SPORTS
Saint Jo beats Prairie Valley
For the third year in a row the Saint Jo Lady Panthers and the Prairie Valley Lady Bulldogs met in the regional quarterfinals.
On Thursday night in Forestburg’s gym, it was the Lady Panthers who came out on top winning 3-1.
While both teams have several new members who were not on the varsity team two years or even last year, there are still several players on both sides who have felt both the burn from losing as well as the triumph in this matchup.
Saint Jo won two years ago and Prairie Valley returned the favor last year.
Despite expanded districts for both teams, the teams seemed destined to meet again for the third straight time to settle things.
The Lady Panthers initially started well in the first set, but the Lady Bulldogs came back to tie things up at 10-10. Both sides early on were scoring heavily thanks to its serving as which led to several fast points won in a row.
As both teams settled down and their serve-receive grew more consistent, the first set stayed close. The score was tied at 20-20 when Prairie Valley went on another run at just the right time. The Lady Bulldogs won five of the next six points to win the first set 25-21.
The second set saw Saint Jo start to pull away early in the set. The Lady Panthers 6-4 lead grew to 14-6.
It looked like Saint Jo was going to get away with an easy win in set two to tie the match up, but Prairie Valley was not going to go away. Down 23-17, the Lady Bulldogs picked up momentum and won four of the next five points to cut into the lead 24-21.
The Lady Panthers were able to win the next point to win the set 25-21 and tie the match 1-1, but learned nothing was going to come easy or comfortable.
The third set saw Prairie Valley start off great, leading 11-4 early on. Saint Jo woke up and won nine of the next 10 points to come back and take the lead 13-12 and control of the set.
The lead gradually grew for the Lady Panthers to 16-14, 19-16 and 22-18. It looked like Saint Jo was going to be able to coast to the finish of the set, but again the Lady Bulldogs were not going to make it that easy.
Prairie Valley won four of the next five points to cut the lead to 23-22. It went into extra points, but the Lady Panthers came out on top to win 26-24 to take the lead in the match.
It looked early on like Saint Jo was going to carry on that positive momentum in the fourth set as it steadily grew a 9-6 lead. The Lady Bulldogs made their play again, winning the next five points to take the lead 11-9.
It would be a back and forth ride for the next 20 points as neither team got more than one or two points ahead of the other. The Lady Panthers led 21-19 as the set came down to the final few points.
It was here where Saint Jo got on another streak at just the right time. With all of the momentum and with victory within reach, the Lady Panthers closed out the set to win 25-19 and the match 3-1.
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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