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Girls Roundup
Nocona
The Nocona Lady Indians stayed undefeated in district play while dominating at Jacksboro on Friday night.
The Lady Indians won with little trouble 55-28 against the Lady Tigers.
Nocona came into the game confident with a 14-point win against Jacksboro the first time around.
The Lady Indians played like it, starting the game by building a 16-5 lead in the first quarter. It was thanks to Nocona’s defense that it never got much better for the Lady Tigers.
The Lady Indians limited Jacksboro to seven points or less in each of the next two quarters while never slowing down on offense as their lead grew and grew.
Only in the final quarter did Jacksboro’s offense break out, scoring 11 of its 28 points during this period with the game out of reach.
Nocona easily won 55-28.
Skyler Smith led the team with 21 points while making three 3-pointers. Karlee Brown was second scoring nine points.
Prairie Valley vs Bellevue
The Bellevue Lady Eagles won a tough game at Prairie Valley on Friday night.
The Lady Eagles won 45-33 in a game that was close for three quarters until Bellevue pulled away.
With no bench and a couple of players playing through some sickness, the Lady Eagles were not coming into the game at 100 percent.
To try and keep pace with district leaders Slidell and Midway though, Bellevue could not afford losing on an off night.
The game was low scoring throughout, which benefited the Lady Bulldogs since they have at times had trouble scoring.
Their 1-3-1 defense with heavy pressure forced a lot of turnovers and forced smart passes from the Lady Eagles to score against.
Prairie Valley was scoring off of driving floaters in the lane, getting offensive rebounds and other ways.
Bellevue led most of the way, but the Lady Bulldogs were never more than a few baskets behind for three quarters. The end of quarter scores were 11-7, 20-15 and 31-24 all in favor of the Lady Eagles.
The Lady Bulldogs could not get back into the game as the lead went up to double-digits. The Lady Eagles won 45-33.
Cirstin Allen and Austin Ford both led Bellevue with 14 points each. Callie Martin joined them in double-figures with 12 points.
For Prairie Valley, Makaylee Gomes led the team with six points while Carmen Gomez and Karagan Ritchie both scored five points.
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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