SPORTS
County baseball all-district teams
The all district baseball teams were announced for schools within Montague County.
For the Bowie Jackrabbits, seniors Riley Partridge and Keck Jones were named to the second team. Partridge made it as a pitcher and Jones as the catcher.
“Keck did a great job playing catcher for the first time,” Coach Glen Dunnam said. “He was a valuable leader for us. Riley did a great job pitching when called upon. He pitched in some pressure situations and did a great job.”
Honorable mention members included Rylan Dorman, Evan Kennedy, Chance Tomlinson and Taylor Pigg.
Nocona had four players named second team all district and all were seniors: Jeremy James at pitcher, Cade Breeze at first base, Charles Evans at second base and Jose Ogeda in the outfield.
Coach Casey Jones felt Ogeda deserved to make the first team due to his all around play in the field, at the plate and on the base paths for the Indians.
“I believe he should have been a unanimous first team all district selection but was voted on by the district coaches as second team,” Jones said. “If our record had been different he would have been first team.”
Honorable mention players included Tanner Cable as a utility player, Logan Barnes in the outfield and Bradon Ohagan at catcher.
Saint Jo baseball had nine players honored with all district awards. Senior Harper Roberts was named Newcomer of the Year in the district along with being named first team all district, while also serving as team captain.
Senior Jake Morris and sophomore Connor Thompson also was named first team all district.
Coach Derek Schlieve also was named coach of the year in the district.
For the second team, sophomores Brock Durham, Eli Jones, Cody Thurman were given the honor. Honorable mention members included junior Preston Lyons, sophomore Logan Morman and freshman Wyatt Geurin.
Prairie Valley
The Prairie Valley Bulldogs had a good final non-district warm-up on Friday at home against Ector.
The Eagles beat the Bulldogs 69-63 in a game where Prairie Valley was trying to play catch up all the way through.
The Bulldogs were coming off a tough tournament at Electra the previous week to try and knock the holiday rust off. Prairie Valley was familiar with Ector, having played the team to start its season back in early November and was hoping to compete better than it did in that first game.
The Eagles came out firing, splashing five 3-pointers, including several deep ones, to go out to a 21-8 lead in the first quarter. Even with the Bulldogs changing out of their preferred zone defense, the 3-pointers continued a bit and opened things up inside the arc.
Thankfully, Prairie Valley’s offense came alive in the second quarter, scoring 18 points and cutting the lead down to 38-26 at halftime.
The third quarter was more of the same, though a different player for Ector started to get hot from beyond the arc. Even as the Bulldogs were able to keep up their offensive production from the second quarter, they could not break through and cut the game to single-digits, trailing 54-42 heading into the final period.
The fourth quarter saw Prairie Valley break through to cut it the lead to single-digits, but just not close enough. Every time the Bulldogs were on the cusp of making it a one or two basket game, the Eagles would make a shot to keep that distance.
In the end, the final score was the closest Prairie Valley got as Ector won 69-63.
Nocona
The Nocona Indians bounced back with a competitive district win at Petrolia on Friday.
The Indians won 60-53 against the Pirates in a game where the middle quarters took drastic swings in momentum.
Nocona was coming off its first district loss against Windthorst as the team sat a 1-1 district record.
Petrolia came into the game at 0-1, but had a bit more time to prepare for the game.
The first quarter was competitive, but the Indians were able to get to the free throw line at will and led 16-11.
Then Nocona’s pressure defense turned up its intensity in the second quarter.
“Our pressure seemed to disrupt them and we were able to get out in transition after forcing turnovers,” Coach Brody Wilson said.
Nocona scored 25 points and led 41-25 at halftime.
Unfortunately, that intensity did not keep up at the start of the third quarter for Nocona.
The Indians took their foot off the gas a little bit which allowed Petrolia’s offense to get back into the game and make up some of the deficit.
The Pirates outscored Nocona 15-7 and trailed only 48-40 heading into the final period.
Thankfully, the Indians bounced back and competed a bit better in the fourth quarter. Nocona was able to keep offensive pace to keep Petrolia at a bit of a distance instead of making it a one score game.
The Indians held on to win 60-53.
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