SPORTS
County athletes named all-state
Three county athletes were named to the Texas Girls Coaches Association all-state volleyball teams.
Charity Brawner and Bailey Melton from Saint Jo and Averee Kleinhans from Nocona were selected from Montague County as each player helped their teams and programs push farther than they have in recent memory.
Both seniors, Brawner and Melton helped push the Lady Panther’s volleyball program to the regional quarterfinals last year and all the way to the regional finals this year. As only a sophomore, Kleinhans helped the Lady Indians to the regional quarterfinals for the first time since 2013.
All three players shined in their positional roles, but were versatile enough defensively to never come off the court and play in the back rows.
Brawner was a setter and was named her district’s most valuable player, but she was more than a setter. She blocked in the front row, played defense in the back, could attack with spikes, employed aggressive dump sets and varied her sets among five different attackers to keep defenses off balance.
Kleinhans also was named her district’s most valuable player. As an outside hitter, she was an attacker that never stopped coming. She varied up her spikes enough from hard hits, aimed hits and tips that made her unpredictable. Besides that, she also easily led her team in digs, employed a hard hitting jump serve and was the emotional heart of the team that was up when she was up.
Melton was a middle blocker and was named the offensive most valuable player of her district. Standing 5-foot-10-inches, she was the size Saint Jo needed to not get dwarfed at the net against bigger teams. She was offensively a trump card after steady doses of outside hits from her teammates. Her size also allowed her to block and was good enough to play in the back row.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of 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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