SPORTS
Roundup
Nocona
The Nocona Indians lost a heartbreaker at City View on Friday as the Mustangs won in the final seconds with a layup putting them ahead to win 44-43.
Nocona started out the game in control as they handled City View’s press good enough while playing inside-out on offense. The Indians led 23-17 at halftime.
Nocona still had the lead heading into the fourth quarter 33-29, but it was too small to feel comfortable.
Play went back and forth in the final period. The Indians lead was 43-42 in the final minute when the Mustangs scored on a layup with 11 seconds left in the game.
The Indians had one more chance to take back the lead, but a turnover against City View’s press crushed that chance, giving the Mustangs the win.
The loss drops the Indians to fifth place, one game behind Henrietta and Holliday. If Nocona won at home against the Bearcats on Tuesday, it could set up a play-in game later this week for the final playoff spot in the district.
Saint Jo
The Saint Jo Panthers hosted Bellevue in their final home game of the season on Friday.
The Panthers won by a comfortable margin 64-51 as the Panthers locked in finishing no lower than second in district play.
Coach Lyndon Cook liked the way his team played overall.
“We had guys locked in defensively and making shots for us to take a 36-19 lead at half,” Cook said. “The second half was less comfortable as Bellevue did a great job fighting us for everything, but the seniors on this team have been here before and did a great job keeping them at a distance the rest of the way.”
The Panthers do not know who they will play yet in the bi-district round, but do have plans to play a tune-up game at Electra at 6 p.m. on Feb. 21.
Forestburg
The Forestburg Longhorns played their final game of the season on Friday at home against Midway.
The Longhorns could not send the fans home with a win as the playoff bound Falcons won 59-33.
It was a close first half as Forestburg kept pace with Midway, having a great second quarter to cut the lead to one 21-20 heading into halftime.
The Falcons got hot in the third quarter from deep, making four 3-pointers while the Longhorns struggled. Midway outscored Forestburg 18-4 in the quarter to get a big lead.
While the Longhorns were able to get to the free throw line a bit in the fourth quarter, it was not enough to make up any ground as five different Falcons scored in the final period.
Going forward, Coach Eldon Van Hooser hopes the team can improve in all facets with the district not getting any easier for the next two years.
Gold-Burg
The Gold-Burg Bears faced state-ranked and district champ Slidell in their final home game of the season on Friday.
The Bears fell to the state power and defending state champions 79-20 as the young team had trouble keeping up with the high powered offense of the Greyhounds.
Gold-Burg scored 10 points in the first quarter in what could have been a great start, but Slidell scored 29 points as well.
The Greyhounds kept their foot on the gas pedal the next two quarters while the Bears struggled, before easing up in the fourth quarter. Gold-Burg outscored them 6-4, but it did not make much of difference in the final.
Gold-Burg finished its season on the road at Bellevue on Tuesday night. Look in the weekend paper to see how the Bears did.
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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