SPORTS
Indians win rematch at Bowie
In a rematch between Bowie and Nocona boy’s basketball teams on Tuesday, a controversial late call seemed to turn the tide.
The Indians avenged their earlier loss to the Jackrabbits, winning 45-38 at Bowie’s court in a similar physical game.
Up until the fourth quarter it had been a back-and-forth affair with neither team establishing any sort of big lead.
With Bowie up 32-30 with 3:36 left in the game, there was a tussle on the ground for a loose ball. The whistle sounded and there was some extra curricular stuff after the play. After some confusion, a foul call and a technical foul were issued against the Jackrabbits.
Because the Indians were already in the bonus, they were awarded four free throws and the ball.
Senior guard Landry McCasland then stepped up to make all four free throws to give Nocona the lead 34-32. After running some clock with the lead, the Jackrabbits were forced to foul. Younger brother Brady McCasland then stepped up and made both of his free throws to give the Indians a 36-32 lead with three minutes to play.
Nocona would go on to make nine of its next 12 free throw attempts in the final minutes to ice the game as Bowie just did not make enough shots down the stretch to come back.
The game was physical and tense throughout. Despite the intentional free throws at the end of the game, free throws were not give out freely for most of the night which allowed both teams defenses to aggressively contest.
This led to the Jackrabbits leading only 6-5 after the first quarter.
The Indians started to try and attack in isolation with both McCasland brothers finding crafty ways to penetrate and get up shots and even drawing some of those elusive free throws. Nocona led 18-14 at halftime.
Bowie made a couple of shots in the third quarter that did not come regularly in the first half. Drew Weber and Cade Thompson each made 3-pointers while combining to score 11 of the team’s 14 points during the quarter.
The Jackrabbits continued to have trouble with anyone with the last name McCasland, as both brothers combined to score nine of the team’s 10 points in the third quarter. The score was tied at 28-28 heading into the fourth quarter.
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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