SPORTS
Crabb departs from Bowie
The Bowie girl’s basketball team will have a new person stalking the sideline next year and leading practices.
Coach Joe Crabb, who has served as the program’s head coach the past two years, took the job at Stamford to be the girl’s basketball coach and be the girl’s coordinator.
The decision to leave was a tough one for Crabb.
“They contacted me, I wasn’t looking and it was a great opportunity,” Crabb said. “They have a great program and I’ll be the girl’s coordinator as well as basketball coach. The softball team just won the state title the other night. We have friends in that area from when we were in Garden City.”
Crabb came to Bowie after 20-plus years of experience working at 1A programs like Strawn and Garden City. He had some adjustments to make working in a bigger school district, but ultimately enjoyed the experience.
“It was a challenge, but after the initial period of getting used to more kids in the school and in the program, I got used to it thanks to the help I had from Coach (Jaimie) Hickey and all she did for me,” Crabb said.
On the basketball court his teams featured mostly upperclassmen who bought into his aggressive, trapping style defenses that forced turnovers in bunches.
While the district title eluded the program with rival Nocona having its golden age, that did not deter the program from making some serious noise in the playoffs.
The 2019-2020 team went into the playoffs as a third seed and upset a talented young Peaster team, completed a last minute comeback against Cisco and gave second ranked Jim Ned a run for their money in the regional quarterfinals.
This year’s team had a similar run after finishing third in the district, upsetting Brock in the bi-district in dramatic fashion, handling Merkel before falling to state power Jim Ned once again in the regional quarterfinals.
Despite the program losing four starters and returning only four varsity players Crabb was excited about the future of the program which is what made the decision to leave so hard.
“I have mixed emotions about leaving,” Crabb said. “I know we have some people graduating, but I liked the kids we had coming back. Loved the young kids I got to work with and the junior high kids this year. I am excited about the future here too, but it was just a great opportunity there.”
To read the full story pick up a copy of the weekend 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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