SPORTS
Nocona softball wins 16-8; baseball team falls short
The Nocona baseball and softball teams hosted Childress on Tuesday night.
While the Lady Indians were able to have a happy senior night by picking up their first district win 16-4, the Indians lost 13-0.
The Nocona softball team was playing its final home game of the season.
The Lady Cats got one run across in their first at bat. The Lady Indians stayed patient and were rewarded with seven free bases in the first inning along with one RBI single from Kycelyn Contreras, scoring four runs to take a 4-1 lead.
Nocona scored eight runs in the second inning, getting RBIs from Karlee Keck, Laney Yates, two from Gisel Hernandez and a three-run home run from Laci Stone. The Lady Indians lead was up to 12-1.
Childress hit its own three-run home run in the third inning to cut the lead to 12-4, but the Lady Indians did not take it laying down.
After walking another run in, Hernandez cleared the bases with double to boost the lead up to 16-4.
After a scoreless fourth inning a part of the fifth, the game was called due to run rule as Nocona won its first district game of the season.
Coach Bryan Ballard did not have much to complain about.
“I felt we played very well,” Ballard said. “We came out swinging the bats while being very patient at the plate. We were able to take the lead in the first and never gave it back which was very nice to see.”
Nocona played its last game on Friday at City View.
The Indians baseball team did not play as well. Childress scored four runs in the first inning to get out to a 4-0 lead.
Nocona struggled to get any base runners on while the Bobcats added runs in the third and fourth innings before exploding for seven in the fifth inning.
With the Indians struggling to score runs, Childress won 13-0 after five innings.
Coach Jeremy Kirk could not come up with one aspect his team did well in or could take from the game.
Nocona plays its final game at 5 p.m. against Holliday at home for senior night
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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