SPORTS
Lady Indians lose first game in district
The Nocona Lady Indians opened district play at home on Tuesday against Holliday.
The final score was ugly as the Lady Eagles won 20-0 in five innings. The only bright side is that 15 of those runs came in two innings, while the Lady Indians were able to limit Holliday’s offense to manageable in the other three.
In the top of the first with two outs, Nocona had a costly fielding error that allowed one run to score to give the Lady Eagles the lead. The Lady Indians swung early and often in the count on offense. While they made contact, three groundouts on only five pitches thrown, moved the game into the second inning.
Holliday’s offense went off the first time in the second inning. Six hits, three errors and one walk allowed the Lady Eagles to scored eight runs to go up 9-0. With the score going up, confidence from Nocona went down, which just snowballed things all inning.
On offense, a hit batter and Laramie Hayes hitting a double to right field put two runners in scoring position with two outs. Unfortunately, the next batter struck out to end what would be the Lady Indians best chance to score.
Holliday added a solo-home run in the top of the third inning to make it 10-0, but Nocona was able to limit the Lady Eagles to just that. The Lady Indians had no luck getting any base runners as the game moved to the fourth inning.
Holliday led off with another solo-home run and then added two more runs thanks to two walks, a double and an error. The Lady Eagles now led 13-0 while Nocona had no answer offensively.
The fifth inning saw Holliday hit a grand slam and three RBI double to make the score 20-0. The Lady Indians offense failed to respond with any base runners or hits as the game ended due to run rule.
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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