SPORTS
Nocona wins homecoming
The Nocona Indians sent the fans home happy on Friday as they won their first game of the season against Chico.
The Indians beat the Dragons in dominant fashion 54-22 to have a happy homecoming night for all in Nocona.
Both the Indians and Chico came into the game hoping to get the first win of the season.
The Dragons got on the board first after both team’s initial drives went nowhere. Chico’s option running game sprouted some big plays early on and a drive was capped when the Dragons scored on a short quarterback sneak to go up 8-0.
Nocona responded as its offense moved down the field inside Chico’s red zone. Quarterback Brady McCasland then found Bodie Davis for a 6-yard touchdown.
The score was tied at 8-8 heading into the second quarter, but not before Charlie Fuller intercepted a pass near midfield.
The Indians could not take the lead right away. The Dragon defense forced a turnover on downs on their own 33 yard-line. Luckily, Chico turned the ball right back over as Miguel Olivares recovered a fumble on the next play.
Nocona then scored on the next offensive play as running back Johnny Stone scored on a 35-yard run to put the Indians up 14-8.
Nocona’s defense then forced a punt on Chico’s next possession. The special teams came through as Dayson Elliott and a crowd blocked the punt. McCasland recovered the ball and took it 30 or so yards in for another touchdown to put the Indians up 20-8.
The Dragons’ next possession looked promising as they moved into Nocona territory running the ball. Unfortunately for Chico, another fumble allowed the Indians to recover the ball by McCasland again.
Nocona’s offense moved the ball down the field and scored again as McCasland found tight end Sam Davis for a 14-yard touchdown to put the Indians up 26-8.
With less than two minutes before halftime the Dragons to tried to be aggressive and pass the ball down the field.
The pass was intercepted by none other than McCasland, who returned the ball from near midfield inside Chico’s 10-yard line.
Nocona had chances to score before halftime, but failed to though the Indians lead was still good.
Nocona wanted to make sure to not let up following a long halftime full of homecoming festivities.
The Indians got the ball first and went on a scoring drive, capped off by Stone scoring on a 17-yard run to increase the lead to 34-8.
Following a defensive stop, Nocona scored again as McCasland found Fuller for a 20-yard touchdown catch as the lead grew to 40-8.
Still in the third quarter, the Indians again got a stop and the offense scored as McCasland ran in a touchdown from 17-yards out to increase Nocona’s lead to 46-8.
The Indians then started playing backups and reserves with the game in hand.
At the start of the fourth quarter Chico scored its first points since the first quarter on another quarterback sneak to cut the lead to 46-14.
Nocona’s backup offense answered back as Caden Gaston ran in another touchdown from 21 yards to make the score 54-14.
The Dragons had one final drive with the time ticking down and scored on another short run as time expired, making the final score 54-22 in favor of the Indians.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week 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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