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Football Roundup
Saint Jo vs Gold-Burg
In what is always a big challenge, Gold-Burg hosted Saint Jo on Friday in a game that was over at halftime.
The Panthers scored less than a minute before the gun to make the margin just the right amount (45 points) to end the game due to mercy rule, winning 51-6.
The Bears came out of the game committed to trying to slow down Saint Jo’s vaunted rushing attack, but Saint Jo countered with two touchdown passes in the first quarter as it led 15-0.
Heading into the second quarter, the Panthers depth and physical play started to wear on Gold-Burg as Saint Jo seemed to score at will.
The Panthers were led by Cade Stephens, who completed four passes for 92 yards and tossed three touchdowns. He also intercepted a pass on defense. He connected with Payton Harris twice for 60 yards and one touchdown and Tyler Cook twice for 32 yards and two touchdowns. Cook also intercepted a pass on defense and returned it for a touchdown.
Logan Morman led the team with 140 yards rushing on 11 carries while scoring twice. Chance Bennett also scored a rushing touchdown as he picked up 12 yards on three carries.
The Bears’ offense struggled to do much all game though its defense did score the teams only points as Jack Henry scooped up a fumble to score. Jayon Grace recovered another fumble for Gold-Burg earlier in the game.
Saint Jo plays its first home game this week against Fort Worth THESA at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 11. The Bears travel to Chillicothe to play at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 11.
Nocona
The Nocona Indians first road game of the season at Paradise is one the team hopes to put behind them as soon as possible
The Wildcats won a one-sided game 57-6 in a game the Indians did not have much to be positive about.
Paradise dominated running the ball for more than 300 yards and led 43-0 at halftime. Nocona’s offense struggled all game to string drives along. Running back Trent Sappington scored on a 19-yard touchdown run on a sweep to the left side that saw him score untouched.
The Indians next host Ponder, a team that has a lot of size on the offensive line and will try to confuse the defense with the versatile triple option attack. Weaver thinks his team has a speed advantage and hopes to use that against the Lions on offense.
The Nocona High School Media program will stream the game for those who cannot make it to Jack Crain Stadium on Friday night on it’s YouTube channel “nhsdigitalmedia.”
The Indians kick off at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 11.
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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