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Meg Meekins scores on a fast break as she led the Lady Indians with 24 points against the Lady Pirates.

The Nocona Lady Indians started off the second round of district play with another one-sided win, this time at home against Petrolia.
The Lady Indians won 79-23 against the Lady Pirates, keeping up their ruthless streak of dominating all comers in district.
Nocona had breezed through the first round, beating the five other teams by an average margin of 51 points.
A young Petrolia team, which had suffered one of the worst beatings the first time around losing 77-10, was coming into the game on a two-game win streak and hoping to grab the final playoff seed in the district.
The good times were over at Nocona on Tuesday and the Lady Pirates had to try and survive their beating at the hands of the Lady Indians one more time.
Nocona jumped out early in the first quarter, using full-court pressure defense and trapping to create chances for his team in transition thanks to active hands and jumping passing lanes.
The Lady Indians led 29-4 after the first quarter and thankfully Coach Kyle Spitzer dialed back the defense from pressing.
Defenders were still aggressively playing man-to-man once any ball handler crossed half court and were looking for steal chances, but Petrolia had at least a chance of setting up its offense in the half court.
It mostly affected Nocona’s offense as the team took a noticeable step back in the second quarter while scoring 14 points, but the lead kept on growing thanks to the defense still getting stops.
The Lady Indians offense came alive to start the second half, hitting more open shots than they had in the second quarter and executing better as they scored 24 points.
Nocona then cooled off in the fourth quarter with the pace slowed down and the team able to pour it on for only so much with the lead already being as high as it was.
The Lady Indians won 79-23.

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RJ Walker pitched four perfect innings for Nocona and got his 100th career strike out. (Courtesy photo)

Nocona
The Nocona Indians picked up dominant wins against Chico in their series against the Dragons last week.
The Indians won both games 11-0 by run-rule after five innings to get their first district wins of the season.
Nocona was coming off losing both games against Lindsay the previous week in its first district series and bounced back in a big way.
In the first game at home last week, the Indians scored six runs in the first inning and five in the third inning which proved to be all the offense they needed.
Kutter Cabrera led the team with three RBIs while Miller Jentry was second with two RBIs. The team finished with nine hits and drew eight walks.
On the mound, Walker Murphey pitched a shut out while striking out seven and allowing three hits. Defensively, the team committed one fielding error.
The second game saw Nocona score all of its runs in the first three innings, highlighted by scoring six runs in the second inning.
Murphey hit a three-run home run to lead the team while Brody Langford and Landon Fatheree each had two RBIs.
On the mound RJ Walker had a big day, throwing a perfect four innings which means he did not allow a hit or walk anyone. He also struck out eight batters, which put him over 100 career strikeouts in high school. The defense committed no fielding errors.

Saint Jo
The Saint Jo Panthers lost their series against Bryson last week.
The first game was a close 3-0 loss, but the second game was 11-0, done after four and half innings due to run-rule.
The Panthers were coming off close losses to Perrin-Whitt from the previous week. They were hoping they could turn their fortune around playing another 1A program.
Unfortunately in the first game, the Cowboys got off to a good start, scoring three runs in the first inning, with two coming with two outs due to an error and a dropped third strike.
Saint Jo’s pitching and defense tightened up after that to not allow another run in the final six innings. Unfortunately, the Panthers had only two hits and four base runners all game as they lost the close game 3-0.
Charlie Evans and Rylan Forrest had the only two hits for Saint Jo in the game as the team struck out 18 times. Trent Gaston ended the game allowing three runs (one earned) on six hits while striking out five batters and walking two in six innings of work. The defense committed five fielding errors.
Unfortunately, things did not go as well several days later in game two. Bryson scored three runs in both the first and second innings before scoring five runs in the third inning. Saint Jo was not able to get a hit and drew two walks in the game.
The Panther defense committed six fielding errors which led to only three of the 11 runs given up were earned by the pitching staff who gave up five hits, walked six and hit four batters.

Bellevue
The Bellevue Eagles played Perrin-Whitt last week in a series.
The Pirates won the first game 11-1 by run-rule and the second game score was not updated on Game Changer.
The Eagles were coming off one-sided losses to Bryson the previous week in their first district series and was hoping to play better.
Bellevue did get out to an early lead in the first inning. River Trail hit an RBI single in the top of the first inning to go up 1-0, which proved to be the highlight of the game.
Perrin-Whitt scored three runs in the first inning, one in the second inning, two in the fourth inning and five in the fifth inning to win 11-1.

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