SPORTS
1A track teams compete at area meet
The 1A track teams competed at the area meet on Thursday at Bryson and many schools had athletes qualify for the regional meet.
In the team standings, the Saint Jo boy’s team did the best as it finished first overall. Forestburg and Gold-Burg teams followed in fifth and sixth place while Bellevue finished 11th and Prairie Valley finished 13th.
On the girl’s side, Saint Jo was the top finisher in the district finishing in seventh place. Forestburg was right behind in eight place. Prairie Valley, Bellevue and Gold-Burg followed right after the other in 11-13th place.
Going event by event, there was usually one athlete or team that finished in the top four to qualify for the regional event.
On the boy’s side, Kani Grace from Gold-Burg and Jonathan Diaz from Saint Jo both qualified in the 100 meter race. In the 400 meter race Dylan Brockman from Saint Jo qualified. The 800 meter race saw Collin Thomas from Saint Jo not only qualify but win the event. In the 3200 meter race, Isaac Renteria from Gold-Burg and Eli Croxton from Prairie Valley both qualified.
The 110 meter hurdles saw Mathew Sampson from Saint Jo win while Tye Reid from Forestburg and Sergio Andrade from Gold-Burg also qualified. The 300 meter hurdles had Dawson Everson, Mathew Sampson and Caleb Workman from Saint Jo all qualify.
In the 4×100 meter relay, the teams from Forestburg, Saint Jo and Gold-Burg all qualified. The 4×200 relay saw the team from Saint Jo win while the Forestburg team also qualified. The 4×400 relay was the same story as Saint Jo won the event and Forestburg qualified.
In the high jump, Devin Stewart from Saint Jo qualified. In the long jump, Jayon Grace from Gold-Burg qualified. The pole vault saw Dawson Everson and Chandler Parr from Saint Jo qualify along with Tyler Winkler from Prairie Valley.
In the shot put, Kani Grace from Gold-Burg, Braxton Osteen from Forestburg and Terrance Perry from Bellevue all qualified. Perry also would win the discus event while Osteen would qualify in the event.
On the girl’s side, Elaina Everson from Saint Jo qualified in the 200 meter race. In the 100 meter hurdles, Reagan Ladewig from Forestburg quailed. The 300 meter hurdles saw Taylor Patrick from Saint Jo qualify.
In the 800 meters Justynne Roller from Forestburg qualified. In the 1600 and 3200 meter races, Grace Martin from Bellevue would qualify. Linzie Priddy from Prairie Valley joined her in the 3200 meter race.
In the 4×100 and 4×200 meter relays, only the team from Saint Jo would end up qualifying.
In the field events, Madisen Deason from Forestburg ended up qualifying in the high jump. In the pole vault, Emma Stout and Makaylee Gomez both tied and ended up qualifying.
The shot put saw Ladewig from Forestburg also qualify in the event. In the discus, Emily Carpenter would end up qualifying in the event.
The regional meet is scheduled for April 29-30 at Whitney High School where oly the top two finishers in each event will be guaranteed a spot at the state meet.
To see individual results from every athlete from Saint Jo, Forestburg, Prairie Valley, Gold-Burg and Bellevue, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
The Bowie sports banquets was on Monday night. Olivia Gill and Tucker Jones were named Jackrabbit and Lady Rabbit of the year. Pick up the mid-week paper for all of the sports team awards and pictures.
The 72nd Chisholm Trail Rodeo was a big success on Friday and Saturday nights at Nocona.
The rodeo had big crowds and saw some good competition from both local and far reaching talent.
Winners in the events included Zach Hibler in bareback riding, Lindsey Muggli in barrel racing, Ashley Goforth in breakaway roping, Leanardo Lima in bull riding, Cody McCartney in calf roping, Thomas Moellering in ranch bronc riding, Wacey Hathcock in saddle bronc riding, Renato Finazzi in steer wrestling, Rowdy Jones and Rance Doyal in team roping.
To see full results and more pictures, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
The regional tennis tournaments were late last week in North Richland Hills and a doubles team is moving on to state.
The Saint Jo girl’s doubles team Kyler Dunn and Taylor Patrick won the 1A region III tournament and will return to state for the second straight year.
The pair rolled through teams from Morgan, Dodd City, Priddy before beating a Graford team in the finals. The pair did not lose a set and only lost five of the 53 games it played, never losing more than one in a set.
The team made it to state last year after finishing second at regionals and won a match at the state meet against a team from Vernon Northside. They then lost to the eventual state champion team from Utopia and finished tied for third place.
They will be the only tennis players from Montague County playing at state this week as others did not have as successful regional tournament.
The Saint Jo teammates and fellow girl’s doubles team Bailie Nobile and Maxey Johnson won their first match against Ector 6-1, 6-4, but fell in their next match against Lometa, 6-1, 6-1.
From Prairie Valley, Case Carpenter was competing in boy’s singles. His first match was a draining two and half hour battle against a player from Strawn Carpenter came through in the three-set battle, winning 6-4, 5-7, 6-4.
Unfortunately, the magic was not there in the second game. Paired against the eventual tournament champion from Gustine, Carpenter lost 6-0, 6-1.
From Gold-Burg, Alyson Rojas and Jimena Garcia competed in girl’s singles. Rojas won her first match against a girl from Avinger 7-6, 6-2. Unfortunately, the next match she lost to a girl from Graford 6-0, 6-0 to end her tournament.
Garcia lost a tough first match against a player from Ector. Both sets could have gone either way with the scores being 6-4, 7-5 to the winner.
The mixed doubles team from Forestburg, Jesse Wadsworth and Alli Cisneros, also did not make it through.
From Nocona, Kaygan Stone was playing in the girl’s singles 2A region II tournament.
Unfortunately, she got paired against the player who would go on to win the tournament in the first round to end her season.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
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