SPORTS
Nocona girls wrap up undefeated district run; Nocona boys lose to Holliday
The Nocona basketball teams hosted Holliday on Friday with high stakes on the line for both.
The Lady Indians wrapped up their second undefeated district title, winning 59-55 while the Indians lost the rematch 46-31.
The Nocona girls already had the district title guaranteed heading into the game, but a win would make them undefeated. With it being senior night as well, the big morale boost would also be welcomed heading into the playoffs.
The Lady Indians were behind in the first quarter as the Lady Eagles went ahead 17-11.
Nocona got a big boost from senior Averee Kleinhans, who scored 15 of her team’s 19 points in the second quarter to wrestle back control from Holliday. Thanks to a better defensive effort as well, the Lady Indians led 30-27 at halftime.
Things continued similarly for Nocona in the third quarter. Kleinhans scored 12 of her team’s 17 points while the defense kept the Lady Eagles in single-digits.
The Lady Indians seemed to be pulling away as they led by double-digits 47-35 heading into the fourth quarter. Holliday was not about to let them coast easily to victory.
The Lady Eagles got a huge offensive boost from Sarah Cowen, who scored 16 of the team’s 20 points in the fourth quarter. It made the final score closer than it seemed it would be, but Nocona held on for the win.
Nocona’s bi-district game against Eastland is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 11 at Chico.
Nocona boys
The Indians were hoping to continue the good feelings from earlier last week. With their win at rival Bowie making up for the first loss, Nocona was hoping to do similarly against Holliday.
The first half was a low scoring game with the team’s tied at 12-12. The third quarter was going the same way with neither team’s offense finding easy ways to score, when the Eagles had a good run, powered by Connor Cox scoring eight of the team’s 13 points to open the lead up to 25-19.
Despite being down only six heading into the fourth quarter, in a low scoring game that had been back and forth, it felt like much more.
With the lead and the momentum, Holliday did well to keep it. The Indians offensively did all they could to get back in the game.
After drawing only six free throws through the first three quarters, Nocona shot 11 in the fourth quarter, making eight of them.
Unfortunately, not enough other shots went down for the Indians as the Eagles made enough of their 15 free throws in the quarter to secure the win with little drama.
The Indians play their final district game at 7 p.m. on Feb. 12 at home against Jacksboro.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week 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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