SPORTS
Football Roundup
Nocona
The Nocona Indians picked up their first district win of the season on Friday with a win against Callisburg.
The Indians overcame a slow start to win comfortably 33-13. Early on things were not looking good.
The Wildcats scored on their first two drives and led 13-0. Nocona’s plan to run right at the defense was not working. The Indians defense needed to key on some different things. With adjustments made, both sides of the ball turned things around.
On offense, Nocona went to the air as quarterback Carter Horn brushed off an interception as he completed 17 of 23 passes for 253 yards and one touchdown pass. It went to Jason Sparkman, who led the team with nine catches for 118 yards receiving.
The Indians never really got things going well on the ground offensively, but when they were close Horn scored four rushing touchdowns and led the team with 38 yards rushing. The defense did not allow Callisburg to score again as Nocona won by 20 points.
Saint Jo
The Saint Jo Panthers started district on the road at Savoy on Friday while continuing their undefeated start to the season.
No game has gone to regulation yet for the Panthers and Friday was no different as Saint Jo won 52-2 by halftime.
Outside of a safety by the Cardinals that cut the score to 8-2 in the first quarter, the game was dominated by the Panthers. Most of the damage on offense came on the ground as Brayden Bell led the team with 87 yards rushing while scoring a touchdown.
Logan Brawner led the team with three touchdowns scored, two on the ground and one on a catch. Connor Thompson and Chance Bennett both scored on their only carries of the game. Eli Jones threw his other touchdown pass to Logan Morman.
On defense it was even more dominant. The defense allowed only -14 yards of total offense and one first down. Bennett recovered a fumble on defense as the lone takeaway of the game.
Gold-Burg and Forestburg were off last week.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
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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