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Nocona
The Nocona Indians season ended on Friday night with a loss against playoff bound City View.
The Mustangs passing attack proved too much for the Indians winning 55-24.
Nocona was able to score some points late in the game to avoid any shutout as Coach Rick Weaver and his team finished strong.
It was a tough season for this young Indians squad that went 1-8. The team forfeited one district game due to COVID-19.
Still, with the uncertainty every program went into the season with, playing nine games is an accomplishment in itself especially as Nocona has seemed to have been hit the hardest in the county when it comes to cases.
“Us getting in nine games when we didn’t know if we would get a season is just a blessing,” Weaver said. “Talked to the kids every week about how this could be our last one. After Holliday when we did miss one that reality set in and the kids had a great attitude and were just very excited to be able to play every week.”

Gold-Burg vs Forestburg
The Gold-Burg Bears spoiled Forestburg’s homecoming in both team’s final games of the season.
The Bears beat the Longhorns 50-0 midway through the third quarter to end their season in an anti-climatic way.
While this game carried playoff aspirations for the winner the previous two seasons, both teams came into the game with the playoff door closed with the district expanding to four teams.
Gold-Burg did pick up a win against Forestburg earlier in the season on Oct. 2, so a grudge match between the teams with pride on the line was motivation enough for both teams playing their final games regardless.
However things went bad for the Longhorns right away with turnovers the Bears directly turned into points. Forestburg’s defense did make one stop when Jeremiah Perez intercepted a tipped pass at the Longhorns goal line, but Gold-Burg’s offense moved the ball at will all night.
The Bear’s Will Hodges found Matthew Fatheree for three touchdown passes. Hodges took an interception back for a score and Fatheree collected one of his own in his final game.
Kani Grace scored two rushing touchdowns and threw a touchdown pass to Kolton Whitaker. Jayon Grace recovered a fumble on the Longhorns opening drive.

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Interview with Bowie baseball players Boston Farris (left) and Trae Seigler following their district win against City View on April 8, 2025.
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Interview with Bowie softball players Hanna Bell (left) and Sadie Britt following their district win against City View on senior night on April 8, 2025.
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RJ Walker pitched four perfect innings for Nocona and got his 100th career strike out. (Courtesy photo)

Nocona
The Nocona Indians picked up dominant wins against Chico in their series against the Dragons last week.
The Indians won both games 11-0 by run-rule after five innings to get their first district wins of the season.
Nocona was coming off losing both games against Lindsay the previous week in its first district series and bounced back in a big way.
In the first game at home last week, the Indians scored six runs in the first inning and five in the third inning which proved to be all the offense they needed.
Kutter Cabrera led the team with three RBIs while Miller Jentry was second with two RBIs. The team finished with nine hits and drew eight walks.
On the mound, Walker Murphey pitched a shut out while striking out seven and allowing three hits. Defensively, the team committed one fielding error.
The second game saw Nocona score all of its runs in the first three innings, highlighted by scoring six runs in the second inning.
Murphey hit a three-run home run to lead the team while Brody Langford and Landon Fatheree each had two RBIs.
On the mound RJ Walker had a big day, throwing a perfect four innings which means he did not allow a hit or walk anyone. He also struck out eight batters, which put him over 100 career strikeouts in high school. The defense committed no fielding errors.

Saint Jo
The Saint Jo Panthers lost their series against Bryson last week.
The first game was a close 3-0 loss, but the second game was 11-0, done after four and half innings due to run-rule.
The Panthers were coming off close losses to Perrin-Whitt from the previous week. They were hoping they could turn their fortune around playing another 1A program.
Unfortunately in the first game, the Cowboys got off to a good start, scoring three runs in the first inning, with two coming with two outs due to an error and a dropped third strike.
Saint Jo’s pitching and defense tightened up after that to not allow another run in the final six innings. Unfortunately, the Panthers had only two hits and four base runners all game as they lost the close game 3-0.
Charlie Evans and Rylan Forrest had the only two hits for Saint Jo in the game as the team struck out 18 times. Trent Gaston ended the game allowing three runs (one earned) on six hits while striking out five batters and walking two in six innings of work. The defense committed five fielding errors.
Unfortunately, things did not go as well several days later in game two. Bryson scored three runs in both the first and second innings before scoring five runs in the third inning. Saint Jo was not able to get a hit and drew two walks in the game.
The Panther defense committed six fielding errors which led to only three of the 11 runs given up were earned by the pitching staff who gave up five hits, walked six and hit four batters.

Bellevue
The Bellevue Eagles played Perrin-Whitt last week in a series.
The Pirates won the first game 11-1 by run-rule and the second game score was not updated on Game Changer.
The Eagles were coming off one-sided losses to Bryson the previous week in their first district series and was hoping to play better.
Bellevue did get out to an early lead in the first inning. River Trail hit an RBI single in the top of the first inning to go up 1-0, which proved to be the highlight of the game.
Perrin-Whitt scored three runs in the first inning, one in the second inning, two in the fourth inning and five in the fifth inning to win 11-1.

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