SPORTS
Prairie Valley runs at Poolville
The Prairie Valley cross country teams competed at Poolville on Wednesday and made significant jumps in improvement.
The course conditions were good and made for fast times as the Bulldogs’ team tied for second and the Lady Bulldogs finished fourth overall.
The girl’s team was led by Hailey Winkler finishing 14th with a time of 14:58.
The top five runners for the team included Karagan Ritchie finishing 18th, Molly Gilleland 20th, Cassidy Atteberry 35th and Emily Carpenter 38th.
Coach Jeannie Carpenter thought her team made great strides, especially with all of them pulling double duty playing volleyball.
“There were some runners who were extremely good and in return that pushed my girls to compete better,” Carpenter said. “All of my runners knocked off anywhere from one and half to three minutes off their times from our dual with Bellevue. I feel really good about where we are right now.”
The boy’s team was led by Henry Winkler who finished eighth overall with a time of 18:42.
Dale Neugebauer and Michael Cole finished 13th and 15th while Issac Yeargin and Konner Ritchie finished 26th and 28th to round out the scoring for Prairie Valley.
Coach Seth Stephens liked what he saw from his team this early in the season.
“All of our runners clocked their best 5K time of the season,” Stephens said. “The course was great and it was good for us to run somewhere we don’t typically run. Overall, I was proud of our effort and feel like it was a good start to the season and we hope to see those times get even faster as we get closer to district competition.”
The Prairie Valley teams are next scheduled to run at its hosted meet on Sept. 30.
To see all of the results from the Prairie Valley runners, 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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