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Nocona baseball beats Bellevue
Nocona vs Bellevue
The Nocona Indians beat Bellevue at home on Tuesday night.
The Indians won by run-rule after three innings 20-2 against the young Eagles program.
Nocona was trying to knock the rust off as the previous week’s games were canceled due to the girl’s basketball team competing at the state tournament.
Bellevue is just trying to celebrate any positives early in the season with a young and inexperienced roster and program.
The highlight of the game for the Eagles was their brief 1-0 lead in the first inning. Brennan Criswell scored on a passed ball with the bases loaded and two outs.
Nocona then responded with eight runs. The Indians racked up two singles, a double and a triple, drew two walks and took advantage of three fielding errors to go up 8-1 after the first inning was done.
Bellevue scored one more run in the second inning. Connor Ward was trying to steal third base. An error on the throw allowed him to come in and score to cut the lead to 8-2.
Nocona looked like it was about to add more runs in the same inning. Three straight singles loaded the bases up with no outs. Bellevue was able to get an out at home plate, Bryce Ramsey got himself a strikeout and the next batter grounded out to first base and the Eagles got out of the jam.
After the Indians defense allowed no base runners from Bellevue in the third inning, Nocona’s offense then went to end the game. The Indians racked up six singles, one double, five walks, one hit batter and took advantage of two fielding errors to score 12 runs.
Bellevue batted one more time, but could not get anything going and the game ended.
Nocona won 20-2.
Nocona softball
The Nocona Lady Indians had a tough opening district game on Tuesday against Tioga.
The Lady Bulldogs won by run-rule 14-3 after five innings as the Lady Indians tried to get back on track while also initiating new players onto the team.
Nocona had a tournament scheduled the previous week, but the team did not play in it so they could support the girl’s basketball team playing at the state tournament. Also, two starters are coming straight from basketball, so a certain amount of rust was to be expected.
Tioga immediately loaded the bases up to start the game. All of them came into score thanks to a fielding error in the outfield. Two batters later the runner came in to score on a fielder’s choice groundout as the Lady Bulldogs were up 4-0.
Tioga added one more run in the second inning on the basepaths and then two more in the third inning on a hard hit single into the outfield.
Down 7-0, the Lady Indians bats found some success in the third inning. With the bases loaded and two outs, Evelyn Marquez came through with a bases clearing triple to cut the lead to 7-3.
Unfortunately, the Lady Bulldogs got those three runs back in the fourth inning. A groundout to first base scored one run along with a RBIs on a double and single later in the inning made it 10-3.
Tioga then looked to end the game as three RBI singles and one stolen home play scored four runs.
Down 14-3, Nocona needed to score two more runs to prevent the game from being ended early due to run rule. Despite back-to-back singles from Marquez and Avery Crutsinger and with both of them in scoring position, the Lady Indians fell short of getting them home. A strikeout following for out three and the game ended.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.
Two former Bowie boy’s golf members played in the PGA University Championship on Nov. 12-13. (L-R) Cy Egenbacher and Imanol Walker are both in the Sam Houston University PGA Golf Managerment program. The team finished 16th overall. Egenbacher shot 168 during the two rounds and finished tied for 67th. Walker shot 180 and finished 84th. The tournament is a fun one for univesities that have PGA Golf Management programs, which is for individuals who want to work in the golf industry after graduation.
The Saint Jo Lady Panthers came up short at the regional final for the third straight season, one game away from state, on Saturday at the regional tournament in Midlothian.
The Lady Panthers beat Evant in straight sets 3-0 on Friday to reach the final game against Harrold which they lost 3-0.
Saint Jo knew before the season even started it would likely come to this big challenge, but it still had to go through all the steps to get there.
The Panthers reached the regional finals the previous two seasons, losing both times to eventual state champion Blum.
With district realignment meant a new region so a rematch with a Blum program that had graduated several key players from those teams would have to wait until state possibly.
Instead, a showdown against last year’s state runner-up Harrold was forecast in the regional final.
With the team having six seniors, with five of them having been on varsity since they were freshman, it was this year or bust for Saint Jo.
First, the Lady Panthers had to beat Evant. The Lady Elks leaned heavily on a big front court player. When she rotated to the back row, Evant showed almost no net resistance which meant Saint Jo hitters had free reign during that time.
The Lady Panthers won each set pretty easily, with the scores being 25-17, 25-17 and 25-19.
This set up the match with Harrold the team had been anticipating. The Lady Hornets had been at or near the top of the state standings since the beginning of the season.
Harrold had so much respect it had even played bigger local schools this season, beating Bowie in straight sets and Nocona in five sets during its pre-district schedule.
The two teams had met earlier in the season when the Lady Hornets attended Saint Jo’s hosted tournament. The two teams met in the tournament championship where Harrold won 2-1.
Still, with the tournament format being a best of three instead of five and the match after playing an exhausting schedule of five matches the previous two days, that result was not gospel, especially two months later.
The challenge is Harrold had multiple big hitters at the net, which is a big deal since most 1A teams are lucky to have one or two, which meant constant pressure on Saint Jo’s defense.
This also meant the Lady Panthers constantly had to find ways to attack the Lady Hornet defense as well or it would face strong hit after strong hit which was unsustainable for any team.
The first set saw the Lady Hornets get out to a good start before the Lady Panthers rallied back and took a little lead 8-7. Unfortunately, it started turn from there.
Harrold had some good runs from the service line that Saint Jo struggled to make much offense out of and led to the Lady Hornets pulling away. Harrold won 4-1 to get the lead to 11-9 and then extended it to 14-11, 17-13. Another 4-1 run and the Lady Hornets could smell the end of the first set coming.
The Lady Hornets won 25-17 to take the lead 1-0.
Saint Jo needed to bounce back, but unfortunately never got anything going in set two.
Harrold led 4-1 and then 8-2. The Lady Panthers would have needed a huge run at some point from the service line to get back into the set, but it never came as the Lady Hornets lead grew more and more.
Harrold took set two 25-13 to go up 2-0 and had all of the momentum.
Saint Jo had its back against the wall, knowing the only option was to hope for a comeback that would lead to a fifth set, but to get there it needed to win set three.
The Lady Panthers initially started on the right foot. After falling being 4-1 to start the previous two sets, it was Saint Jo that started well up 4-1. Unfortunately, the Lady Hornets came roaring back, going on an 8-2 run as it led 9-6, then 12-8 and 15-10.
It looked like it was heading towards a similar place as set one with Harrold slowly running away with the set before the Lady Panthers made one last gasp.
Saint Jo eventually cut the lead down to one point, trailing 20-19 as the set entered the final stretch and the Lady Panthers had their best momentum of the match.
Unfortunately, it was Harrold that was able to close the set out with momentum, earning the final five points to win 25-19 and the match 3-0.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News. For pictures from Friday’s match, click here https://www.dotphoto.com/go.asp?l=bnews1&AID=6870620&T=1
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