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Prairie Valley vs Forestburg
The Prairie Valley Bulldogs opened up district play with a win at home against Forestburg on Tuesday.
The Bulldogs won 51-21 against the young Longhorn team.
Prairie Valley used its pressure on defense to consistently create turnovers and scoring opportunities in transition.
The first quarter was slow scoring as the Bulldogs led 13-5, but the lead exploded to 30-11 by halftime.
In the half court, Prairie Valley had success driving and kicking to find great looks all over the floor.
Forestburg did most of its scoring inside with Braxton Osteen and Kyler Willett when they did have success, but it wasn’t often enough to keep up with the Bulldogs.
The Longhorns had to play for some stretches without their point guard as Jesus Sanchez had an ankle injury he suffered in the second quarter.
He was able to come out and play in the second half.
For Prairie Valley, guards Eli Croxton and Tyler Winkler led the team with 15 points each. Coach Seth Stephens was overall pleased with how his team played.
For Forestburg, Willett led the team with nine points while Osteen scored eight points.
Saint Jo
The Saint Jo Panthers lost their opening district game at Midway on Tuesday night.
The Falcons won 65-38 against a Panthers team that has struggled as late with bouts of being able to score.
The two games before the team let close games end up not so close thanks to shooting slumps. Kile Thurman led the team with 21 points, but didn’t get much help.
Coach Lyndon Cook hopes the coming break can fix this recent problem as district play is starting up.
“Another game where it’s been the same old song and dance,” Cook said. “We compete, but just can’t get the necessary stops to take games down to the wire. We turn the ball over instead of being patient and struggle with teams that can out athlete us.”
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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