SPORTS
HIGH SCHOOLS: Paradise sweeps Nocona baseball, softball
The Nocona High School baseball and softball teams didn’t have much luck on the road Tuesday at Paradise.
The Lady Indians suffered a 12-2 loss, in a game that was reduced to five innings due to the mercy rule.
Nocona’s baseball team could only muster four hits in a 9-0 loss.
It doesn’t get any easier on Friday with Bowie coming to town. Bowie’s baseball team is ranked in the top-20 in two different state polls and the softball girls are coming off a 12-run shellacking of Holliday.
Nocona softball stands at 4-12, 1-6, while the Indian baseball team saw its record drop to 6-6, 2-3.
Softball
Paradise 12, Nocona 2
Katelynn Walker scored Nocona’s first run on a Sherese Price groundout to the pitcher. That cut the Paradise lead to 3-1.
Karlie Pepper, whose rounding into form as one of Nocona’s best hitters, doubled in the fifth inning to score Claire Walker.
Baseball
Paradise 9, Nocona 0
Paradise slowly built its lead throughout the course of the game, until the Panthers erupted for a six-run sixth to put Nocona away for good.
Nocona had chances early to score.
Jeremy James reached first on a Paradise, but he was left stranded there in the opening inning. Read more, and see complete box scores, in the weekend Bowie News.
Claire Walker gets her bat on the ball during a recent District 3A-9 game against Wichita Falls City View. (News photo by Blake Wood)
A positive culture can be tough to install but will reap dividends if done correctly.
Trinadee Imotichey is trying to do just that with her Forestburg Lady Longhorns.
Imotichey, an assistant coach on the 2025 Forestburg volleyball team, was moved into the head coaching position. Last year’s coach, Cori Hayes, took over as football head coach.
Imotichey, in her 2nd year in Forestburg, said she learned a lot from Hayes and is ready to take over.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Bowie’s summer softball league team overcame a 6-1 deficit with a six-run third inning for a 7-6 win over Bridgeport in its season opener July 6.
The league consists of teams from Bowie, Nocona, Lindsay, Bridgeport, and Alvord and will last three weeks. Bowie will host games each week.
Bowie pitcher Hazel Trahern gave up two singles and a groundout to put the Sissies on the board in the first. It would be the only hits she gave up in the game. Two groundouts and a strikeout got the Lady Rabbits out of the jam.
Bowie got the run back in the bottom of the first with Andee Jo Miller opening the frame with a walk and a stolen base. She then scored on Kynlee Baker’s groundout to tie the game at one.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Rest. Run. Repeat.
Sage Keck, an 8th grader at Montague, lives by this mantra. No ifs, ands and buts about it.
She’s been running since fourth grade PE classes where she would run a mile every week. After discovering she could outrun the other students, she began to enjoy it and continued doing it.
Her success continued, as she finished 2nd overall against more than 200 runners at the Old Saint Jo 5K July 4. In last weekend’s Texas Junior Olympics, she reached the pinnacle of her career so far by qualifying for the United States of America Track and Field (USATF) National Junior Olympics in Norwalk, Calif. in three events.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
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