SPORTS
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.
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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