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Bowie baseball dominates Nocona
The Bowie Jackrabbits easily won big against Nocona on Tuesday night.
The Jackrabbits won 17-0 after four innings due to run-rule as the second round of district play kicked off.
Bowie batters came out swinging to start the game. Jake Fallis hit a two-run home run to score the first runs of the game. Kawlyer Swearingin would later score on the basepaths thanks to an error fielding the ball after a hit to centerfield put the Jackrabbits up 3-0.
Carson Sanders got the start on the mound for Bowie and Indians hitters could not get on base in the first inning.
In the second inning, Cade Thompson hit a fly ball to left field that induced an error that allowed one run to score. Sanders grounded out at second base, but drove in another run. Fallis followed with a single to left field that drove in the third run of the inning to make the score 6-0.
Nocona batters again had no answer getting on base as the game moved to the third inning.
Colton Richey got on base and would score thanks to wild pitches. Zach Gilmore would later score similarly on a passed ball later in the inning to make it 8-0.
Sanders struck out the side as the game went to the fourth inning.
Tucker Jones led off for Bowie and hit a fly ball to center field. An error allowed Jones to make it all the way around the bases for a run. Troy Kesey followed with a home run over the left field wall.
Later in the inning with the bases loaded Gilmore’s pop fly to second base resulted in an error that scored one more run. Kynan DeMoss then hit a sacrifice fly to right field for another run.
Cade Thompson then hit a single that drove in two runs. Two batters later Fallis hit his second home run, this one a three-run dinger, to make the score 17-0.
Nocona would need to score at least eight runs to keep the game going and avoid being run-ruled. Kooper Hansard led off and hit a groundball single up the middle for the team’s first hit and base runner.
Unfortunately for the Indians, that would be all that they could do. The next three batters were retired with little drama to end the game. Bowie won 17-0.
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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