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Boys Basketball Roundup
Saint Jo
The Saint Jo Panthers had an up and down week as they went 1-1 last week
The Panthers beat Prairie Valley 56-35 and lost to Midway 54-43 to close out the first round of district play.
Saint Jo hosted the Bulldogs on Jan. 21 and was able to limit the young squad to only single-digit totals in all four quarters.
Barrett Johnson led the team with 22 points, Trent Gaston was second with 14 and Lee Yeley added 11 points as the team’s front court dominated.
Unfortunately, playing a much bigger Midway team, the Panthers fell behind in the third quarter after getting outscored 15-5 and could not catch back up as they lost 54-43. Johnson led the team with 27 points and Yeley was second with six points.
Despite the disappointing loss, the team celebrated Johnson passing a career milestone and scoring his 1,000 point.
Forestburg
The Forestburg Longhorns closed out the first round of district play last week with two wins to finish undefeated.
The Longhorns picked up wins at Gold-Burg 63-43 and against Prairie Valley 70-38.
Forestburg entered the week with a 3-0 record in district, but knew it still had to play well to keep its advantage in district.
The Longhorns played at the Bears gym on Jan. 21 and road explosive 24 and 21 point second and third quarters to the victory.
Kyler Willett dominated in the post with 29 points while Jesus Sanchez was second with 18 points and Jesse Wadsworth scoring 10 points.
It was more of the same on Jan. 24 when the Longhorns hosted a young Prairie Valley team. Forestburg scored 24, 18 and 20 points in the first three quarters before cooling off by playing mostly its bench to end the game as the Longhorns won 70-38.
Sanchez led the team with 21 points while Willett was second with 15 points and John Carranza scored 12 points.
Gold-Burg
The Gold-Burg Bears had a tough week playing two high-scoring teams.
The Bears lost to first place Forestburg 63-43 and against Bellevue 67-53.
Gold-Burg first hosted the Longhorns on Jan. 21 and struggled to keep up with the high-scoring and experienced Forestburg squad once it started to get going in the second quarter. The Bears scored a little better in the second half, but not nearly enough to make up any ground against the district front runner.
Jayton Epperson led the team with 21 points while Camden Dreyer was second with eight points.
The next game was against a young and high scoring Eagles team on Jan. 24. Gold-Burg initially led in the first quarter, but Bellevue’s offense started to get going in the second quarter and the Bears could not slow the Eagles down as the game went along.
Keelyn Case led the team with 15 points while Dreyer was second with 13 points.
Prairie Valley
The Prairie Valley Bulldogs struggled against two of the top teams in the district last week.
The Bulldogs lost to Saint Jo 56-25 and against first place Forestburg 70-38.
Prairie Valley first played at the Longhorns gym on Jan. 24. The young Bulldogs struggled to stop the explosive and experienced Forestburg team from scoring for the first three quarters as they fell behind.
They finished the game outscoring the Longhonrs 14-8 in the fourth quarter, but it did not make much of a difference in the final score.
Kasey Caruthers led the team with nine points while Sawyer Bray and Trae Campbell each scored eight points.
The next game against a big Saint Jo team saw Prairie Valley struggle to score all game as the team was never able to score in the double-digits in any quarter.
Hunter Camden led the team the team with eight points while Campbell was second with six points.
Missing scores
The Bowie News did not receive scores from the Bellevue coach.
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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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