SPORTS
Nocona basketball wins big Saturday
The Nocona basketball teams treated their fans to blowout wins at home on Saturday.
The Lady Indians earned big wins against Tioga 96-35 and Gainesville 98-20 while the Indians beat the Bulldogs 71-29.
The Nocona girls first played the Lady Bulldogs to start the day. Coach Kyle Spitzer thought the team started off slow against Tioga.
“We fouled too much early on and made uncharacteristic mistakes,” Spitzer said.
It did not affect the game much though. The Lady Indians led 22-4 after the first quarter and never looked back, scoring 20 or more points in every quarter.
The Nocona boy’s team then played in the early afternoon. The Indians were able to beat the Bulldogs press defense and get the ball to their post players who finished ahead of the defense while also making a couple of 3-pointers.
Nocona led 20-7 after the first quarter and did not let Tioga get comfortable the rest of the game. The Bulldogs only scored in double-digits in the third quarter, but could not convert most of the tough contested shots the Indians forced them to take.
Nocona’s offense had only a little bit of a lull in the second quarter, but finished the game strong scoring 23 points in the fourth quarter even with the end of the bench finishing the last few minutes of the game.
The day ended with the Lady Indians blowing away the Lady Leopards. It was more of the same from their first game earlier in the day. The defense never allowed Gainesville to score 10 points or more in any quarter while the offense never scored fewer than 20 points in every quarter.
The Nocona girl’s team starts district play this week and will be looking to defend its district title from the last two years. The team travels to Jacksboro to play at 6 p.m. on Dec. 18.
The Indians are next scheduled to play Wichita Falls at 2:45 p.m. on Dec. 18 at home.
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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