SPORTS
HIGH SCHOOL VOLLEYBALL: Nocona advances to Gold Bracket
By ERIC VICCARO
bnewssports@gmail.com
The Nocona High School volleyball team won three of four matches in pool play on Thursday, and that sent the Lady Indians to the Gold Bracket today.
“We played well most of the time, and were able to work on speeding our offense up,” said Nocona head coach Tiffany Clay.
“The gold bracket has 10 solid teams in it so the competition should be great all day Saturday.”
Nocona improved to 13-8 on the season, and the Lady Indians will face Sanger at 11 a.m. today in the opening round of the Gold Bracket. The match will take place in the middle school gymnasium.
The Gold Bracket features Conference 3A No. 1 Peaster plus District 3A-9 defending champion Henrietta, Vernon – who won all four of its matches Thursday – Callisburg, Burkburnett, Boyd, Celina and Saginaw.
Vernon defeated Nocona 16-25, 25-18, 25-21, but then the Lady Indians earned three straight wins.
Nocona topped Paradise 25-7, 25-22, Petrolia 25-9, 25-18 and Munday 25-6, 25-6.
In the loss to Vernon, Magye Fenoglio was one of three Lady Indians to record double-digit digs with 22. Angel Rhudy and Chloe Hamilton finished with 13 and 10 digs, respectively. Sherese Price pounded down a team-best 13 kills.
The Lady Indians had little trouble with Paradise as Payton Ferguson and Price teamed up for 19 kills. Mackie Trumbull added two solo ace blocks and Fenoglio scooped up 22 digs. Jamie Carpenter dished off a team-best 16 assists. Read more in the weekend Bowie News.
Nocona High School’s Sherese Price blocks at the net during Thursday’s match against Paradise. Price produced 11 kills and one solo ace block right here as the Lady Indians won three of four matches at their own Buckle Up For Lane’s Sake Tournament. (News photo by Eric Viccaro)
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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