SPORTS
Bowie, Nocona boys basketball all-district teams released
The Bowie and Nocona boy’s basketball team all-district selections have been released.
The Jackrabbits and Indians had a few players named to some of the teams and one given an individual honor.
Bowie’s Brody Armstrong was named the district’s newcomer of the year. The sophomore provided a scoring spark off the bench for the Jackrabbits during most the season until he worked himself into the starting lineup to end the year.
First team all-district selections went to Bowie’s Cade Thompson and Nocona’s Landry McCasland.
Both led their teams in scoring most nights from the guard position. Thompson used his quickness and shot making to score in bunches in short time while McCasland used his craft and toughness to get to the rim at will.
The Indians had two more of their guards Adam Meekins and Lyndon Fenoglio named to the district’s second team. Fenoglio provided another dynamic ball hander for Nocona while Meekins shooting from 3-point range was a big weapon for the team.
Bowie named starters Drew Weber and A.J. Whatley to its honorable mention team. Weber’s length in the post and shooting from outside was a valuable tool for the Jackrabbits. The lightning quick Whatley started at point guard and proved tough to contain for opponents.
The Indians named post players Sam Davis and Ryder Oswald along with wing Brady McCasland to their honorable mention team.
Davis provided good rim protection and some shooting touch from outside along with Oswald who formed a two towers starting lineup for Nocona for most of district.
When the team started to go small later in the season McCasland got the nod to start as another player who could score from the perimeter driving to the rim.
Bowie had seven players named academic all-district that included Drew Weber, Bayler Swint, Cade Thompson, Logan Hutson, Riley Blackburn, Ryder Richey and Brae Ogle.
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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