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Basketball Roundup
Saint Jo vs Prairie Valley boys
The Saint Jo Panthers won at Prairie Valley on Thursday in a game that had been postponed.
The Panthers won 65-45 against the Bulldogs, using a good first quarter to get out into the lead.
Saint Jo was dared to shoot from outside in the half court and Kile Thurman stepped up to make three in the first quarter. The Panthers led 16-7 after the first quarter.
The Bulldogs bounced back and was hanging around trailing only 26-19 midway through the second quarter, making three 3-pointers and getting to the free throw line.
Unfortunately for Prairie Valley, Saint Jo finished the quarter on a 10-1 run to go up 36-20 at halftime.
The Panthers defense then shut down the Bulldogs in the third quarter, holding them to only three points. This sealed Prairie Valley’s fate, despite the Bulldogs more than doubling their three quarter total in the fourth quarter.
Thurman led Saint Jo with 26 points and five 3-pointers. Tyler Cook joined him in double figures with 12 points while grabbing nine rebounds.
Coach Lydon Cook did not think his team defended well in the first half, but made up for it with the third quarter.
“All wins count the same at this time of year so as long as we can just keep this thing rolling along I don’t have any complaints, just minor stuff that we’ll work on for the last two weeks of the season gearing up for the playoffs,” Cook said.
For Prairie Valley Tyler Winkler led the team with 18 points and four rebounds. Isaac Yeargin scored 17 points while Konner Ritchie led the team with five assists.
Coach Seth Stephens thought his team played well and stuck to the game plan, despite Saint Jo making them pay with its outside shooting in the first half.
“Other than that third quarter I was pretty happy with our offense, and defensively we weren’t perfect but we played hard,” Stephens said. “Again, credit to Saint Jo for making some great plays offensively.”
The Bulldogs week was not done though. On Friday, Prairie Valley traveled to Slidell to take on the top rated team in the state.
It did not go well for the Bulldogs. The Greyhounds won 87-32, with the only bright side being that Slidell scored less than the first game when it scored 94.
Winkler and Richie both led the team with nine points apiece, with Winkler dishing three assists and Ritchie grabbing five rebounds.
Prairie Valley are next scheduled to play at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 5 at Gold-Burg. Saint Jo is next scheduled to play Forestburg at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 5 at home.
Bellevue vs Gold-Burg girls
The Gold-Burg Lady Bears lost at home to Bellevue on Friday.
The Lady Eagles won 75-48 thanks to a great first half.
Bellevue scored 27 points in the first quarter and 19 in the second, which was just too much for the Lady Bears to keep pace with. The Lady Eagles led 46-25 at halftime.
Gold-Burg played better in the second half, forcing turnovers and playing hard. It proved to be enough to not let Bellevue’s lead grow too much as the Lady Eagles won.
Sky-Lar Embry led Bellevue with 40 points while Austin Ford added 20 points.
Coach John McGee was not pleased with how his team played overall despite the win.
“I keep waiting for us to get off of this rollercoaster and have games that are solid on both sides of the ball,” McGee said. “However, I’m still proud of my girls and their effort and continued hard work.”
Kelly Contreras led the Lady Bears with 23 points while Taylor Lyons was second with 11 points.
Coach Cheryl Cromleigh was proud of how her girls played hard against the tough Lady Eagles, playing much better as the game went along.
Bellevue has no more district games scheduled. The Lady Eagles are a playoff team, with the bi-district window being Feb. 11-13. Look for playoff information on the Bowie News social media pages when it becomes available.
Gold-Burg is scheduled to play its final game at 6 p.m. on Feb. 5 at home against Prairie Valley.
Forestburg boys
The Forestburg Longhorns lost at Midway on Friday.
The Falcons won 64-27 against the young Longhorn team.
Hayden Berry led the team with 10 points while Braxton Osteen was second with eight points.
Forestburg is next scheduled to play at Saint Jo at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 5.
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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