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TRACK AND FIELD: Region 1A-3 meet starts Friday

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The Conference 1A-Region 3 meet is slated for April 29-30 at Tarleton State University in Stephenville.
The meet will feature Forestburg, Saint Jo, Prairie Valley, Gold-Burg and Bellevue.
The event will start with boys’ long jump, girls’ pole vault and girls’ discus at 9 a.m. on April 29.
Next up comes the 3,200-meter run; this event will be finals only.
The girls’ long jump, boys’ pole vault and boys’ discus follow at 11:30 a.m.
Preliminaries will take place starting at 3:30 p.m. starting with the 400-meter relay, followed by the 100/110 high hurdles, 100 dash, 800 relay, 400 dash, 300 intermediate hurdles, 200 dash and 1,600 relay.
There will be a short recovery period just before the 1,600 relay.
Field events will begin again at 9 a.m. on April 30, with girls’ triple jump, boys’ high jump and girls’ shot put. The boys’ triple jump, girls’ high jump and boys’ shot put will follow at 11:30 a.m.
The opening ceremony for the running event finals is set for 2:15 p.m. that day. Read more in the April 27 Bowie News, which includes a list of all area Conference 1A qualifiers.

Forestburg’s Kaylee Choate won the 800-meter run at the Area 1A-21-22 meet, and she will compete at the Region 1A-3 event set to begin on Friday in Stephenville. (News photo by Eric Viccaro) 

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Nocona new press box put into place

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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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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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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.

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