SPORTS
Nocona teams win against Olney
The Nocona basketball teams both beat Olney on Friday before the Lady Indians won in Peaster and the Indians team lost to Whitesboro on Saturday.
Both teams beat the Cubs and Lady Cubs in one-sided games, the boy’s team winning 81-38 and the girl’s team winning 69-13. The Nocona girl’s team beat a tough Lady Greyhound team 78-71 while the boy’s team lost a close one with the Bearcats 56-48.The Lady Indians blitzed Olney first on Friday with their defense, allowing them to push the ball in transition with outlet passes.
Even with the team up 37-10 at halftime, Coach Kyle Spitzer saw even better defense in the second half as Nocona allowed only three points the rest of the way.
Averee Kleinhans led the team with 23 points while Karlee Brown was second with 14 points and Stephanie Gutierrez scored 13 points off the bench.
For the boy’s team, Nocona scored a season high picking up its second win of the season. The Indians got started fast scoring 24 points in the first quarter to capture the lead and never relinquish. Nocona finished even better outscoring the Cubs 23-5 in the fourth quarter to wrap up the win.
Landry McCasland and Michael Wetmore led the team scoring 15 points each while Adam Meekins was right behind them scoring 14 points.
On Saturday both teams were on the road. The Nocona girls played a Lady Greyhounds team who had just won at Bowie the night before.
Early on Peaster jumped out to a 25-17 lead in the first quarter. The Lady Indians hung around and trailed only 40-35 at halftime.
Nocona’s defense stepped up in the second half. The Lady Indians took the lead 58-55 in the third quarter and continued their run in the fourth quarter as their lead grew to 15 points at one time.
The Lady Greyhounds cut into that lead in the end, but Nocona held on to win 78-71. Kleinhans led the team with 29 points, but five different players all together finished with double-digit totals.
For the Nocona boy’s team, it was a close game from the start at Whitesboro. The Indians took control in the first quarter and led 18-7, but the Bearcats were not going to go away easy.
Whitesboro’s defense held Nocona to seven points in the second quarter as the lead was cut to 25-24 at halftime.
Four 3-pointers from the Bearcats allowed them to take the lead in the third quarter 38-34.In the fourth quarter, the Indians could not keep Whitesboro off of the free throw line as it made 11 of 17 attempts in the quarter. This allowed the Bearcats to keep the lead while running clock as they won 56-48.
Cesar Gutierrez led the team with 14 points while Meekins was second scoring nine points off of three 3-pointers.
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The Red River High School Bass Club competed this past weekend, May 31 – June 1, at the State Tournament on Lake Conroe for the two-day tournament.
Two of the teams from Montague County traveled south to try their best at the culmination of the year for the state title. Teams were able to pre-fish on Friday before the Saturday and Sunday competition. On Friday, there was a flipping contest for the youth and Cooper Johnson won third overall and won a $500 scholarship and an Academy gift card.
The club’s two teams who competed were Lane Smith/Colt Henry with boat captain Jimmy Smith. The team placed 63rd with a total of 16.22 pounds. The second team of Cooper Johnson/Corbyn Patton and boat captain Jayson Toerck placed 169th with a total weight of 2.29 pounds.
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The Maskat Shrine Oil Bowl is this week on June 6-7 and graduating athletes from Bowie, Nocona and Saint Jo are confirmed to be playing.
In total, seven athletes from Bowie, five from Nocona and three from Saint Jo are planning to play in the all-star games this week. Nocona also will have a pair of coaches participating as well.
The girl’s basketball game kicks off events on June 6, scheduled for 6 p.m. at Wichita Falls Memorial High School. In the game, the east team will have Nocona players Avery Crutsinger, Meg Meekins and Reagan Phipps playing while Kyler Spitzer and Clayton Brown coach them one last time.
On the west team, Saint Jo’s Payzlie Cervantes is confirmed to be playing.
The boy’s basketball game is scheduled to follow at 7:30 p.m. On the east team, Bowie’s Boston Farris and Nocona’s Jose Gomez Jr. will be playing.
On June 7, the volleyball games are scheduled to start at 4 p.m. with the small school game. On the west team, Nocona’s Kaygan Stone and Saint Jo’s Taylor Patrick are confirmed to play. On the east team, Saint Jo’s Aubrey Morman will get to play her teammate.
There are no local athletes confirmed to be playing in the big school volleyball game.
The final event is the football game, scheduled for 7:30 p.m. at Memorial Stadium. It is an all Bowie affair with six players confirmed to be playing for the east team: Justin Clark, Jorge De Leon, Hunter Fluitt and Braden Rhyne, Preacher Chambers and Moh Azouak.
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Nocona Independent School District officials looked inward for a new athletic director/head football coach, selecting Jeff Hill for the position.
Hill, who served last year as Nocona football’s offensive coordinator and also led the softball program to the playoffs for the first time in a while as its head coach, was upgraded to the role.
This came on the heels of former Athletic Director Blake Crutsinger, who served in the role the last four years, resigned in May.
For Hill, the choice to apply for the position was a no brainer. His one year in Nocona had impressed upon him and his wife that it was the place they would like to be long term.
“I’m looking for a town to raise my kids in and Nocona has treated my family really well,” Hill said. “There are some really good people. The kids work hard. Everything I am looking for in a hometown is right here in Nocona and I want to try and make it as best as it can be, especially through athletics.”
Before Nocona, Hill served as the athletic director at S&S Consolidated while also spending time at Hebron and Whitewright in his coaching career.
Hill expresses great respect for the departing Crutsinger and besides changing a few small things in how he personally wants to do things, he is not trying to come in with a sweeping restructuring of the whole athletic department.
The program had five of its six team sports make the playoffs, with volleyball playing in the regional final and the girl’s basketball team winning the state championship.
That along with two athletes competing at the state championship in cross country and track with one earning a gold medal, it was one of the more successful school years in athletic program history.
“Coach Crutsinger was awesome and did a great job so honestly just little tweaks, a little bit of structure and cohesion amongst the coaching staff between boys and girls,” Hill said. “I hope to keep the winning tradition going overall in the athletic department.”
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