SPORTS
Lady Panthers take on Nocona junior varsity
The Saint Jo Lady Panthers had a challenge playing the Nocona junior varsity squad on Saturday with only five players.
The Lady Indians JV won the low scoring game 24-12 against the smaller and fewer Lady Panthers.
With only five players Saint Jo had to worry about foul trouble and also fatigue. It was a low scoring game overall, but especially in the first half. Nocona knocked in a 3-pointer early, but only made one free throw the rest of the quarter.
Saint Jo had trouble getting the ball in close against the Lady Indians zone defense. Before the first quarter ended, Kayden Skidmore did make a 3-pointer to put the Lady Panthers on the board as they trailed 4-3 heading into the second quarter.
Saint Jo struggled to make the open shots it was able to find against Nocona’s zone. The Lady Indians were able to make two baskets at the rim during the quarter to increase their lead to 8-3 at halftime.
An early 3-point shot to start the third quarter signaled Nocona’s best scoring quarter of the game. A couple of close shots along with some made free throws more than doubled the Lady Indians score from the first half.
The Lady Panthers continued to struggle making shots from the field, but did a better job of getting to the free throw line. Saint Jo attempted six free throws in the quarter, with Kaitline Harris making three of them for the team. Nocona was in command 17-6, but the Lady Panthers were still in range to come back if they could make some shots.
That run never came for Saint Jo. The Lady Indians scored a couple of baskets while making a free throw to take a pretty commanding lead 22-6 with 3:23 left in the game.
Saint Jo’s Shaden Johnson then made back-to-back 3-pointers in the final minutes to double the Lady Panthers score while Nocona made one more basket, making the final score 24-12.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
The Bowie sports banquets was on Monday night. Olivia Gill and Tucker Jones were named Jackrabbit and Lady Rabbit of the year. Pick up the mid-week paper for all of the sports team awards and pictures.
The 72nd Chisholm Trail Rodeo was a big success on Friday and Saturday nights at Nocona.
The rodeo had big crowds and saw some good competition from both local and far reaching talent.
Winners in the events included Zach Hibler in bareback riding, Lindsey Muggli in barrel racing, Ashley Goforth in breakaway roping, Leanardo Lima in bull riding, Cody McCartney in calf roping, Thomas Moellering in ranch bronc riding, Wacey Hathcock in saddle bronc riding, Renato Finazzi in steer wrestling, Rowdy Jones and Rance Doyal in team roping.
To see full results and more pictures, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
The regional tennis tournaments were late last week in North Richland Hills and a doubles team is moving on to state.
The Saint Jo girl’s doubles team Kyler Dunn and Taylor Patrick won the 1A region III tournament and will return to state for the second straight year.
The pair rolled through teams from Morgan, Dodd City, Priddy before beating a Graford team in the finals. The pair did not lose a set and only lost five of the 53 games it played, never losing more than one in a set.
The team made it to state last year after finishing second at regionals and won a match at the state meet against a team from Vernon Northside. They then lost to the eventual state champion team from Utopia and finished tied for third place.
They will be the only tennis players from Montague County playing at state this week as others did not have as successful regional tournament.
The Saint Jo teammates and fellow girl’s doubles team Bailie Nobile and Maxey Johnson won their first match against Ector 6-1, 6-4, but fell in their next match against Lometa, 6-1, 6-1.
From Prairie Valley, Case Carpenter was competing in boy’s singles. His first match was a draining two and half hour battle against a player from Strawn Carpenter came through in the three-set battle, winning 6-4, 5-7, 6-4.
Unfortunately, the magic was not there in the second game. Paired against the eventual tournament champion from Gustine, Carpenter lost 6-0, 6-1.
From Gold-Burg, Alyson Rojas and Jimena Garcia competed in girl’s singles. Rojas won her first match against a girl from Avinger 7-6, 6-2. Unfortunately, the next match she lost to a girl from Graford 6-0, 6-0 to end her tournament.
Garcia lost a tough first match against a player from Ector. Both sets could have gone either way with the scores being 6-4, 7-5 to the winner.
The mixed doubles team from Forestburg, Jesse Wadsworth and Alli Cisneros, also did not make it through.
From Nocona, Kaygan Stone was playing in the girl’s singles 2A region II tournament.
Unfortunately, she got paired against the player who would go on to win the tournament in the first round to end her season.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
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