SPORTS
Nocona Lady Indians play Bridgeport
The Nocona Lady Indians softball team played a double header on Friday at Bridgeport.
Against the tough Lady Blues, Nocona lost both games by double digits as the games got out of hand real quick.
The Lady Indians had good first innings in both games to take an early lead. In the first game, Nocona was able to load the bases with one out when Kycelynn Contreras drove in two runs with a line drive single to left field.
Next batter, Taylor Richards, hit a double to left field to score another run. After her Laramie Hayes grounded out to second base, but it was enough to drive in Richards on third. The Lady Indians were up 4-0 before everything happened.
Bridgeport scored three runs in retaliation and eventually took the lead as costly errors and free bases allowed the Lady Blues to put up a constant stream of runs every inning. After a good first inning offensively, Nocona struggled for the rest of the game. Only two more base hits and a smattering of walks and hit batters was all the Lady Indians could muster as they lost 16-4.
The second game started much like the first as Nocona had another great first inning. Karlee Keck drove in a run with a triple to center field. Next batter Contreras drove her in with a single to left field.
After another base hit, Hayes hit the team’s second triple of the inning to right field to clear the bases. The Lady Indians led 4-0 again before the Lady Blues had even taken an at-bat, but the lead would stay a bit longer.
Bridgeport answered with only one run in the first inning. Nocona loaded the bases, but failed to score in the second inning while the Lady Blues cut the lead to 4-3 with a two RBI single.
The Lady Indians were able to get two base runners on with one out in the third inning thanks to a fielding error and a drawn walk. They were able to execute a double steal to get both runners in scoring position.
Next batter Laney Yates was able to drive in a run by grounding out to first base. That was followed by Jenna McBride driving in the other runner with a single to give Nocona a 6-3 lead.
Unfortunately, it was followed by a huge offensive inning for Bridgeport as the Lady Blues scored nine runs, going up 12-6 after three innings played. The Lady Indians could not respond as Bridgeport added two more runs in the fourth inning before the game was called in the fifth inning with the final score 14-6.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
The Bowie sports banquets was on Monday night. Olivia Gill and Tucker Jones were named Jackrabbit and Lady Rabbit of the year. Pick up the mid-week paper for all of the sports team awards and pictures.
The 72nd Chisholm Trail Rodeo was a big success on Friday and Saturday nights at Nocona.
The rodeo had big crowds and saw some good competition from both local and far reaching talent.
Winners in the events included Zach Hibler in bareback riding, Lindsey Muggli in barrel racing, Ashley Goforth in breakaway roping, Leanardo Lima in bull riding, Cody McCartney in calf roping, Thomas Moellering in ranch bronc riding, Wacey Hathcock in saddle bronc riding, Renato Finazzi in steer wrestling, Rowdy Jones and Rance Doyal in team roping.
To see full results and more pictures, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
The regional tennis tournaments were late last week in North Richland Hills and a doubles team is moving on to state.
The Saint Jo girl’s doubles team Kyler Dunn and Taylor Patrick won the 1A region III tournament and will return to state for the second straight year.
The pair rolled through teams from Morgan, Dodd City, Priddy before beating a Graford team in the finals. The pair did not lose a set and only lost five of the 53 games it played, never losing more than one in a set.
The team made it to state last year after finishing second at regionals and won a match at the state meet against a team from Vernon Northside. They then lost to the eventual state champion team from Utopia and finished tied for third place.
They will be the only tennis players from Montague County playing at state this week as others did not have as successful regional tournament.
The Saint Jo teammates and fellow girl’s doubles team Bailie Nobile and Maxey Johnson won their first match against Ector 6-1, 6-4, but fell in their next match against Lometa, 6-1, 6-1.
From Prairie Valley, Case Carpenter was competing in boy’s singles. His first match was a draining two and half hour battle against a player from Strawn Carpenter came through in the three-set battle, winning 6-4, 5-7, 6-4.
Unfortunately, the magic was not there in the second game. Paired against the eventual tournament champion from Gustine, Carpenter lost 6-0, 6-1.
From Gold-Burg, Alyson Rojas and Jimena Garcia competed in girl’s singles. Rojas won her first match against a girl from Avinger 7-6, 6-2. Unfortunately, the next match she lost to a girl from Graford 6-0, 6-0 to end her tournament.
Garcia lost a tough first match against a player from Ector. Both sets could have gone either way with the scores being 6-4, 7-5 to the winner.
The mixed doubles team from Forestburg, Jesse Wadsworth and Alli Cisneros, also did not make it through.
From Nocona, Kaygan Stone was playing in the girl’s singles 2A region II tournament.
Unfortunately, she got paired against the player who would go on to win the tournament in the first round to end her season.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
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