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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)
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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