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The Lady Cottontai ls opened the 2012 volleyball season with four wins against Jacksboro on Aug. 30.

The seventh grade A team defeated Jacksboro 25-15, 25-7. The eighth grade A team won 25-7, 25-18.

The seventh grade B team was Bowie’s only team to lose a set, but won the match 25-16, 13-25, 15-6. The eighth grade B team won its match 25-15, 25-21.

“I was very happy with the win, considering we have only had three days of practice,” said Coach Diane Weber. “I am looking forward to working with these girls and watching them improve.”

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Gold-Burg’s season opener did not go as the Bears would have liked as the team fell to Bryson 51-0.

“Overall, I thought we played well,” said Gold-Burg Head Coach Stephen Conner. “We just need to work on fumbles and covering onside kicks.”

The Bears lost seven of eight fum-


The Jackrabbits used their ground game to edge out a 21-12 victory

a g a i n s t H i r s c h i Aug. 31 i n t h e f o o t b a l l s e a s o n opener.

“We are glad to start off 1-0. It’s a big con-fidence builder,” said Bowie Head Coach Dylan Stark. “We did a lot of stuff well, but there is lots to fix.”

Bowie kept the ball on the ground through most of the game. The Rabbits ran for 201 yards, with eight play-ers carrying the ball.

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Top O’ The Lake Country Club the Labor Day Shoot-Out Sept. 3.

Sixteen, four-person teams played a scramble format to see who would qualify for the four-team shoot out.

In front of a noisy grand-stand audience on hole nine, first place honors went to the team of Jack Howell Jr., Trace Morris, Ron Miller and Kelly Miller. Second place went to Ronnie Everitt, Andy Duke, Dewayne Hamilton and Vance Moxom.

Third and fourth place was shared by the teams of Jim Terry, Art Ferguson, Jerry DeMoss and Mike DeM-oss and Mike Shaw, Brent Shaw, Jordan Shaw and Greg Shaw.

The men’s longest drive award went to Jason Brown on hole eight, while Sharon Seigler won the ladies’ award on hole one.

Seigler also won the clos-est to the pin award on hole 15, while Brent Shaw won the men’s award on hole five. The overall closest to the pin award went to Jeremy Brown on the ninth hole.

Top O’ The Lake will host a Guys & Dolls Golf Fiesta on Oct. 5. Call the Golf Shop, 872-4017, for more informa-tion.

Varsity VolleyballSeptember 6&8Bowie @ Nocona Tourney TBANocona @ Nocona Tourn. TBASaint Jo @ Nocona Tourn. TBAPrairie Valley @ S&S Tourn. TBASeptember 7Saint Jo @ Chico 4:30 p.m.Gold-Burg vs Prairie V. 4:30 p.m.Forestburg @ Lindsay 5 p.m.Prairie V.@ Gold-Burg 4:30 p.m.September 11Bowie vs Krum 4:30 p.m.Nocona vs Decatur 5 p.m.Saint Jo vs Valley View 5 p.m.Gold-Burg @ Forestburg 5 p.m.Forestburg vs Gold-Burg 5 p.m.Prairie Valley vs Chico 5 p.m.

Varsity FootballSeptember 7Bowie vs Lake Worth 7:30 p.m.Nocona vs Muenster 8 p.m.Saint Jo vs Chillicothe 7:30 p.m.Gold-Burg @ WF Christian 7:30 p.m.F’burg @ Fannindel 7:30 p.m.

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Nocona’s season open-er turned into a shootout

Friday at W h i t e -w r i g h t . The Indi-ans were a b l e t o c o n v e r t

their early success into


Forestburg played a tough game against Fort Worth Hill High Friday, but

turnovers cost the Long-horns in a 39-25 loss.

The Horns had eight turnovers, including an interception returned for a touchdown to set the final score.

“I was disappointed,” said Forestburg Head Coach Nathan Winn. “We could have played better.”

The team came back from a 32-6 third quarter deficit to be down by just one score late in the fourth quarter.

“I was proud of their fight,” Winn added. “It would have been easy to just roll over, but they kept pushing.”

A.J. Nolan scored two rushing touch-downs for Forestburg. Tristen Hill threw two scores, both to Justin Hurd.

The Horns had seven players most of the game. The team’s conditioning looked solid as it played hard through the game. Winn also was pleased with the teamwork and communication of the players and how the team executed the plays.

“We definitely have things to work on,” added the coach. “The fundamentals and technique are going to be a focus.”

Forestburg will travel to Fannindel Friday. Winn said the team will put an emphasis on tackling, blocking and protecting the ball during this week’s practices.

“If we play like we played Friday, but without the turnovers, we have a good chance to win,” the coach said.

The Lady Rabbits fin-ished fourth out of 16 teams at the Jacksboro Volley-ball Tournament Aug. 30

and Sept. 1.

Bowie defeated Perrin in both pool g a m e s ,

while splitting with Iowa Park and Notre Dame to take second in its pool. The team advanced to the gold bracket in Saturday’s play.

The Lady Rabbits de-feated Burkburnett in the first bracket game to advance to the semifinals. Bowie fell to Notre Dame, which went on to win the tournament, to move to the third place game.

The Lady Rabbits lost to Wichita Christian to finish fourth, but Bowie Head Coach Jeanie Stark is pleased with the team’s performance.

“I think the girls were worn out by the third Saturday game,” she ex-

Ladies finish fourth

News photo by Ryan Evans

Harly Betts and Cassie Caswell leap to block an attack against Iowa Park during Bowie’s pool play at the Jacksboro tournament Aug. 31. The Lady Rabbits finished fourth out of 16 teams.

plained. “We had played all day Thursday, then a tough game against Christ Academy on Fri-day and then back up ear-ly Saturday. I don’t think they had much left.”

The young Bowie team is quickly gaining experi-ence and improving.

“I am the lucky one to get to work and guide them daily,” Stark added. “We are committed to im-proving our weaknesses and continuing to improve

and mature as a team.”Bowie hosted Poolville

Tuesday. The Lady Rab-bits will compete in the Buckle Up For Lane’s Sake Volleyball Tourna-ment in Nocona Thursday and Saturday. In pool play Thursday, Bowie will face Decatur at 8 a.m., Windthorst at 9:30 a.m., Electra at 11:45 a.m. and Nocona JV at 1:15 p.m. All of Bowie’s pool games will be played at Nocona High School.

Rabbits run past Hirschi

Marcus Vaughan (4) picks up a block while running the ball Friday against Hirschi. Bowie defeated the Huskies 21-12 to open the season with a victory.


Marcus Vaughan led the team with 75 yards, while Corey Brady had 50 yards and two touch-downs.

The team attempted just eight passes and completed only one, a 19-yard touchdown from Garland McCoy to Aus-tin Brock. Stark said he is not concerned about the passing game, adding that passing was not part of the game plan against the Huskies.

“Hirschi has so much speed that throwing against them is danger-ous,” he explained. “A tipped pass could quickly become and interception returned for a touch-down. We felt we would

Zack Ingram avoids a tackle during Gold-Burg’s season opener against Bryson. The Bears fell 51-0.

News photo by Barbara Green

Bryson bests Gold-Burg

Nocona wins shootout

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a 55-47 victory.Playing without start-

ing quarterback Hayden Hill, Nocona Head Coach Brad Keck was pleased with how the team per-formed.

“I thought the offense did really well,” he said. “Hayden is good for at least 150 to 200 yards a game, so we’ll be that

much better when he plays.”

The Indians’ offense produced 511 yards. The team ran for 309 yards and threw for another 202.

“We had a good spring and summer throwing the ball, so I thought the passing game would

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Longhorns fall to Hill

See BOWIE 2B

See NOCONA 2B


Saint Jo came from behind Friday to defeat Harrold 40-34 in a game

that went down to the wire.

T h e Panthers g o t o n the score-

board first, but would trail by 10 at halftime. Harrold took advantage of a Saint Jo mistake and returned a fumble for a touchdown to take the lead in the second quar-ter. The Hornets make it a two-score game before the half was up.

Saint Jo rallied in the second half. While the team began putting more points on the board, it did not take the lead un-til less than two minutes remained.

“They had a chance to lay down, but didn’t,” said Saint Jo Head Coach Chad Tallon. “You can’t see how much heart a team has in practice. They played harder than any team I’ve coached.”

Shawn Cannon threw

St. Jo comes back to win

two touchdown passes to Tyler Coates. They were the Panthers’ only two completions of the night. Saint Jo ran for 264 yards. Nathan Can-non and Cody Brimer each had two rushing scores. Brimer led the Panthers with 119 yards on the ground. Cory Fitch had two interceptions on defense.

“It’s always exciting to get the first win,” Tal-lon added. “Last season ended on a bad note and these kids were a part of that. I let them take time to enjoy the win, but we got back to work Monday.”

The coach said he was pleased with the team’s tackling, the blocking of the offensive line and the quarterback’s ability to protect the ball.

“We made a lot of mis-takes, but they are all fixable,” he said. “Mental mistakes are the biggest problem, but those can be fixed with practice.”

Saint Jo will host Chillicothe at 7:30 p.m.

See the game’s box score on page 2B.

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The Hard Truth

with Aaron Degler

Capable MeWe often compare our-

selves to others. Why can’t I be thinner, fitter, have a better understanding of food or have more time? These are questions I ask myself all the time.

Since I became a personal t r a i n e r I h a v e a l w a y s strived to make the best e f -fort to be physical fit. When I started my weight loss journey more than six years ago, I could not even run a quarter of a mile. My first goal was to be able to run a quarter of a mile and when I had accomplished a quarter mile I set my goal to a half mile.

Every time I reached my goal I made another goal and another goal striving to always be bet-ter. A quarter mile was

what I was capable of, then a half mile is what I was capable of and eventu-ally I was capable of a half marathon (13.1 miles).

We can’t compare our-selves to others because we all have different capa-bilities. My grandmother passed away about a year ago and she was one of the most capable people I know. She lived in a small apartment and used a walker to get around her apartment.

Her doctor told her that she needed to keep active and exercise. She couldn’t drive or walk anywhere from her apartment to exercise. My grandmother would use her walker and walk in her apartment twice a day. She would do seven or eight down and backs (about 20 feet) in the morning and again in the evening.

To most of us this might not sound hard or even worth the time to do it. My 92 year old grandmother did what she was capable of doing. The doctor told

her she need to exercise and she never came up with an excuse, only a solution. She could have said she didn’t have room, she was too old, she was scared or say she had a walker. She gave none of these reasons not to exer-cise and exercised twice a day every day because that is what she was ca-pable of doing.

The Hard Truth…Don’t compare yourself to oth-ers, do what YOU ARE CAPABLE OF DOING.

Focus on yourself

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bles. Conner said the team was doing a good job of driving the ball down the field prior to the turnovers.

“They are improving every week,” added the coach. “We are getting our blocks down. We just have to protect the ball.”

Zack Ingram led the Bears with 65 yards. Con-ner also noted Ingram had no turnovers.

The Bears will play their first road game of the season Friday at Wichita Falls Christian and will get themselves focused on the upcoming game.

“I told them Bryson is done and over with,” said Conner. “That’s in the past, we have to focus on

the next team.”After watching film of

the Stars, Conner feels his team is a good match up.

“We should be able to hold our own,” he added. “They run the spread of-fense. Their favorite play is for the center to block then release and catch the ball. We’ll be ready for that.”

Gold-Burg will face Wichita Fall Christian at 7:30 p.m. in Wichita Falls.

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do much better running the ball.”

Bowie threatened to score on the opening drive, but stalled out inside the 30. The team hit pay dirt on its sec-ond possession as Brady scored on a 28-yard run. Hirschi answered on the next drive, but a blocked extra point gave the Rab-bits and edge.

With a halftime score of 7-6, Hirschi took the second half kick, but Bowie’s defense came out ready to work. The Rab-bits forced Hirschi back-wards until Tod Jackson grabbed an interception and sent Bowie’s offense back to work. Bowie made short work of the 21-yard field with Brock’s scoring catch.

“Our goal at halftime was to score before them and we did that,” Stark said. “Getting that score was pretty important. We did not want to get behind Hirschi.”

The defense kept the

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Bowiepressure on the Huskies and forced a punt. A bad snap gave Bowie another short field to work with. Brady capped off the drive with a one-yard score.

Hirschi was able to reach the end zone again on a big pass play. Bowie stopped the two-point conversion attempt to set what would be the final score.

“Hirschi had a couple of big plays, but I thought our defense played well against their speed,” said Stark. “We did what we had to do on offense to get the win.”

The coach added that the offensive line will be a focus this week as the new players in that posi-

tion have gotten a little experience.

Bowie has not started the season 1-0 since 2008, the last time the Jackrab-bits dropped to 2A. That season, Bowie was 7-4, reaching the playoffs for just the second time since 1982.

Up next for the Jack-rabbits will be Lake Worth in Bowie’s first home game of the season. The Frogs defeated North Side 53-7 in their season opener.

“Lake Worth is fast, it’s going to be a lot like Hirshci. They are coming off a big win so they will have a lot of confidence,” Stark said. “We are just going to focus on get-

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be pretty good,” Keck added. “Most of our pass yards came off play ac-tion.”

Running back Tate Fenogl io took snaps for the Indians and the threat of the runner helped open up Nocona’s passing game. Fenoglio still led the team with 177 rushing yards and three touchdowns.

“Edward Cardoza had a big game catching the ball. I knew he could catch, but I wasn’t sure if Tate could get it to him,” Keck laughed.

Cardoza had 82 re-ceiving yards with three scores. Bryce Dingler had one catch for a 43 yards and ran for 36 yards. John Jennings added 96 yards on the ground with one touchdown.

N o c o n a ’ s d e f e n s e had its hands full with Whitewright quarter-back Tyrone Swoopes. The QB accounted for 305 of the team’s rush-ing yards and threw for another 175 yards.

“Swoopes is really good. I think the only time we stopped him was when we had to at the end of the game,” Keck said. “The defense played well at times, but got tired.”

While the Indians had a solid performance, Keck feels there is still plenty of room for im-provement.

“After watching the film, I told them I felt like we beat a very good

player,” he explained. “We made a million mis-takes and stopped using good technique when we got tired. I don’t feel like we would have beat a good team.”

N o c o n a w i l l h o s t Muenster at 8 p.m. Fri-day in Jack Crain Stadi-um. Muenster will enter the game coming off a 24-13 victory against Ponder.

“Muenster is a good team,” Keck added. “We have to play good to beat them.”

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Nocona

Saint Jo box score v. Harrold

ting better at what we do. There will be no big overhaul to get ready for this week.”

Bowie will host Lake Worth at 7:30 p.m. in Jackrabbit Stadium.

Nocona will host the 13th Annual Buckle Up For Lane’s Sake Vol-l eyba l l Tournament Thursday and Saturday. Twenty-six teams will compete in the event, with three from Mon-tague County.

Host team Nocona will play in pool C on Thursday. The Lady In-

dians will face Chisolm Trail at 8 a.m., Paradise at 10:15 a.m., Vernon at 12:30 p.m. and Ponder at 2:45 p.m. All of pool C’s matches will be played in the Nocona Middle School gym.

Bowie competes in pool A. The Lady Rab-bits will face Decatur at 8 a.m., Windthorst

at 9:30 a.m., Electra at 11:45 a.m. and Nocona JV at 1:15 p.m. All of the pool A games will be played in the Nocona High School gym.

Saint Jo will compete in pool D, which plays its games in the Nocona Baptist Church gym. The Lady Panthers will face Krum at 8:45 a.m.,

Wichita Christian at 11 a.m., Celina at 1:15 p.m. and Holliday at 2:45 p.m.

Bracket play will be-gin at 8 a.m. Saturday at all locations. The gold championship game will be at 5 p.m. in the NMS gym, while the silver championship is at 4 p.m. in the NHS gym.

Lane’s Sake tourney begins

Bowie#30

Corey Brady

Nocona#32

Edward Cardoza

Saint Jo#15

Nathan Cannon

Gold-Burg#1

Zack Ingram

Forestburg#9

Justin Hurd

It took overtime to determine a winner Friday as Bowie hosted Wichita Falls High School, but the Lady Coyotes edged out the Lady Rabbits to take a 48-46

win.Bowie came out strong and built a

four-point lead in the first quarter. The Lady Rabbits doubled that lead in the second and took an eight-point advan-tage into halftime.

Wichita Falls had its best perfor-mance of the night in the third quarter and outscored Bowie 14-8 to cut the Lady Rabbits lead to two. The Lady Coyotes completed the comeback in the fourth quarter to send the game into overtime.

The extra period played out close like the entire game, but Wichita Falls was able to take a slim advantage at the end to take the victory.

Madison Swaim led Bowie with 16 points, six re-bounds, three steals and an assist. Madison Wallace added 12 points, 10 rebounds, a steal and an assist. Laken DeMoss had six points, three assists, two steals


It was not pretty, but Nocona earned its record-setting 12th victory Fri-

day in a 15-13 win a g a i n s t Gunter to earn the regional champi -onship.

“Horrible,” was how Nocona Head Coach Brad Keck described his team’s performance dur-ing Friday’s game. “It may not have been the worst game we’ve played, but it certainly was the sloppiest.”

The Indians were plagued with penalties and had trouble lining up incorrectly and some bad snaps. During a team meeting Saturday, Keck made sure his team knew how fortunate it was to still be alive in the play-offs.

“We got a gift from God,” he told them. “What are you going to do with it?”

Nocona had a good first quarter, scoring all 15 of its points, but was its own worst enemy as penalties began to pile up. The defense played solid and allowed just

On Nov. 28, the Top O’ The Lake County Club Men’s Golf Association played Hot Salsa Team Play.

First place went to the team of Bubba Applewhite, Lee Cordell and Butch Baca with a 71.

Tying for second place with 72 were the teams of Clyde Cambell, Jerry Burkhart, B.V. Hammond and Debert Woolf and Yogi Gore, Jack Solomon, Jerry Beaird and Bogey Izett.

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Girls BasketballDecember 6-8Bowie @ Alvord Tourney TBANocona @ Plainview Tour. TBASaint Jo @ Perrin Tourney TBAGold-Burg @ Chico Tourn. TBAForestburg @ Chico Tour. TBAPrairie Valley @ Chico Tour. TBABellevue @ Poolville Tourn. TBADecember 11Bowie vs Lipan 4:30 p.m.Nocona @ Santo 5 p.m.Saint Jo vs Bellevue 6:30 p.m.Gold-Burg @ F’burg 6:30 p.m.Forestburg vs G-Burg 6:30 p.m.Bellevue @ Saint Jo 6:30 p.m.

Boys BasketballDecember 6-8Bowie @ Alvord Tourney TBANocona @ Poolville Tourn. TBASaint Jo @ Perrin Tourney TBAGold-Burg @ Chico Tourn. TBAForestburg @ Chico Tour. TBAPrairie Valley @ Chico Tour. TBABellevue @ Poolville Tourn. TBADecember 11Bowie vs Pilot Point 4:30 p.m.Nocona vs Midway 6 p.m.Gold-Burg vs WF Heat 7 p.m.Forestburg @ Chico 6 p.m.Bellevue vs Alvord 5 p.m.

Local GolfTop O’ The Lake Country ClubWednesdaysMen’s Golf Association 10 a.m.SaturdaysQuota Game 9 a.m. Couples Scramble 3 p.m.3rd Sunday of the MonthChicks with Sticks Clinic 2 p.m.CwS Scramble 3 p.m.Call 872-4017 to RSVP

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All-district football honors were given for district 11-6MDII this week and Gold-Burg and Forestburg were well represented on the list.

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Horns, Bears earn honors

Nocona records historic winIndians hold on for 12-0


Nocona’s Tate Fenoglio breaks through the Gunter defense to score his second touchdown of the night. The Indians went on to win the regional championship with a 15-13 win over the Tigers. The team became the first Nocona team to ever record 12 wins in a season.one Gunter first down on the Tigers’ first two pos-sessions.

Tate Fenoglio broke a 33-yard run on the Indians’ first play and capped off the drive with a 13-yard touchdown run. Edward Cardoza caught a Hayden Hill pass to give Nocona an 8-0 start.

A promising start on the team’s second posses-sion looked like it would stall out due to penal-ties. On third-and-21,

Fenoglio caught a short pass across the middle, broke a few tackles and went 37-yards for the score. Raul Anaya’s PAT put the Indians up by 15 points.

Gunter was able to answer on its next pos-session on a 31-yard pass play. The teams then went on to trade a pair of punts each. Nocona made its way to the 30-yard line with a minute left in the first half, but was

unable to move the ball and the Indians’ went to the locker room up by eight.

The second half was dominated by defense. The teams traded punts on their first possessions and interceptions on their second. Following Hill’s pick in the end zone, the Indians started on the 20-yard line.

On the first snap, the ball soared over Hill’s head and into the end

zone. Hill attempted to recover the ball, but in-stead it was recovered by the Gunter defense for a touchdown. The Tigers went for two, but Nocona’s defense was able to stop the two-point attempt just short of the goal line.

“That was definitely the defensive play of the game,” Keck said.

Nocona’s defense con-tinued to keep the Indi-

Prairie Valley wins Forestburg tourney

News photo by Kayla Jean Woods

The Prairie Valley Lady Bulldogs won first place at the Forestburg Tournament this weekend. The boys’ team took second place.

Both Prairie Valley basketball teams had a solid performance at

the For-e s t b u r g Tourna -ment last w e e k , with the Bulldogs

taking second place and the Lady Bulldogs win-ning the championship.

In the Lady Bulldogs’ opening game, the team defeated Wichita Chris-tian 69-24. Joyce Feno-glio had a big game with 29 points, 10 rebounds and eight steals. Robin Fenoglio scored 10 points. Stormy Duck added eight points, seven rebounds and five steals.

Alley Roof scored eight points. Alicia Pendergraft

grabbed nine rebounds, while Courtney Thom-ason had seven. Anne Bristow took five steals.

The second round pit-ted Prairie Valley against Valley View. The Lady Bulldogs won 42-34. J. Fenoglio had 18 points, seven rebounds and four steals against the Lady Eagles. R. Fenoglio added eight points, eight re-bounds and five steals.

Bristow scored five p o i n t s . T h o m a s o n grabbed nine rebounds, while Pendergraft had eight. Duck took six steals.

In the championship game, the Lady Bulldogs faced Callisburg. Prairie Valley build a 10-point lead in the first quarter and led 32-14 at halftime.

With four minutes left in the game, the team led by 41 points and backed off on defense. The team went on to win 61-24.

“We played extremely well this entire tourna-ment,” said Coach Cash Miller. “I am extremely proud of the total com-mitment to defense and the team-work this team has shown this year, and it was nice to see it all pay off and win this tourna-ment.”

In the final game, J. Fenoglio had 14 points, seven rebounds and eight steals. R. Fenoglio had 13 points and six rebounds. Bristow added 11 points and five steals. Duck had 10 points, nine rebounds and four steals. Pender-

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Lady Rabbits fall during OT

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The Jackrabbits’ junior varsity competed in the Iowa Park Tournament last week and Bowie went 2-1 to take second place in the event.

The Rabbits opened with a come-from-behind win over the host Iowa Park Hawks. Iowa Park outscored Bowie 17-10 in the first quarter. The Rabbits trailed by six at halftime.

Bowie was able to gain a small amount of ground in the second and third quarters, but had a big fourth quarter to earn the win. The Rabbits outscored the Hawks by six points to take a 43-40 victory. Coby Bently led the team with 12 points.

The Rabbits faced Rider in their second game. It was a tale of two halves as Bowie dominated the first two quarter and led 18-4 at halftime. Rider turned things around in the second half and outscored the Rabbits 28-8 in the final two quarter to take a 32-26 win.

Bowie’s third game was against City View and the Rabbits controlled the game from the start. Bowie scored double digits in all four quarters.

Already leading by 11 points at halftime, the Rabbits pulled away in the third with a big 24-point quarter. Bowie won the game 60-24.

Bowie hosted Iowa Park Tuesday. The JV will return to action Dec. 11 as the Rabbits host Pilot Point, with games beginning at 4:30 p.m.

JV 2nd at IP

Bowie’s boys competed in the Lindsay Tournament last week and lost a pair of close, tough games.

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Jackrabbits play at Lindsay

The Lady Rabbits’ junior varsity has been playing as a combined team, but split Friday to take on Decatur.

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JV splits into frosh, JV teams

The Hard Truthwith

Aaron Degler


SPORTS2BMid-Week

December 5, 2012

YourMontague County



Nocona’s Bryce Dingler looks for a hole as Billy Speights (54) helps block during the Indians’ regional playoff game Friday. Nocona defeated Gunter 15-13.

ans alive as the game pro-gressed. After a fumble gave Gunter the ball deep in Nocona territory, Hill came up with his second interception of the half to preserve the lead.

“Our defense played really good,” added the coach. “Even though we got misaligned a lot, Gunter always happened to run where we had the extra man. Billy Speights probably played his best defensive game of the year. Hayden had two big interceptions. Bryce had 13 tackles. A lot of people played really well.”

Hill connected with Bryce Dingler to convert a critical third down. On the next play, Hill broke a 56-yard run to put No-cona at the 10-yard line. Gunter defense held and the Indians turned the ball over on downs, but had burned valuable time off the clock.

Gunter took the ball over with 89 yards to go, a pair of timeouts and 4:15 left on the clock. The Tigers converted a fourth down and received some help in the form of Nocona penalties. Soon, Gunter was within the 30-yard line, eyeing the end zone.

Nocona caught a break when an illegal substitu-tion backed the Tigers into a third and eight with 1:12 remaining. An incompletion set up what would be the final play and Hill and Fenoglio batted down the last ditch effort to give Nocona the ball back with the lead and one minute remain-ing.

Two kneel downs se-cured the best record in Nocona football history.

“To get a win playing like we did, that may be a minor miracle,” said Keck.

Fenoglio finished the night with 96 rushing yards and 52 reception yards. Hill ran for 76 and threw for another 118. Dingler added 11 yards on the ground and 16

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A Will Can Change Ev-erything

I overheard a conver-sation in the gym the other day.

You were thinking I was about to give you some great gossip didn’t you? Sorry to disappoint you, but no great gossip here. It was just a couple of people talking about food and diet.

One person said to the other “I need to start eat-ing better.” I found the choice of wording very interesting. This individ-ual used the word “need” indicating that eating better is something he or she should start doing, but may not necessarily want to do.

W e u s e t h e w o r d “need” often when we de-scribe what changes we want to make. “I need to start exercising.” “I need to start getting more rest.” “I need to not eat so much fast food.” Our list of “need” goes on and on. Unfortunately, often times our “needs” never get put into action.

What if we were to change the word “need” to “will”? How would one little word change our outlook on our situation? The word “will” indicates something you are going

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through the air.Nocona will now focus

on the state semifinal at 7:30 p.m. Friday in Aledo against Corsicana Mildred.

“They are a really good football team,” Keck not-ed. “The points they are putting up is unbeliev-able.”

The Eagles have av-eraged a staggering 57 points per game this sea-son. The team’s only loss was a 70-22 defeat to Centerville. Defensively, Mildred is allowing an average of 11 points per game.

“They have a strong of-fense with a good running back. That’s the kid we have to stop,” the coach explained. “But, at the same time, they have a division I quarterback who has already commit-ted to Iowa.”

Despite the high scor-ing offense, Keck feels Mildred has not faced a defense like Nocona’s through most of the sea-son.

“Our defense is playing

at a high level,” he said.He also believes the In-

dians’ linemen match up well against the Eagles’ defense.

“A strong running game has hurt Midred in the past,” he explained. “I think we can run the ball on them. We have to keep ball control and get first downs. Then we have to finish with points. Keep-ing possession is going to be important. They can’t score if they are not on the field.”

He added he hopes to be able to take ad-vantage of play-action passes. Keck also noted the team will have to avoid turnovers and pen-alties, which it did not do

against Gunter.“We are lucky enough

to have another week of football,” he said. “If we play like we did on Friday, we won’t have another.”

Change your needs to wills

to put into action and do. One word could al-low us to stop thinking about all the things we “need” to start and we could actually see posi-tive momentum driving us forward with a “will.” “I will start exercising on Monday.” “I will stop getting fast food during lunch.” “I will start go-ing to bed at ten o’clock every evening.”

There is power in words that we use to describe our intentions. Putting our “needs” into “wills” all starts in our mind and being mentally prepared is 90 percent of the battle. Our limi-tations are often only limitations because we put them on ourselves.

I encourage each of you to me mindful when speaking of your inten-tions of what word choic-es you make.

The Hard Truth…A “will” can change our destination and a “will” can change our arrival to our destination.


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December 5, 2012

YourMontague County


Prairie Valley’s Thomas Ducharme shoots over a group of Valley View defenders during the championship game of the Forestburg Tournament Saturday. The Bulldogs lost the game to take second place in the event. The Lady Bulldogs took first place in the girls’ division.

graft grabbed eight re-bounds.

The Bulldogs opened with a 51-36 victory against Chico. Tanner Ried led the team with 10 points and 12 rebounds. Matthew Suarez provided 16 points and eighth re-bounds.

Thomas Ducharme had 11 points, six rebounds and four steals. Obed Tavarez grabbed eight rebounds. Jesus Tavarez and Michael Duchame each took three steals.

In the second round, Prairie Valley just edged out host Forestburg for a 57-55 victory. Freshman Jesus Tavarez hit six, three-pointers to lead the team with 18 points. He also had four steals.

T. Ducharme scored 14 points with four steals. Reid had nine points and seven rebounds. Suarez added nine points and 10 rebounds. O. Tavarez grabbed eight rebounds.

In the final game, Prai-rie Valley fell to Valley View 50-33.

“We faced a much l a r g e r V a l l e y V i e w team in the final and our team blocked out, rebounded and ran our offense extremely well,” Miller said. “We had cut their lead to seven points in the third quarter before they pulled away from us. We are improving week to week.”

T. Ducharme led the Bulldogs in the champion-ship game with 14 points, six rebounds and three

News photo by Kayla Jean Woods

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Dogs

steals. Reid added nine points and nine rebounds. Suarez grabbed 11 re-bounds, while O. Tavarez had nine.

“The boys played ex-

tremely well this tourna-ment and we had some younger players who are starting to show a lot of maturity and making great contributions to this

team,” added Miller.Prairie Valley traveled

to Chico Tuesday. The teams will return Thurs-day through Saturday for the Chico Tournament.

and a rebound. Courtney Brady scored six points, with seven rebounds, three assists and a steal.

Emily Gilbert had four points, four rebounds, four assists and took three charges. Brittney Pound chipped in two points and a rebound. River Romine grabbed one steal. Logan McMurray had two re-bounds and an assist.

As a team, the Lady Rabbits hit 38 percent of their shots from the field.

WFHS 6 13 14 9 6 48Bowie 10 17 8 7 4 46Scoring for Bowie: Madison Swaim, 16; Madison Wallace, 12; Laken DeMoss, 6; Courtney Brady, 6; Emily Gilbert, 4; Brittney Pound, 2.

Bowie sank just five of its 16 free-throw attempts against the Lady Coyotes.

Bowie traveled to Celi-na Tuesday. The Lady Rabbits will compete in the Alvord Tournament Thursday through Sat-urday.

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District 11-6MDII announced its all-district selec-tions this week and Gold-Burg and Forestburg were each well represented on the list.

From Gold-Burg, senior Zack Ingram was first-team running back and second-team linebacker. Johnathan Turner, senior, was first-team fullback, first team defensive lineman and received academic all-district honors.

Junior Tim Metz was named first-team tight end and second-team cornerback. Sophomore James Cantwell received first-team quarterback, first team noseguard and second team punter honors.

Colt Rainey, sophomore, was named second-team quarterback, second-team kicker and second-team defensive lineman. Sophomore Josh Belt was named second-team safety.

Forestburg senior Justin Hurd was named first-team punter, second-team wide receiver, second-team kicker and second-team cornerback. Daniel McDuffee, senior, received second-team tight end and second-team cornerback honors.

Junior Tristin Hill was named first-team quar-terback and second team safety. Bryan McDowell, sophomore, was honored as second-team fullback and second-team noseguard.

Freshman Malaci Moore was named second-team running back and second-team cornerback. Nate Shep-herd, freshman, received second-team utility back and second-team defensive lineman honors.

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