SPORTS
Lady Panthers playoff run ends in regional semis
The Saint Jo Lady Panthers fell to Dodd City in the regional semifinals on Monday night.
The Lady Hornets won in four sets 3-1 despite the Lady Panthers winning the first set.
The match would have been the program’s second trip to the regional tournament, but because of COVID-19, it was scheduled as a regular playoff game.
The state-ranked Dodd City team came in with a big height advantage at the net with a tall middle-blocker.
Saint Jo did not start the match out great. Early on the Lady Panthers were down 7-3 when they started to charge back.
Powered by their serving and consistent, solid all-around play, Saint Jo feasted as mental and hitting errors piled up for Dodd City.
The Lady Panthers lead stretched as big as 18-12. The Lady Hornets had a brief run at the end of the set to close the lead to three points, but Saint Jo was able to hang on and win 25-22 to win the set.
It seemed like one of the keys to developing that lead was trapping a rotation that had Dodd City’s big middle-blocker in the back row for awhile.
Early on in the second set the Lady Hornets lead slowly grew to three points. All of a sudden Dodd City’s lead grew substantially as mental errors and some bad serve-receive from Saint Jo allowed the Lady Hornets lead to grow to 20-10.
The Lady Panthers made up some of the lead, but not enough to try and steal the set from Dodd City. The Lady Hornets won the set 25-18 to tie the match back up.
The third set saw Dodd City establish a big lead early up 14-6 in the first 20 points.
Saint Jo tapped some of that magic it had in the first set, with the Lady Hornet’s big middle-blocker in the back row, to come back, cutting the lead to 16-14.
Unfortunately, that magic was short-lived. Dodd City won eight of the next 10 points to wrap up the third set, winning 25-17 to take the lead.
The beginning of the fourth set was not good. Saint Jo fell behind again 7-3 before it started to come back. The teams were playing point-to-point with the score 13-12 for Dodd City when the Lady Hornets started to pull away again.
No matter what the Lady Panthers did, the lead kept growing. Saint Jo kept fighting, but the end was near. Dodd City wrapped up the set winning 25-15, winning the match 3-1.
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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