SPORTS
Nocona cross country teams run well
The Nocona cross country teams ran at a wet and messy Alvord meet on Wednesday where both teams saw continued improvement.
The Lady Indians team took home another overall first place finish while the Indians team finished a solid third place.
The Nocona girl’s team was led by Allie Brown, who won her first high school race with a time of 13:06.
“Allie Brown stepped up big time, winning the race by a large margin (40 seconds),” Coach Kyle Spitzer said.
The Lady Indians top five runners all finished in the top 20 including Raylee Sparkman finishing third, Kylie Rose finishing fifth, Jayce Rose finishing 12th and Madilyn Ferguson finishing 20th.
Spitzer was proud of how his team ran overall despite not the best conditions.
Besides Brown’s performance, Jayce Rose’s jump to the fourth finisher along with a new personal best has him excited as the team is headed in the right direction.
The Nocona boy’s team saw Hank Ulbig finish in eighth place with a time of 19:29.
The next four runners all finished one after the other in the standings with Alex Stephens, Frank Espinoza, Adam Meekins and Noe Estrada placing 13-16.
Coach Colby Schniederjan was pleased with how his teams ran overall, but knows there is more work ahead of this team if the Indians want to be shooting on all cylinders at the district meet at the end of October and make it back to the regional meet.
“My two, three and four runners had their most complete race of the season and we as a whole did a good job of pacing with two good teams (Paradise and Alvord) who ended up beating us,” Schniederjan said.
The Nocona cross country teams are next scheduled to run at Brock on Sept. 30.
To see all of the Nocona runners results, 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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