SPORTS
Saint Jo baseball splits games following tourney in Oklahoma
The Saint Jo Panthers baseball team split their games against Poolville on Tuesday while winning both games last weekend from Oklahoma.
The Panthers picked up wins against Oklahoma teams Vanoss and Dickson on March 27 before playing the Monarchs in a double header with a win and loss.
Saint Jo played the Dickson Comets first on Saturday. The Panthers struck first scoring four runs in the second inning to take the lead.
Dickson would answer with two runs in the next inning, but Saint Jo would extend its lead to 8-2 after scoring two runs in both the third and fourth inning.
The Comets came on strong in the fifth inning, scoring five runs to cut the lead to one 8-7.
The game was called after that due to time as the Panthers held on to win.
Tyler Cook and Matthew Butler led the team with two RBIs each. Jace Johnson and Collin Thomas each stole two bases to lead the team.
Trevor Conner got the start on the mound and struck seven batters and gave up only two earned runs in four innings.
Saint Jo then had to turn around and play Vanoss next. Despite a rough ending to the previous game, the Panthers started the game off well scoring four runs in the first inning.
Saint Jo scored at least two runs in the remaining three innings of the game, scoring three runs in the fourth inning.
The Vanoss Wolves just could not keep up as the game was ended after four innings with the Panthers lead 11-1. Jordan Reeves, Cook and Thomas each drove in two runs each to lead the team.
Saint Jo then traveled to Poolville on Tuesday to play a double-header against the Monarchs. The Panthers scored first to lead 1-0 after the first inning. Poolville tied the score in the second inning before racking up nine runs over the next three innings.
Saint Jo would score three runs in the final two innings, but the Monarchs would add two more in the seventh as they won 12-4.
Chance Bennett led the Panthers with two RBIs. With Poolville drawing double-digit walks, it was hard to keep the Monarchs off the basepaths during the game.
Thankfully, Saint Jo got one more chance at Poolville that day and turned the tables. The Panthers took the lead in the first inning 2-1, but had a big second inning scoring six runs to take an 8-2 lead.
The Monarchs would cut into the scoring runs in the second and third inning to make it 8-5. Saint Jo’s offense would pick things back up starting in the fifth inning, scoring runs in the final three innings to extend its lead.
Poolville could not match it with the Panthers pitchers limiting the walks and hits to only three each. Saint Jo won the game easily 12-5.
Brice Durham and Johnson led the team with two RBIs each while Cook stole a team high three bases.
Payton Harris got the start on the mound and pitched into the fifth inning, striking out four and allowing only one earned runs. Durham came in to get the save and did not allow a base runner.
The Panthers next scheduled game is at 4:30 p.m. on April 6 at home against Perrin-Whitt.
The Bowie sports banquets was on Monday night. Olivia Gill and Tucker Jones were named Jackrabbit and Lady Rabbit of the year. Pick up the mid-week paper for all of the sports team awards and pictures.
The 72nd Chisholm Trail Rodeo was a big success on Friday and Saturday nights at Nocona.
The rodeo had big crowds and saw some good competition from both local and far reaching talent.
Winners in the events included Zach Hibler in bareback riding, Lindsey Muggli in barrel racing, Ashley Goforth in breakaway roping, Leanardo Lima in bull riding, Cody McCartney in calf roping, Thomas Moellering in ranch bronc riding, Wacey Hathcock in saddle bronc riding, Renato Finazzi in steer wrestling, Rowdy Jones and Rance Doyal in team roping.
To see full results and more pictures, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
The regional tennis tournaments were late last week in North Richland Hills and a doubles team is moving on to state.
The Saint Jo girl’s doubles team Kyler Dunn and Taylor Patrick won the 1A region III tournament and will return to state for the second straight year.
The pair rolled through teams from Morgan, Dodd City, Priddy before beating a Graford team in the finals. The pair did not lose a set and only lost five of the 53 games it played, never losing more than one in a set.
The team made it to state last year after finishing second at regionals and won a match at the state meet against a team from Vernon Northside. They then lost to the eventual state champion team from Utopia and finished tied for third place.
They will be the only tennis players from Montague County playing at state this week as others did not have as successful regional tournament.
The Saint Jo teammates and fellow girl’s doubles team Bailie Nobile and Maxey Johnson won their first match against Ector 6-1, 6-4, but fell in their next match against Lometa, 6-1, 6-1.
From Prairie Valley, Case Carpenter was competing in boy’s singles. His first match was a draining two and half hour battle against a player from Strawn Carpenter came through in the three-set battle, winning 6-4, 5-7, 6-4.
Unfortunately, the magic was not there in the second game. Paired against the eventual tournament champion from Gustine, Carpenter lost 6-0, 6-1.
From Gold-Burg, Alyson Rojas and Jimena Garcia competed in girl’s singles. Rojas won her first match against a girl from Avinger 7-6, 6-2. Unfortunately, the next match she lost to a girl from Graford 6-0, 6-0 to end her tournament.
Garcia lost a tough first match against a player from Ector. Both sets could have gone either way with the scores being 6-4, 7-5 to the winner.
The mixed doubles team from Forestburg, Jesse Wadsworth and Alli Cisneros, also did not make it through.
From Nocona, Kaygan Stone was playing in the girl’s singles 2A region II tournament.
Unfortunately, she got paired against the player who would go on to win the tournament in the first round to end her season.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
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