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Volleyball Roundup
Nocona
The Nocona Lady Indians played in their second tournament last weekend at Graham’s Lu Allen tournament.
The Lady Indians went 4-3 overall and ended up finishing third in the silver bracket.
Nocona won the first match of pool play against Snyder dominantly (25-14, 25-14).
Unfortunately, the Lady Indians would lose the next two matches against West Plains (25-19, 26-24) and Holliday (25-18, 25-13). Nocona finished out the day with a win against Christ Academy (25-15, 25-15) to finish pool play 2-2.
This put the team in the silver bracket where the Lady Indians first played Wichita Falls. Nocona won in straight sets (27-25, 25-19) to move on. Unfortunately, the team did not advance to the championship game with a loss to Caprock (25-15, 25-14).
This set up a final match against Klondike with third place on the line. Nocona won the first set 25-20, but lost a close set two 25-22.
This set up a third and final set and the Lady Indians won 25-18 to win the match.
Prairie Valley
The Prairie Valley Lady Bulldogs won the consolation title at the Electra tournament last weekend.
The Lady Bulldogs went 3-3 overall in their second tournament of the season.
The tournament did not start well with losses to Quanah (17-25, 25-23, 6-15) and against Chillicothe (25-21, 25-16).
Prairie Valley got its first win against Crowell in a back and forth match, losing the first set 25-16 before coming back to win set two 25-14 and set three 15-8.
The Lady Bulldogs loss to the tournament hosts Electra (25-18, 25-20) sent them down the consolation side of the bracket.
Prairie Valley had a rematch against Chillicothe and showed it was a different day. The Lady Bulldogs avenged their earlier loss with a three set win (25-22, 18-25, 25-14).
This set up another rematch against Crowell in the consolation title game.
Like the first match, it went three set. After losing set one 25-15, Prairie Valley came back to win set two 25-16 to force a set three.
In the most competitive set of the tournament, the Lady Bulldogs came out on top 25-23 to win the match and the consolation title.
Gold-Burg
The Gold-Burg Lady Bears lost a tough match on the road Friday night at Vernon Northside.
The Lady Indians gave the Lady Bears an early season lesson, winning in straight sets with the scores being 25-17, 25-20 and 25-11.
While it was not all bad for Gold-Burg as Cheryl Cromleigh said she saw some good things to take away from the match, overall it highlighted some of the areas the team still needs to polish up this early in the season.
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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