SPORTS
Prairie Valley hosts cross country meet
Prairie Valley hosted its cross country meet on Wednesday with runners from Saint Jo, Bellevue and three other schools competing as well.
The Prairie Valley boy’s finished second overall as the Bulldogs top three runners Eli Croxton, Tyler Winkler and Michael Cole finished third, fourth and fifth. The Bulldogs’ top five runners were rounded out by Konner Ritchie (15) and Isaac Yeargin (18).
Coach Seth Stephens has hopes his team can do well at the upcoming district meet if his team’s health continues to improve.
“We have had some tough breaks with injuries a couple of races in a row, but our guys aren’t giving up,” Stephens said. “Hopefully, if we can get healthy, we’ll be in position to have a good team race at district.”
The Lady Bulldogs top runner Linzie Priddy finished first by more than 30 seconds with a time of 13:50.
Prairie Valley’s top five runners also included Karagan Ritchie (7), Natalee Young (12), Makaylee Gomez (13) and Veronica Gutierrez (16).
Coach Jeannie Carpenter thought her runners ran well though there was some surprises with the finish order.
“My runners did not finish in the order I expected, but that was a good surprise,” Carpenter said. “My younger runners are really stepping up and competing for one of the top spots on the team.”
The Saint Jo boy’s team finished third overall with top runner Collin Thomas finishing second with a time of 18:26. The team’s top five runners also included Devin Stewart (6), Kile Thurman (8), Jayden Curty (11) and Brice Durham (21).
On the girl’s side Aubrey Morman finished 14th with a time of 17:20 and Kate Sherwin finished 23 with a time of 19:25.
Coach Lyndon Cook thought his team ran well, but the results could have been better if some runners were not missing with injuries.
“It another good run for all the athletes as we were able to cut down on our times in some key spots,” Cook said. “If we were running with our full roster I would have liked to think we could have come home with the team championship.”
There is one more meet scheduled before the district meet. Prairie Valley is set to race at the district preview in Bowie on Oct. 6. Saint Jo is planning to go to a meet in Muenster on Oct. 6.
To see results from high school runners from Prairie Valley, Saint Jo and Bellevue, 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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