Prairie Valley senior Kiley McCracken competed at a Saginaw rodeo for the North Texas High School Rodeo Association on Oct. 11.The barrel racer raced to a time of 16.536 seconds, getting some luck when she hit the third barrel but it did not go down. The time was good enough to put her in seventh place.

The second tournament of the Metroplex Division for the 2024-25 Texas High School Bass Association took place at Lake Texoma on Oct. 5.
The Bowie Red River High School Bass club had seven teams compete with six of those teams bringing fish across the scales.
This tournament proved to be another tough one for the youth and the boat captains. Weather was still warm and big fish had not moved up into the pockets and coves that they normally do this time of year. Water temps were over 80 degrees, which is not very conducive to making the fish bite. Bait could be found, but no great numbers of scorable bass.
Teams started fishing at 7 a.m. with lines out of the water by 3 p.m. It was a 134 boat tournament and gave prizes to 19th place. The overall winning weight went for more than 12 pounds to a team from Highland Park.
There were 63 teams that weighed fish while 71 were not fortunate enough to cross the stage, so only 47% of the teams weighed in a fish.
The team of Carson Caudle/Hunter Blackburn with boat captain Nick Bilby had four fish weighing in at 7.63 pounds and secured an 8th place finish.
The team of Lane Smith/Colt Henry and boat captain Jimmy Smith settled in at 10th place with a weight of 6.87 pounds on four fish.
Coming in at 37th was Stetson Forsyth/Samuel Grubbs and captain Jake Forsyth with two fish at 2.49 pounds. Walker Strahan/Bryce Ramsey with boat captain Terry Baker brought one fish across the stage for a weight of 2.32 pounds and 45th place.
Sy Parker/Colten Anglin and boat captain Jeff Pittman brought in one fish for 2.15 pounds for 51st place. Cooper Johnson/Corbyn Patton and boat captain Gary Eldred were able to secure one fish for 1.62 pounds for 62nd place.
Unfortunately, Ollie Haynie/Jaxon Rosenau and boat captain John Haynie were not able to find any of the fish they caught to measure the minimum 14 inches.
The Red River HS Bass Club finished in 2nd place at the Texoma tournament which gives it a ranking of 5th for Team of Year out of 28.

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All cross country runners who qualified for the regional meets will be running on Monday or Tuesday.
Those running will be competing for a chance to qualify for the state meet in early November.
The Bowie runners are scheduled to compete at the Region I meet at Mae Simmons Park at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. The 3A boy’s race is scheduled to start at 11 a.m. on Oct. 22.
All of Nocona’s runners and all of the area 1A schools will run at Lynn Creek Park in Grand Prairie. The Nocona runners are scheduled to run in the Region II 2A races on Oct. 21. The girl’s race is scheduled to start at 11 a.m. and the boy’s race will follow at 11:30 a.m.
The 1A schools are competing in the Region III races on Oct. 22. The girl’s race is scheduled to start at 12 p.m. and the boy’s race will follow at 12:30 p.m.
Live results can be found online at Texas Milesplit. For Bowie runners, look for Region I 3A race. For Nocona runners look for Region II 2A race. For 1A runners look for Region III 1A race.

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