SPORTS
CROSS COUNTRY: District meets start today
All local high school and junior high school cross country teams will be involved in district cross country meets this week.
The District 1A-21 meet will take place at Twisted Oaks Golf Club here in Bowie.
Gold-Burg is serving as the event host. Other schools in the event are as follows: Bellevue, Midway, Saint Jo, Prairie Valley and Forestburg.
Gold-Burg, Bellevue, Midway and Prairie Valley all will field complete boys’ teams.
The complete girls’ teams will be Gold-Burg, Saint Jo, Bellevue and Midway.
There will be two more junior high schools in the mix with Montague and Walnut Bend of Gainesville.
The meet will start with the boys’ varsity/junior varsity race at 2 p.m. with girls’ varsity/JV at 2:30 p.m.
The junior high school boys’ will run off the line at 3:30 p.m. followed by the girls at 4 p.m.
The top-10 individuals and top-three teams will advance to the regional meet at Lynn Creek Park in Grand Prairie. The top-two teams also will receive plaques.
District 3A-9 meet
The Bowie and Nocona Junior High School teams will compete at the District 3A-9 meet today with the junior high girls running at 4 p.m. and the boys at 4:30 p.m.
The meet will take place at Kiwanis Park in Wichita Falls.
The high school meet is set for Thursday.
Here’s the schedule: 9 a.m., varsity girls; 9:40 a.m., varsity boys; 10:40, junior varsity girls; 11:20 a.m., junior varsity boys.
District 3A-9 features the following schools: Bowie, Nocona, Henrietta, Jacksboro, Paradise, Boyd, Wichita Falls City View and Holliday.
District 4A-5 also will compete at this course on the same day, with Burkburnett, Iowa Park, Vernon and Wichita Falls Hirschi all competing.
The Nocona High School girls’ cross country team comprised of Maria Hernandez, Crystal Duarte, Yesenia Duarte, Flor Gomez and Daisy Ibarra competes Thursday. Click on the image itself for the complete photo. (Courtesy photo from Tammy Mullins-Skinner)
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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