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Nocona softball loses shootout on road
The Nocona Lady Indians competed at Childress on Friday, but just could not keep up with the Lady Cats scoring.
Childress won 18-8 in five innings as the Lady Indians had their most successful game at the plate during district play.
Nocona was able to take the lead in the first inning as Kycelynn Contreras had a two RBI double to go up 2-0. The Lady Cats fired back with two runs of there own to tie the game 2-2 after one inning.
The Lady Indians failed to get anything going in the inning while Childress had a huge inning. After five hits, two errors and two walks, the Lady Cats had scored seven runs to go up 9-2.
Nocona would not give up. Taylor Richards scored on an error and Laci Stone drove in another run.
After loading the bases, Jenna McBride was able drive in a run with single to cut the lead to 9-5. Unfortunately, Childress was able to make up those runs by scoring three runs of its own with four walks and two hits, going up 12-5.
The Lady Indians were able to load the bases with two outs in the fourth inning, but could not come away with any runs. The Lady Cats continued to add to its lead, scoring four more runs thanks to three hits and one walked batter to up 16-5.
Nocona needed to score at least two runs to avoid being run ruled in the fifth inning. The Lady Indians were able to accomplish that as Gisel Hernandez drove in two runs with the bases loaded on a single up the middle. One more run was able to score thanks to an error in the outfield to make the score 16-8.
Nocona’s defense needed to hold if it wanted to avoid being run ruled, but it had failed to keep Childress from scoring at least two runs in every inning so far and that trend would continue. A fielding error led to one run scoring and another base hit drove in the winning run for the Lady Cats as they won 18-8.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week 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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