SPORTS
Bowie to match up with Peaster
The Bowie Jackrabbits face a tall task in their bi-district playoff game on Saturday.
The Jackrabbits are matched up to play Peaster, a team that is rated the third best in the state in the Texas Association of Basketball Coaches’ poll.
The Greyhounds are coming off a narrow loss to the second rated team in the state, Brock, just missing out on a district title which is why a third seed like Bowie is playing such a highly rated team in the bi-district round.
Peaster plays a perimeter oriented game on both sides of the ball. While the Greyhounds lack a premier post presence and elite height, they start five senior players who are skilled shooting and driving to the basket. This makes it hard to lock in on any one player since all can hurt defenses.
Peaster likes to play fast on offense and shoots a lot of 3-pointers. Despite not having elite size, the Greyhounds do have some long athletes who are good at getting offensive rebounds off the long types of bounces that can come from 3-point attempts.
To make up for a lack of height on defense, Peaster employs a full-court press. The team is known to take a lot of chances on defense to turn mistakes in the backcourt into quick scores.
Along with everything else, this Greyhounds’ team has experience. Peaster was one of those teams that made it to the state tournament last year before COVID-19 canceled the event.
Many of their players were on that team and see this game as the first step back towards redemption from last year. The Greyhounds also will be coming in with something to prove, fresh off a loss against rival Brock for the district title.
The game is scheduled for noon on Feb. 20 at Chico.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of 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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