SPORTS
Bulldogs take second place at home meet
Despite the heavy rain this week, Prairie Valley was still able to host its cross country on meet on Sept. 26.
It was a smaller meet with a little more than 20 runners in the boys and girls races. This made every place count that much more and motivate each runner to push themselves every bit they could to try and beat the runner in front of them.
The Bulldog boys team finished second overall as a team and had the top finisher of the race, with last year’s state qualifier William Winler running a season best 18:37, beating second place by more than 30 seconds.
Other top finishers for Prairie Valley included Kaden Fleming in seventh place, Tyler Reid in eighth place, Isaac Yeargin in 12th place and Zak Smith in 15th place.
Coach Seth Stephens was pleased with how much better his boys ran from their first meet the previous week.
“All of my high school guys ran their best time of the year,” Stephens said.
The coach said it turned out to be a beautiful day after concerns the meet might get rained out.
“Not running in 95 degree heat definitely helped us I think, but our guys also are working hard at getting better. Their times are getting faster in practice as well. It was good to see Kaden Fleming bounce back this week. He had a rough week last week, he ran on a hurt ankle. This week it was feeling better and he ran 20:28. Of course it was good to see William win the gold. I’m really excited about seeing how our team continues to do moving forward.”
The girls team also finished second. Their top two runners finished close to each other at the top of the standings as Cosima Ermert finished second with a time of 14:37 while Allie Brown finished not too far behind her in third with at time of 14:48. The rest of the team saw Taylor Franklin finish 11th, Veronica Gutierrez 16th and Randi Gilleland 21st.
Read the full story in the weekend 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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