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Nocona softball plays tournament
The Nocona Lady Indians softball team traveled to Jacksboro to play in its first tournament of the season.
With their first time playing big competition over the course of three days, the Lady Indians struggled a bit going 1-4.
Nocona first played Paradise on Thursday. The Lady Panthers took it to the Lady Indians getting up 9-0 in two innings before the game was called early. A highlight included Kycelynn Contreras hitting a double in her only at bat.
Not long after that in the same afternoon Nocona had to turn around and Northside.
The Lady Indians fell behind as Northside scored two runs in the first inning. Nocona cut the lead to 2-1 in the third inning as Tobie Cable drove in Laney Yates with a single.
Unfortunately, Northside answered with its own run to go up 3-1 and the game was called after the inning.
Friday proved to be a better day for the Lady Indians. They first played Lake Worth in the morning and started off great.
Nocona scored five runs to lead off the game. The Lady Bullfrogs came back in the second and cut the lead to 5-4.
The Indians answered in the third inning, going on another scoring tear and scoring five runs to go back up big 10-4.
Lake Worth scored one run in response, but that was all. The game was game was called after the third inning as Nocona won its first game of the tournament 10-5.
A highlight included Jessica Dingler driving in four runs.
The Lady Indians next played Muenster. The Lady Hornets started strong scoring three runs in the first inning. Nocona got out of the inning with the lead, scoring five runs in response to take a 5-3 lead.
Muenster responded in the second inning scoring three more runs to take a 6-5 lead. Unfortunately, the Lady Indians could not score the next two innings. The game was called after three innings and Nocona lost the close game.
A highlight including Katy Barrett driving in a run as most of the Lady Indians’ runs came on the base paths.
Nocona ended the tournament on Saturday against Mineral Wells. The Lady Rams took a scored one run to start the game, but the Lady Indians responded with two runs to take a 2-1 lead.
Mineral Wells scored four runs in the second to take back the lead, but Nocona cut the lead to one run 5-4 heading into the third inning. The Lady Rams scored six runs the next two innings while the Lady Indians failed to score and the game was called after four innings, Nocona losing 11-4.
Highlights included Dingler driving in two runs on a double and Cable driving in a run with a triple.
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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