SPORTS
Mustangs gear up
Midwestern State University football enjoyed its second unbeaten regular season in 2017 claiming a Lone Star Conference title before advancing to the second round of the NCAA Division II Playoffs.
The success netted the Mustangs a No. 10 ranking in Street & Smith’s College Yearbook’s rankings for this upcoming season.
MSU football returns 51 letterwinners including a total of 18 starters including 10 on defense, seven on offense and one on special teams off of last season’s 10-1 squad.
Senior quarterback Layton Rabb returns to direct an attack that rolled up 483.3 yards and 42.5 points per game.
The Llano High product earned second-team all-conference honors throwing for 3,109 yards with 31 touchdowns last season while throwing just five interceptions.
The Mustangs’ top rushing threats also return including first-team All-LSC performer Adrian Seales, who ran for 839 yards and eight touchdowns, while all-league second-teamer Vincent Johnson rushed for 722 yards with 16 touchdowns.
Junior Tyrique Edwards was Rabb’s top receiving target a season ago catching 48 passes for 680 yards and six touchdowns, while junior Xavier Land had 40 receptions for 334 yards and seven touchdowns.
Don Hansen Football Gazette third-team All-American A.J. Roland returns to headline a stout offensive line unit at center. MSU Texas plays six games at Memorial Stadium including the season opener against Humboldt State (Calif.) on Sept. 1. The Mustangs welcome No. 1 West Florida the following week and No. 6 Texas A&M-Commerce on Oct. 6.
Other home games include Angelo State on Sept. 22, Tarleton State on Oct. 27 and West Texas A&M on Nov. 10.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
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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