SPORTS
Lady Indians lose against Rider 66-40
The Nocona Lady Indians faced a tough test on Tuesday at home playing state-ranked 5A Rider.
The bigger Lady Raiders pulled away in the second half on their way to a 66-40 win.
Rider was coming into the game following a first place finish at the Fantasy of Lights Tournament, led by athletic post player Jalynn Bristow who scored a school record 44 points and grabbed 29 rebounds in the title game.
The Lady Indians knew they had to close off the post and make passes to Bristow in the post as hard as possible. A help defender was always near and ready to pounce on either the pass or help contest on the shot.
Early in the game that was enough as the team limited her to nine points while no one else from the Lady Raiders were really looking to score much.
On the other end Nocona players were hesitant to go into the lane against Bristow. Rider was sitting back in a two-three zone and the Lady Indians elected to chuck open 3-pointers in the half court.
Only three went in all game which was more of a problem in the second half.
Nocona had more success scoring by pushing the ball in transition and trying to scramble and get offensive rebounds.
The Lady Raiders led only 22-16 going into halftime.
Early in the third quarter proved to be the end for the Lady Indians. Rider’s Steffanie Mock started taking and making open 3-pointers in bunches. She made four in the quarter and a school record six in the game. This opened things up inside for Bristow, who also started pushing the ball in transition herself for scoring opportunities. She finished with 21 points.
The low scoring game that was favoring Nocona since it was having trouble consistently scoring was now blown wide open.
A double-digit lead that was only growing bigger opened up as Rider scored 29 points in the third quarter. The Lady Raiders led 51-25 heading into the fourth quarter.
Nocona scored its most points in the final period playing to the final whistle. The team stopped being hesitant and attacked the rim both in the half court and in transition, getting to the free throw line 13 times during the quarter after drawing only six attempts in the first three quarters.
It wasn’t enough to make the final score close 66-40, but it was better than it was at certain points.
Stephanie Gutierrez was the only player who finished in double-figures scoring 13 points. Megyn Meekins and Skyler Smith were second scoring eight points each.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekend 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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