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Baseball Roundup
Saint Jo
The Saint Jo Panther baseball team had its five-game win streak snapped playing 2A Muenster on Thursday night.
The Hornets won 9-1 against the smaller Panthers team who had been playing well the last several weeks.
Saint Jo had evened up its season series against fellow 1A Perrin-Whitt before reeling off two wins each against 2A schools Chico and Nocona.
Unfortunately, Muenster proved to be a different story.
The Hornets took an early 2-0 lead in the second inning thanks to a two-RBI double.
The third inning proved to be killer as Muenster racked up six runs thanks to six hits and a hit batter to go up 8-0.
Saint Jo struggled getting many hits all game so coming back from eight runs was going to be a tough endevour.
Defensively, the Panthers cycled through three more pitchers the rest of the game to keep the Hornets from getting to comfortable and Muenster scored only one other run the final four innings.
The Panthers did score one run in the bottom of the sixth inning down 9-0.
Matthew Everson drew a leadoff walks. Collin Thomas followed with a single.
A groundout for out one advanced both runners into score position before Mathew Sampson drew another walk to load the bases.
Following a strikeout, a passed ball allowed Everson to come in and score what would be the Panthers only run.
After a scoreless seventh inning, Muenster would win 9-1.
Nocona
The Nocona Indians’ baseball team lost at home on Tuesday against Perrin-Whitt.
The Pirates won 22-5 after four inning due to run rule as the Indians look to get their first district win of the season.
After Perrin-Whitt took an early 1-0 lead in the first inning, Nocona tied the score up in the same inning. Charlie Fuller drove in a run on a two-out double to tie the score 1-1.
The Pirates answered with six runs in the second inning, but Nocona got two of those runs back with its bats.
With two base runners on thanks to walks and two outs, Luke Fuller scored on a passed ball before Walker Murphey drove in the other base runner to cut the lead to 7-3.
The Pirates added four more runs in the third inning to go up 11-3, but Nocona again got a couple of runs back.
Charlie Fuller hit a line drive to centerfield that induced a fielding error that drove in one run. Unable to gather the ball, Fuller made it all the way around the bases to score another run, cutting the lead to 11-5.
Unfortunately, Nocona had a defensive inning from hell in the fourth inning, allowing Perrin-Whitt to double its score before it was all said and done.
After getting through that, any momentum from Nocona was sapped. The Indians failed to score in their next time up to bat and the game ended due to run rule.
The Pirates won 22-5.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.
Bowie softball had a historic season, where the squad made the postseason for the first time since 2019 and knocked a top seed from the playoffs, come to an end April 29.
No-4 ranked Tuscola Jim Ned got out to a quick start and took an 11-1, five inning win in the area round of the Class 3A Division I playoffs. Bowie had its season end at 19-15.
With a large crowd at Weatherford High rooting them on, Bowie took the field looking to knock out another top seed, as they did with Early last week.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Bowie will have two track athletes at the State track and field meet May 14 with top two finishes at the Region 1-3A track meet at Abilene Christian University May 1-2.
Tyler Richey finished 2nd in the pole vault with a 15’ leap. Richey was also 9th in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 15.39. Sophomore Braden Willett was 3rd in the 1,600-meters with a school record best of time of 4:21.93. Willett was 4th in the 3,200-meter run with a time of 9:29.71.
Several other Rabbits and Lady Rabbits competed at the regional meet. The 800-meter relay foursome of Colton Dosch, Richey, Finn Riddle and Jaxon White finished 6th with a time of 1:30.24 while the 1,600-meter relay team of Dosch, Judah Livsey, Riddle and Blaine Leonard finished 8th with a time of 3:30.76.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Saint Jo’s boys and girls track teams took top honors at the Region III-A track meet at Hewitt Midway High School May 1-2 and will send several athletes to the state track and field meet May 16 in Austin.
The boys were led by Damon Byrd who won both the long jump with a 22’9 ¾” leap and triple jump with a 45’ 10 ½”. Byrd also won the 100-meter dash with a time of 1.03 and was a member of the victorious 800-meter relay along with Trent Gaston, Barrett Johnson and Lee Yeley with a time of 1:30.80.
Yeley won the high jump with a 6’ leap. Byrd, Yeley, Dominic Luna and Gaston combined for a 2nd-place finish in the 1,600-meter relay with a time 3:32.81. Gaston was 2nd in the 110-meter hurdles with a tie of 16.09. Johnson was 2nd in the 400-meter dash in 50.75, Ayden Giambruno was 6th in the 3200-meter run in 11:05.24 with Yeley 8th in the 200-meters with a time of 25.61.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
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