SPORTS
Softball Roundup
Nocona
The Nocona Lady Indians lost district games against Lindsay and Collinsville this week.
The Lady Knights won 15-5 and the Lady Pirates 16-5.
Against Lindsay on Monday at home, it was not one big inning on defense that allowed the Lady Knights to get a big lead, but a steady stream of runs.
Nocona did not allow any more than three runs in any inning, but Lindsay scored two or more runs in six of the seven innings in the game.
While the Lady Indians had some success on offense, finishing with seven hits and five runs, it was not enough to keep up with the Lady Knights who racked up 15 hits and took advantage of five fielding errors from Nocona.
The Lady Indians were led by Tinley Cable who drove in two runs and finished with two hits. Evelyn Marquez hit a solo home run while the rest of the runs came on the base paths for Nocona.
The Lady Indians played against Collinsville two days later and the game ended after five innings due to run rule. The Lady Pirates scored five runs in the first and third innings and scored four in the fifth inning. Collinsville added one run in both the second and third inning as well.
Nocona’s offense scored two runs in the firth and third innings and one in the fifth inning, but it was not enough to keep the game going due to run-rule.
Marquez led the team with two RBIs while Skye Kirby and Avery Crutsinger drove in one run each.
With the team finishing with only three hits and only one free base, the team really took advantage of the three fielding errors from Collinsville along with the timely hits to score as many runs as it did.
Unfortunately for Nocona, the defense gave up 16 hits and the team committed six errors in the field.
Saint Jo
The Saint Jo Lady Panthers had a tough week playing against 2A schools in their district.
The Lady Panthers lost 15-0 against Tioga and 13-7 against Muenster’s JV squad.
Most of the damage the Lady Bulldogs did against Saint Jo happened in the first inning.
Tioga scored 11 runs and only added two runs in both the third and fourth innings to end the game early due to run-rule against Saint Jo.
The Lady Panthers finished with three hits and drew two walks, but could not get runners home in the game as the Lady Bulldogs had no fielding errors.
Saint Jo’s defense gave up 11 hits, nine walks and committed seven fielding errors, though the team responded well after the rough start to the game.
The second game against the Lady Hornets was more competitive and lasted all seven innings. The Lady Panthers did not give up one horrific inning, but Muenster did score at least one run in every inning but one during the game.
Saint Jo had more success offensively, scoring runs in four innings, but just could not keep up with the Lady Hornets offense.
Jordyn O’Neal led the team with two RBIs and had a home run. Krista Reeves, Payzlie Cervantes, Taylor Patrick and Aubrey Morman each drove in one run, with Reeves being a solo home run.
The team finished with 11 hits, but struck out 12 times and got no free bases with walks.
Defensively the team gave up 12 hits and 12 walks while cutting the fielding errors down to three.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.
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.
The 72nd Chisholm Trail Rodeo was a big success on Friday and Saturday nights at Nocona.
The rodeo had big crowds and saw some good competition from both local and far reaching talent.
Winners in the events included Zach Hibler in bareback riding, Lindsey Muggli in barrel racing, Ashley Goforth in breakaway roping, Leanardo Lima in bull riding, Cody McCartney in calf roping, Thomas Moellering in ranch bronc riding, Wacey Hathcock in saddle bronc riding, Renato Finazzi in steer wrestling, Rowdy Jones and Rance Doyal in team roping.
To see full results and more pictures, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
The regional tennis tournaments were late last week in North Richland Hills and a doubles team is moving on to state.
The Saint Jo girl’s doubles team Kyler Dunn and Taylor Patrick won the 1A region III tournament and will return to state for the second straight year.
The pair rolled through teams from Morgan, Dodd City, Priddy before beating a Graford team in the finals. The pair did not lose a set and only lost five of the 53 games it played, never losing more than one in a set.
The team made it to state last year after finishing second at regionals and won a match at the state meet against a team from Vernon Northside. They then lost to the eventual state champion team from Utopia and finished tied for third place.
They will be the only tennis players from Montague County playing at state this week as others did not have as successful regional tournament.
The Saint Jo teammates and fellow girl’s doubles team Bailie Nobile and Maxey Johnson won their first match against Ector 6-1, 6-4, but fell in their next match against Lometa, 6-1, 6-1.
From Prairie Valley, Case Carpenter was competing in boy’s singles. His first match was a draining two and half hour battle against a player from Strawn Carpenter came through in the three-set battle, winning 6-4, 5-7, 6-4.
Unfortunately, the magic was not there in the second game. Paired against the eventual tournament champion from Gustine, Carpenter lost 6-0, 6-1.
From Gold-Burg, Alyson Rojas and Jimena Garcia competed in girl’s singles. Rojas won her first match against a girl from Avinger 7-6, 6-2. Unfortunately, the next match she lost to a girl from Graford 6-0, 6-0 to end her tournament.
Garcia lost a tough first match against a player from Ector. Both sets could have gone either way with the scores being 6-4, 7-5 to the winner.
The mixed doubles team from Forestburg, Jesse Wadsworth and Alli Cisneros, also did not make it through.
From Nocona, Kaygan Stone was playing in the girl’s singles 2A region II tournament.
Unfortunately, she got paired against the player who would go on to win the tournament in the first round to end her season.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
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