SPORTS
Lady Horns beat Saint Jo
The Forestburg Lady Horns won against rival Saint Jo at home on Tuesday.
The Lady Horns won the low scoring game 34-23.
Forestburg got its offense rolling early, getting the ball inside where Morgan Miller used her size to score despite the Lady Panthers bringing help.
Saint Jo drew a couple of free throw attempts and made one basket, but could not keep up early on.
Miller scored 10 points as the Lady Horns led 14-6 after the first quarter.
The second quarter was more low scoring for both sides. Only one basket had been scored from both teams until the final two minutes.
Shaden Johnson scored another basket for the Lady Panthers to get their total to double-digits, but Forestburg scored five points, including a 3-pointer from Faith Moore, to keep the lead comfortable up 21-10 at halftime.
The Lady Horns tried to shake things up by pressing Saint Jo to start the second half.
The Lady Panthers were ready and quickly forced Forestburg to get out of the defense.
Saint Jo’s defense did another good job on defense in the third quarter, holding the Lady Horns to only four points. On offense, the Lady Panthers started to exploit some of the open spaces in Forestburg’s zone defense and continuously made shots.
Johnson scored five of the team’s nine points to cut the lead to 25-19 heading into the final quarter with some momentum despite trailing.
The Lady Horns started the fourth quarter with Miller sitting out briefly due to a fall in the third quarter where she hurt her knee. While she was only briefly out for two minutes, Moore hit a 3-pointer push the team’s lead up to 28-19.
Saint Jo scored the next two baskets in a minute and a half to cut the lead to 28-23, again with the momentum and 4:40 still to play.
Miller then made a basket and would make a free throw to put Forestburg lead at 31-23 with 3:59 left to play.
The Lady Horns started trying to stall the game out to run the clock out. While the Lady Panthers were able to get the ball back several times, the shots stopped going in as valuable time ticked off the clock.
Forestburg made three free throws down the stretch to get the final score, winning 34-23.
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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