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Lady Indians fall in the regional final to Crawford

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The Nocona players fall to the ground in tears following the final point of the match.

The Nocona Lady Indians ride stopped one game short of the state tournament as they lost to Crawford in the regional tournament final at Princeton.
The Lady Indians first beat Rosebud-Lott on Friday in straight sets 3-0 before losing to the Lady Pirates 3-1 in the regional final on Saturday.
Nocona was making its first appearance at the regional tournament since 2013 and was hoping to also make it back to state after a long program absence in that as well.
The Lady Indians first match in the regional tournament was against a Rosebud-Lott team with 30 wins. Still Nocona was favored heading into the match, ranked among the top five teams in the state in 2A while the Lady Cougars were less heralded.
The Lady Indians played like it on Friday night. After the last two playoff matches against Como-Pickton and Lindsay had pushed Nocona and tested its resolve in five and four-set matches, the Lady Indians won with relatively little trouble.
Nocona won in straight sets with set scores being 25-12, 25-13 and 25-19. Skyler Smith led the team with 15 kills and 19 assists. Meg Meekins was second with 14 kills and 17 assists.
Bren Fenoglio had a team high three blocks while Grace Brown led the team with 14 digs.
The win set up a match against a Crawford program that was looking to get back to the state tournament for the seventh time in the last 10 years and had two state titles in that time.
The teams looked evenly matched on paper and it would come down to which team performed better that day.
Nocona played great in the first set, breaking out of an even 20 points to take control up 14-11. While the Lady Pirates were always close enough to try and steal the lead back, they never did as the Lady Indians closed the set well, winning 25-21 and playing with a lot of fire up 1-0 early.
The second set saw Nocona carry that momentum into the start of the second set, up 9-6 and looking in control in a competitive set.
Then Crawford came back to tie the set up at 10-10 and it was one or two-point leads for the next 20 points.
Some bad signs started to come up for Nocona. Double-hit errors and other hitting errors the team had avoided in the first set seemed to come up more in the second set and it seemed to take any of the momentum away.
Still, the Lady Indians looked like they might close out the set again up 21-19. Crawford tied the score at 22-22 and it was back-and-forth for the next 10 points.
Nocona fought back from set-point once and then had a chance to put it away up one point 26-25 and needing to win one more to win. The Lady Pirates came back to win the next three points to take set two 28-26 and tie the score at 1-1.
Mistakes seemed to pile up in the third set for the Lady Indians as Crawford took the early lead and control. Down 12-8, Nocona got itself back into the set and tied the score up at 17-17 and 20-20 before taking the lead for the first time late 21-20 and later 23-22.
The Lady Pirates tied the score on a block/kill, the Lady Indians lost the lead on the next point when they had a hitting error and then lost the set when another double-hit set was called. Crawford won 25-23 and now led the match 2-1.
With two close winnable sets slipping away from Nocona, the emotional toll seemed to catch up with the team in the fourth set.
While every set in the match up to that point had been close, no team had fallen behind by more than four points at any time.
Crawford improved its early 9-6 lead to 13-7 and it looked like it was only a matter of time before the match would end.
Nocona was trying, but the sharpness it was playing with earlier in the match was gone while the Lady Pirates seemed to have everything cooking. The Lady Indians were still giving great effort as the lead grew and grew.
Even with the match looking hopeless, the team was not giving up and no girls showed premature tears in their eyes. Still, it never turned around as Crawford closed out the set strong to win 25-14 and the match 3-1.

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Crutsinger resigns from Nocona

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Nocona Athletic Director/football coach Blake Crutsinger resigned from his position last week after spending four years at the school.

It was announced last week Nocona Athletic director/football coach Blake Crutsinger is resigning from his position at the school after serving four years.
Crutsinger said now is the time for his family to make the move, with his daughter Avery graduating after spending four years at Nocona and with his son Kellar about to enter high school and wanting the same for him at another school.
“With her going off to college, she had a really good four years here and just looking at Keller heading into high school and exploring some opportunities that might be better for him, it is just time,” Crutsinger said.
Crutsinger went 19-22 overall, helping the Indians to two playoff appearances in 2022 and 2023. The team’s best season was 2023, when it went 8-2 and won the district title, the first one in 11 years for the program.

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Cervantes signs to college

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Saint Jo senior Payzlie Cervantes signed her letter of intent to play college basketball last week at Highland College in Kansas. She also played volleyball, softball and ran track at Saint Jo. “After talking with Coach Tana Coleman, I really connected with her and loved the campus vibe and direction she wants for the team,” Cervantes said. “I’m looking forward to continuing my basketball career while getting my associates degree in nursing to become a registered nurse.”

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Sieberts earn bronze at state

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Bowie’s Willow and Heidi Siebert earned a bronze medal competing at the state tennis tournament last week. (Courtesy photo)

Last week Montague County had five girls from Bowie and Saint Jo compete at the state tennis tournament, and one team brought back some hardware.
Sisters from Bowie, junior Heidi and freshman Willow Siebert brought back a bronze medal competing in the 3A girl’s doubles bracket.
The pair were the first people from the program to make it back to state since their half sisters, Meagan and Myah Russell, advanced nine years previously.
The Sieberts came into state as a two-seed, having finished second at the regional tournament the previous week.
The duo was ready as they blew through their first two matches. They beat a team from Hondo in the first round with the scores being 6-1, 6-1 and dominated even more in the second round against a team from Tatum, winning 6-0, 6-1.
That got them through to the second day of the tournament, but Coach Dayna Boothe was worried they had had it too easy on day one.
Playing in the semifinals, the Lady Rabbits faced a familiar foe, a team from Peaster they had beaten in the regional tournament the previous week. Unfortunately, near the end of the first set, with the Sieberts fighting to stay alive, Heidi went after a high lob and slammed into the fence. She hurt her right arm and had to play through it for the rest of the match.
They lost the match with the scores being 6-3, 6-3.
It was an all Peaster final, with the other side of the bracket producing the team that both beat the Sieberts at the regional tournament and won their second straight state title.
Still, despite the disappointment, Bowie is bringing back a bronze medal. According to Boothe, after contacting people who would know dating back to the late 1970s, it could possibly be the program’s first medals from the state tournament in tennis.
Of course, Bowie was not the only school represented. Saint Jo had Taylor Patrick competing in girl’s singles and the team of Bailie Nobile and Maxey Johnson competing in girl’s doubles in the 1A classification.
Senior Patrick was making her third appearance at the state tournament, but her first in the singles competition.
She finished third at the regional meet which meant she had a tough first round matchup against a second seed from Fort Davis.
It took everything from Patrick in a match that lasted two and a half hours. She went down in the first set 6-2, but rebounded in a tight second set to win 6-4 to force a third and final set. She had the momentum and won 6-2 to move on.
She had to summon the energy to play later that day against a fresh one-seed player from Utopia. Patrick lost 6-1, 6-1 to end her Saint Jo career. Her opponent would go on to finish second.
Juniors Johnson and Nobile were making their first appearances at the state meet after finishing second at the regional tournament. In the first round they played a tough match against a team from Marathon. It seemed evenly matched throughout, but small mistakes at inopportune times cost them throughout the match. In the end, the team lost by the scores of 6-3, 6-3.

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