SPORTS
VOLLEYBALL: Price, Fenoglio guide Nocona to Lu Allen title
Nocona High School volleyball players Sherese Price and Magye Fenoglio were named to the Lu Allen Tournament team as the Lady Indians won the Division 2 Gold Bracket on Saturday.
The Lady Indians defeated Denver City 25-22, 25-13 for the championship, and the team improved to 8-6 on the season.
The Lu Allen Tournament is named for a former Graham volleyball coach who was tragically killed in a vehicular mishap a decade ago.
“The difference between Friday’s play and Saturday was the girls’ mental approach when they stepped on the court,” Nocona head coach Tiffany Clay said.
Clay said the Lady Indians pulled it all together during Gold Bracket play on Saturday.
“We served more aggressively, which kept their serve receive out of system for the majority of the time, and our blocking was also a big key in the game,” Clay added.
Nocona established a 9-1 lead in the second set, and never looked back.
Fenoglio recorded six of the Lady Indians’ 27 digs, and Mackie Trumbull, Emma Meekins and Ali Walker all had one solo ace block.
Price finished with a team-best nine kills, and she recorded a staunch .429 hitting efficiency.
Chloey Hamilton served up five aces and Angel Rhudy chipped in with three as the Lady Indians hit on 93.8 percent of their attempts from behind the line. Jamie Carpenter supplied six assists, and Hamilton five. Henley Davis added three digs. Read more, and see a volleyball scoreboard, in the weekend Bowie News.
The Nocona High School varsity volleyball team shows off the Lu Allen Division II championship it won on Saturday with a straight-set victory over Denver City. (Courtesy photo)
Bellevue’s girl’s basketball team led at halftime but a quick 9-0 Jacksboro run in the opening moments of the second half would prove the difference in a 28-25 Lady Eagle loss June 15 in a Nocona Summer League game.
Leading 12-9 at the half, Bellevue continued to shut down the inside game of the Tigerettes. Jacksboro switched tactics and began firing from outside. Three 3-pointers in the span of just under two minutes gave Jacksboro an 18-12 lead.
Bellevue kept things close, however, getting on the second half scoreboard with Mattie Broussard’s basket and free throws cutting the deficit to two, 18-16. A Haven Jones 3-pointer put the Lady Eagles up 19-18 midway through the second half.
The Tigerettes had just one 3 -pointer the rest of the way but got inside for a pair of buckets to take a 25-21 lead with 4:50 to go. Both offenses shut down late.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Most school-age athletes start off playing everything. By the time they graduate, they whittle it down to just one or two.
New Bowie girl’s track and overall cross country coach Shawnda Childers is no exception. While at Iowa Park she competed in volleyball, cross country and track before cutting out volleyball and focusing on track and cross country to close out high school.
Childers did not stay with athletics while moving on to Midwestern State University, where she received her bachelor’s and master’s Degrees. After graduation, shestarted coaching in Electra. She came to Bowie for one year, then went back to her old stomping grounds in Iowa Park where she spent the next four years.
The return home also put her in contact with now-Bowie Coach Griffin Fields, who was a coach there at the time. From Iowa Park, she spent the next three years at City View.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
New Saint Jo Girl’s Basketball Coach Grant Gooch isn’t completely unfamiliar with the area.
“We went to Muenster quite a bit when I was a kid,” Gooch, who will be going into his 20th year as a coach, said. “We’d load up the cooler from the meat markets. It’s good to be back.”
Gooch worked with Saint Jo Athletic Director CJ Hantz when the pair were in Throckmorton. Gooch comes to town from Menard where he spent three years at the West Texas school.
Gooch says coaching and education kind of come naturally to him.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
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