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Nocona teams play at Henrietta

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4 years ago

02/05/2020

The Nocona basketball teams had drastically different types of games on Friday as they traveled to Henrietta.
The Lady Indians won a one-sided game 64-32 while the Indians lost another heartbreaker 43-42.
The Nocona girl’s basketball team came in confident, having beaten the Lady Cats by more than 30 points in the first matchup and sitting atop the district standings undefeated.
The Lady Indians led 13-6 after the first quarter, but let Henrietta hang around in the second quarter.
“We did not start the game with the sense of urgency we needed too, which led to Henrietta having a big second quarter,” Coach Kyle Spitzer said.
The Lady Cats scored 16 points in the quarter and trailed only 30-22 heading into halftime.
Nocona turned up the defensive intensity in the second half. Henrietta only scored 10 points combined in the second half while the Lady Indians continto score in bunches as they pulled away in the second half.
Averee Kleinhans led the team with 33 points while Karlee Brown also scored in double-digits with 10 points. The team shot well as Nocona made seven 3-pointers.
The Nocona boy’s started the game well, but the Bearcats took a 22-21 lead at halftime. The Indians played good in the third quarter and led 34-27 heading into the fourth quarter. Unfortunately, Henrietta was able to make some things happen, enough to pull out the one point win 44-43.
The loss is the second straight for Nocona by one point. Jason Sparkman led the team with 15 points while Cesar Gutierrez joined him in double figures with 11 points.
Only Childress got through unscathed as every other team has beaten up on the other with no rhyme or reason to the outcome. Nocona is still in a good spot, but is this close from being in second place with a 4-1 record.
Nothing to do now but keep moving forward as the Indians have the ability to play with and beat any team in district. Nocona travels to Childress to play at 7:15 p.m. on Feb. 7.

To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.

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Nocona new press box put into place

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2 days ago

07/20/2024

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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.

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Richey repeats at IFYR

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2 days ago

07/20/2024

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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.

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Youth rodeo awards presented

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2 days ago

07/20/2024

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The Chisholm Trail Youth Rodeo presented awards for its summer season this week. Tess Egenbacher won the top cowgirl buckle for the 13-18 age division, which was presented to her by Kyle Bishop. (Courtesy photo)

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.