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Lady Indians finish in top 10

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6 years ago

09/29/2018

The Nocona Lady Indians claimed a ninth-place team finish out of a whopping 39 teams in the Arl Houston Ken Gaston 22nd Annual Invitational Cross Country Meet in Grand Prairie on Thursday.
With 294 points, the Lady Indians also landed in second place in the 3A division led by top individual Maria Hernandez, who medaled in the meet with a 19th place finish and time of 12:57.6.
Kylie Rose was just out of medal reach with a time or 13:03.5 in 22nd place, while Raylee Sparkman crossed the finish line at 13:25.1. It was another successful meet for the Lady Indians as they competed against more than 250 individual runners.
Nocona Lady Indians Cross Country Coach Kyle Spitzer feels the strong finish in such a large meet provided some confidence for his runners with all but two of his athletes finishing with their fastest time of the year.
“These girls expect a lot of themselves,” said Spitzer. “It’s been fun to watch the excitement they have for the team success as opposed to just individual success. I knew I was going to have a talented group of runners, but we have to keep putting in the work if we want to reach our goals. It won’t be easy, but I know these girls are up for the challenge.”
Meanwhile, the Nocona Indians raced to a 30th place team finish out of 37 teams and 280 individual runners in the 4A and under race.
Tyler Richards set the pace for the Indians, finishing in 164th place with a time of 21:067, followed by Lyndon Fenoglio with a time of 21:47.3 and Hank Ulbig who crossed the finish line with a time of 21:48.6.
“I ran some new kids this week, due to injuries,” explained Nocona Indians Cross Country Coach Colby Schniederjan . “We are continuing to make improvements on strategy and our speed. We have one more practice race to prepare for district.”

To see the full list of results, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.

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Nocona new press box put into place

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2 days ago

07/20/2024

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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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2 days ago

07/20/2024

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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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3 days ago

07/20/2024

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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.