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Nocona baseball falls to Holliday
The Nocona baseball team felt the full force of state-ranked Holliday on Friday.
The Eagles won 21-0 thanks mostly to a third inning the Indians can only hope to forget.
Nocona had trouble in the first inning getting much contact on Holliday’s pitches. All three batters struck out.
The Indians looked to start the game well on defense as the first two batters were retired with little drama. Then the Eagles’ power hitter hit a solo home run to score the games first run.
A drawn walk followed and it looked like it might snowball into a two out rally. Fortunately, pitcher Wesley Murphey forced a ground out before things got out of hand.
Murphey followed it up with his bat in the second inning as he led off with a single.
Unfortunately, he would be picked off trying to steal second base before he could threaten the defense. The next two batters were retired with a groundout and a strike out.
Holliday would score four runs next to extend its lead to 5-0. The Eagles had two base hits while taking advantage of two fielding errors and one hit batter.
Nocona hoped it could respond in the third inning, but its batters continued to have trouble making much contact as all three struck out.
The third inning on defense for the Indians became one long, bad nightmare that never got better.
The Eagles scored 15 runs in the inning before the third out to make the lead 21-0. Holliday piled on 11 hits during the inning, but also got help with five free bases given up and three fielding errors.
Nocona only hoped it could salvage any good points with the game essentially over.
Trey Pepper got on base by getting hit by a pitch. A batter later, Murphey drew a walk to put two base runners on with two outs. Unfortunately, the next batter flew out to center field.
The Eagles looked like they might add more runs as they loaded the bases up with two drawn walks and a fielding error. Thankfully, the Indians Ty Presley struck out the next batter to avoid any more runs.
Nocona would need to score 12 runs or more to avoid getting run ruled. Vinit Patel was able to get on base to lead off the inning thanks to a fielding error from Holliday.
A ground out advanced him to second base and a strike out put two outs on the board. Miguel Olivares then drew a walk to put two runners on base, but that was followed with a strike out to end the game.
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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