SPORTS
Bowie volleyball loses at Henrietta 3-1
The Bowie Lady Rabbits opened their season at Henrietta on Tuesday with a loss to the Lady Cats.
Henrietta won in four sets in a match that had competitive moments for Bowie, but it was not enough.
The Lady Rabbits came into the match after losing on Sept. 10 against 4A Graham. Bowie lost the tough match in five sets that could have gone either way. The set scores were 17-25, 25-19, 32-30, 23-25 and 14-16.
The first set on Tuesday was competitive with neither team building too big of a lead until midway through.
Henrietta was up 14-11 when the Lady Rabbits won nine of the next 10 points to open up a 20-15 lead.
Bowie was able to close out the set by splitting the next 10 points to win 25-20 and take the early lead.
The second set saw the Lady Rabbits never get on track. The Lady Cats lead continued to grow from 7-3 to 11-4. With Bowie down 20-10, it was time to mentally concede the set and try to build momentum for an important set three. Henrietta won 25-14 to tie the match.
The third set saw the Lady Rabbits early lead blossom into a several point cushion. Bowie led 12-8 and held the same margin 10 points later up 17-13.
Henrietta came back to cut the lead to one point several times, but the Lady Rabbits still led 23-22 heading into the final points.
Unfortunately, the Lady Cats won the final three points to steal the set 25-23 and take the lead 2-1.
After losing an important third set, some teams might have given up.
The prospect of winning two straight sets to be able to win the overall match is hard for some teams to gather energy to play well in the fourth set.
Bowie instead came out and played the opening points even. The teams were tied 10-10, with Henrietta leading only 13-12 a few points later.
The Lady Cats then went on a bit of a run to open the lead to 17-13 and 19-16. The Lady Rabbits closed the lead to within two points 21-19, but ultimately could no retake the lead.
Henrietta closed the match winning five of the last six points to win the set 25-20 and the match 3-1.
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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