SPORTS
CROSS COUNTRY: Prairie Valley takes both 1A-21 junior high titles
The Prairie Valley Junior High cross country teams won District 1A-21 titles on Wednesday at Twisted Oaks Golf Club.
The Bulldog boys won by five points over Bellevue, and the girls were 19 points clear of both Saint Jo and Bellevue (61) and Midway scored 71.
Logan Morman from Saint Jo won the boys’ race with a time of 12 minutes, 57 seconds. Morman was 28 seconds better than teammate Hunter Garrett.
The rest of the top-10 was as follows: 3, Trevor Vann, Forestburg; 4, Rusty McClelland, Midway; 5, Curtis Smith, Forestburg; 6, Nick Bell, Prairie Valley; 7, Owen Davis, Saint Jo; 8, Tyler Allen, Bellevue; 9, Brock Tompkins, Prairie Valley; 10, Travis Terry, Bellevue.
Ethan Lyons was Gold-Burg’s top runner in 20th. Reagan Wilson and Laramie McCarty ran for Montague, placing 24th and 26th, respectively. Jake Eckeberger also ran for Gold-Burg.
Saint Jo’s Paityn Holley was the winner on the girls’ side, taking gold in 14:47, with teammate Kassidy Pitman second 11 ticks back and Lady Panther Traci Corley third.
The rest of the top-10 was as follows: 4, Daley Nichols, Midway; 5, Molly Gilleland, Prairie Valley; 6, Hailey Winkler, Prairie Valley; 7, Jasmine Jones, Bellevue; 8, Abby Wise, Bellevue; 9, CeCe Mahin, Prairie Valley; 10, Madison Messoui, Gold-Burg. Read more in the mid-week Bowie News.
Hailey Winkler, CeCe Mahin, Cheyenne Collins, Shelby Roof and Molly Gilleland helped the Prairie Valley junior high girls’ cross country team win the District 1A-21 title. (Courtesy photo from the Prairie Valley Independent School District)
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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