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Nocona beats Lady Rabbits 41-33
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The Nocona Lady Indians were able to bounce back in the second half to beat rival Bowie on Saturday afternoon.
The Lady Indians won 41-33 against the Lady Rabbits to stay first place in the district heading into their final regular season game.
Nocona came into the game as the favorites as the undefeated district leader as well as being ranked 12th in the state. Bowie showed in the first game it had no fear, pushing the Lady Indians at home and making the game closer than the final score 60-52 would have people believe.
The Lady Rabbits were playing in their final regular season game before heading into the playoffs. Outside of school pride, a win would give Bowie the slight chance to possibly move up to second in the district standings if City View would have upset Holliday.
The first quarter was low scoring and competitive. The Lady Indians took a page from their adjustment late in the first game and were denying Bowie’s Maddie Mandela the ball when she did not have it. They also tried to do it to Taygon Jones, but were less successful since she usually brought the ball up.
They both scored a basket in the first quarter along with Neely Price and Ziba Robbins off the bench.
The Lady Indians also got their own taste of it with Bowie trying to deny Megyn Meekins. She scored four points as four different players scored a basket for Nocona as the team led 11-9 after the first quarter.
Bowie’s defense did a better job in the second quarter, allowing only an early basket from Stephany Gutierrez and a long 3-pointer at the buzzer from Raylee Sparkman the entire quarter.
The Lady Rabbits did not have much luck scoring themselves, getting 3-pointers from Mandela and Price while also getting Kayleigh Crow off the bench to score on a 3-point play.
This allowed Bowie to take the lead 18-16 heading into halftime against a bewildered Nocona team.
The Lady Indians started to be more team friendly on offense in the third quarter as the ball moved more. This allowed Nocona to score off of off the ball movement as opposed to isolations.
Bowie was still making the Lady Indians work for every basket, but unfortunately for the Lady Rabbits their own offense was stuck in the mud.
Jones was able to brute force her way into a layup and free throw attempts to score four points and Addie Farris made both of her free throw attempts, but nothing else happened offensively for Bowie.
Nocona retook the lead, but it was still close 27-24 heading into the fourth quarter.
Early in the final period saw the Lady Indians offense showed flashes of what they did to opponents. Back-to-back sequence saw Nocona’s Reagan Phipps leak out early and score on uncontested layups in transition following a miss.
With a couple of more baskets from Raylee Sparkman and Karlee Brown, Nocona opened up its lead to 36-26 with 5:30 left to play. Not long after the Lady Indians started to stall.
With out a lot of fouls called in the half this meant Bowie had to foul several times before it started to send Nocona to the free throw line. While also trying to steal the ball, this took a lot of time off the clock.
During this time, Mandela fouled out for Bowie with three minutes still to play.
The Lady Rabbits made a late 3-pointer and Nocona did not do a great job of making its free throws late in the game, but it was enough to close out the game with little drama.
The Lady Indians won 41-33.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
SPORTS
Nocona new press box put into place
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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.
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Richey repeats at IFYR
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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.
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Youth rodeo awards presented
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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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