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HIGH SCHOOL VOLLEYBALL: Nocona suffers loss to Holliday on road
The Nocona High School volleyball team suffered a five-set loss at Holliday on Friday in the Lady Indians’ District 3A-9 opener.
Holliday took care of Nocona by scores of 25-22, 26-28, 25-18, 25-22, 15-9, and the Lady Indians dropped to 13-11, 0-1 on the season.
“We missed seven serves and had six net calls against us,” Nocona head coach Tiffany Clay said. “When playing a good team like Holliday, we cannot make those mental errors.”
Nocona was uncharacteristically out of sync on defense, and Clay said Holliday “outplayed” her squad. The coach was happy to see the girls extend the Lady Eagles to five sets.
Payton Ferguson had a team-best 14 kills plus one solo ace block. Sherese Price added 12 kills and Jamie Carpenter seven.
Chloey Hamilton and Carpenter combined for 34 assists. Libero Magye Fenoglio was the lone Lady Indian in double digits for digs with 14, while Ali Walker had seven digs.
Forestburg tops Gold-Burg
The Forestburg volleyball team swept in-county rival Gold-Burg, but the set scores were indicative of a competitive District 2A-10 match.
The Lady Horns won by scores of 25-20, 25-22, 25-16.
Kaylee Choate finished with 10 assists for Forestburg. Hope Phipps served up a team best five aces while Cheyenne Banks and Choate had three apiece. Alexia Britain added four digs and two ace serves.
For Gold-Burg, Hannah Franklin played a strong all-around game with 12 digs, seven kills and two ace serves. She also had a solo ace block.
Haley Davis chipped in with 10 digs and two ace serves. Christina Arevalo and Megan Metz contributed nine and seven digs, respectively.
Forestburg stands at 10-9, 1-0 in 2A-10. Gold-Burg dropped to 3-18, 0-1.
OTHER MATCHES
FRIDAY
Tioga def. Saint Jo 25-20, 25-9, 25-15
Match highlights: Sarah Patrick, three kills, six digs and one ace serve; Delaney Hall, five digs and two aces; Alyssa Hennessey, three kills, three assists; Sheridan Stiteler, six digs, two assists; Bailey Melton, three kills, four solo ace blocks; Carlee Vogel, three solo ace blocks; Charity Brawner, three aces, 12 assists, one solo ace block.
Record: Saint Jo 6-13, 0-1 in 2A-10.
Collinsville def. Prairie Valley 25-15, 25-21, 25-11.
No individual statistics reported.
Record: Prairie Valley, 5-7, 0-1.
Prairie Valley’s Taylor Carter bumps the ball forward during Friday’s match against Collinsville. The Bulldogs lost in straight sets in this District 2A-10 opener. Click on the image itself for the complete photo. (News photo by Kayla Jean Woods)
In its first match since last year’s state semifinal appearance, Saint Jo hosted Bryson Aug. 11 and took a 25-13, 25-12, 25-21 win over the Cowgirls.
The Lady Panthers lost some talent to graduation but have five seniors ready to have a successful season. Savannah Hil, one of the five, got Saint Jo rolling offensively with a four-point serving string, including a pair of aces. Abby Carter’s kill and Kamron Skidmore’s block helped put the Lady Panthers up 5-2 in game one.
Hadleigh Moore added a four-point string of her own to extend the lead to 10-3. Tatum Morman’s pair, helped by a Hill kill, gave Saint Jo a 14-5 lead. Bryson got within five before a Hill 3-pointer, with help by a Carter kill, put the lead back at 18-10.
After an Olivia Johnson kill broke serve, Jordyn O’Neal served up the final five points, with Johnson providing a kill to move things along.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Despite being the smallest school in the Brock varsity classic volleyball tournament, the Lady Indians finished 4th out of the eight teams there.
After losing to the host team in its first pool play match Aug. 14 18-25, 14-25 and also to Class 3A Wall 12-25, 8-25, Nocona rebounded to close out pool play with a 20-25, 25-23, 25-20 win over Christoval. Sy Parker had 16 kills and 7 blocks in the three matches. Raylea Bowles had 12 kills, 17 digs and served up three aces. Maddyn Bowles had seven kills and 14 digs while Paige Davis had seven kills and 15 digs. Baylee Thomas added 11 digs.
From the setter spot, Kasi Castro had 20 assists, served up five aces and contributed 14 digs. Leah Meekins added 18 assists and six digs during the three matches.
To open Saturday’s bracket play, the Lady Indians posted a 25-18, 18-25, 26-24, 25-19 win over Fort Worth Christian. Castro staked Nocona to a 2-0 lead in game one. Kills by Parker set up pairs of points from Raylea Bowles and Leah Meekins helped Nocona negate an early deficit and take a 10-9 lead.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
County football teams had their first scrimmage of the season Aug. 14 with mixed results.
Forestburg hosted Azle Christian and Victory Christian. Under a new system with new head coach Cori Hayes, the Longhorns looked pretty good in the coach’s eye.
“The first team looked good,” Hayes explained. “Overall we need to work on our pace and blocking assignments and blocking assignments. Overall we looked good for the new regime.”
Forestburg hits the road to scrimmage Newcastle Aug. 21.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
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