SPORTS
Saint Jo baseball wins at Era 11-2
The Saint Jo Panthers won their first game of the season on Tuesday in Era with many players fresh off the basketball court.
The Panthers won in one-sided fashion 11-2 against the Hornets.
It was not a promising start for Saint Jo. Besides Collin Thomas getting on base by getting hit by a pitch and stealing second base, the other three Panthers batters struck out.
On defense, the first two Era batters were walked as it seemed nothing was going right for Saint Jo.
Fortunately, the defense came through with a groundout to third base and then a double play ending the inning before any runs could be scored.
The offense got going for the Panthers in the second inning. Payton Harris drew a one out walk followed by Brice Durham reaching first on an infield single.
The next batter struck out, but not before both base runners stole third and second to put themselves in scoring position. Their teammates came through as Matthew Butler and Tyler Cook drove both of them in on back-to-back singles to give Saint Jo a 2-0 lead.
The Panthers defense allowed one base runner in the second inning on a hit pitch, but got that one back when they caught him trying to steal second base for the third out.
Saint Jo would then score five runs in the third inning. Butler and Jordan Reeves drove in runs with singles while Durham drove in a run on a groundout. Butler and Reeves would then score thanks to opportunistic base running before the third out. The Panthers lead did not allow the Hornets to get on base in the third, up 7-0 heading into the fourth inning.
Saint Jo loaded the bases with Trevor Conner and Reeves singles along with Harris drawing a walk. Unfortunately, the Panthers came away empty handed.
Era was able to get its leadoff batter on base thanks to an error that somehow had the runner settle on second base. The base runner then stole third base which allowed him to score on a passed ball to cut the lead to 7-1 heading into the fifth inning.
Colton Thomas drove in Tyler Cook on a triple to begin the inning. Jace Johnson then drove in Thomas on a fielder’s choice to extend Saint Jo’s lead to 9-1.
A fielding error from the Panthers allowed another run to score from the Hornets, cutting the lead to 9-2 after five innings.
After a scoreless sixth inning, Saint Jo added tow more runs in the final inning. Johnson drove in Thomas on a single. Two batters later Caleb Carlton pinch hit and came through with a single up the middle to drive in Johnson for the Panthers final runs.
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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