SPORTS
Nocona cross country teams sweep up district titles
The Nocona Indians cross country teams dominated their district meet on Wednesday in Seymour.
Both the boy’s and girl’s teams finished in first place by an easy margin as each qualified for the regional meet as well.
The girl’s team had its top five runners finish in the top nine runners at the meet.
Bayler Smith led the team with a second place finish with a time of 13:13.
Jolie Rose, Ayden Patton and Melissa Segura finished behind her 4th-6th while Jayce Rose finished ninth overall.
Coach Kyle Spitzer was proud this group was able to get rewarded for their efforts. After finishing runners-up to state level Holliday several years in a row, the drop down to 2A finally delivered the Lady Indians the district title.
Spitzer hopes that is not where the accomplishments end for this group.
“I believe there are about six teams in the mix fighting for the four spots to go to state, and we are one of those teams,” Spitzer said. “It’s hard to compare times because courses are so different, but our times are very comparable to the times atop the region. This group seems to be very eager and motivated to take that next step, so we will see what happens.”
The boy’s team won just as dominantly as well. Top runner Freddy Duran finished first overall with a time of 18:14. The top five runners for the Indians all finished among the top eight as Claudio Segura finished third, Alex Stephens fourth, Ivan Hernandez fifth and Walker Murphey eighth.
Coach Brody Wilson had nothing but praise for his team as they accomplished the big goal.
“Their hard work has been paying off and I’m happy they went out and represented their school well,” Wilson said. “They should be in the thick of things at regionals. We need to keep practicing hard and getting better each day.”
The regional meet is scheduled for Oct. 24 at Lynn Creek Park in Grand Prairie.
To see results for all Nocona varsity runners, 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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