SPORTS
Lady Indians take over first place in district
The Nocona Lady Indians won a crucial game at home on Friday night against Holliday.
The Lady Indians won a battle between the district’s only unbeaten teams 57-43 to take sole possession of the first place in the standings.
Nocona came into the game following a tough win against rival Bowie in the game before to pick up its 18th straight win. The Lady Eagles had won 14 of their last 15 games while beating every district opponent by double-digits.
Both teams started the game coming out firing. They were knocking down shots and playing great offense on both sides.
Holliday came out making three 3-pointers and using their size inside to battle hard on the glass. Nocona made four 3-pointers while using their pace to run in transition and drive to the basket when the defense closed out too hard.
The Lady Indians led 21-19 after a furious first quarter, but the game would slow down over the next three quarters.
Nocona tightened things up as the pace went down. The Lady Eagles were able to draw fouls during the second quarter, but made only one of their eight attempts. Combined with only one field goal made and the Lady Indians held Holliday to just three points in the quarter.
The Lady Eagles also were dealt a blow as one their key players Katy Jo Piper went down with a leg injury during the quarter.
Nocona was still scoring at a good pace which allowed it to build up a double-digit lead 36-22 at halftime.
Holliday came out in the third quarter and played better than Nocona. Fortunately for the Lady Indians, the Lady Eagles continued to struggle at the free throw line, making going 1-8 again.
At several points Holliday closed the lead to 10 points, but just could not break through despite outscoring Nocona during the quarter. The Lady Indians were still in control 44-31 heading into the fourth quarter.
Holliday hung around with the lead cut to 10 points again for most of the quarter as the team tried to use its physicality to force turnovers from a Nocona team trying to run clock the last four minutes of the game.
The Lady Indians held their ground and drew fouls and unlike Holliday made their free throws down the stretch going 8-11.
Nocona won with little drama at the end 57-43.
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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