SPORTS
All-district 3A girls teams announced
District awards for Bowie and Nocona’s girl’s basketball teams are out as both teams had several players recognized.
First team all-district from Bowie went to the duo of Aslyn Davis and Hope Howard. The juniors were the only returning starters from last year’s team and were the steadying force even in the hardest of times.
Davis impacted the game in every way even when she was not scoring while being versatile enough to play on the perimeter or inside. Howard was the reliable scorer in the post while she led the team in both points and rebounds.
Little point guard Brysen Richey was named to the second team as she ran the show in initiating the offense. Defensively, Richey’s quick hands allowed her to lead the team in steals.
Three Lady Indians’ players were honored with superlative awards. The districts leading scorer Averee Kleinhans was named the co-most valuable player as she ran the show for Nocona all year. Her combination of size, skill and along with a killer mentality made her the major component that made the Lady Indians team go.
Kleinhans running mate and cousin Trystin Fenoglio was named co-offensive player of the year. She shared ball handling duties with Kleinhans and against some of the tougher teams Nocona faced, Fenoglio came up big.
The Lady Indians’ post player Karlee Brown earned co-newcomer of the year as she was a key contributor off the bench who went beyond adding more depth.
In the rough and tumble game of girl’s high school basketball, the tall freshman held her own against the older competition and even had a few double digit scoring games.
For Nocona, first team honors went to Laramie Hayes and Rachel Patrick. Both did a lot of the little things like defense and rebounding. Hayes as the starting post player consistently held her own even when she was outsized.
Patrick impacted the game as a versatile, all energy, hustle player on defense and a smart ball mover on offense.
Second team honors went to guard Brooke O’Neal.
She contributed well with her spot up shooting from three-point range playing off of two willing playmakers and her pesky, jittery perimeter defense.
With the Lady Indians winning the outright district title, Coach Kyle Spitzer and his assistant coaches Jenni Luke and Clayton Brown were named the staff of the year in the district.
To see the full list, 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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