SPORTS
Lady Indians end season with loss at City View
The Nocona softball team lost its final game at City View to close out the season.
The Lady Mustangs won 10-5 despite the Lady Indians coming on strong in the second half of the game.
City View scored nine runs in the first four innings before Nocona fought back with its bats. Laci Stone drove in Jenna McBride and Maggie Stewart with a double.
Stone would score later in the fifth inning on a steal home to cut the lead to 9-3.
In the sixth inning Paige James fly ball to center field produced an error that allowed
MaKenna Nobile to score. Later in the inning James was able to steal home to cut the lead to 9-5.
City View got one run back in the sixth inning to make the score 10-5 heading into the final inning.
Despite Laney Yates hitting a double, Nocona could not produce the offensive magic of the previous two innings as the next batter struck out for out number three.
Stone’s two RBIs led the team Sydnee Mowery did strike out 10 batters in only four innings.
James came in to pitch the last two and only allowed one unearned run and no hits while walking one batter.
It was a tough district run for this Nocona team.
There were some tough stretches against some of top teams this year, but the Lady Indians did have competitive stretches and games against teams from Henrietta and Bowie.
The small things are keeping the team from winning these games as the program tries to progress forward into a regular district competitor.
Hopefully the tough lessons learned this year can be overcome and used as motivation for next year.
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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