SPORTS
Bowie hosts second Rhonda’s Relays
Bowie hosted its Rhonda’s Relays track meet on Thursday that had 12 schools compete.
The Lady Rabbit team finished second overall and only one point behind first place Boyd.
Bowie girl’s standouts included Anahi Perez finishing first in the 100 meter hurdles event and the 4×100 meter relay team finishing first.
Other top finishers who contributed towards the team’s total included: Perez finishing second in the 300 meter hurdles; Neely Price finishing second in the high jump and fourth in the 300 meter hurdles; the 4×200 meter relay team finishing third; Laisha Johnson finishing third in the 400 meter race; Taygon Jones finishing fourth in the 100 meter race; Samantha Clark finishing fifth in both the 800 and 1600 meter races and Ziba Robbins finishing sixth in the 200 meter race and the 4×400 team finishing sixth overall.
The Nocona Lady Indians finished fifth overall at the meet and also had several standouts. Graci Brown won both the 200 and 400 meter races while finishing second in the long jump.
Allie Brown finished second in the 3200 meter race and fourth in the 1600 meters.
Raylee Sparkman finished fourth in the 400 meter race while Jayce Rose finished fourth in the 800 meters. Avery Crutsinger finished fifth in the discus and sixth in the 300 meter hurdles.
The Bowie boy’s team finished fourth overall and got most of its scoring from field events.
Coleton Price finished second in the shot put and sixth in the discus. Tucker Jones finished second in the long jump.
Aiden Lawhorn finished third in the high jump. Johnnie Arenas finished fourth in the shot put.
Sebastian Martinez finished fifth in the 800 meter race. Jaxson Johnston and Brody Armstrong finished fifth and sixth in the high jump. The teams only relay team in the meet, competing in the 4×200 meter relay, finished fifth overall.
The Nocona Indians team finished tied for ninth overall.
The team’s top finisher was Caden Gaston who finished second in the triple jump. Michael Wetmore would go on to finish sixth in the long jump.
The Indians only running event were the 4×100 and the 4×400 meter relay teams, who finished sixth and third overall.
Times and distances for varsity competitors from Bowie and Nocona who finished among the top six are in 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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