SPORTS
Nocona beats City View 3-0
The Nocona Lady Indians won their fourth straight game against City View on Tuesday to stay in second place in district play.
The Lady Indians had to work a little harder than expected to take down the Lady Mustangs, but still earned the win in straight sets.
The opening points in the first set went how it was expected for Nocona. The Lady Indians broke out to a 10-5 lead and looked like they were ready to pull away.
City View came back with its scrappy play and tied the score at 15-15, showing it was not going to lay down for Nocona.
The Lady Indians responded with Sydni Messer serving 10 straight points as the team got hot down the stretch. The Lady Mustangs had issues in serve-receive and Nocona feasted to close out the set, winning 25-15.
The second set saw the Lady Indians pick up where they left off in the first set. Nocona started up 8-2 and seemed to extend its lead the longer the set went on up 15-5.
Again, City View was not just going to lay down. With its solid defensive play that forced the Lady Indians to press into some unforced errors, the Lady Mustangs won 10 of the next 15 points to cut the lead to 20-15.
The end of the set seemed like a repeat of set one. Once City View made things a little uncomfortable down the stretch, Nocona turned it on to close out the set, winning five of the next six points for the final set score 25-16.
With one team up 2-0, the third set can sometimes be different than the previous two sets. The team leading can start to relax, leading to a lot of good momentum from the opposing team with its back against the wall. Sometimes the team that is down has no more fight left, especially if the second set was close.
While the first two sets had several instances of teams, mostly Nocona, scoring several points in a row, the third set was the most competitive of the match.
With the score tied at 10-10, the Lady Mustangs had their best stretch of the match, taking a 14-11 lead and keeping it for several points up 16-14. The Lady Indians took back control of the set winning seven of the next 10 points to lead 21-19.
While Nocona had been able to close the first two sets strong winning several points in a row, City View did not make it that easy this time closing the score within one 23-22.
The set could go either way, but the Lady Indians closed out the set in extra points winning 26-24 to win the set and the match 3-0.
Nocona next travels to Breckenridge to play at 5:30 p.m. on Oct. 13.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekend 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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