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Broncos win Bi-district title

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2024 Bi-District Champions Enterprise Photo / Tara Allred

By Sandy Anderberg

Clarendon senior Harrison Howard took the mound in the Broncos’ Bi-District opener against West Texas in Amarillo at Palo Duro High last week and made easy work of the Comanches shutting them out 8-0.

Howard went wire to wire from the mound posting 16 strikeouts in the game. It took Howard 100 pitches in the seven innings which consisted of 63 pitches in the strike zone.

In their first at bat, Easton Frausto got on board first on a single to left field. Jared Musick grounded out before Levi Gates singled to left field and scored Howard. A quiet second inning led to one score and the Broncos were on top 3-0.

Another two runs were collected in the fourth when Howard slammed a triple that scored Mason Sims and Musick. The Broncos went wild in the fifth inning as they took advantage of several errors made by WT and left the inning with three more runs to get the win.

Along with his triple, Howard had one single, three RBIs, one run and a stolen base. Frausto had two singles, one RBI, one run, and one stolen base, while Levi Gates added a single, RBI, and one run. Bryce Williams and Mason Allred collected one run each and Allred had one RBI.

The big test came in the second game. With a game up in the best two out of three, the Broncos were in a good spot, but the Comanches were not finished and began the game full on. They were able to gain the early edge scoring two runs in the first inning on a double and a line drive single to center field. Musick got the call and was able to strike out the next two batters to end the inning.

A determined West Texas team went on to score two runs in the next inning, then proceeded to stop the Broncos after only four batters in the third.

It was the bottom of the fifth before the Broncos began to turn the game around in their favor. Allred, Williams, and Grant Haynes were hit by pitches to load the bases. Sims was able to slam a hit to the shortstop who turned a double play to pick off Williams at second. Allred was able to reach home plate to put another run on the board. With WT leading by five, things looked bleak for the Broncos. With a possible game three on their minds, the Broncos went to work to avoid a third game in the series.

In their next at bat, Gates’ single to right field advanced Musick and put a Frausto run on the board. With bases loaded, Haynes reached base on an error. With two outs and down to runs, the Broncos turned up the heat at the plate with a walk, a Shane Hagood single, and two more base on balls. Howard was able to send a hard-hit ground ball to left field that scored Hagood and Frausto to take the lead.

Gates then knocked down a single to center that scored Musick for the final run of the game. Frausto sealed the win from the mound with a WT ground-out, strike-out, a walk, and another ground out for the win.

The Broncos will play Sudan in the Area Round in Floydada Thursday, May 9, at 5 p.m. Game two will be held on Friday, May 10, with a game three immediately following if needed.

Family connections

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A newspaper family reunion of sorts was held at The Enterprise last Wednesday when Robert Blake of Mount Airy, North Carolina, paid a visit to publisher Roger Estlack. Blake is the great-grandson of W.P. Blake, who published the local newspaper from 1898 to 1909. Blake continued in the printing business and later sold out to Estlack’s great-grandfather, J.C. Estlack in the 1920s. Enterprise Photo

Benson wins annual Jones 5K

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Particiipants and winners of the 12th annual Chance Mark Jones Roar & Run 5K. Enterprise Photo / Roger Estlack

Colton Benson and Katy Tubbs were the top winners during the 12th annual Chance Mark Jones Roar & Run 5K last Saturday, April 27, at the Donley County Courthouse.

More than seventy people registered for the event to help raise awareness of child abuse with about 40 actually running or walking the 5K.

Benson was the overall winner of the 5K with the best men’s time and finishing first in the 11-19 age group in 18 minutes, 11 seconds. Katy Tubbs was the first woman to cross the finish line with a time of 47:03 and taking second in the 20-29 age group.

Complete results of this year’s Chance Jones Roar & Run 5K race are as follows: Top Men’s Time – Benson, 18:11; Top Women’s Time – Tubbs, 47:03; 10 and under – first Monroe Newhouse 46:42, second Hadley Brown 50:54, and third Emarie Pratt 53:30; Ages 10-19 – first Benson 18:11, second Tristen Ybarra 18:12, and third Kutter O’Keefe 30:13; Ages 20-29 – first Henry Dushay 26:00, second Tubbs 47:03, and third Kenneth DeWeese 47:11; Ages 30-39 – first Ty Tubbs 29:53, second Brian Barboza 46:30, and third 47:10; Ages 40-49 – first Andrew Brown 30:10, second Melissa Mast 47:57, and third Chelsi Shadle 49:57; Ages 50-59 – first Cheryl Falke 48:24, second Kathy Goodwin 48:51, and third Kim Gossman 49:57; and Ages 60 and Up – first Nancy Kidd 48:04, second P.J. O’Keefe 52:24, and Shaun O’Keefe 1:02:26.

The race sponsored annually by the Clarendon Lions Club honors the life of four-year-old Chance Mark Jones, who died from abuse in 2011.

Proceeds from this year’s will help support the annual charitable activities of the Clarendon Lions Club, including eyeglasses for local school kids, Christmas food baskets for local families, scholarships, and hosting the area office of The Bridge – Children’s Advocacy Center.

Arts showcase to be held next week at Stocking’s

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Clarendon elementary students will showcase their art at Stocking Ice Cream Parlor next week.

Les Beaux Arts Club Elementary Art & Pottery Showcase is scheduled to run Tuesday, May 5, through Sunday, May 12, at the Stocking Ice Cream Parlor.

The art showcase will honor Clarendon Elementary students, Clarendon Junior High pottery students, and local adult pottery students.

The elementary students participated in art classes that were offered by members of Les Beaux Arts Club as part of our community outreach program for the arts. Rebecca Chesser and Chriss Clifford developed the curriculum and taught the classes in each grade level. The students studied and created art inspired by Wassily Kandinsky, Claude Monet, M. C. Escher, Dale Chihuly and Peter H. Reynolds (author and illustrator of the children’s book “The Dot”). The art club members have all volunteered in various capacities to assist in the classroom, mount art works, set up the show, and many behind the scenes activities. The club is also gifting each student with a coupon good for one small scoop of ice cream to encourage students to attend the show and bring their families in to see their work.

This semester, CJH students were offered the opportunity to participate in the ACE (Art Cultivates Enlightenment) after school program at the pottery studio, which has been permanently set up in the upstairs classroom above the Old Gym.

This collaboration with Clarendon Independent School District and Les Beaux Arts Club is another part of the club’s community outreach program for the arts.

The pottery classes are taught by Chriss Clifford, Shandy Pearson, Kailee Lewis, and Annis Stavenhagen. The students have created finished pottery projects while learning the basics of hand building and glazing.

The two Adult Spring Session Pottery classes will also be showcasing their work. These pottery classes are also part of the Les Beaux Arts Club community outreach program for the arts.

These projects are all co-sponsored in part by the Clarendon Consolidated Independent School District, J&W Lumber, A Fine Feathered Nest, and the Clarendon Economic Development Corporation.

Texas lessons

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Members of Clarendon Scouts BSA 433 and 4433 visited the Saints’ Roost Museum Monday afternoon as the troops finish up work on the Texas Award. Scouts spent March and April learning about Texas history, different Texas cultures, prominent Texas figures, and things the Lone Star State is known for. Shown here are Tayden Guinn, Jaxon Robertson, Elaina Estlack, Emily Dzamko, and Kase Zongker. Enterprise Photo / Roger Estlack

Stocking visit

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Kathy Stocking (right) stands with Stocking Ice Cream Parlor owner Rhonda Howell last Tuesday, April 23. Stocking, the great-granddaughter of the Panhandle’s first doctor – Jerome Stocking, lives in Michigan and visited Clarendon last week to learn more about family history. She had seen the ice cream parlor online and made plans to visit the shop but did not realize until she got here that it is the same building that housed Dr. Stocking’s drug store going back to the 1880s. The original Stocking Drug Store sign hangs behind Howell and Stocking.Enterprise Photo / Roger Estlack

Benson, Bolin bound for state meet

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Two Clarendon High School athletes will run in the State Track Meet this spring after outstanding performances in the Regional competition.

Sophomore stand out runner Madi Benson is the current 2A Region 1 Regional Champion in the 800m run. She claimed the Regional Championship in Canyon at WTAMU and will run on May 2 at the Mike Myers Stadium on the UT campus in Austin at approximately 5:20 p.m.

Benson’s time of 2:25.71 topped the field by less than a second. Elliot Frausto ran the 800m and finished in seventh place with a time of 2:33.48. Benson also ran the 400m dash finishing seventh with a time of 1:04.80 and the 1600m run taking the eighth spot with a time of 5:50.03.

Kaleb Bolin ran a good race in the 400m and finished third with a time of 49.99. He got the wildcard to advance to the State Meet and will run May 3 at 5:00 p.m.

The Bronco mile relay competed in the regional meet and finished 13th in the prelims with a time of 3:38.13. Those running the relay were Bolin, Kaleb Mays, Shane Hagood and Brice Wagner. Mays was a runner in the 100m and finished ninth with a time of 11.41 in the prelims. Bryce Williams ran the 800m and placed 12th with a time of 2:11.04. Wagner ran the 200m and was 14th in the finals with a time of 23.58. Lyric Smith competed in the high jump taking seventh place with his best jump of 6’.

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Kaleb Bolin runs the 400m at the Regional Championship Saturday. Courtesy Photo / Carter pritle

Broncos are district champions

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2024 District Champions

By Sandy Anderberg

Senior Jared Musick was on the mound for the Broncos in their win over Wellington last week. The Broncos scored 17 runs on eight hits. Fellow seniors Easton Frausto and Harrison Howard were able to knock down two home runs in the game that accounted for five of the Broncos’ runs.

Musick pitched for three innings posting five strikeouts and no hits or runs. Another Bronco senior, Levi Gates stepped in for a bit in the fourth before Howard took over the duties on the mound to finish the game. Howard collected two strikeouts and allowed one run.

The lone runs in the first belonged to the Broncos when Gates hit a single which allowed Frausto to score and Mason Allred grounded out to score Musick.

After a three and out by Howard, the Broncos came to the plate with runs on their minds. With Mason Sims on first, two batters struck out, Frausto earned a walk that brought up Musick who got things rolling with a single to left field. Howard and Gates each then knocked down singles that scored Sims, Frausto, Howard, and Musick. Allred reaches base on an error and Bryce Williams doubled on a fly ball to center to score two. Grant Haynes hit a fly ball to left field at his at bat to advance Williams to third. The Broncos would go on and score three more runs with a double from Shane Hagood that scored two runs before Frausto slammed a home run that brought home Hagood and left the bases empty.

Another run in the third gave the Broncos security they needed to take the game. Howard put the final runs on the board with his homerun that scored Frausto and Musick.

The Broncos are currently at 12-1-2 and leading the district race with one district game remaining before post-season play.

They will travel to Floydada to face Forsan in a warm-up game on Friday, April 26 beginning at 5:00pm.

Lady Broncos win district title

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2024 District Champions

By Sandy Anderberg

Elyza Rodriguez and Tandie Cummins earned homeruns last week in the Lady Broncos’ 17-1 win over the Booker Lady Kiowas that helped the Lady Broncos win the district title at 263-1. They are preparing for post-season play.

Rodriguez struck first in the third inning with the score at 4-0. Cummins claimed her homerun in the sixth to bring home Rodriguez to go up 14-1. Cummins and Rodriguez were strong at the plate as the duo hit a triple apiece in the fifth inning that scored three runners. In the game, Cummins posted a homer, one triple with 4 RBIs and three runs, while Rodriguez slammed a single along with her homerun and accounted for three runs and two RBIs.

Kennadie Cummins was on the mound for four innings and claimed the win throwing nine strikeouts and allowing only two hits and no runs. T. Cummins took over in the fifth and allowed one hit, one run, and no strikeouts. K. Cummins racked up two stolen bases and T. Cummins added one.

All of the Lady Broncos were solid at the plate. Elliot Frausto collected a single, two doubles, and one RBI, and Gracie Wilkins finished with two doubles, one triple, two RBIs, and three runs. Laney Rummel posted a single, a double, and a triple, while Bayleigh Bruce added a double, one RBI, and one run. Maloree Wann helped with one RBI.

The ladies continued their dominance at the plate and in the field with a win over Sanford-Fritch at 4-2 late last week. Fritch was able to get on the board first with a run second. It was a battle on the mound as both teams went three and out in the next two innings. K. Cummins got ahold of a pitch in the third and homered on a line drive to center with no one on to tie the game at one all. With only one out left Clarendon’s at bat, Wilkins singled and brought T. Cummins home to go up by one run before the inning ended.

The Lady Broncos were able to take advantage of a little momentum at the plate in the fourth inning. G. Smith got things moving with a single to left field before Bruce took a grounder the other direction to the outfield for a single. A single from K. Cummins put Smith and Bruce in scoring position. Rodriguez was able to muster a single to center that scored Bruce and Smith for the Lady Broncos’ final runs of the game. Fritch would score one more run in the final inning, but it was not enough to overtake the Lady Broncos.

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