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Basketball Roundup
Saint Jo vs Bellevue boys
The Saint Jo Panthers won at Bellevue on Tuesday in a close game.
The Panthers survived a tight game 56-50 ruining.
The Eagles got out to a 12-3 lead in the first quarter, but Saint Jo came back to cut the lead to 14-13 heading into the second quarter.
It was on from there as neither team seemed to open a lead big enough to feel comfortable all night. In the end it was not the Panthers best night overall, but they did enough to get the win late in the game.
Brice Durham led the team with 17 points while making five 3-pointers. Cade Steven was right behind him scoring 16 points while dishing out eight assists. Kile Thurman joined them in double-figures scoring 12 points.
Coach Lyndon Cook hopes this game can be used in a positive manner going forward.
“You always go into games hoping that you’ll take care of business and execute better than what we did, but I think it can serve as a good reminder that we have to be focused and on our game every single night,” Cook said.
Saint Jo is next scheduled to play Prairie Valley at 6 p.m. on Feb. 9 at home. Bellevue is next scheduled to play to play at 6:30 p.m. on Feb. 9 at home against Forestburg.
Bellevue vs Saint Jo girls
The Bellevue Lady Eagles had a good senior night on Tuesday with a win against Saint Jo.
The Lady Eagles won 60-29 against the Lady Panthers as they bounced back from not good recent performances.
Sky-Lar Embry led Bellevue with 25 points while Kaylee Trail scored 12 and Austin Ford scored 10 points.
Coach John McGee thought his team played well overall.
“I believe we played really well and we need to play like that moving forward,” McGee said. “We shot 85% from the free-throw line and I thought that we really good.”
Bellevue is scheduled to play Midway in a play-in game for the second seed. The game is scheduled to start at 6 p.m. on Feb. 8 at Henrietta.
Prairie Valley boys
The Prairie Valley Bulldogs lost to Midway on Tuesday at home.
The Falcons won 70-51 as the Bulldogs had trouble keeping them from grabbing offensive rebounds and slowing down their offense.
Prairie Valley did play well offensively itself, but just not enough to keep up with Midway.
“We played pretty hard and didn’t have a bunch of mistakes so we were happy with that part of the game,” Coach Seth Stephens said. “We also were pretty efficient from the field and usually did a good job of running our offense until we got a good quality shot opportunity, we just didn’t make enough of those to keep up.”
Tyler Winkler led the team with 28 points. Isaac Yeargin was second with eight points. Konner Ritchie led the team with six rebounds and Eli Croxton had five assists to go with six points apiece.
Prairie Valley is next scheduled to play at 6 p.m. on Feb. 9 at Saint Jo.
Gold-Burg vs Forestburg
The Forestburg basketball teams hosted Gold-Burg on Tuesday for senior night.
The Gold-Burg Lady Bears won 63-42 against the Lady Horns.
Kelly Contreras led Gold-Burg with 27 points while Morgan Miller led Forestburg with 22 points.
On the boy’s side, the Bears beat the Longhorns 52-37. Kani Grace and Kolton Whitaker led Gold-Burg with 11 points each. Braxton Osteen led Forestburg with 11.
The girls final game was played Friday. The Bears final home game is schedule for 6 p.m. on Feb. 9 against Slidell. The Longhorns final game of the season is scheduled for 6 p.m. on Feb. 9 at home against Bellevue.
Prairie Valley vs Saint Jo vs Midway girls
The Prairie Valley Lady Bulldogs won a close game against Saint Jo on Monday before losing to Midway the next night.
The Lady Bulldogs beat the Lady Panthers 34-26, but lost to the playoff bound Lady Falcons 58-37.
Hailey Winkler led Prairie Valley with 12 points and six steals against Saint Jo. Winkler again led the team with 12 points the next night against Midway on senior night. Fellow senior Molly Gilleland was second with eight points.
Prairie Valley played its final game of the season on Friday against Gold-Burg.
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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