SPORTS
Nocona baseball plays second tournament
The Nocona Indians baseball team traveled to Tulia last weekend to play in their second tournament of the season.
While the two games on Friday saw the Indians come out on the wrong side, Nocona ended the tournament in a positive fashion.
Nocona first played Muleshoe. The Mules struck first going up 7-0 in the first two innings. The Indians cut the lead to 7-2 with an RBI double from Trenten Womack and a hit batter with the bases loaded.
Nocona further cut into the lead as Womack drove in another run on a single. Two wild pitches allowed two more runs to score to make the score 7-5.
Muleshoe answered with three runs in the top of the fourth inning. The Indians Logan Barnes drove in a run on a single to cut the lead to 10-6.
Unfortunately for Nocona, that would be where the score would end after the teams traded a scoreless fifth inning.
The Indians next played Slaton and had another rough start. The Tigers put four runs on Nocona in the first inning.
Blayne Gomez was able to drive in a run to answer for the Indians, but Slaton score four more runs as they were up 8-1 after two innings.
After loading the bases, Jason Sparkman was able to drive two runs home on a double. The Tigers added one run in the bottom of the third to make it 9-3.
Nocona would not give up as they loaded the bases again and was able to get one run across when Hunter Fenoglio hit a single. Unfortunately, the Indians could not stop Slayton, who scored three more runs in the bottom of the fourth before the game was called. Nocona lost 12-4.
The Indians had one more game to play on Saturday against Friona. Again Nocona found themselves down big early in the game as the Chieftans scored three runs in the second and third inning.
The Indians were able to cut into the lead a little bit as Tyler Richards drove in a run to make the score 6-1 heading into the fourth inning.
After a scoreless fourth inning, Nocona further cut into the lead as Barnes drove in a run on a double. Two batters later Womack drove in another run to make it 6-3 heading into the sixth inning.
After another scoreless inning the Indians were down to their final at-bats. They were able to load the bases with no outs when Jacob Morris was able to drive in two runs with a double to cut the lead to within one.
Next batter Gomez was able to drive in the two base runners to give Nocona the walk-off win 7-6 in its final game.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of 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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