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HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: With heavy hearts, Nocona beats Alvord

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9 years ago

09/02/2015

From Staff Reports

With heavy hearts, the Nocona High School football team prevailed over Alvord 26-18 in the season opener for both schools.
“I think the town went through a whole lot (on Friday),” said Nocona head coach Brad Keck, referring to the death of Luke West due to cancer. “The kids knew of Luke, and they knew he was one of us.”
West played fullback and linebacker at Nocona in the 2000s. In 2009, Keck’s first year as Indians’ head coach, West was a senior on the team.
It seems everyone in North Texas was affected by West’s death. Luke’s uncle, Daylon, is the defensive coordinator at Bowie. Luke’s cousin Brent West is the head coach at Cisco, where uncle Kelly serves as the superintendent.
Fred West, Luke’s grandfather, was the head coach at Nocona from 2002-05. Luke passed away from leukemia at 23 years old.
West is the son of Dr. Randy and Sabrina West.
Nocona snapped a 13-game losing skid behind a poised sophomore quarterback in Jeremy James and an offensive line featuring Brendan Ramsey, Juan Mancilla, Barkley Hayes, Zach Boyd, Mack Hill and Peyton Crabtree.
“I think we blocked better, that was the whole key to it,” said Keck as the Indians generated 413 yards in total offense. Keck said James made few mistakes when in the pocket and Emmanual Gayton was able to see the hole, run through it and break tackles for extra yards. Read more, and see the complete boxscore, in the mid-week Bowie News.

The Nocona High School football team, coaches and cheerleaders gather around the No. 7 worn by deceased Luke West, a former Indian fullback and linebacker. West died last week from leukemia at the age of 23. (Courtesy photo by Todd Peterson)

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Nocona new press box put into place

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3 days ago

07/20/2024

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Nocona got its new press box into place this week at Jack Crane Stadium. The old press box, which was in place for more than 60 years, was taken out in early June and moved to Indian Valley Raceway. The new press box was by the Southern Bleacher Company out of Graham. Athletic Director Black Crutsinger said they looked at a lot of press boxes and decided they liked the one at Lindsay High School and went with that model. Sean Hutson operated the crane from the Hurd Crane Service that put the press box up for Nocona.

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Richey repeats at IFYR

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3 days ago

07/20/2024

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Sunset native Cason Richey (right) and his team roping partner Beldon Cox from Weatherford repeated as the International Finals Youth Rodeo champions last weekend at Shawnee, OK. Richey and Cox won the previous year and were able to complete the repeat by catching three steers in a combined time of 16.6 seconds. Richey is expected to compete attend Texas Tech University this fall and compete on the rodeo team.

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Youth rodeo awards presented

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3 days ago

07/20/2024

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The Chisholm Trail Youth Rodeo presented awards for its summer season this week. Tess Egenbacher won the top cowgirl buckle for the 13-18 age division, which was presented to her by Kyle Bishop. (Courtesy photo)

The Chisholm Trail Youth Rodeo had its awards ceremony this week, giving out plaques and buckles to the top competitors throughout the summer season.
There were four age categories with five events to compete in for the young athletes.
Along with the best results in each event, at the end the overall best cowboy and cowgirl in each age division was awarded as well.
The lead line division, in which an adult helps the young competitors, saw Rylee Stewart win the first in poles, barrel racing and mystery event on her way to win top cowgirl.
Hattie Snow got the fastest time in the flags event and Lany Shupak got the fastest goat time. Riggin Bishop got named the top cowboy in the division.
In the eight-and-under division, Whitley Goins won the top cowgirl and Trell Carpenter won top cowboy. Goins got the fastest times in barrel racing, flags and mystery event. Carpenter got the fastest time in poles and goats.
In the 9-12 age division, Sage Keck won the top cowgirl while Chisum Carpenter won the top cowboy. Keck got the fastest times in four of the five divisions. Only Layna Taylor getting the fastest goat time prevented her from winning in a clean sweep.
In the 13-18 age division, Tess Egenbacher won the top overall cowgirl award.
Kiley McCracken won both the barrel racing and flags event. Emma Strahan won the poles and mystery event. Hadlee Bryan won the goats event.
There was no top overall cowboy in the age division.

To see the times for the winners of each event in all four age categories along with pictures of all of the top cowboys and cowgirls, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.