SPORTS
Bowie, Nocona volleyball face off; Lady Indians prevail
Bowie and Nocona traveled to Lewisville this past weekend to participate in the Nike ASC/LISD Classic volleyball tournament.
Bowie Lady Rabbit Aslyn Davis was named to the all tournament team.
While both teams had a tough go of it during pool play, the district rivals did well enough during bracket play to meet in the championship game of the silver bracket, with the Lady Indians coming out on top.
Nocona played three other teams in their pool on Friday. Callisburg, a state qualifier from last year was in their pool as well as the competitive Celina and Commerce. The Lady Indians lost against all three in straight sets, with
Coach Tiffany Clay feeling like they had their best chance at getting a win against Commerce but made too many unforced errors, losing 25-21 and 25-22.
This put them in the silver bracket on Saturday with their first opponent the Weatherford junior varsity team. Nocona turned things around and mopped up the junior varsity squad in straight sets, winning 25-16 and 25-22.
Their next game was against Iowa Park, a team they beat in their opening games of the season just four days previous. They showed nothing had changed since then as the Lady Indians won dominantly in straight sets, taking both by the score 25-16.
This put them in the silver bracket championship game, where they were going to play district rival Bowie.
The Lady Rabbits had a similar path getting to the championship game. With Anna and Godley in their pool on Friday, Bowie had their chances to beat both teams. Both games went to three sets, but unfortunately the Lady Rabbits lost the third set heartbreakingly by two points to Anna and could not get anything going in the third against Godley.
Read the full story in 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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