SPORTS
Montague County schools play 1A at regional tournament
The 1A Region III golf tournament was last week as athletes from Montague County competed for a chance to qualify for the state meet.
Played at the Squaw Valley Golf Course in Glen Rose, the boys played on April 22-23 and the girls, due to bad weather, played one round on April 25.
The Prairie Valley boys finished eighth out of 15 teams total. Only the top three teams qualified for state, but the Bulldogs did shoot a school record of 414 on the second day.
Individually, players can qualify by finishing in the top three among players whose teams did not finish in the top three.
Carter Lemon was tied for third place after shooting 83-87 for the tournament. He played a one hole playoff with a boy from Ector on the 18th hole. Unfortunately, it did not go his way.
Other Prairie Valley golfers included William Winkler shooting 104-108, Zakry Smith 117-110, Adam Priddy 120-108 and Shane Roof shooting 126-124.
Other Montague County boy golfers included Carson Rowlett from Forestburg who shot 112-111 and finished 58th overall and Paden Jarosz from Saint Jo who shot 113-119 and finished tied for 64th overall.
The girl’s tournament got rained out on the first day and the second day conditions allowed no roll on the soggy fairways.
The Saint Jo girls team shot 498 total with Hallie Hinds leading the team by shooting 104. Other team members saw Jayla Thomas shoot 116, Hannah Reyling 124 and Kassidy Pitman 144.
The Lady Bulldogs had two players qualify individually. Shelby Roof shot 121 and Molly Gilleland shot 142. While the scores where higher than usual for the pair, Sadler said they went for an aggressive mentality.
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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