SPORTS
Nocona baseball loses 9-6
The Nocona Indians started their season on Friday with a game at Callisburg.
The Wildcats won the game 9-6 in four innings, with all nine runs coming in the final inning.
Up until then the Indians were in control. Ty Presley and Kooper Hansard got on base in the first inning. Presley scored on a wild pitch and with two outs Wesley Murphey drove in Hansard with a single to put Nocona up 2-0.
A single and a walk allowed Callisburg to put two runners in scoring position, but pitcher Presley struck out all three batters throughout the inning to get out of the jam.
Luke and Charlie Fuller drew walks for the Indians in the second inning and both worked their way to get into scoring position. Unfortunately, Nocona batters could not get them home thanks to strikeouts. Prelsey struck out two of the three batters he faced to move into the third inning.
Hansard and Murphey got on base with singles. Anthony Torres then drove in a run on a double. Charlie followed him with a double that drove in two runs to make the score 5-0.
A one out walk from the Wildcats tried to break the scoreless streak. After stealing second base, a ground out moved him to third base. The player then got caught trying to steal home by catcher Torres to end the third inning.
Presley led off the fourth inning with a single. After stealing second base, a ground out moved him to third base. Matthew Page then got him by grounding out to second base to make the score 6-0.
As good as the Indians were playing up to that point, it all started to go down hill next. Two singles and an error loaded the bases with no outs for the Wildcats.
A walk drove in a run. A single followed to drive in two more runs. A walk loaded the bases again.
An error at catcher allowed another run. Followed by a single that drove in two more runs the score was tied 6-6 with no outs.
Then came back-to-back-to-back doubles that all drove in one run each to give Callisburg a 9-6 lead and where the game ended according to the game changer scoring application.
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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