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Forestburg boys beat Gold-Burg 53-47; Prairie Valley loses to Midway
Forestburg vs Gold-Burg
The Forestburg Longhorns picked up their first district win in three season by beating Gold-Burg at home on Friday.
The Longhorns turned things around in the second half in order to win 53-47 against the Bears.
Both teams headed into the game looking for its first district win. Both had played some of the top teams in the district so far with not great results, but had reason to believe Friday’s game was winnable.
Forestburg is a young team with no seniors filled with mostly underclassmen.
With a recommitment to basketball from the young group along with some much needed depth, the team has won some non-district games this year after struggling to do so the last two years.
Gold-Burg is a bit older and more experienced, but needed to put all of its pieces together for things to work out.
With neither team playing any games during the holiday break, both were still trying to get things together on Friday.
The Bears’ full-court pressure defense was causing some havoc for the Longhorns in the first half.
Both teams initially wanted to play fast, but it was too fast at times for Forestburg which led to turnovers that Gold-Burg fed off of.
While the Longhorns scored enough against the press to keep the game close at halftime down only 29-25, it looked like the type of game that was benefitting the Bears as it went on.
The second half saw Forestburg calm things down and methodically break the press while playing solid defense which led the Longhorns starting the quarter on a 17-3 run to build a double-digit lead at one point.
Gold-Burg rallied to finish the quarter better when Forestburg’s big post player Kyler Willett had to sit with foul issues and trailed only 45-38 heading into the fourth quarter.
It was more back and forth as the Bears were able to have some moments of press defense chaos trying to claw their way back into the game.
They got as close to cutting it to 51-47 with two minutes left in the game.
The Longhorns were able to hang on, making a couple of free throws in the final minutes to win 53-47.
Jesus Sanchez led Forestburg with 27 points while making six 3-pointers. Willett was second with 14 points and 13 rebounds.
For Gold-Burg, Isaac Renteria led the team with 15 points while Jayon Grace scored 14 and Aidan Foster scored 11 points.
Prairie Valley
The Prairie Valley Bulldogs lost a tough game against Midway on Friday night.
The Falcons won 51-24 against the Bulldogs.
Prairie Valley came into the game hoping to slow down Midway’s offense, which Coach Seth Stephens thought the team did well enough in the first half. Unfortunately, the Falcons got hot and made five 3-pointers in the third quarter and outscored the Bulldogs 21-7 to break the game open.
Prairie Valley could not recover since the team was having trouble scoring all game long.
Tyler Winkler led the team with 15 points and six rebounds. Tyson Easterling was second with five points and four rebounds. Trae Campbell scored the other four points.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
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Nocona gets delivered new press box
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.
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Richey repeats at IFYR
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.
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Youth rodeo awards presented
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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