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Nocona
The Nocona Indians season ended on Friday night with a loss against playoff bound City View.
The Mustangs passing attack proved too much for the Indians winning 55-24.
Nocona was able to score some points late in the game to avoid any shutout as Coach Rick Weaver and his team finished strong.
It was a tough season for this young Indians squad that went 1-8. The team forfeited one district game due to COVID-19.
Still, with the uncertainty every program went into the season with, playing nine games is an accomplishment in itself especially as Nocona has seemed to have been hit the hardest in the county when it comes to cases.
“Us getting in nine games when we didn’t know if we would get a season is just a blessing,” Weaver said. “Talked to the kids every week about how this could be our last one. After Holliday when we did miss one that reality set in and the kids had a great attitude and were just very excited to be able to play every week.”
Gold-Burg vs Forestburg
The Gold-Burg Bears spoiled Forestburg’s homecoming in both team’s final games of the season.
The Bears beat the Longhorns 50-0 midway through the third quarter to end their season in an anti-climatic way.
While this game carried playoff aspirations for the winner the previous two seasons, both teams came into the game with the playoff door closed with the district expanding to four teams.
Gold-Burg did pick up a win against Forestburg earlier in the season on Oct. 2, so a grudge match between the teams with pride on the line was motivation enough for both teams playing their final games regardless.
However things went bad for the Longhorns right away with turnovers the Bears directly turned into points. Forestburg’s defense did make one stop when Jeremiah Perez intercepted a tipped pass at the Longhorns goal line, but Gold-Burg’s offense moved the ball at will all night.
The Bear’s Will Hodges found Matthew Fatheree for three touchdown passes. Hodges took an interception back for a score and Fatheree collected one of his own in his final game.
Kani Grace scored two rushing touchdowns and threw a touchdown pass to Kolton Whitaker. Jayon Grace recovered a fumble on the Longhorns opening drive.
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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