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.
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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