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Nocona boys beat Bowie 42-35

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Bowie and Nocona faced off for the second time this season at the Indians’ court on Tuesday.
It was closer than the first matchup two weeks earlier, but same result as Nocona won 42-35.
Both teams came in desperately needing wins after facing some recent tough losses.
The game started out slow. Despite losing leading scorer Jason Sparkman to early foul trouble, the Indians were up 5-0 midway through the first quarter. The Jackrabbits tied the score in the next minute, but Nocona ended the quarter on a 6-0 run to go up 11-5.
Bowie tried to switch up its defense in the second quarter featuring more trapping. This worked to get the Jackrabbits to cut the lead to 15-13.
Again, the Indians ended the quarter strong, leading 22-15 at halftime. They got a good scoring boost from Adam Meekins off the bench as he scored seven points in the quarter.
The third quarter was slow going for both teams as they combined to score 13 points total. Nocona’s two 3-pointers, from Meekins and Blake Gauna, helped put the Indians up by double digits 30-20 heading into the final quarter.
Bowie started a comeback, scoring five points in the first minute of the fourth quarter to get within 30-25. After some back and forth, the Jackrabbits got the game to within one score 35-32 with a 3-pointer from Cade Thompson.
After an offensive putback from Nocona’s Sparkman, another Bowie 3-pointer from Tru’Vion Sansom cut the lead 37-35 with less than two minutes to go.
Sparkman was then sent to the free throw line and sank both shots. The Jackrabbits missed a 3-point shot and Sparkman made another free throw to make the lead 40-35 with less than a minute left.
Bowie tried to get a good shot, but took too much time before missing a shot with 18 seconds left. Nocona got the ball and point guard Landry McCasland sank both his free throws. The Jackrabbits made a layup at the buzzer, but the Indians won 42-37.
The Indians host Henrietta at 7 p.m. on Feb. 18. The Jackrabbits travel to Childress at 6 p.m. on Feb. 18.

To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.

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Nocona new press box put into place

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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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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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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.

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