SPORTS
Football Roundup
Saint Jo
The Saint Jo Panthers opened up district play on Friday with their final home game of the season.
The Panthers sent the home crowd home happy and early, beating a young Bryson team 62-6 by halftime.
Saint Jo scored on every possession of the game minus the final one where the team took a knee to run out the clock.
Running back Logan Brawner ran for 149 yards and four touchdowns. Jace Johnson ran for two as well and the team pulled out the all the stops to get Dawson Everson in the end zone.
The defense forced three turnovers. Johnathon Diaz scooped up a fumble and returned it for a touchdown. Jordan Reeves and David Moreno both intercepted passes.
Nocona
The Nocona Indians traveled to No. 4 ranked team in the state Holliday on Thursday.
The Eagles showed why as they won 62-14 against the Indians.
Holliday did a lot of the damage in the first quarter, scoring 34 points before taking the gas off the pedal a little bit.
Nocona’s offense tried to simplify its protection in anticipation for the Eagles bringing heavy pressure. Early on Holliday caused trouble, but as the game went on the Indians adjusted.
Nocona was able to cap off drives in the second and fourth quarter with running back Johnny Stone scoring from short yardage. He finished with 44 yards rushing. Quarterback Brady McCasland led the team with 62 yards passing and 47 yards rushing. He found Charlie Fuller four times for 41 yards for the team lead.
Gold-Burg
The Gold-Burg Bears got a bit of redemption one year later as they demolished Trinidad on Thursday.
The Bears opened district play on the road and won 57-7 in a game where there was little doubt who the better team was.
Gold-Burg was coming off a bye-week following a loss to state-ranked Benjamin.
The team also was missing star player Kani Grace who was out with an injury. It did not matter though.
The only concern for Coach Joe Helms came with the game moved to Thursday night due to a shortage of officials that cost his team one day of practice. Once the game started though, his team took care of business.
The Trojans only score came in the second quarter as Coach Joe Helms was already giving his starters drives off.
Forestburg
The Forestburg Longhorns started off district on hard mode Friday night playing district favorite Fannindel.
The Falcons won 60-0 in a game where the little mistakes made by the Longhorns cost them.
A narrowly missed pass here went the other way. Red zone trips that ended with no points. All of it against a good team in Fannindel that made Forestburg pay.
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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