SPORTS
Realignment: No big shake ups
Monday morning saw the official release for the University Interscholastic League’s district realignment for 2020-2022 school years with no big changes for local teams.
The cutoff numbers had already been released back in December for schools going up or down in classification whereas Monday was the release of districts.
The Jackrabbit’s football team got no breaks as the same hard district stayed put. The Indians’ football program dropped state power Gunter and S&S Consolidated while picking up Valley View. The newcomers have made the playoffs in two of their last three seasons.
The Saint Jo football district drops Savoy, who went 0-4 in district, and picks up charter school TLC-Arlington, a program without much of a track record in six-man.
The Gold-Burg and Forestburg football district will now have four teams as Trinidad joins Ladonia Fannindel. The new Trojans have made the playoffs the last few years, making a playoff berth tougher.
In basketball and volleyball, Bowie and Nocona will no longer have to make the two-hour drive to Childress. The Bobcats were replaced with familiar district foe Jacksboro and Breckenridge. Both programs have held their own in district seven against Brock, Peaster, Boyd, Millsap and Paradise and look to only make the district harder in most cases.
For the 1A volleyball teams, things will still be tough, but different. For the Lady Panthers and Lady Horns, the familiar faces besides each other will be Alvord and Lindsay. The district gets another 1A school with Perrin-Whitt, but new 2A schools include Graford, Poolville and Chico.
What this changes is the automatic playoff berth for both programs. With the Lady Pirates in the mix, one team could stay home for the playoffs.
The district for Prairie Valley and Gold-Burg volleyball teams almost stayed the same. The only difference was the inclusion of another 1A school, Bryson, into the mix. With four 1A teams, the challenge to be one of the top two will be a tougher road as the Cowgirls are coming off a regional tournament appearance.
The 1A basketball district will keep the same seven teams that have been in the district since 2016. Slidell continues to rule on both the boys and girls side as state powers everyone has to deal with and aspire to.
The full district realignment list can be found online at https://realignment.uiltexas.org/.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
The Nocona Lady Indians beat Saint Jo at home on Saturday morning.
The Lady Indians won 16-1 after four innings due to run-rule against the smaller school.
Nocona was coming off a competitive loss at Collinsville earlier in the week while the Lady Panthers were hoping to compete after a busy week of their athletes doing everything else besides just softball.
The Lady Indians easily won the first matchup between the teams in March, 19-2 and it was more of the same on Saturday.
Saint Jo struck first to start the game off well. Jordyn O’Neal hit a one out single. Krista Reeves followed with a walk after O’Neal had stolen second base and had advanced to third thanks to an error trying to throw her out. A wild pitch then allowed her to score to put the Lady Panthers up 1-0.
The lead did not last long. Nocona’s first two batters drew walks which set up Abby Hill to drive them both in with a single to right field.
Despite giving up a single and a walk later in the inning, Saint Jo’s defense did not allow another run. A line out and groundout to the shortstop while picking off a runner attempting to steal got the Lady Panthers out of the inning unscarred.
The Lady Indians led 2-1.
That was about as competitive as it got. In the second inning, Nocona’s bats got going. Two singles and a hit batter loaded the bases up with no outs.
Reagan Phipps drew a walk that drove in a run. Hill hit another two RBI single. Skye Kirby followed with a two RBI double.
After the first out, Allie Sutton drove in one run with a single. There was a fly out for out two, before a runner came in to score after a passed ball. Finally, an error allowed two more runs to score on the base paths.
Nocona had scored nine runs and led 11-1 to break the game open heading into the third inning.
Taylor Patrick hit a double, with O’Neal and Reeves following with singles. Unfortunately for Saint Jo, Patrick was thrown out before the hits attempting to steal a base so the Lady Panthers scored no runs from this.
The Lady Indians kept pouring on the runs. Two singles and a walk loaded the bases up with no outs. Tinley Cable then hit an RBI single. Shelby Swell was hit by a pitch that drove in another run.
After two strikeouts, Evelyn Marquez drove in two more runs on a double to put Nocona up 15-1, coming up one run short of ending the game early.
The Lady Indians scored that one run in the fourth inning. After Phipps drew a leadoff walk, Hill hit a triple that drove her in to end the game.
Nocona won 16-1.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
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