SPORTS
Bowie Junior High sweeps City View
The Bowie Junior High seventh and eighth grade volleyball teams made a clean sweep at home against City View on Oct. 11.
The 8A team dominated against the Lady Mustangs with a two-set win of 25-22, 25-14. Carson Matlock put down four kills and one ace, while Julie Witt provided seven aces and two digs.
Neely Price provided the Lady Cottontails with two aces and two kills. JoJo Villarreal added two aces and one kill, with Peyton Clark providing two aces of her own. BJ Mills had two kills and one ace serve. Sydnee Mowry and Maddie Ezzell added one kill each. Mowry also had one ace.
The 8B team snagged a two-set win against City View by 25-15, 25-21 with seven ace serves from Haley Webb. Libby Roumillat put down six ace serves of her own, while Allie Byork added five; Kara Baker, two and Kenzie Short, one. Lauren Barton, Baker, Natalie Burkhardt and Breanna Goodwin all put down one kill each.
The Bowie 7A team routed the City View Lady Mustangs easily in two sets by 25-13, 25-15. Sayler Richey led the Lady Cottontails with six digs and six aces. Emily Cueva added in four aces and two digs; Gracie Duke, three kills, Olivia Gill, two blocks; Jaci Frie, three aces and Ziba Robbins, two ace serves.
The 7B team fell just shy of a win in the first set against City View by 22-25, but came back on top the next two by 25-17, 15-8 to take the win. Maycie Metzler powered the offense with 11 ace serves and one kill, while Allie Parr added in two kills and four ace serves. Kaylie Kinney provided five aces, and Anna Livsey and Sadie Fallis put down one kill each. The teams wrap up the 2018 season at home against Nocona on Oct. 22.
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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.
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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.
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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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