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Nocona Lady Indians volleyball finish runner-up at Graham

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The Nocona Lady Indians had another successful tournament at Graham over the weekend, coming up just short of winning the entire tournament.
The Lady Indians cruised through pool play on Friday and the gold bracket on Saturday before falling short in the championship game against Denver City.
Nocona played four teams in pool play on Friday, with two of them against Hawley and Denver City having to go to a third and final set.
After blowing Hawley away in the first set 25-9, the next two sets were back and forth. Hawley was able to win the second set 25-21 to force a third set.
It could have gone either way, but the Lady Indians pulled out the win 25-23.
Against Denver City, Nocona was able to win the first set convincingly 25-18. The second set went back and forth, needing to go to extra points where Denver City pulled out the win 27-25 to force a third set. The Lady Indians were able to pull themselves together and won the third set by a comfortable margin 25-16.
The 4-0 record allowed Nocona to go to the gold bracket. Their opening game on Saturday against Miller Grove proved no challenge as the Lady Indians won in straight sets easily.
Their next game against Clyde provided more of a challenge, with Clyde stealing the first set 25-22 to take the lead. Nocona battled in the second set and was able to pull it out with a close 25-23 win to force a third set.
The Lady Indians took control of the third set and won by a comfortable margin 25-18 to win the match and put them in the championship game.
They would have a rematch against Denver City, where unfortunately things did not go like the previous day.
“In the championship game against Denver City, we lost a close first set (25-22) and just lost our focus,” Coach Tiffany Clay said. “We got blocked a couple of times and our mindset went from being aggressive to playing it safe. They had three big guns and defensively were pretty scrappy so that just gave them an opportunity to stay in system and attack back at us.”
Denver City won the second set easily 25-14 to win in straight sets and the championship.

To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.

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Bowie Sports Banquet

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The Bowie sports banquets was on Monday night. Olivia Gill and Tucker Jones were named Jackrabbit and Lady Rabbit of the year. Pick up the mid-week paper for all of the sports team awards and pictures.

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Chisholm Trail Rodeo entertains crowd

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A steer wrestler gets a good grip as he comes off his horse to get the steer on the ground. (Photo by Benjimen Barker from J Bar S Photography)

The 72nd Chisholm Trail Rodeo was a big success on Friday and Saturday nights at Nocona.
The rodeo had big crowds and saw some good competition from both local and far reaching talent.
Winners in the events included Zach Hibler in bareback riding, Lindsey Muggli in barrel racing, Ashley Goforth in breakaway roping, Leanardo Lima in bull riding, Cody McCartney in calf roping, Thomas Moellering in ranch bronc riding, Wacey Hathcock in saddle bronc riding, Renato Finazzi in steer wrestling, Rowdy Jones and Rance Doyal in team roping.

To see full results and more pictures, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.

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Saint Jo pair heading back to state tennis

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Saint Jo girl’s doubles team Kyler Dunn and Taylor Patrick won the 1A region III tournament to earn a second straight trip to state. (Courtesy photo)

The regional tennis tournaments were late last week in North Richland Hills and a doubles team is moving on to state.
The Saint Jo girl’s doubles team Kyler Dunn and Taylor Patrick won the 1A region III tournament and will return to state for the second straight year.
The pair rolled through teams from Morgan, Dodd City, Priddy before beating a Graford team in the finals. The pair did not lose a set and only lost five of the 53 games it played, never losing more than one in a set.
The team made it to state last year after finishing second at regionals and won a match at the state meet against a team from Vernon Northside. They then lost to the eventual state champion team from Utopia and finished tied for third place.
They will be the only tennis players from Montague County playing at state this week as others did not have as successful regional tournament.
The Saint Jo teammates and fellow girl’s doubles team Bailie Nobile and Maxey Johnson won their first match against Ector 6-1, 6-4, but fell in their next match against Lometa, 6-1, 6-1.
From Prairie Valley, Case Carpenter was competing in boy’s singles. His first match was a draining two and half hour battle against a player from Strawn Carpenter came through in the three-set battle, winning 6-4, 5-7, 6-4.
Unfortunately, the magic was not there in the second game. Paired against the eventual tournament champion from Gustine, Carpenter lost 6-0, 6-1.
From Gold-Burg, Alyson Rojas and Jimena Garcia competed in girl’s singles. Rojas won her first match against a girl from Avinger 7-6, 6-2. Unfortunately, the next match she lost to a girl from Graford 6-0, 6-0 to end her tournament.
Garcia lost a tough first match against a player from Ector. Both sets could have gone either way with the scores being 6-4, 7-5 to the winner.
The mixed doubles team from Forestburg, Jesse Wadsworth and Alli Cisneros, also did not make it through.
From Nocona, Kaygan Stone was playing in the girl’s singles 2A region II tournament.
Unfortunately, she got paired against the player who would go on to win the tournament in the first round to end her season.

To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.

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