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Bowie, Nocona track compete at area meet

Athletes from Bowie and Nocona competed at the area track meet on Thursday night in Breckenridge for a chance to qualify for the regional meet.
As far as team scores go, the Nocona girls did the best finishing 10th out of 15 teams. Both the Bowie boys and girls teams finished 11th while the Nocona boy’s team finished 15th.
The Lady Indian’s Graci Brown was the only Montague County athlete who won an event at the meet.
She finished first in the 400 meters to qualify for the regional meet. While she didn’t qualify in the long jump, her sixth place finish did score a point toward the team total.
She also ran in Nocona’s 4×400 meter relay team that finished fifth along with Avery Crutsinger, Melissa Segura and Raylee Sparkman. Unfortunately, it was one place short of qualifying for regionals.
Allie Brown was the other Lady Indian athlete to qualify for regionals as she finished fourth in the 3200 meter race.
The Lady Rabbits top finisher was Anahi Perez who got second in the 100 meter hurdles. She didn’t qualify in the 300 meter hurdles, but her sixth place finish did score her team a point.
Samantha Clarke was the other Bowie girl who qualified as she finished fourth in the 1600 meter race. She fell one place short of qualifying in the 3200 meter race as she finished fifth.
The Lady Rabbits 4×200 meter relay that featured Harlei Hudson, Ziba Robbins, Taygon Jones and Hannah Love finished one place short of qualifying in fifth place.
Jones in the 100 meter, Robbins in the 200 meter and Laisha Johnson running the 400 meter races all finished seventh overall.
On the boy’s side, only Bowie’s Tucker Jones qualified for the regional meet. Jones finished third in the 110 meter hurdles and fourth in the 300 meter hurdles.
He was one place short of qualifying in the long jump finishing in fifth place.
The Jackrabbits only other competitor Nathan Rodgers ended up coming in sixth place in the 3200 meter race to score a point towards the team total.
The Nocona boy’s top finisher was Cooper Waldrip who was one spot short of qualifying for the regional meet in the 300 meter hurdles, where he finished in fifth place.
The Indians other two athletes, Freddy Duran in the 3200 meters and Caden Gaston in the triple jump, both finished eighth overall.
The regional meet is scheduled for April 29-30 at Abilene Christian University.
Only the top two finishers in each event will be guaranteed a spot at the state meet in Austin in May.
To see results for all of the Bowie and Nocona athletes, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
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Nocona
The Nocona Indians picked up dominant wins against Chico in their series against the Dragons last week.
The Indians won both games 11-0 by run-rule after five innings to get their first district wins of the season.
Nocona was coming off losing both games against Lindsay the previous week in its first district series and bounced back in a big way.
In the first game at home last week, the Indians scored six runs in the first inning and five in the third inning which proved to be all the offense they needed.
Kutter Cabrera led the team with three RBIs while Miller Jentry was second with two RBIs. The team finished with nine hits and drew eight walks.
On the mound, Walker Murphey pitched a shut out while striking out seven and allowing three hits. Defensively, the team committed one fielding error.
The second game saw Nocona score all of its runs in the first three innings, highlighted by scoring six runs in the second inning.
Murphey hit a three-run home run to lead the team while Brody Langford and Landon Fatheree each had two RBIs.
On the mound RJ Walker had a big day, throwing a perfect four innings which means he did not allow a hit or walk anyone. He also struck out eight batters, which put him over 100 career strikeouts in high school. The defense committed no fielding errors.
Saint Jo
The Saint Jo Panthers lost their series against Bryson last week.
The first game was a close 3-0 loss, but the second game was 11-0, done after four and half innings due to run-rule.
The Panthers were coming off close losses to Perrin-Whitt from the previous week. They were hoping they could turn their fortune around playing another 1A program.
Unfortunately in the first game, the Cowboys got off to a good start, scoring three runs in the first inning, with two coming with two outs due to an error and a dropped third strike.
Saint Jo’s pitching and defense tightened up after that to not allow another run in the final six innings. Unfortunately, the Panthers had only two hits and four base runners all game as they lost the close game 3-0.
Charlie Evans and Rylan Forrest had the only two hits for Saint Jo in the game as the team struck out 18 times. Trent Gaston ended the game allowing three runs (one earned) on six hits while striking out five batters and walking two in six innings of work. The defense committed five fielding errors.
Unfortunately, things did not go as well several days later in game two. Bryson scored three runs in both the first and second innings before scoring five runs in the third inning. Saint Jo was not able to get a hit and drew two walks in the game.
The Panther defense committed six fielding errors which led to only three of the 11 runs given up were earned by the pitching staff who gave up five hits, walked six and hit four batters.
Bellevue
The Bellevue Eagles played Perrin-Whitt last week in a series.
The Pirates won the first game 11-1 by run-rule and the second game score was not updated on Game Changer.
The Eagles were coming off one-sided losses to Bryson the previous week in their first district series and was hoping to play better.
Bellevue did get out to an early lead in the first inning. River Trail hit an RBI single in the top of the first inning to go up 1-0, which proved to be the highlight of the game.
Perrin-Whitt scored three runs in the first inning, one in the second inning, two in the fourth inning and five in the fifth inning to win 11-1.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekly edition of the Bowie News.
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