them down while Holliday made some close shots at the rim.
The Lady Indians closed the game strong to win 77-56.
Nocona’s final home game and senior night will be at 6 p.m. on Feb. 11 against Bowie.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekend 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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