SPORTS
Youth rodeo top results posted
The Jim Bowie Days Youth Rodeo took place on Tuesday and Wednesday night at the Bowie Rodeo grounds.
Tuesday night was filled with speed events like poles, barrels and ribbon goats. Poles kicked off the night.
In the six-and-under division, Hayva Hawkins won with a time of 23.257 seconds. In the 7-10 division, Charli Massey won with a time of 21.606 seconds.
The 11-14 age division was won by Charli Snow with a time of 21.796 seconds. The 15-19 division was won by Emily Williams with a time of 20.976 seconds.
Next up was barrel racing as Knoxlee Elliot won the six-and-under division with a time of 18.034 seconds. In the 7-10 division Charley Sellers won first with a time of 16.298 seconds.
The 11-14 age division was won by Jada Trosper with a time of 16.503 seconds.
The 15-19 division saw Kylee Scribner win with a time of 16.611 seconds.
The other speed event was goat ribbon pulling. Hayva Hawkins won the six-and-under age division with a time of 8.95 seconds. Charlie Sellers again won the 7-10 division with a time of 13.40 seconds.
In the 11-14 age division Jeanie Marie Hall won with a time of 13.72 seconds. Mackenzie Whitaker won the 15-19s with a time of 13.62 seconds.
Wednesday night was all about the roping events at the youth rodeo. The first event was breakaway roping.
In the 13-and-under age division Hayden Smith and Dalton Huston ended up tying for first with times of 3.76 seconds. The 14-19 division was won by Riley Webb with a time of 2.92 seconds.
Next was the ribbon roping event. Hayden Smith finished first in the 13-and-under division with a time of 7.74 seconds. Clayton Huston won the 14-19 age division with a time of 6.33 seconds.
Tie down roping was won by Caleb Webb in the 13-and-under division with a time of 17.99 seconds. Clayton Huston won the 14-19 age division with a time of 9.61 seconds.
The final event was team roping. The team of Brogan Sims and Kelton Denham finished first in the 13-and-under age division with a time of 15.70 second. As of press time, the 14-19 results had not been posted.
For more pictures, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News. For full results, click here.
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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