SPORTS
Saint Jo baseball plays Alvord and Chico
Saint Jo baseball has had a tough time in the last two weeks winning games though the Panthers are still competing.
Saint Jo lost both double header games against Alvord on April 22 and lost to Chico on Tuesday 13-8.
The Panthers first game against the Bulldogs did not go well. Alvord was up 5-0 after two and half innings before Tyler Cook drove in Jordan Reeves with a double.
The Bulldogs got the run back in the fourth inning before Reeves was again driven in by Cook, this time on a sacrifice fly ball, in the fifth inning.
Alvord answered with two more runs in the sixth inning as the Bulldogs won 8-2 in the first game.
In the second game it looked like it might be more of the same. Alvord took the lead in the first inning and scored seven runs in the first three innings.
Saint Jo answered in the fourth inning with Brice Durham driving in Jace Johnson with a single. The Panthers then scored four runs in the fifth inning.
Cook drove in Reeves with a single. An error fielding the ball allowed Trevor Conner and Matthew Butler to also score and Cook to advance to third base.
Collin Thomas then laid down a sacrifice bunt that drove in Cook to cut the lead to 7-5. That would be where the game would end during the bottom of the fifth inning.
Saint Jo fell behind playing the Dragons at home on Tuesday.
Chico scored six runs in the first two innings matched to the Panthers one run driven in by Johnson.
Saint Jo cut the lead in half as Johnson drove in another run in the bottom of the third inning and Thomas stole home to make it 6-3.
The Dragons got one run back in the fourth inning, but the Panthers hit back to take the lead in the same inning.
Conner drove in one run with a single, Cook drove in two with a double and Johnson drove in one run with a single to tie the game up. With the bases loaded, Durham was hit by a pitch to bring in another run to give Saint Jo its first lead 8-7.
Unfortunately, the lead would short-lived. Chico scored six runs in the fifth inning to retake the lead 13-8.
The Panthers prevented the Dragons from scoring any more, but they also could not cut into the lead in the last two innings as they lost.
Saint Jo’s final regular season game was a rematch against Chico on Friday, on the road this time.
The Panthers hope to turn their fortune around heading into the playoffs where they can finally play 1A teams after struggling to get wins against mostly bigger schools during their regular season..
The bi-district has to be done by May 8. Playoff details will be shared on the Bowie News social media pages.
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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