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Baseball Roundup
Bowie
The Bowie Jackrabbits baseball team had an up and down performance at the American Cancer Society Tournament last week.
The Jackrabbits went 2-2 during the three day tournament.
Bowie first played Muenster on Thursday and won 7-5. Carson Sanders led the team with two RBIs and two hits. Edmond DeLeon pitched six innings allowed one run on six hits while striking out eight batters.
The next game against private school Covenant Christian was the worst loss of the season for the Jackrabbits.
The Cougars won 19-1 after four innings, with 10 runs coming in the third inning.
Seth Hall drove in the only run of the game on a triple. It was a day to forget on the mound as four pitchers allowed 17 hits and walked seven batters.
Bowie bounced back the next game against former district foe Breckenridge. It was back and forth throughout the game, but in the end the Jackrabbits held on to win in the final inning 7-6.
Kynan DeMoss went 3-3 and drove in four runs to lead the team to the win. Sanders pitched four innings and allowed four earned runs before Edgar Regalado pitched the final three and allowed one earned run in the final inning.
The last game of the tournament saw the team lose to another private school, this one Southwest Christian School, 8-0 after five innings played.
A.J. Whatley got the only hit for Bowie in the game with a double and the team drew five walks, but that was it for the Jackrabbits offensively.
Brody Armstrong pitched three innings on the mound and allowed four earned runs before Trae Siegler came into to pitch the final two innings and allowed one earned run.
Nocona
The Nocona Indians played at their hosted Nokona American Ball Glove Classic tournament.
Only one game the Indians played was recorded on GameChanger which was a 14-9 win against Electra that was played for three and half innings.
Nocona scored nine of its 14 runs in the second inning to take control of the game.
Charlie Fuller along with Wesley and Walker Murphey each drove in two runs each to lead the team, with Walker hitting two triples.
Wesley pitched the whole game and allowed only one earned run despite not allowing a hit as the defense committed nine fielding errors.
Saint Jo
The Saint Jo Panthers had a good tournament at Era last week.
The Panthers went 3-0 during their play, winning all of their games handily.
Saint Jo first played S&S Consolidated and won 13-5 after three and half innings. The Panthers scored 10 runs in the third inning and were up 13-0 heading into the fourth inning.
Brice Durham led the team with three RBIs while Matthew Butler-Everson drove in two runs. Durham also pitched three no-hit, scoreless innings while striking out six.
Saint Jo’s next game against Sam Rayburn was a bit closer, but the Panthers won 9-3 after four and half innings thanks to Saint Jo scoring six runs in the fourth inning.
Trevor O’Neal led the team with three RBIs while Butler-Everson drove in two runs. O’Neal pitched three innings and Durham pitched two and combined to allow two earned runs and struck out seven batters.
The final game was a 7-1 win against Poolville after five innings. The Panthers led 3-1 heading into the final inning when they scored four runs to put the game away.
Logan Hoover led the team with two RBIs as five different players drove in one run each. Collin Thomas was one of those who also led the team with three hits.
Thomas also pitched four innings and allowed one earned run. Cooper Henson pitched the final inning and struck out three of the four batters he faced.
The Red River High School Bass Club competed this past weekend, May 31 – June 1, at the State Tournament on Lake Conroe for the two-day tournament.
Two of the teams from Montague County traveled south to try their best at the culmination of the year for the state title. Teams were able to pre-fish on Friday before the Saturday and Sunday competition. On Friday, there was a flipping contest for the youth and Cooper Johnson won third overall and won a $500 scholarship and an Academy gift card.
The club’s two teams who competed were Lane Smith/Colt Henry with boat captain Jimmy Smith. The team placed 63rd with a total of 16.22 pounds. The second team of Cooper Johnson/Corbyn Patton and boat captain Jayson Toerck placed 169th with a total weight of 2.29 pounds.
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The Maskat Shrine Oil Bowl is this week on June 6-7 and graduating athletes from Bowie, Nocona and Saint Jo are confirmed to be playing.
In total, seven athletes from Bowie, five from Nocona and three from Saint Jo are planning to play in the all-star games this week. Nocona also will have a pair of coaches participating as well.
The girl’s basketball game kicks off events on June 6, scheduled for 6 p.m. at Wichita Falls Memorial High School. In the game, the east team will have Nocona players Avery Crutsinger, Meg Meekins and Reagan Phipps playing while Kyler Spitzer and Clayton Brown coach them one last time.
On the west team, Saint Jo’s Payzlie Cervantes is confirmed to be playing.
The boy’s basketball game is scheduled to follow at 7:30 p.m. On the east team, Bowie’s Boston Farris and Nocona’s Jose Gomez Jr. will be playing.
On June 7, the volleyball games are scheduled to start at 4 p.m. with the small school game. On the west team, Nocona’s Kaygan Stone and Saint Jo’s Taylor Patrick are confirmed to play. On the east team, Saint Jo’s Aubrey Morman will get to play her teammate.
There are no local athletes confirmed to be playing in the big school volleyball game.
The final event is the football game, scheduled for 7:30 p.m. at Memorial Stadium. It is an all Bowie affair with six players confirmed to be playing for the east team: Justin Clark, Jorge De Leon, Hunter Fluitt and Braden Rhyne, Preacher Chambers and Moh Azouak.
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Nocona Independent School District officials looked inward for a new athletic director/head football coach, selecting Jeff Hill for the position.
Hill, who served last year as Nocona football’s offensive coordinator and also led the softball program to the playoffs for the first time in a while as its head coach, was upgraded to the role.
This came on the heels of former Athletic Director Blake Crutsinger, who served in the role the last four years, resigned in May.
For Hill, the choice to apply for the position was a no brainer. His one year in Nocona had impressed upon him and his wife that it was the place they would like to be long term.
“I’m looking for a town to raise my kids in and Nocona has treated my family really well,” Hill said. “There are some really good people. The kids work hard. Everything I am looking for in a hometown is right here in Nocona and I want to try and make it as best as it can be, especially through athletics.”
Before Nocona, Hill served as the athletic director at S&S Consolidated while also spending time at Hebron and Whitewright in his coaching career.
Hill expresses great respect for the departing Crutsinger and besides changing a few small things in how he personally wants to do things, he is not trying to come in with a sweeping restructuring of the whole athletic department.
The program had five of its six team sports make the playoffs, with volleyball playing in the regional final and the girl’s basketball team winning the state championship.
That along with two athletes competing at the state championship in cross country and track with one earning a gold medal, it was one of the more successful school years in athletic program history.
“Coach Crutsinger was awesome and did a great job so honestly just little tweaks, a little bit of structure and cohesion amongst the coaching staff between boys and girls,” Hill said. “I hope to keep the winning tradition going overall in the athletic department.”
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