SPORTS
Bowie boys lose first district game
The Bowie Jackrabbits lost their first district game on Friday at City View.
The reigning district champ Mustangs beat the Jackrabbits 74-50 in an offensive fire show Bowie just could not keep up with.
City View swept through the district last year undefeated before going three rounds deep in the playoffs. The Mustangs are picked to do it again as the eighth ranked team in the state from the most recent poll. City View is long and athletic and led by brothers Jaeden and Chris Whitten.
The first quarter was a fireball of a start for both sides as the teams combined for nearly 40 points.
Bowie came out making several 3-pointers and dumping it off inside to Riley Blackburn for finishes around the rim. The Jackrabbits scored a game high for them 17 points.
Unfortunately, it was not enough to keep up with the Mustangs.
City View scored 22 points in the quarter, with 14 coming from the brother duo.
Not much was different in the second quarter for the Mustangs as they scored 20 points. Bowie’s offense took a bit of a dip as the team made no 3-pointer during the quarter.
Brody Armstrong scored six points as the Jackrabbits did not struggle to score, but it was not enough to keep up as they trailed by double-digits 42-29 at halftime.
The third quarter was a complete tone shift as neither team scored much. Both teams combined to score 20 points, though City View got the small advantage scoring 11-9 during the period.
This did not help Bowie much as the team still trailed by quite a bit 53-38.
At one point it looked like the Jackrabbits were about to get the score under 10 points by cutting the lead to 53-41. Unfortunately, that would be as close as they would get.
The Mustangs offense took advantage of the high pace again in the fourth quarter and scored more than 20 points again and brother duo combined for 48 points in the game. Bowie failed to keep up which made the final margin worse than the team would have liked.
City View won 74-50.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week 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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