SPORTS
HIGH SCHOOL VOLLEYBALL: Nocona tops City View
The Nocona Lady Indians regained a winning district record on Saturday with the defeat of City View.
Nocona beat the Lady Mustangs by scores of 25-16, 25-19 and 25-17 to bring their district record to 3-2 for the 2016 season.
Payton Ferguson paced the Lady Indians with 10 aces. Ferguson also had 13 digs, one block assist and three aces.
Setters Trystin Fenoglio and Karson Phipps combined 27 set assists and 17 digs. Libero Magye Fenoglio led the defense with 18 digs, one set assist and one kill.
Patty Espinoza and Camry Tompkins added five kills each, while Espinoza also had four digs and one block assist and Tompkins had one dig and one block assist.
District 2A-10
Lindsay 3, Forestburg 0
The Forestburg High School volleyball team lost its first district volleyball game of the 2016 season to the Lindsay Lady Knights on Tuesday evening.
Lindsay defeated the home team by scores of 25-10, 25-21 and 25-11, bringing Forestburg’s district record to 4-1 as they prepare for Saint Jo and Tioga this week.
Despite the loss, Alexia Britain provided the team with 16 digs and Lacy Huddleston added 15.
Collinsville 3, Gold-Burg 0
The Gold-Burg Lady Bears are struggling to win a district game this season, falling to Collinsville on Friday evening for their district loss.
Collinsville defeated Gold-Burg by scores of 25-21, 25-22 and 25-16. Libero Christina Arevalo led the Lady Bears defense with 15 digs and one assist, followed by Danielle Parr with 10 digs.
Shelby Horton and Halie Franklin added a combined 12 digs, 31 assists and 20 serves, while Megan Metz contributed eight digs, three kills, 14 serves and two blocks. Read more, and see district standings, in Sept. 28 Bowie News.
Forestburg’s Alexia Britain scooped up 16 digs in last Friday’s loss to Lindsay. (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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