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Saint Jo baseball goes 2-1-1
The Saint Jo Panthers baseball team played in their first tournament last weekend at Era.
The Panthers went 2-1-1 over the three days as the team completed its first week of the season fresh off of basketball court.
Saint Jo first played Tioga to start the tournament. After a scoreless first two innings, the Panthers scored three runs in the third and fourth inning to take the lead.
The Bulldogs came back with two runs in the fifth inning to cut the lead to one. Saint Jo added one more run to close out the fifth inning up 4-2 before the game was called and the Panthers awarded the win.
The next day Saint Jo first played Sacred Heart. The Panthers started fast and never let up. While the team never had a big inning, Saint Jo did score at least two runs every inning of the game on offense.
The Tigers were limited offensively, finishing with only two hits in the game, but still scored two runs in the final two innings to avoid the shutout. The Panthers won easily 9-2.
Saint Jo then played tournament host Era late Friday evening. The Panthers had beaten the Hornets three days earlier to open the season, but this game would be different.
Saint Jo scored three runs to open the game on the right note.
Unfortunately, Era then put together the type of inning the Panthers hope to forget, scoring six runs and taking a 6-3 lead after the first inning.
Saint Jo answered back in the third inning, scoring three more runs to tie up the game. The Panthers then took the lead in the fourth inning scoring one more run to lead 7-6.
The Hornets then came back to score two runs in what turned out to be the final inning to eek out an 8-7 win.
Saint Jo went into Saturday and the final game not looking great early on against S&S Consolidated.
The Rams scored three runs in the first and third innings to take a 6-0 lead with the game looking to get called.
The Panthers then reeled off six runs in the fourth inning thanks four hits, three free bases and one fielding error to tie the game at 6-6.
S&S Consolidated had one last chance to take the lead in the bottom of the fourth inning.
With two runners on base, pitcher Matthew Butler forced the final batter to fly out to the shortstop to end the game in a tie.
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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