SPORTS
Prairie Valley, Saint Jo run in heat
Prairie Valley and Saint Jo cross country teams ran at Midway and Muenster on Wednesday morning.
Both Bulldog teams were the only full teams at Midway while the Panther boy’s team finished third overall.
The Prairie Valley boy’s team was led by Tyler Winkler who finished second overall with a time of 20:11. The top five runners for the Bulldogs included Elijah Croxton finishing third, Michael Cole finishing fifth, Tyson Eaterling finishing 10th and Konner Ritchie finishing 11th.
Coach Seth Stephens felt like his team ran well overall despite tough conditions.
“We ran a little slower than I wanted us to, but the heat was probably a factor there,” Stephens said. “Even though we’re running a little later this year for district there’s a good chance we’ll have one of those hot days at district so it was good for us to race on a hotter day.”
The Lady Bulldogs were led by Hailey Winkler who finished fourth overall with a time of 17:46. The top five runners were not far behind. Karagan Ritchie finished fifth, Molly Gilleland finished sixth, Emily Carpenter finished eighth and Veronica Gutierrez finished 10th.
Coach Jeannie Carpenter thought her girls ran great and was glad her top five runners earned medals finishing in the top 10.
“That was exciting for those girls to medal,” Carpenter said. “Cross country is usually a thankless sport, so I was proud of how well all our runners represented us.”
The Saint Jo boy’s were led by Collin Thomas, who finished third overall with a time of 20:02. Teammate Kile Thurman was not far behind as he finished fourth overall. The rest of the team saw Joshua Vogel finishing 20th, Noble Koelzer finishing 26th and Brice Durham finishing 41st.
The Panthers next run at Lindsay on Oct. 14 while Prairie Valley’s next scheduled meet is a district preview meet on Oct. 21.
To see results for all of the high school runners, 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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