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Baseball Roundup
Nocona
The Nocona Indians baseball team lost a pitcher’s duel at Lindsay on Friday.
The Knights won the low-scoring game 1-0.
The teams had played earlier in the week and the Indians had competed well, but lost 5-1.
Nocona had a good chance to score in the first inning. Walker Murphey led off with a walk. He got moved to second base after a sacrifice bunt and then Wesley Murphey hit a single to put runners at the corners. Unfortunately, an inning ending double-play happened.
Nocona started freshman RJ Walker on the mound to pitch and Lindsay got to him and the defense in the first inning. A fielding error allowed the leadoff batter to get on base.
A single and a walk followed that loaded the bases up with one out. A single then scored one run, but the Indians recovered well.
Walker induced a lineout to second base and a groundout at home plate to prevent any other runs from scoring.
The Knights led 1-0 after the first inning.
The two offenses struggled for the next several innings, though Lindsay did have a few better chances to score than Nocona.
The Indians’ next best chance to score came in the fifth inning. Konor Harrington led off the inning getting hit by a pitch. Caden Belcher then drew a walk. After a fly out, Miller Jhett was able to get on base thanks to an error by the pitcher and the bases were loaded with the top of the lineup coming up.
Unfortunately, the next batter lined out to the shortstop and then grounded out to second base and Nocona could not get a run home.
The score stayed the same and in the final inning, Harrington again had a good leadoff as he hit a double into right field. Unfortunately, the next three batters hits did not leave the infield and the Knights made the defensive plays to end the game.
Lindsay won 1-0.
Saint Jo
The Saint Jo Panthers lost a one-sided game at Perrin-Whitt on Thursday.
The Pirates won 15-3 in four and half innings due to run-rule.
The Panthers had lost earlier in the week against Perrin-Whitt, but was hoping the second game would be different.
The Pirates had a good start to the game, scoring runs in the first three innings.
Saint Jo was down 9-0 heading into the fourth inning when the bats were able to start making something happen.
Charlie and Amzy Barclay drew walks before Trent Gaston drove in one with a fielder’s choice ground out to cut the lead to 9-1.
Perrin Whitt responded with six runs in the fourth inning to up the lead to 15-1 heading into the fifth inning.
The Panthers needed to score at least five runs to keep the game from ending early.
Jayden Curry led off and got on base by getting hit by a pitch. Devin Stewart followed with a single. Both advanced one base on a wild pitch before a strikeout. Logan Hoover grounded out to the shortstop, but drove in one run.
A dropped third strike not only allowed Barclay to get on base, but Stewart to score. Charlie Evans drew a walk and the runners were at the corners with two outs. Unfortunately, a strikeout followed to end the game.
Perrin-Whitt won 15-3.
Bellevue
The Bellevue Eagles lost their second game against 2A Muenster on Friday.
The Hornets won 21-0 after five innings due to run-rule.
Bellevue had lost by an even bigger margin against Muenster earlier in the week. While winning was probably out of the question, trying to improve the result from the first game was within reach and the Eagles did succeed in that regard.
While the Hornets scored every inning, Bellevue did hold them to only one run in both the first and fourth innings. It also took Muenster to five innings instead of the three it took in the first game.
The offense finished with only one hit from Bryce Ramsey and the team drew three walks and was hit by one pitch.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
Two former Bowie boy’s golf members played in the PGA University Championship on Nov. 12-13. (L-R) Cy Egenbacher and Imanol Walker are both in the Sam Houston University PGA Golf Managerment program. The team finished 16th overall. Egenbacher shot 168 during the two rounds and finished tied for 67th. Walker shot 180 and finished 84th. The tournament is a fun one for univesities that have PGA Golf Management programs, which is for individuals who want to work in the golf industry after graduation.
The Saint Jo Lady Panthers came up short at the regional final for the third straight season, one game away from state, on Saturday at the regional tournament in Midlothian.
The Lady Panthers beat Evant in straight sets 3-0 on Friday to reach the final game against Harrold which they lost 3-0.
Saint Jo knew before the season even started it would likely come to this big challenge, but it still had to go through all the steps to get there.
The Panthers reached the regional finals the previous two seasons, losing both times to eventual state champion Blum.
With district realignment meant a new region so a rematch with a Blum program that had graduated several key players from those teams would have to wait until state possibly.
Instead, a showdown against last year’s state runner-up Harrold was forecast in the regional final.
With the team having six seniors, with five of them having been on varsity since they were freshman, it was this year or bust for Saint Jo.
First, the Lady Panthers had to beat Evant. The Lady Elks leaned heavily on a big front court player. When she rotated to the back row, Evant showed almost no net resistance which meant Saint Jo hitters had free reign during that time.
The Lady Panthers won each set pretty easily, with the scores being 25-17, 25-17 and 25-19.
This set up the match with Harrold the team had been anticipating. The Lady Hornets had been at or near the top of the state standings since the beginning of the season.
Harrold had so much respect it had even played bigger local schools this season, beating Bowie in straight sets and Nocona in five sets during its pre-district schedule.
The two teams had met earlier in the season when the Lady Hornets attended Saint Jo’s hosted tournament. The two teams met in the tournament championship where Harrold won 2-1.
Still, with the tournament format being a best of three instead of five and the match after playing an exhausting schedule of five matches the previous two days, that result was not gospel, especially two months later.
The challenge is Harrold had multiple big hitters at the net, which is a big deal since most 1A teams are lucky to have one or two, which meant constant pressure on Saint Jo’s defense.
This also meant the Lady Panthers constantly had to find ways to attack the Lady Hornet defense as well or it would face strong hit after strong hit which was unsustainable for any team.
The first set saw the Lady Hornets get out to a good start before the Lady Panthers rallied back and took a little lead 8-7. Unfortunately, it started turn from there.
Harrold had some good runs from the service line that Saint Jo struggled to make much offense out of and led to the Lady Hornets pulling away. Harrold won 4-1 to get the lead to 11-9 and then extended it to 14-11, 17-13. Another 4-1 run and the Lady Hornets could smell the end of the first set coming.
The Lady Hornets won 25-17 to take the lead 1-0.
Saint Jo needed to bounce back, but unfortunately never got anything going in set two.
Harrold led 4-1 and then 8-2. The Lady Panthers would have needed a huge run at some point from the service line to get back into the set, but it never came as the Lady Hornets lead grew more and more.
Harrold took set two 25-13 to go up 2-0 and had all of the momentum.
Saint Jo had its back against the wall, knowing the only option was to hope for a comeback that would lead to a fifth set, but to get there it needed to win set three.
The Lady Panthers initially started on the right foot. After falling being 4-1 to start the previous two sets, it was Saint Jo that started well up 4-1. Unfortunately, the Lady Hornets came roaring back, going on an 8-2 run as it led 9-6, then 12-8 and 15-10.
It looked like it was heading towards a similar place as set one with Harrold slowly running away with the set before the Lady Panthers made one last gasp.
Saint Jo eventually cut the lead down to one point, trailing 20-19 as the set entered the final stretch and the Lady Panthers had their best momentum of the match.
Unfortunately, it was Harrold that was able to close the set out with momentum, earning the final five points to win 25-19 and the match 3-0.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News. For pictures from Friday’s match, click here https://www.dotphoto.com/go.asp?l=bnews1&AID=6870620&T=1
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