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Nocona
The Nocona Indians wrapped up their first undefeated district title since sometime in the 1950s with a win at Archer City on Tuesday.
The Indians won 62-50 against the Wildcats despite having a slow start to the game.
Nocona came into the game with the district title already wrapped up for the second straight season. A win would not only keep the momentum up, but also complete an undefeated district run.
Archer City had fourth place secured, but a win would allowed the team to challenge for third place.
The Wildcats came out ready to play, jumping out to a 9-1 start and leading 14-9 at the end of the first quarter. Archer City still led in the second quarter by as many as nine points up 25-16 before Nocona seemed to wake up.
The Indians went on a 15-3 run before halftime and led 30-28.
Nocona kept up that momtentum in the second half, outscoring the Wildcats in both quarters 16-10 and 16-12.
The Indians won by a comfortable margin 62-50.

Bowie
The Bowie Jackrabbits lost their final district game against first place Holliday on Monday night, but then watched their playoff hopes get dashed a night later when Iowa Park upset Vernon to earn the fourth and final playoff spot.
The Jackrabbits lost to the Eagles 54-32 to end their season.
Bowie came in as underdogs against the state-ranked Holliday team that had not lost a game in district and featured a division I prospect in Keitenn Bristow.
The Jackrabbits trailed from the opening quarter as they fell behind 17-6. Things continued and the Eagles led 32-16 at halftime.
Bowie slowed Holliday down on defense in the second half, but could not score enough to make up any of the big margin.
The Eagles won 54-32.
Tucker Jones led the team with 10 points while Andrew Sandhoff was second with six points.
While the result was not unexpected, what was happened a night later when Iowa Park beat Vernon to earn the fourth and final playoff spot. A loss, like most people expected, would have allowed Bowie to play the Hawks in a play-in game for that spot.

Gold-Burg
The Gold-Burg Bears were able to end their season on a positive note Tuesday night with a win against Midway before finding out their playoff hopes were dashed by another games result.
The Bears beat the Falcons 53-46 in a game where they started out hot before it became serious.
Gold-Burg came into the game needing to win for it to have a chance at the playoffs. If the Bears won, they would need Bellevue to lose to Forestburg. The Bears would have then faced the Eagles in a play-in game for fourth place and the final playoff.
First Gold-Burg needed to beat Midway. The Bears looked like it was going to make short work of the Falcons, up 17-4 after the first quarter.
Midway then outscored Gold-Burg 12-9 and 15-9 in the middle quarters to cut the lead to 37-31 heading into the fourth quarter.
Both teams scored well in the final period, with the Falcons shooting well from 3-point range.
Ultimately, it was the Bears who held firm and won with a little space 53-46.
Isaac Renteria led the team with 15 points while Keelyn Case was second with 12 points. Jayton Epperson finished with a double-double with 10 points and a team high 10 rebounds. Senior Jayon Grace scored 10 points in what ended up being his final game.
The team then drove over to a late start of the Bellevue and Forestburg game only to show up in the fourth quarter to watch the Eagles claw their first lead in the final minute to beat the Longhorns 54-50 and end the Bears season.

Missing scores
The Saint Jo coach did not send results from the team’s game against Slidell.
Prairie Valley had already played its final game the previous week.

To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.

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District awards for 1A released

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Bellevue’s Bryce Ramsey was named his district’s newcomer of the year.

With the baseball and softball seasons over for the area 1A schools, district awards have been released.
Listed below are those earned honors on the field and in the classroom for Saint Jo and Bellevue.

Softball
Saint Jo
Honorable mention

Utility player: Taylor Patrick; Catcher: Jordyn O’Neal

Baseball
Superlatives
Offensive MVP: Devin Stewart, Saint Jo
Newcomer of the Year: Bryce Ramsey, Bellevue

Pitcher: Trent Gaston, Saint Jo
Outfielder: Jayden Curry, Saint Jo

Second team
Pitcher: Charlie Barclay, Saint Jo
Infielder: Brycen Bancroft, Bellevue; Sam Martin, Saint Jo
Outfielder: Rylan Forrester, Saint Jo
Catcher: Charlie Evans, Saint Jo
Utility: Logan Hoover, Saint Jo
DH: Amzy Barclay, Saint Jo

Honorable mention
Cody Gaston, Saint Jo; Xander Joyner, Saint Jo

To see academic awards from Saint Jo players, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.

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Forestburg coach retiring

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Forestburg boys basketball coach Eldon Van Hooser helped lead the program to its first playoff win in nine years in his last year coaching.

Eldon Van Hooser is leaving Forestburg better than he found it.
The head boy’s basketball coach is retiring after more than 30 years, spending the last five at Forestburg.
Van Hooser did not come to this decision because of a lack of fire or feeling tired after decades in the profession. He had to for family reasons.
“My wife has MS (multiple sclerosis) and it’s a disease where you have trouble standing and walking and she needs help,” Van Hooser said. “I am able to so I am going to step away from teaching and coaching to be there for her.”
Van Hooser was hired in 2019. Along with being the boy’s basketball coach, he also was the football team’s defensive coordinator.
There were some lean years for Forestburg on the boy’s athletic side, with numbers being low and the available athletes being mostly underclassmen.
For two years, the Longhorns’ boy’s basketball team won few games and one of those seasons saw the team field five players on the high school team.
“One of those years we had COVID-19 and the other we had five kids,” Van Hooser said. “It was very rough. After that we worked with the kids and we had a good freshman group coming up. Next year they are going to be seniors.”
That group has helped to turn the program around. Last year the young Longhorns team contested for a playoff spot and just barely missed it finishing fifth in the district.
This season, that same group took a leap and finished second in district with a record of 7-5.
Despite losing its last two regular season games in dramatic fashion heading into the playoffs, the team stepped up in the bi-district game.
Playing against an athletic Newcastle team, Forestburg led for most of the game.
Unfortunately, the previous game against Bellevue saw the Longhorn team blow the lead late in the fourth quarter against a hard pressing style team and they were suffering the same fate against the Bobcats down the stretch.
Fortunately, Forestburg held on just enough to win 53-46. It was the first boy’s basketball playoff win in nine years for Forestburg.
“It was huge for our program,” Van Hooser said. “This new year we will have new goals. The new coach will have some goals of his own, but I set some for the team and think that we have come a long way.”

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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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