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HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL: Montague girls garner tournament
The Montague Independent School District boys’ and girls’ basketball teams competed in their own tournament on Saturday.
Montague’s girls won the title, downing Christ Academy of Wichita Falls in the championship game 49-12.
The girls defeated Terral, Okla., 45-1 and then Notre Dame, 38-4.
This marked the second straight year the Lady Eagles won their own event, and the girls ran their record to 7-0.
Notre Dame, another Wichita Falls school, finished third and Terral was fourth.
The boys placed third, defeating Terral 32-25 for that spot.
Montague earlier in the tournament stopped Terral 49-33 before falling to Notre Dame 46-38.
Christ Academy defeated Notre Dame in the championship.
Victory Christian of Decatur also participated in the tournament, and took fifth.
Averee Kleinhans totaled 36 points in three games, to go with nine rebounds and 13 assists.
Hope Howard chipped in with 28 points, a team-best 17 rebounds, three blocked shots, seven steals, and she was 100 percent from the free-throw line. Trystin Fenoglio supplied 18 points, five assists and a team-best 12 steals.
Taygon Jones added 22 points, a team-best nine assists, and seven steals. Sydni Messer contributed 10 points, nine rebounds and six steals. Gabby Valdez had six points and 13 rebounds.
Destinee Kittrell also scored six points, and Mikey Jordan and Halea Holding also played and contributed for the Lady Eagles.
On the boys’ side, Dalton Atteberry accumulated a whopping 64 points, including shooting 76 percent from the field. Atteberry also had 17 rebounds, seven assists and six steals.
Montague’s Averee Kleinhans (21) rebounds the ball and heads up court while teammate Taygon Jones (10) runs at right. The Lady Eagles won their own tournament for the second straight season. (News photo by Eric Viccaro)
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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