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Prairie Valley vs Gold-Burg
Prairie Valley had a memorable senior night playing Gold-Burg on Tuesday as an offensive shootout erupted.
The Bulldogs won 89-71 against the Bears as senior Isaac Yeargin scored 43 points while making 13 3-pointers.
It wasn’t close for most of the game as Prairie Valley seemed to find open shots at will against Gold-Burg’s zone defense. Yeargin did not miss many of them and neither did Tyler Winkler. Not to be overshadowed, Winkler scored 33 points while making seven 3-pointers himself.
The Bears tried to hang with the hot shooting Bulldogs by drawing a lot of free throws, crashing the offensive glass and scoring in the post in the second half.
Despite how well his team was scoring the ball, Prairie Valley Coach Seth Stephens was pulling his hair out of his head at times as his team had to deal with foul issues and not matching up well against the more physical Bears inside.
Kani Grace scored 24 points to lead Gold-Burg while Kolton Whitaker joined him in double-figures scoring 17 points. Coach Jesse Vaughn knew the Bulldogs would come out excited for senior night and once they got going he hoped they could start missing.
It was disappointing for a Gold-Burg team that has continued to get better as the season went along. The Bears won 56-39 against Forestburg the previous night. Whitaker led the team with 25 points while Jayon Grace was second with nine points.
Saint Jo
The Saint Jo Panthers picked up one-sided wins against on Monday and Tuesday against Bellevue and Forestburg.
The Panthers beat the Eagles 54-23 on Monday before turning around and winning at Forestburg 46-18 on Tuesday.
Saint Jo was hoping to play better the second time around against Bellevue after the Eagles almost narrowly beat the Panthers in the first game.
Saint Jo’s intense defense allowed the team to get out to a 28-9 lead at halftime despite the team not shooting particularly well.
Kile Thurman led the team with 17 points while Logan Brawner picked up a double-double on senior night, scoring 12 points and grabbing 12 rebounds.
It much of the same story the next night against a young Longhorn team.
The defense locked down Forestburg for most of the night, but offensively the team continued its shooting woes that also extended to the free throw line. Saint Jo went 11-33 from the charity stripe which sent Coach Lyndon Cook into a tizzy.
Thurman and Brice Durham both led the team with 12 points. Thurman also had five assists and five steals to lead the team.
Forestburg
The Forestburg Longhorns lost two tough games on Monday and Tuesday against Gold-Burg and Saint Jo.
The Bears won 56-39 on Monday and the Panthers won 46-18 on Tuesday.
Jesus Sanchez led the Longhorns with 14 points and four made 3-pointers in the game against Gold-Burg. Braxton Osteen was second with nine points.
Against Saint Jo, Sanchez and Kyler Willett lead the way scoring six points each.
Forestburg’s last regular season game was on Friday against Bellevue at home.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekend 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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