SPORTS
Bulldogs take second place at home meet
Despite the heavy rain this week, Prairie Valley was still able to host its cross country on meet on Sept. 26.
It was a smaller meet with a little more than 20 runners in the boys and girls races. This made every place count that much more and motivate each runner to push themselves every bit they could to try and beat the runner in front of them.
The Bulldog boys team finished second overall as a team and had the top finisher of the race, with last year’s state qualifier William Winler running a season best 18:37, beating second place by more than 30 seconds.
Other top finishers for Prairie Valley included Kaden Fleming in seventh place, Tyler Reid in eighth place, Isaac Yeargin in 12th place and Zak Smith in 15th place.
Coach Seth Stephens was pleased with how much better his boys ran from their first meet the previous week.
“All of my high school guys ran their best time of the year,” Stephens said.
The coach said it turned out to be a beautiful day after concerns the meet might get rained out.
“Not running in 95 degree heat definitely helped us I think, but our guys also are working hard at getting better. Their times are getting faster in practice as well. It was good to see Kaden Fleming bounce back this week. He had a rough week last week, he ran on a hurt ankle. This week it was feeling better and he ran 20:28. Of course it was good to see William win the gold. I’m really excited about seeing how our team continues to do moving forward.”
The girls team also finished second. Their top two runners finished close to each other at the top of the standings as Cosima Ermert finished second with a time of 14:37 while Allie Brown finished not too far behind her in third with at time of 14:48. The rest of the team saw Taylor Franklin finish 11th, Veronica Gutierrez 16th and Randi Gilleland 21st.
Read the full story in the weekend edition of The Bowie News.
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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