SPORTS
Lady Indians take Childress at buzzer
It was a memorable senior night for the Nocona Lady Indians on Friday as they avenged their only loss in district in dramatic fashion.
Thanks to a desperation three-pointer at the buzzer from Averee Kleinhans, the Lady Indians avoided overtime as they beat Childress 43-40. With one game to go, the win puts Nocona in first place in the district.
The Lady Indians knew they were in for a tough night when the Lady Cats tall post player Grace Foster scored 10 points both inside and out halfway through the first quarter as Childress led 10-3.
Nocona got back into the game by pushing the ball in transition for scores at the basket from Kleinhans, but the Lady Cats led 12-10 heading into the second quarter.
Childress was able to make a few three-pointers as they stayed a couple of scores ahead of the Lady Indians in the second quarter. Foster continued to walk her way into pull-up three-pointers and drives to the basket. Even with an extra defender coming in to help, she was able to score. A three-pointer at the buzzer from Foster put the Lady Cats up 28-23, with Foster scoring 20 of their points.
Nocona needed to make some adjustments, but with no players as physically as imposing as her, Coach Kyle Spitzer knew it would take the team.
The Lady Indians came out ready to play in the third quarter as Kleinhans scored five points to tie up the game in the first minute and half. Childress tried to take advantage of Foster’s size by trying to post her up, but Nocona’s Rachel Patrick was put on her to make her work.
Patrick would front Foster in the post so that her teammates would have to throw the ball over her, but a second defender was ready to come over and double if they tried to make the pass. This seemed to crater the Lady Cats offense as no one else was able to get a good shot at the basket as they hesitated to risk a tough pass inside to Foster.
Only once were they able to get her the ball and she scored while picking up a foul, making the free throw. It proved to be the only points of the quarter for Childress.
Kleinhans continued to her scoring as she scored five more points while Brooke O’Neal added a running basket over Foster. The Lady Indians took the lead 35-31 heading into the fourth quarter with all the momentum.
The fourth quarter was much slower paced than any of the quarters had been. Midway through the fourth, with Nocona up 38-33, the Lady Indians started to stall and run some clock. The Lady Cats were able to cut the lead to 40-38 with less than two minutes to go.
Both teams missed several free throws before Childress tied the game with less than a minute to go and had a chance to take the lead twice, but air balled both shots.
Nocona had the ball with five seconds left taking it out from underneath its basket. The ball made its way to Kleinhans hands who raced up the floor and veered a little to the right center just beyond the arc.
With two defenders contesting, including the tall Foster, Kleinhans tried her best to draw contact to maybe get a foul call before releasing. No foul was called, but the ball went through the hoop as the buzzer sounded, giving the Lady Indians a 43-40 victory.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
With summer starting up, the first few days can be spent with kids spending some time learning basketball fundamentals and having fun at either Bowie or Nocona.
For Bowie kids, both boy and girl camps will be on May 28-30 and will cost $60 per camper. School employs will have to pay $50.
There will be two sessions for younger and older kids.
For the girl’s camp, incoming 2-5th graders will make up the younger kid session which will be at the junior high from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The older session will be incoming 6-9th graders which will be at the high school from 8:30-10:30 a.m.
The boy’s camp will have incoming campers from kindergarten to 5th grade in the first session at the junior high from 8:30-10:30 a.m.
The older session for incoming 6-9th graders will be scheduled for 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the high school.
Both camp registration forms can be found on the Bowie ISD Athletics Facebook page.
Walk-ups on the first day also will be available.
Any questions can be emailed to Ryan Dykes at [email protected] for the boys camp and Matthew Miller at [email protected] for the girls camp.
For Nocona kids, both boy and girl basketball camps will be on May 28-30 and will cost $50 per camper.
The girl’s basketball camp will have incoming 5-9th graders in the high school gym from 9 a.m. to noon. The younger session of incoming kindergarteners to 4th graders will be at the elementary school gym from 1-3 p.m.
The boy’s basketball camp will have oncoming 5-9th graders at the elementary school gym from 9-11 a.m. The incoming kindergarteners to 4th graders will be in the high school gym from 12:30-3:30 p.m.
For more information on how to sign up ahead of time, email Kyle Spitzer at [email protected] for the girls camp and Brody Wilson at [email protected] for the boys camp.
Gold-Burg hosted its high school awards banquet on May 16. Jayon Grace was chosen for the boy’s Iron Bear award, given to the best overall athlete by Coach Christian Healer.
To see pictures of all of the team award winners, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.
Bellevue High School is planning on adding another sport next school year and a new hire was the catalyst.
Carrington Davis thought she was just going in to interview for the open elementary teacher position. During the interview, Principal Lori Shoemaker brought up her powerlifting past.
Davis, a 2019 graduate from Bowie, spent all four years in high school lifting on top of playing softball, doing well enough to make it to the state meet every year and earning fifth and second place medals her last two seasons.
Since then, while going to college at Midwestern State University, she has stayed in the powerlifting world by serving as a judge at meets the last five years.
“I think it changes your perspective on the sport,” Davis said. “When you are an athlete you know the lift, but you are kind of behind this curtain. Being a judge opens you up to all of the other things. You get to see which coaches know the sport more than others. I honestly think being a judge will help me in the competition part of it more than me having been a lifter.”
That kind of experience was what interested Shoemaker in proposing Davis head the start of the Eagles’ powerlifting program.
“We have a large group of kids who are built for powerlifting and we are excited to see what they make of it with them coming into high school,” Shoemaker said.
Davis graduated this month from MSU with her bachelors of science in education degree. She is excited to start the program up, knowing what the sport of powerlifting provided for her and her teammates in high school.
““It is an all-around beneficial sport,” Davis said. “It helps you grow in your skillset, your strength and endurance for any of the other sports you play. Also, it helps with your confidence a lot. It is an individual sport and most kids are used to team sports and maybe getting put on the backburner if they are not the best at something. Powerlifting is a sport where you can showcase your own individual skills. You get out what you put in.”
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.
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