SPORTS
Lady Indians lose first game in district
The Nocona Lady Indians opened district play at home on Tuesday against Holliday.
The final score was ugly as the Lady Eagles won 20-0 in five innings. The only bright side is that 15 of those runs came in two innings, while the Lady Indians were able to limit Holliday’s offense to manageable in the other three.
In the top of the first with two outs, Nocona had a costly fielding error that allowed one run to score to give the Lady Eagles the lead. The Lady Indians swung early and often in the count on offense. While they made contact, three groundouts on only five pitches thrown, moved the game into the second inning.
Holliday’s offense went off the first time in the second inning. Six hits, three errors and one walk allowed the Lady Eagles to scored eight runs to go up 9-0. With the score going up, confidence from Nocona went down, which just snowballed things all inning.
On offense, a hit batter and Laramie Hayes hitting a double to right field put two runners in scoring position with two outs. Unfortunately, the next batter struck out to end what would be the Lady Indians best chance to score.
Holliday added a solo-home run in the top of the third inning to make it 10-0, but Nocona was able to limit the Lady Eagles to just that. The Lady Indians had no luck getting any base runners as the game moved to the fourth inning.
Holliday led off with another solo-home run and then added two more runs thanks to two walks, a double and an error. The Lady Eagles now led 13-0 while Nocona had no answer offensively.
The fifth inning saw Holliday hit a grand slam and three RBI double to make the score 20-0. The Lady Indians offense failed to respond with any base runners or hits as the game ended due to run rule.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of 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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