SPORTS
Nocona’s late rally comes up short
The Nocona Indians baseball team traveled to Callisburg on Monday despite the weather to take on the Wildcats.
The Indians came up short 9-4 despite a seventh inning rally that made Callisburg sweat a bit late in the game.
Nocona could not get anything going in the first inning offensively. On defense, a leadoff single followed by three walks and a sacrifice fly scored two runs for the Wildcats to go up 2-0.
Neither team had much going on in the second or third innings. Callisburg hit a two out triple to score a run in the bottom of the fourth to go up 3-0.
In the bottom of the fifth, a leadoff single came back to bite Nocona as a two out error allowed that runner to score to make the Wildcats lead go to 4-0.
The bottom of the sixth inning is when Callisburg had the big inning, scoring five runs with two outs thanks to four hits, an error and a walk.
With the Wildcats up 9-0 heading into the final inning and the Indians not threatening to score up to that point, it looked like Callisburg would coast to the finish.
Nocona rallied in the top of the seventh. A leadoff walk and a hit batter put two runners on base. Jason Sparkman then doubled into center field to score one run and put two runners in scoring position with no outs.
Trenten Womack then followed that up with another double up the middle to score another runner.
Still down 9-2, with no outs and momentum on the relief picture in for the Wildcats, things still looked promising.
The next batter for Nocona struck out for the first out and Duece Glasker grounded out to second base for the second out. Sparkman was able to score on the hit though to make it 9-3 with two outs and a runner on third base.
Next batter Jacob Morris singled to score the runner on third to make it 9-4, almost cutting the lead in half.
The next batter was hit by the pitch to put two runners on, but the ride came to an end when the runner at second was caught stealing third to end the game.
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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