SPORTS
Panthers go 2-2 at tournament
The Saint Jo baseball team did well competing against bigger schools’ JV teams at last weekend’s Poolville tournament.
The Panthers went 2-2 before losing to 2A power Lindsay on Tuesday 17-2.
Saint Jo first played Peaster’s JV team on March 11 in what was the team’s worst performance during the three days of the tournament.
The Panthers got out to a lead first with two runs in the first inning. The Greyhounds would respond with four runs to take the lead before exploding for nine in the second inning to take a 13-2 lead.
Following a scoreless third inning, the game was called due to time.
Saint Jo started off March 12 with a game against Paradise’s JV team. The Wildcats got out to a lead first scoring runs in the first three innings.
The Panthers came back in the fourth inning to cut the lead to 3-2. Paradise scored two more runs and looked like it might get the win with the game getting called after five innings.
Saint Jo put together four runs in the final inning to win 6-5.
The Panthers then played Godley on the same day. The Wildcats got out to an early lead scoring two runs in the first inning. Saint Jo tied the score with two runs in the second inning.
The score stayed tied after the teams exchanged one run each in the fourth inning. The Panthers took the lead scoring one run in the fourth inning, but Godley came back to score three runs to take a 6-4 lead.
The game was called after that due to time giving the Wildcats the win.
Saint Jo ended the tournament on March 13 with a game against Bridgeport. The Panthers scored four runs in both the first and second innings to build an 8-1 lead.
The Bulls scored one run in the third and made a late run scoring four in the fourth inning to cut the lead to 8-6. The game was called due to time to secure Saint Jo’s win.
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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