SPORTS
Softball Roundup
Nocona
The Nocona Lady Indians finished their season with disappointing losses to Alvord on Saturday and then against Lindsay on Monday in a three-team play-in scenario.
Nocona lost both games by the score 11-6 though the team showed some good things in both.
Against the Lady Bulldogs on Saturday, Nocona fell behind 9-1 after four innings.
The Lady Indians then had a good fifth inning, scoring four runs to cut the lead to 9-5.
Unfortunately it did not spark a late game turnaround. Alvord scored two runs in the sixth inning and Nocona scored one in the final inning to make the final 11-6.
Evelyn Marquez led the team with three RBIs. Tobie Cable had a team leading three hits and was second with two RBIs while hitting a home run and a double. Avery Crutsinger drove in the other run.
It was not enough firepower to keep up with the 19 hits the Lady Bulldogs got in the game despite Nocona only committing one fielding error.
Saint Jo
The Saint Jo Lady Panthers lost another tough game to Lindsay on Saturday to end their regular season.
The 2A Lady Knights won 23-6 after five innings against the young the Lady Panthers.
Saint Jo scored three runs the first inning with Taylor Patrick driving in two with a double and Kayden Skidmore driving her in with a fielder’s choice groundout.
In the third inning, Skidmore successfully laid down a bunt for a single that drove in one more run. In the fifth inning, Kailynn Faber hit a groundball and an error allowed two more runs to score.
Unfortunately, Lindsay was scoring runs during all of those times as well in much bigger volume as Saint Jo did not have a good day fielding the ball with 10 errors while allowing 15 hits.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
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.
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.
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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