SPORTS
District titles go to Prairie Valley boys, Saint Jo girl’s teams
The district 22-1A golf tournament was on April 3 at the Indian Oaks Golf Course in Nocona.
In the end, boys from Prairie Valley won that second straight district title while the girls from Saint Jo surprised themselves, winning by just four strokes.
The Bulldogs won in dominant fashion by 44 strokes. Carter Lemon not only led Prairie Valley with a score of 84, but the entire field as second place was 26 strokes behind.
Teammates William Winkler and Shane Roof finished fourth and sixth individually with scores of 111 and 115.
The Lady Panthers won the district title by just four strokes to second place Midway and by six strokes from third place Prairie Valley. Jayla Thomas led Saint Jo with a 119, good for second place in the entire field. Teammate Hallie Hinds joined her in the top 10 with a score of 127.
Their Coach Michael Wheeler was not expecting his girls to take home the district title.
“It was a pleasant surprise for the girls to take first place, and proved the little amount of practice we had paid off just enough,” Wheeler said.
On the boy’s side, other regional qualifiers came from Carson Rowlett from Forestburg and Paden Jarosz from Saint Jo.
On the girl’s side, Shelby Roof and Molly Gilleland both qualified for regionals despite the Lady Bulldogs team coming two strokes short of qualifying as a team in third place
The regional tournament is scheduled to take place at the Squaw Valley Golf Course in Glen Rose. The boys will play April 22-23 and the girls April 24-25.
To see the full list of results for Montague County schools, 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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