SPORTS
Nocona tops Peaster for consolation in Buckle Up For Lane
The Nocona Lady Indians opened bracket play in the 2018 Buckle Up For Lane’s Sake Tournament on Saturday with a loss to Holliday, but it was smooth sailing from there as the team earned two wins to take the consolation championship in the gold division.
The Lady Indians fought hard in three sets as the Lady Eagles topped the host team 20-25, 25-23, 25-15, placing Nocona in a place to fight for the consolation in Saturday’s competition. The team next faced Iowa Park. It was close throughout the match, but the Lady Indians held them to two sets to win 25-23, 25-20.
Peaster was the final foe of the day, and again the Lady Indians held their opponent to two, coming away with a 25-23, 25-18 victory and the consolation championship. Sophomore Averee Kleinhans powered the offense with 73 attacks during pool and bracket play, with an additional 78 digs, 16 ace serves and two offensive blocks. Ella Nunnely also sparked the offense with 40 kills for the tournament and contributed 23 digs and 10 ace serves, along with a whopping 7 offensive blocks.
Grayson Trumbell and Laramie Hayes combined for 9 blocks, with Karlee Keck and Rachel Patrick adding in one each. Trumbell also provided 13 kills and 12 digs and Hayes had 44 digs, along with 15 kills and six ace serves.
Meanwhile, Trystin Fenoglio provided the Lady Indians with 84 assists across the two days of competition and Patrick with 64 assists to go along with her 26 digs, six ace serves and 22 kills. Brooke O’Neal provided another 29 digs and 3 ace serves.
The annual event is to honor the memory of Lane Fenoglio, a Nocona student killed in an auto accident on July 11, 1998, the summer before what would have been her sophomore year at Nocona High School. The tournament is called “Buckle Up For Lane’s Sake” to raise awareness of the importance of wearing a seat belt. The tournament has a special place in Coach Tiffany Clay’s heart due to her friendship with Fenoglio when she was in high school.
“This tournament is very special to me,” said Clay. “Lane and I were friends and I also played in the tournament when I was in school.”
The head coach spent a lot of time with her players discussing Lane and who she was as a person and as a Lady Indian.
“We also talked about making good decisions and how one wrong decision could affect your whole life,” explained Clay. “These girls were not even born yet when Lane died, so I felt like they were just playing in the tournament to be playing and weren’t emotionally connected so that is why I thought it was important to take some time to have these conversations with them.”
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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