SPORTS
Nocona knocks down district leader; Prairie Valley, Gold-Burg grab wins at home
After losing the first two match-ups against Holliday, the Nocona Lady Indians ruined the Lady Eagles senior night by giving them their first district loss.
The Lady Indians won in four sets, taking control of the sets they won and not letting Holliday come back to battle for closely contested sets.
Nocona came out on fire, executing their strategy of staying aggressive and on the offensive at all times while capitalizing when the Lady Eagles big Breanna Box was in the back row. The Lady Indians won the first two sets 25-21 and 25-22.
The third set saw some inconsistent play from Nocona. Holliday was able to take advantage as they got a sizable lead. Coach Tiffany Clay wanted her girls to keep swinging despite the mistakes, knowing her girls would need to keep up their aggressive mentality for the fourth set after losing the third set 25-18.
They straightened things out in the fourth set and played their best volleyball as Nocona could see the finish line forming in front of them. They were able to close things out, winning the fourth set 25-19 to get the upset win against the district leader.
Averee Kleinhans led the team with 22 kills and 27 digs, while Trystin Fenoglio directed the teams attack with 33 assists. Grayson Trumbull was second with nine kills while Ella Nunneley led the team with three blocks. The team had nine aces during the match with Kleinhans and Laramie Hayes each contributing three.
Clay was proud her girls were able to achieve their goal on the road.
“Overall, my girls wanted this game so bad and to prove to not only themselves, but everyone else we were the better team,” Clay said. “They fought until the very end.”
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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