SPORTS
OUTDOORS: Changes forthcoming for hunting, fishing
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission adopted changes to this year’s deer hunting regulations.
The most significant change is expansion of white-tailed deer hunting into 14 counties across the western Texas Panhandle.
The commission adopted the following changes to the 2016-17 Statewide Hunting Proclamation, which will be placed into the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Outdoor Annual:
• Elimination of the antlerless and spike-buck control permit due to a lack of demand.
• Define “unbranched antlered deer” to clear up what constitutes a legal buck across seasons and to eliminate confusion for hunters.
Fishing
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission approved a series of regulation changes affecting bass and catfish.
New rules have clarified saltwater length limits on black drum and amberjack, and rules prohibiting snagging a fish with a pole and line.
The changes to the 2016-17 state recreational and commercial fishing regulations take effect on Sept. 1, 2016.
Texas Fest musical lineup unveiled
Texas Fest will take place from May 20-22 at Toyota Stadium in Frisco, and the musical lineup has been announced.
Lee Brice, Kip Moore and Big & Rich with Cowboy Troy will be the headline musical entertainment.
CWD cases found
Two new cases of chronic wasting disease in Texas captive deer, including the first confirmed from a tonsil biopsy sample.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and Texas Animal Health Commission are conducting an epidemiological investigation into the new cases.
One case involves a 3½-year-old captive raised white-tailed doe born and raised on-site, and died on-site from natural causes at a facility in Medina County.
The live test finding is from a 2½-year-old- captive white-tailed buck in the Uvalde-Medina deer breeding facility that was the source of a CWD positive white-tailed buck harvested by a hunter from a release site on the same ranch. Read more from the outdoors notebook in the April 9 Bowie News.
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. (Logo provided by the TPWD, used with permission)
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.
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.
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.
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