SPORTS
Prairie Valley basketball teams lose at Midway
Neither of the Prairie Valley basketball teams had much luck playing top of the district teams at Midway on Saturday.
The Lady Bulldogs lost 47-28 while the Bulldogs lost 59-48 thanks to a bad second half.
The Prairie Valley girls were not expecting much. Thanks to the weather, the team had not practiced in three days playing the top team in the district.
Coach Jeannie Carpenter set her team some modest goals to try and achieve outside of the final result. Despite the final score being what it was, Carpenter said her team met those goals and thought it was a successful game overall for her team.
Makaylee and Carmen Gomez led the team scoring 10 and seven points. Emily Carpenter led the team with nine rebounds to go with four points.
The Bulldogs started their game strong despite missing three days of practice.
The team was able to limit the Falcons transition offense and control the pace.
Prairie Valley kept it close in the first quarter and trailed only 13-11. The second quarter saw the team get a big lift from Isaac Yeargin. The senior scored 15 of his team’s 20 points in the quarter to help the Bulldogs build as much as an eight point lead, eventually leading 31-29 at halftime.
In the second half, Midway slowly got the lead back and fouls in the first half caught up with Prairie Valley in the second half as players were forced to sit.
The Falcons got control back of the game and the Bulldogs could not wrestle free back control to come back. Midway won 59-48.
Yeargin finished with 21 points while making six 3-pointers. Tyler Winkler was second with 10 points while dishing six assists.
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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