SPORTS
Nocona loses five-set playoff game
The Nocona Lady Indians season came to an end on Saturday in the regional quarterfinals against district foe Henrietta in five sets.
The Lady Indians lost the third matchup between the teams, losing the final two sets of the match.
The Lady Cats came in with the slight mental advantage of winning the most recent match between the teams in four sets on Oct. 23.
Nocona came out scorching hot to start the match. A barrage of heavy serving allowed the Lady Indians to extend their lead to 16-4 as it seemed Nocona would easily win the first set.
Henrietta turned that thinking around. The Lady Cats stormed back with equal fury. The Lady Indians helped as the mental errors started to add up.
Somehow Henrietta not only came all the way back within the same set, but took the lead 21-20 in the final few points.
Nocona middle blocker Karlee Brown made a play at the net blocking two consecutive shots to tie the score back up that fired the Lady Indians up enough to finish the set strong, winning the set 25-23 somehow.
Unfortunately, that comeback from the Lady Cats seemed to have wakened them up and it carried over to the second set. Nocona never got going as errors and frustration along with Henrietta’s solid play allowed the Lady Cats to build a big lead.
The Lady Indians would not engineer their own comeback though as Henrietta won the set 25-13 to tie the match up.
Sensing the tide was turning, Nocona Coach Tanya Samples took her team into the hallway in between sets to make sure her message sunk in to not let another set go by like that.
Whatever she said must have worked. The Lady Indians were in control for most of the third set. Henrietta came back to tie the score at 10-10, but Nocona built an 18-12 lead to get some breathing room.
The Lady Cats were not going to let the Lady Indians coast to a win, fighting back to cut the score to 21-19, but thankfully Nocona was able to close the set out with a win 25-21 to take a 2-1 lead in the match.
The opening of the fourth set was the most competitive of the match. Henrietta had the slight advantage leading 11-9, but from there the Lady Cats opened the set up. Henrietta would win nine of the next 10 points, leading 20-10.
Nocona had no answer as the Lady Cats coasted to win 25-13 to force a fifth and final set.
Early on Henrietta developed a two-point lead 3-1. The two teams played even for the next few points. The Lady Cats upped their lead to four points lead 8-4. Not matter what the Lady Indians did, they could not make up that ground.
Henrietta scored the final point to win the set 15-10 and the match.
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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