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Nocona basketball wins big Saturday

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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.

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Crutsinger resigns from Nocona

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Nocona Athletic Director/football coach Blake Crutsinger resigned from his position last week after spending four years at the school.

It was announced last week Nocona Athletic director/football coach Blake Crutsinger is resigning from his position at the school after serving four years.
Crutsinger said now is the time for his family to make the move, with his daughter Avery graduating after spending four years at Nocona and with his son Kellar about to enter high school and wanting the same for him at another school.
“With her going off to college, she had a really good four years here and just looking at Keller heading into high school and exploring some opportunities that might be better for him, it is just time,” Crutsinger said.
Crutsinger went 19-22 overall, helping the Indians to two playoff appearances in 2022 and 2023. The team’s best season was 2023, when it went 8-2 and won the district title, the first one in 11 years for the program.

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Cervantes signs to college

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Saint Jo senior Payzlie Cervantes signed her letter of intent to play college basketball last week at Highland College in Kansas. She also played volleyball, softball and ran track at Saint Jo. “After talking with Coach Tana Coleman, I really connected with her and loved the campus vibe and direction she wants for the team,” Cervantes said. “I’m looking forward to continuing my basketball career while getting my associates degree in nursing to become a registered nurse.”

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Sieberts earn bronze at state

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Bowie’s Willow and Heidi Siebert earned a bronze medal competing at the state tennis tournament last week. (Courtesy photo)

Last week Montague County had five girls from Bowie and Saint Jo compete at the state tennis tournament, and one team brought back some hardware.
Sisters from Bowie, junior Heidi and freshman Willow Siebert brought back a bronze medal competing in the 3A girl’s doubles bracket.
The pair were the first people from the program to make it back to state since their half sisters, Meagan and Myah Russell, advanced nine years previously.
The Sieberts came into state as a two-seed, having finished second at the regional tournament the previous week.
The duo was ready as they blew through their first two matches. They beat a team from Hondo in the first round with the scores being 6-1, 6-1 and dominated even more in the second round against a team from Tatum, winning 6-0, 6-1.
That got them through to the second day of the tournament, but Coach Dayna Boothe was worried they had had it too easy on day one.
Playing in the semifinals, the Lady Rabbits faced a familiar foe, a team from Peaster they had beaten in the regional tournament the previous week. Unfortunately, near the end of the first set, with the Sieberts fighting to stay alive, Heidi went after a high lob and slammed into the fence. She hurt her right arm and had to play through it for the rest of the match.
They lost the match with the scores being 6-3, 6-3.
It was an all Peaster final, with the other side of the bracket producing the team that both beat the Sieberts at the regional tournament and won their second straight state title.
Still, despite the disappointment, Bowie is bringing back a bronze medal. According to Boothe, after contacting people who would know dating back to the late 1970s, it could possibly be the program’s first medals from the state tournament in tennis.
Of course, Bowie was not the only school represented. Saint Jo had Taylor Patrick competing in girl’s singles and the team of Bailie Nobile and Maxey Johnson competing in girl’s doubles in the 1A classification.
Senior Patrick was making her third appearance at the state tournament, but her first in the singles competition.
She finished third at the regional meet which meant she had a tough first round matchup against a second seed from Fort Davis.
It took everything from Patrick in a match that lasted two and a half hours. She went down in the first set 6-2, but rebounded in a tight second set to win 6-4 to force a third and final set. She had the momentum and won 6-2 to move on.
She had to summon the energy to play later that day against a fresh one-seed player from Utopia. Patrick lost 6-1, 6-1 to end her Saint Jo career. Her opponent would go on to finish second.
Juniors Johnson and Nobile were making their first appearances at the state meet after finishing second at the regional tournament. In the first round they played a tough match against a team from Marathon. It seemed evenly matched throughout, but small mistakes at inopportune times cost them throughout the match. In the end, the team lost by the scores of 6-3, 6-3.

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