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Nocona volleyball finishes second at Buckle Up for Lane

Published

5 years ago

09/04/2019

The Nocona Lady Indians volleyball team played in its last tournament of the season last week with the hosted “Buckle Up for Lane’s Sake.”
Named after Nocona High School student Lane Fenoglio, who died in an auto accident in 1998, the tournament had 25 of the area’s top teams compete for area pride.
The host Lady Indians almost won it all, losing the championship game of the gold bracket to one of the top ranked teams in the state in 3A Boyd.
In pool play on Thursday, Nocona started out the tournament on a tough note. Sanger gave the Lady Indians issues, winning a close second set 27-25 to force a third set Nocona was able to pull out 25-21.
After the opening match the Lady Indians won their next three matches on the day against Electra, Burkburnett and Callisburg all in straight sets.
With no losses in pool play, Nocona qualified for the gold bracket on Saturday with a top seed. Still it would not be easy.
The Lady Indians faced off against Iowa Park. The Lady Hawks won the first set 25-22 to give Nocona a pause. The Lady Indians were able to regroup and win the next two sets and keeping Iowa Park out of the 20s with scores 25-18 and 25-16.
The next match against Melissa was not any easier. After winning the first set easily 25-17, the Lady Cardinals won the second set 25-22 to force a third set. It could have gone either way, but Nocona won the set by the narrowest of margins 25-23 to make it to the championship game.
Boyd came into the championship match without having lost a set all tournament. The Lady Indians gave it their best shot and made the Lady Yellowjackets earn it in set one with a 25-21 win. The second set got away from Nocona as Boyd won 25-8 to win the tournament title.

To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.

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Nocona new press box put into place

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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.