SPORTS
Nocona Lady Indians season comes to an end
The Nocona Lady Indians played their final game of the season on Friday at City View.
Playing one of the best teams in the district, the Lady Indians struggled as the Lady Mustangs won 15-0 in four innings.
Against City View’s good pitcher, Nocona batters struck out twice and failed to get a runner on in the first inning. Two base hits and two fielding errors led to the Lady Mustangs scoring three runs to take a 3-0 lead after one inning.
Kycelynn Contreras hit a one out line drive to left field for a base hit, but Nocona batters still struggled to make contact as three strikeouts. Contreras was left stranded at first.
Eight hits, including two home runs, led to City View adding six runs to its lead. The Lady Mustangs led 9-0 after two innings.
Gisel Hernandez hit a groundball single with two outs, but the third strikeout of the inning put a stop to any momentum to be gained.
A fielding error and a base hit scored one run to extend the Lady Mustangs lead to 10-0, but the Lady Indians were able to throw a base runner out and force a fly out to center field to hold City View to just one run.
In the fourth inning Koryahanna Ramsey led off and got hit by a pitch to get on base. Contreras hit a single to left field two batters later to get two base runners on with one out. The Lady Indians could not take advantage as a strikeout and a ground out to third base ended the scoring chance.
Four hits and two walks allowed the Lady Mustangs to score five runs, ending the game due to run rule as City View won 15-0.
The loss ended Nocona’s season on a sour note as the Lady Indians were coming off their only district win the game before against Childress. Despite the record, it is more than last year’s team was able to do. Considering they will return all but three players and it might be a positive sign for the Lady Indians moving forward.
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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