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Saint Jo
The Saint Jo Panthers lost their bi-district game against undefeated Gordon on Friday night.
The Longhorns won 62-16 with the game being called early in the fourth quarter due to mercy rule.
Saint Jo was hoping its battle-tested schedule had prepared itself for a Gordon team that had easily won all of its games so far this season.
The Panthers had not done well in their losses against Knox City or Union Hill, but they have at least been pushed whereas a young Longhorn team had not really been challenged.
Unfortunately, Gordon showed why it had not been challenged. Saint Jo struggled to move the ball early in the game. The defense got two stops in the first quarter, including a fumble recovery from Caleb Workman.
Still, the Longhorns big play ability did yield one touchdown on a long touchdown pass to give them a 6-0 lead heading into the second quarter.
That broke open the door as Gordon scored four more times before halftime, including one on a fumble recovery on defense. Saint Jo scored right before halftime as Matthew Butler-Everson found Devin Stewart open for a six-yard touchdown to cut the lead to 38-8 heading into the second half.
The Panther defense got some stops in the third quarter, but the Longhorns scored three more times in the quarter. Saint Jo’s offense continued to struggle to keep up. Trevor O’Neal scored on an eight-yard run to cut the lead to 50-16, but the end of the game was coming with two more scores from Gordon icing the game early in the fourth quarter.
The final score was 62-16.
Gold-Burg
The Gold-Burg Bears lost a tough game against Throckmorton on Friday night.
The Greyhounds won 54-8 against the Bears.
Gold-Burg came into the game fresh off an upset district win against defending state-champs Strawn. Finishing second in the district standings though meant the Bears would have to face a district champion.
Throckmorton had an up and down pre-district schedule after big pre-season expectations, but won its last four games in one-sided fashion heading into the game. The Greyhounds kept that going on Friday night to end Gold-Burg’s season, but it was not all bad for the Bears.
Gold-Burg had an up and down season as well following the heels of the best season in school history. With only two wins heading into district play and two new district teams that were slated to get the only two playoff spots, the Bears playoff prospects were not looking good.
Newcastle showed why it was a playoff favorite after dropping down from division I. After soundly beating county opponent Forestburg, Gold-Burg would have to upset a Strawn program that has more state championships than the Bears had playoff appearances.
Even a down year like everyone was reporting about the Strawn Greyhounds would surely beat Gold-Burg with the season on the line. Instead the Bears beat Strawn at home to give the Gold-Burg community another happy senior night.
To read the full story, 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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