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Nocona
The Nocona Indians pulled off a close victory on the road at Poolville on Friday despite being shorthanded.
The Indians won 61-58 against the Monarchs, pulling ahead with a big fourth quarter.
Nocona came into the game with its starting post player out with an injury.
With the team struggling to rebound in some of its games early in the season, it was concern for Coach Brody Wilson going into the game.
The game started off hot offensively as the Indians led 20-17 after a fast paced first quarter. It did not slow down much in the second or third quarters as the Monarchs gathered a small 49-46 lead heading into the final period.
Nocona’s defense was able to limit Poolville to only nine points in the fourth quarter and got score enough to flip the script and get the lead back.
In the final seconds Michael Wetmore, who led the team with 21 points, was able to make two free throws down the stretch to put the Indians up 61-58.
The defense was able to force a miss at the end to win the game.
Conley Kleinhans also scored in double-figures with 14 points while leading the team with nine rebounds and six assists.

Saint Jo
The Saint Jo Panthers did well at their final tournament last weekend in Jayton at the Robert Hall Classic.
The Panthers went 3-2 overall while getting some good experience before the opening of district play this week.
Saint Jo first played 2A Wellington in the tournament and lost a close one 60-50. Before the end of the day, the Panthers bounced back by beating Borden County easily 53-33.
On the second day, Saint Jo handed 3A Jacksboro a loss 40-28 early in the morning before finishing the day by beating 2A Haskell 49-39.
On the final day of the tournament the Panthers finished against 3A Idalou.
In the most competitive game of the tournament for Saint Jo, the Wildcats won by one basket 43-40.

Forestburg
The Forstburg Longhorns got another dose of playing pressure defenses they traveled to 4A Burkburnett on Friday.
The Bulldogs JV team won 58-39, but it was a good game for the Longhorns to get ready for the start of district.
Forestburg is looking to turn from competitive to good this year in district, but the young squad has shown it is susceptible to press defenses in some early game matchups.
Burkburnett is a team that is known for its press defense it has been using for many years, using a platoon system at almost every stop in the action to sub in fresh bodies to play an all encompassing style that is tough to deal with.
Even playing the JV team, it is still against good athletes from a 4A program who know how to play the system very well.
The Longhorns lack of depth hurt them playing against that style, but they actually finished the game strong by outscoring the Bulldogs 15-11 in the fourth quarter.
Jesse Wadsworth led Forestburg with 15 points and four made 3-pointers. Kyler Willett was second scoring 11 points.

To read the full story, pick up a copy of mid-week edition of the Bowie News.

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Bowie Sports Banquet

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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.

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Chisholm Trail Rodeo entertains crowd

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A steer wrestler gets a good grip as he comes off his horse to get the steer on the ground. (Photo by Benjimen Barker from J Bar S Photography)

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.

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Saint Jo pair heading back to state tennis

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Saint Jo girl’s doubles team Kyler Dunn and Taylor Patrick won the 1A region III tournament to earn a second straight trip to state. (Courtesy photo)

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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