SPORTS
Indians lose in OT, Lady Indians win
The Nocona basketball games against City View on Tuesday saw the Lady Indians win by nearly 30 while the Indians lost a close one in overtime.
The Nocona girls won 74-42 while the boy’s team fell just short of upsetting the top team in the district losing 49-48.
The Lady Indians knew this wasn’t going to be the same old Lady Mustangs team of recent history. The young and athletic squad has shown everyone they are tough to pressure and trap and can make teams pay in transition.
Still, the undefeated Nocona squad going for its third straight district title took care of business. The Lady Indians defense kept City View in check in the first half, which allowed them to get out in transition and score at will.
Nocona scored 20 or more points in both the first and second quarters to build a big lead the Lady Mustangs had little hope of coming back from down 48-17.
That defensive intensity wavered a bit for the Lady Indians in the second half which led to not as many chances to push the ball in transition on offense for them. City View scored in double-figures in both the third and fourth quarters, while Nocona only scored seven points in the final quarter.
The Lady Indians still won by a lot, but that ending did not leave a good aftertaste for Coach Kyle Spitzer.
The Indians had something to prove heading into Tuesday’s game. The Indians first game of the new year against the Mustangs went about as bad as one could imagine. City View won 90-46 and proved that score was not a fluke, winning by 20 or more points against every other team in the district besides Holliday.
Things could only go better against the undefeated district leader and they did.
Nocona dictated how the game would be played, limiting City View’s looks from the 3-point line and playing a deliberately paced, half court game.
The Indians trailed for most of the game, falling behind 23-16 at halftime and down 32-24 heading into the fourth quarter.
It was then that Nocona’s offense came alive while with Adam Meekins and Brady McCasland combining to score 10 of the team’s 15 points in the quarter.
The defense did just enough to limit the Mustangs offense to just seven points, allowing the game to be tied at 39-39 and heading to overtime.
Both teams did a good job scoring in the extra period, with four different players scoring points on both sides. In the end, City View made one more play than Nocona to come out on top 49-48.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekend 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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