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Realignment: No big shake ups
Monday morning saw the official release for the University Interscholastic League’s district realignment for 2020-2022 school years with no big changes for local teams.
The cutoff numbers had already been released back in December for schools going up or down in classification whereas Monday was the release of districts.
The Jackrabbit’s football team got no breaks as the same hard district stayed put. The Indians’ football program dropped state power Gunter and S&S Consolidated while picking up Valley View. The newcomers have made the playoffs in two of their last three seasons.
The Saint Jo football district drops Savoy, who went 0-4 in district, and picks up charter school TLC-Arlington, a program without much of a track record in six-man.
The Gold-Burg and Forestburg football district will now have four teams as Trinidad joins Ladonia Fannindel. The new Trojans have made the playoffs the last few years, making a playoff berth tougher.
In basketball and volleyball, Bowie and Nocona will no longer have to make the two-hour drive to Childress. The Bobcats were replaced with familiar district foe Jacksboro and Breckenridge. Both programs have held their own in district seven against Brock, Peaster, Boyd, Millsap and Paradise and look to only make the district harder in most cases.
For the 1A volleyball teams, things will still be tough, but different. For the Lady Panthers and Lady Horns, the familiar faces besides each other will be Alvord and Lindsay. The district gets another 1A school with Perrin-Whitt, but new 2A schools include Graford, Poolville and Chico.
What this changes is the automatic playoff berth for both programs. With the Lady Pirates in the mix, one team could stay home for the playoffs.
The district for Prairie Valley and Gold-Burg volleyball teams almost stayed the same. The only difference was the inclusion of another 1A school, Bryson, into the mix. With four 1A teams, the challenge to be one of the top two will be a tougher road as the Cowgirls are coming off a regional tournament appearance.
The 1A basketball district will keep the same seven teams that have been in the district since 2016. Slidell continues to rule on both the boys and girls side as state powers everyone has to deal with and aspire to.
The full district realignment list can be found online at https://realignment.uiltexas.org/.
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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