SPORTS
Cross country season starts
The cross country season started for four county schools on Wednesday at Nocona’s hosted meet at Indian Oaks Golf Course.
Along with the host school, teams and runners from Bowie, Saint Jo and Forestburg competed along with eight other schools.
The Jackrabbit boys had the highest team finish of the day sitting in third place. Sebastian Martinez finished first for Bowie in 14th place with a time of 19:26.
The Jackrabbits top five finishers also included Ignacio Saucedo (20), James Allison (27) Nathan Rodgers (28) and Tyler Malone (33).
Coach Andy Atkins was pleased with the team overall, but knows it is just the beginning.
“We are not near where we want to be, but I think we are actually further along than last year,” Atkins said.0 “It was good to get that first race under our belts.”
The Nocona boy’s team finished right behind the Jackrabbits in fourth place. Freddy Duran finished first for the Indians in 15th place with a time of 19:30.
Among the other top five finishers that scored for Nocona includes Alex Stephens (24), Frank Espinoza (30), Adam Meekins (36) and Claudio Segura (37).
Coach Colby Schniederjan was proud of his mostly young team, some competing in their first high school meet.
“We are getting back in the groove of race strategy and our conditioning is still a work in progress but all things considered, I am pleased.
“Our first meet times were competitive and a great starting point to build on,” Schniederjan said. “If the kids continue to work as hard as they have, I could see this team being very competitive late in the year.”
Saint Jo’s boy’s team finished seventh, though top runner Collin Thomas was the fastest runner of the day in the race. The two-time state qualifier finished fifth overall with a time of 18:28.
The Panthers top five runners also included Devin Stewart (23), Joshua Vogel (26), Jayden Curry (44) and Brice Durham (61).
In the girl’s race, Nocona finished sixth as a team. Top runner Allie Brown finished second overall with a time of 13:09.
The Lady Indians top five runners also included Graci Brown (15), Melissa Segura (38), Natalie Pirkey (61) and Honey Walker (64). Coach Kyle Spitzer thought it was a good starting point for his team as many of the runners this year are new to varsity.
The Bowie girl’s team finished seventh overall with Samantha Clarke finishing first for the team in seventh place with a time of 13:35.
The Lady Rabbits top five finishers included Laisha Johnson (43), Jojo Villarreal (48), Nye Perez (49) and Hadley Morris (51).
Atkins praised Clarke for her top 10 finish and has hopes she can advance past district this year.
Saint Jo and Forestburg both had one girl compete individually. The Lady Panthers Aubrey Morman finished 47th and had a time of 16:16 in her first high school race. The Lady Horns Justynne Roller finished 66th with a time of 17:30.
Bowie, Nocona and Forestburg will be competing in the same meet next week at the Endurance House Invitational at Lucy Park in Wichita Falls on Sept. 8.
Saint Jo is next scheduled to compete at a meet at Decatur High School on Sept. 11.
To see results for all runners from Montague County, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.
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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