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Nocona
The Nocona Indians had a good tournament at Alvord last weekend despite dealing with injuries.
The Indians went 4-2 overall and losing in the championship game to finish second.
Nocona came into the tournament with both of its experienced post players out with injuries.
Despite that, the team almost pulled off a nearly 20-point fourth quarter comeback in its previous game at Wichita Falls High School.
The Indians started off the tournament playing a tough 1A Midway team. Nocona won, but the game was closer than the team would have liked 57-49.
The next game saw the Indians breeze by Chico 60-18 to finish the first day well.
The second day of the tournament saw Nocona face private school Colleyville Covenant. The Cougars used their size advantage well and gave the Indians their first loss of the tournament 62-51.
Nocona bounced back with a good win against tournament host Alvord 72-56 and a more dominant win in its rematch against Midway 68-44.
This put the Indians in the championship game on Saturday and another shot against Colleyville Covenant. Unfortunately, it did not go any better as the Cougars won the game 62-41.
Saint Jo
The Saint Jo Panthers had a good tournament at Alvord last weekend.
The Panthers went 3-1 overall, with their only loss coming against the eventual tournament champions.
Saint Jo had an action packed first two games of the tournament. The Panthers started against the tournament hosts and squeaked out a win 44-41.
Saint Jo then played a Windthorst team that had just gotten its football players. The Trojans led for most of the game and at one point was up by 10 in the fourth quarter.
The Panthers came back with clutch scoring from Kile Thurman and Brice Durham in the quarter.
Saint Jo had a chance to hold the ball for the final shot with the game tied and Durham delivered with a baseline floater at the buzzer to win the game 50-48 against the 2A team.
“He’s got a knack for late game heroics and it’s always an emotional high to win a game at the buzzer, especially against quality competition like Windthorst,” Coach Lyndon Cooks said.
Saint Jo did not have much trouble against Chico, winning by almost double the Dragons score 53-27.
The Panthers then played private school Colleyville Covenant, a team with much more size all around and especially in the post. The Cougars won the game 71-46 and went on to win the entire tournament.
Durham led the team by averaging 18 points a game while Thurman averaged 16 points a game.
Prairie Valley
The Prairie Valley Bulldogs lost a tough game against on Saturday.
Tioga won 56-36 thanks to a big third quarter that helped the team pull away.
Tioga’s size advantage in the post and shot-making from 3-point range helped them score 25 points in the quarter to make the final score not close.
Tyler Winkler led the team with nine points and three assists. Konner Ritchie, Isaac Yeargin and Dale Neugebauer each had eight points.
Coach Seth Stephens hopes his team uses the disappointing game to kick it into gear with the district schedule coming up soon.
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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