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Basketball Roundup
Bellevue vs Forestburg boys
The Bellevue Eagles won at Forestburg on Friday in a pretty one-sided game.
The Eagles won 49-19 against a young Longhorns team.
Bellevue got out to a 16-4 lead in the first quarter. Forestburg had its most successful stretch in the second quarter as four different players scored one basket and the team scored 11 points.
Unfortunately, that quarter turned out to be an anomaly as the Longhorns struggled the whole second half to score.
The Eagles never slowed down until the game was in hand in the fourth quarter.
Braxton Osteen led Forestburg with six points while seniors Hayden Berry and James Stokes scored four points each.
Longhorn Coach Eldon Van Hooser thought his team showed improvement at time, but knows they still have a long way to go.
Bellevue is next scheduled to play at 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 22 at Slidell. Forestburg is next scheduled to play at 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 22 at Prairie Valley.
Gold-Burg girls
The Gold-Burg Lady Bears lost at district favorite Slidell on Friday.
The Lady Greyhounds won 85-40, but Coach Cheryl Cromleigh said it does not indicate how much her team competed.
The beginning of the game was tough for the Lady Bears. Cromleigh had to call three time outs during the first quarter to try and settle her players down.
Slidell got off to a monster start, scoring 37 points in the quarter while Gold-Burg struggled to score three.
After that though, the Lady Bears competed much better for the next three quarters of the game. Slidell still had the edge during that time, but it was only 48-37 during that span.
Kelly Contreras scored a season high 25 points for Gold-Burg while Taylor Lyons was second with nine points.
“It was the best the Lady Bears in years have played against Slidell, especially at Slidell,” Cromleigh said.
Gold-Burg is next scheduled to play at 6 p.m. on Jan. 26 at Saint Jo.
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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