SPORTS
Football kicks-off Friday night
The first games of the Texas High School football regular season kicks off at 7:30 p.m. Friday night.
All five of Montague County’s football teams and their new head coaches start the quest to be the best team they can, with only two teams playing home games.
Bowie is traveling to Godly to take on the 4A Wildcats. Godly was a playoff team last year and returns 13 starters on both sides of the ball while also breaking in a new coach.
“They like to get the ball down the field,” Jackrabbits Coach Cory Mandrell said. “They have a big tall receiver they like to throw it to. A lot of their passing game is vertical passing. They like to throw the ball down the field. It is one of our big keys on defense for us.”
Nocona will start the season at home against familiar foe Boyd. A young team last year at key positions surprised some people by making it into the playoffs after the Yellow Jackets started off last year with a big win against the Indians at home.
“We are going to have our hands full,” Indians Coach Rick Weaver said. “We are going to have to come out and execute and do things right. We have to limit mental mistakes if we are going to stay in the ball game.”
The other home game will be at Forestburg. The Longhorns play the private school Lone Star North out of Gainesville. The one thing Forestburg has over the Tornados is experience as Lone Star North returns only a few starters.
A matchup of athleticism versus brawn should prove interesting.
Saint Jo is traveling to Fannindel, a team that shares its district with Montague County’s other two six-man teams. The Falcons won last year’s district title and are favored to win it this year as well.
Coach Mark Stevens’ biggest concern is trying to shutdown running back Dayton Dunbar.
“They are a very fast football team, especially their running back and are a predominately running team,” Stevens said. “They love to crowd the line of scrimmage so we are going to have to do a good job blocking , but I like where we are at.”
Gold-Burg starts of the season on the road at private school Notre Dame Catholic out of Wichita Falls. The Stars have all state running back Nathan Baker returning to carry the load on offense, but a lot of last years starters graduated.
The young Bears will try to prove a lot of doubters wrong and hanging with Notre Dame in any way will show this group has some fight.
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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