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Lady Indians lose 13-1 to Archer City
The Nocona Lady Indians game at Archer City did not go their way Tuesday.
The Lady Cats won 13-1 after less than four innings in a tough game.
Nocona started the game with Katy Barrett getting on base with a one out single. Unfortunately, she was picked off and a strike out followed for the third out.
Archer City did the majority of the damage in the first inning. Three hits, three walks, one hit batter and one error allowed the Lady Cats to score seven runs before the third out ended the inning. The Lady Indians were in a hole down 7-0.
Nocona answered back a bit in the second inning. Kamryn Weaver and Logan Patterson were each able to get on base thanks to back-to-back errors from the first basemen.
Weaver then stole third base, which put her in position to score on a passed ball to cu the lead to 7-1.
After Paige James drew a walk, unfortunately things ended as Archer City completed a double play for the second and third outs.
The Lady Cats bats picked up right where they left off, scoring four runs on three hits, two walks and two fielding errors. This extended the lead to 11-1 entering the third inning.
Tobi Cable led off for Nocona reached first thanks to another fielding error. Three batters later Barrett drew a walk to put two runners on base, but the Lady Indians were thrown out trying to steal third base for the third out.
Archer City put two runners on base thanks to an error and a walk. Two batters later a triple drove both runners in to up the lead to 13-1.
Nocona was able to get one batter on base in the fourth inning with Laci Stone hitting a single to right field. Unfortunately, that was all the team could muster before the next two batters got out to end the game.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.
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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