SPORTS
Girls Roundup
Nocona
The Nocona Lady Indians stayed undefeated in district with a big, statement win on the road at Windthorst.
The Lady Indians beat the Lady Trojans 51-27 in a game between the two dominant unbeaten teams in district so far.
Nocona came in as the favorite, ranked sixth in the state in 2A in the most recent Texas Association of Basketball Coaches poll. All of its three district wins had been by 31, 59 and 67 points so far.
Windthorst did not come into district play ranked in any polls this season, but the Lady Trojans have been dominant as well, with wins by 38, 50 and 61 points.
If anyone in district was going to make the Lady Indians sweat or think about pulling an upset for the ages, it would be Windthorst at home.
The first quarter was pretty competitive, as Nocona led only 13-7. This set up a trend where the Lady Indians offense never seemed to fully break out and make shots they are used to making, especially when Windthorst switched to a zone for the final three quarters.
But Nocona’s defense more than made up for it as the Lady Trojans were never able to get anything going as well. The Lady Indians limited Windthorst to single-digit quarter totals for the whole game.
Nocona led 27-15 at halftime.
The third quarter saw the Lady Indians get out in transition more than they had all game and seemingly put the game out of reach from early on. While the quarter totals were not much different from the first half, Nocona’s lead did continue to grow and grow as the game went along.
The Lady Indians won 51-27.
Meg Meekins led the team with 15 points and eight assists. Skyler Smith finished with a double-double, scoring 13 points and grabbing 12 rebounds.
Jolie Rose came off the bench and scored 11 points while making three 3-pointers.
Saint Jo vs Bellevue
The Saint Jo Lady Panthers won at home against Bellevue to stay undefeated in district play.
The Lady Panthers won 62-40 as they pulled ahead in the third quarter after a close first half.
Saint Jo came into the second round of district play undefeated at 5-0 and sitting in first place and coming off a dominant win against Prairie Valley.
The Lady Eagles were 2-3 after the first round, beating a Midway team the previous week in one-sided fashion.
The first game between the teams a month previous was close and the first half proved to be more of that on Tuesday.
It was fast paced, physical, full-court press style defenses from both teams who were looking to score in transition off of turnovers.
Saint Jo led only by one basket 29-26 at halftime.
It was the Lady Panthers that made the key changes at halftime to pull ahead. Saint Jo cleaned up its turnovers and made personal adjustments. After 15 turnovers in the first half, the Lady Panthers only had four in the crucial third quarter.
That allowed Saint Jo to outscored Bellevue 22-2 in the third quarter alone. What was a one-score game turned into a route, even with the Lady Eagles recovering to score a respectful 12 points in the four quarter.
The Lady Panthers won 62-40.
Missing scores
Bowie girls had a bye game earlier in the week. Gold-Burg girls have canceled its season for having too few players.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.
The Bowie sports banquets was on Monday night. Olivia Gill and Tucker Jones were named Jackrabbit and Lady Rabbit of the year. Pick up the mid-week paper for all of the sports team awards and pictures.
The 72nd Chisholm Trail Rodeo was a big success on Friday and Saturday nights at Nocona.
The rodeo had big crowds and saw some good competition from both local and far reaching talent.
Winners in the events included Zach Hibler in bareback riding, Lindsey Muggli in barrel racing, Ashley Goforth in breakaway roping, Leanardo Lima in bull riding, Cody McCartney in calf roping, Thomas Moellering in ranch bronc riding, Wacey Hathcock in saddle bronc riding, Renato Finazzi in steer wrestling, Rowdy Jones and Rance Doyal in team roping.
To see full results and more pictures, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
The regional tennis tournaments were late last week in North Richland Hills and a doubles team is moving on to state.
The Saint Jo girl’s doubles team Kyler Dunn and Taylor Patrick won the 1A region III tournament and will return to state for the second straight year.
The pair rolled through teams from Morgan, Dodd City, Priddy before beating a Graford team in the finals. The pair did not lose a set and only lost five of the 53 games it played, never losing more than one in a set.
The team made it to state last year after finishing second at regionals and won a match at the state meet against a team from Vernon Northside. They then lost to the eventual state champion team from Utopia and finished tied for third place.
They will be the only tennis players from Montague County playing at state this week as others did not have as successful regional tournament.
The Saint Jo teammates and fellow girl’s doubles team Bailie Nobile and Maxey Johnson won their first match against Ector 6-1, 6-4, but fell in their next match against Lometa, 6-1, 6-1.
From Prairie Valley, Case Carpenter was competing in boy’s singles. His first match was a draining two and half hour battle against a player from Strawn Carpenter came through in the three-set battle, winning 6-4, 5-7, 6-4.
Unfortunately, the magic was not there in the second game. Paired against the eventual tournament champion from Gustine, Carpenter lost 6-0, 6-1.
From Gold-Burg, Alyson Rojas and Jimena Garcia competed in girl’s singles. Rojas won her first match against a girl from Avinger 7-6, 6-2. Unfortunately, the next match she lost to a girl from Graford 6-0, 6-0 to end her tournament.
Garcia lost a tough first match against a player from Ector. Both sets could have gone either way with the scores being 6-4, 7-5 to the winner.
The mixed doubles team from Forestburg, Jesse Wadsworth and Alli Cisneros, also did not make it through.
From Nocona, Kaygan Stone was playing in the girl’s singles 2A region II tournament.
Unfortunately, she got paired against the player who would go on to win the tournament in the first round to end her season.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
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