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Nocona baseball loses to City View 7-6
The Nocona Indians lost to City View at home on Friday night.
The Mustangs won a tight game 7-6 to get back against the Indians previous win against them.
Nocona came in confident after beating City View several weeks ago by run-rule 16-4. With the season winding down, any potential win in a district where those have been tough to find for either team is a cause for celebration.
The Indians scored first in the first inning as Kooper Hansard scored on a passed ball. The Mustangs tied the score in the second inning before taking a commanding lead in the third inning. City View scored six runs in the inning to lead 7-1.
Hansard came in to pitch for Nocona starting in the fourth inning and did not allow another run for the rest of the game, allowing one hit, walking three batters, hitting two and striking out eight batters.
The Indians slowly started to chip at the lead with Wesley Murphey and Luke Fuller driving in one run each on doubles. Fuller was able to score another run thanks to an error by the catcher to cut the lead to 7-4 after four innings.
The Indians scored two more runs in the sixth inning as an error following a single from Miguel Olivares allowed on base runner to score. Matthew Page then hit a groundball that induced another error that allowed another run to cut the lead to 7-6.
In the final inning Nocona had its chances to tie the score. Charlie Fuller hit a single into centerfield and Hansard, who was on second base, was waved home. It was close, but the throw was on target and in time for the second out of the inning.
Nocona still had a chance though with Fuller reaching second base due to defensive indifference. Following a walk that put two runners on base, the next batter struck out for the third and final out of the game.
City View won 7-6.
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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