SPORTS
Nocona hosts opening boy’s powerlifting meet
It was the opening powerlifting meet for both Nocona and Bowie boy’s teams as the Indians hosted a meet featuring seven schools on Thursday.
The Jackrabbit boy’s came up seven points short of first place behind Alvord while Nocona finished sixth overall.
Bowie had 10 lifters finish among the top five in their weight classes to earn points towards the team total. Five of the lifters won their weight class.
Bryan Arellano won the 275 pound weight class by posting the biggest total of the day 1,410 pounds. Jakson Hofbauer won the 242 weight class by posting the second highest total of the day 1,290 pounds.
Down one more weight class Colby Price won the 220 pound weight class by posting a 1,115 total. In the 308 weight class Jacobi McGregor won with a 915 total.
On the opposite end of the weight class spectrum, Colton Covington won the 123 pound weight class with a total of 740 pounds.
Other Jackrabbit lifters who finished among the top in their weight classes included Jason Vaughn, Trevor Hopson, Jaxson Johnston, Johnny Arenas and Gabe Arencibia.
For the Indians, Nicky Diaz was the highest finishing lifter on the night. Diaz finished second in the 114 pound weight class with a total of 545 pounds.
Miguel Olivares and Cooper Waldrip finished third and fifth in the 132 pound weight class. Alessandro Rico and Landon Wilson finished third and fifth in the 220 and 181 pound weight classes to round out the team’s scoring.
Both of the school’s girls and JV boy’s teams are scheduled to compete at 5 p.m. on Jan. 20 at Alvord.
To see results for all lifters from Bowie and Nocona, 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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