SPORTS
Bowie volleyball wins first home game
The Bowie Lady Rabbits played their first home game of the season on Tuesday against Alvord and came away with the win in an up and down performance.
The Lady Rabbits beat the Lady Bulldogs in straight sets, but two of the three sets had lots of highs and lows.
The first set was not going Bowie’s way. Alvord opened up a 9-6 lead that just kept growing and growing. The Lady Bulldogs lead extended to 19-11 at one point and it looked like the Lady Rabbits were just going to concede the set so they could move on.
Any good momentum built by Bowie at the end of the first set could be important so it could at least start off the next set well.
The Lady Rabbits built some good momentum, so good they came all the way back to tie the score at 23-23. Bowie had seven chances at set point as it needed to win by two points, but each time Alvord battled back.
The set kept going despite some confusion it might be capped at 30 points which would have given the Lady Bulldogs the win in their one set point advantage.
Eventually, Bowie won the set 32-30 to take the lead and completing a comeback from an eight point deficit.
The second set again saw the Lady Rabbits fall behind midway through. Alvord had a 17-13 lead that Bowie would battle back from once again, tying the score at 20-20. It was back and forth as the set closed, but again the Lady Rabbits closed strong to steal the set at the end 25-23.
After losing two close sets they were in position to win at the very end, the Lady Bulldogs seemed to have no fight left. Bowie started the third set strong and built a 10-5 lead.
Alvord did cut the lead to 11-9, but that would be as close as the set got. The Lady Rabbits lead just grew after that from 16-9 to eventually 25-15 as they won the set and the match 3-0 with little drama.
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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