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Volleyball Roundup

Published

5 years ago

08/24/2019

Nocona
The Nocona Lady Indians traveled on Tuesday to take on Bridgeport, one of the top ranked teams in 4A.
The Lady Indians hung in there in a back and forth match with neither team able to put the other away. Unfortunately, the home team pulled out the win in the fifth set to send Nocona home a little put down, but also encouraged.
The Sissies came in with division I recruit Zoe Hall and tall Anna Strother. The Lady Indians knew they were going to give them issues all night with the team’s relative lack of elite height at the net.
Still, Nocona battled in a first set that could have gone either way. Some service errors from the Lady Indians cost them the set as Bridgeport won 26-24.
Nocona refocused and dominated set two to win 25-10 to tie the match. The Sissies wrestled back control by closing out the end of set three to win 25-18 to retake the lead.
The fourth set was another battle with neither team able to gain much of a lead. This time the Lady Indians were able to make the plays at the end to take the set 26-24 to force a fifth set.
Bridgeport grabbed control of the set and won 15-9 to take the match.
Averee Kleinhans led Nocona with 26 kills while adding 11 digs, three assists and two blocks. Ella Nunneley provided a good second option with 15 kills while setter Trystin Fenoglio had a season high of 50 assists to go along with a team high three aces.
On defense, libero Laramie Hayes led the team with 19 digs while middle blocker Jessica Dingler led the team with three blocks.
Nocona next plays Lindsay at home at 6 p.m. on Aug. 27 before they get ready for its hosted Buckle Up for Lane tournament next weekend.

Prairie Valley
The Prairie Valley Lady Bulldogs traveled to Chillicothe on Tuesday night and picked up a solid win against the Lady Eagles in straight sets.
The Lady Bulldogs had to work to win each set, but were able win each by a comfortable enough lead to not sweat things too much. Prairie Valley won 25-18, 25-19 and 25-2.
Emily Carpenter led the team with 12 kills with Shelby Roof right behind her with 10 kills. Veronica Gutierrez dished out 14 assists to lead the team while libero Hailey Winkler led the team with 10 digs.
Prairie Valley next plays Northside at 5 p.m. at home on Aug. 27.

Forestburg
The Forestburg Lady Horns traveled to Perrin-Whitt on Tuesday and showed some good things to the Lady Pirates.
Unfortunately, the Lady Horns came up short as they lost in four sets.
Perrin-Whitt won the first set 25-13, but Forestburg came back to win a tightly contested second set 25-23 to show it was not playing around. The Lady Pirates tightened things up in sets three and four and took care of business to win 25-13 and 25-17 against the Lady Horns.
Keeleigh Burnam led the team with four kills and seven digs. Katie Willett led the team with five assists to go with her three kills. Athena Britain had a team high five aces to go along with two kills and five digs on defense.
Forestburg next plays at 5 p.m. at Bryson on Aug. 27.

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Nocona new press box put into place

Published

3 days ago

07/20/2024

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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.

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Richey repeats at IFYR

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3 days ago

07/20/2024

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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.

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Youth rodeo awards presented

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3 days ago

07/20/2024

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The Chisholm Trail Youth Rodeo presented awards for its summer season this week. Tess Egenbacher won the top cowgirl buckle for the 13-18 age division, which was presented to her by Kyle Bishop. (Courtesy photo)

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.