SPORTS
Nocona teams battle on the road
Both of Nocona’s basketball teams had road games on Tuesday night.
The Indians traveled to Archer City and won their season opener 56-45 while the Lady Indians lost their first game of the season at Era 52-45.
The boy’s team got out to a good start in the first quarter making four three-pointers and leading 20-12. While the scoring went down in the second and third quarters for Nocona, the Indians had built a double digit lead heading into the fourth quarter.
Both teams’ offenses came alive in the fourth quarter, with Nocona almost equaling its first quarter start scoring 19 points to close out the game. The Wildcats almost equaled that mark scoring 18, but it was not enough to close a double digit gap as the Indians won 56-45.
The Nocona girl’s team started off the game against the Lady Hornets by falling behind a little as Era Led 14-10 after the first quarter. The second quarter saw the Lady Indians tie the score up at 22-22 at halftime.
The third quarter saw Nocona pull away, outscoring the Lady Hornets 17-7 in the quarter and taking a 39-29 lead. Averee Kleinhans scored 13 of her teams points in the quarter to help build the lead.
Unfortunately, Era came back. The Lady Indians offense stalled out and only scored six points in the quarter. Era exploded to score 23 points with 17 coming from Briana Knabe in the quarter.
It was enough to push the Lady Hornets over the top to win 52-45.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekend 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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