SPORTS
County athletes take part in FCA All-Star games Thursday night
The Fellowship of Christian Athletes had its second area softball and baseball all-star game on Thursday night at Iowa Park.
Seven Montague County athletes who recently graduated took part in the games as a chance to put the jersey on one last time and represent their schools.
In the softball game, Bowie’s battery of Bailey Grant and Carrington Davis were on the red team while Nocona outfielder Gisel Hernandez was on the blue team.
Hernandez and the blue team were able to keep the red team’s bats at bay for most of the game and won easily 9-2. Hernandez drove in a run on a blooper over the second basemen to help get the win.
Grant pitched a little more than two innings for the red team and also one inning at first base.
Davis picked up one hit and got the luxury of running the bases, something she did not get to do playing for the Lady Rabbits too often. She scored the game’s final run and also filled in at first base for the first base when not playing catcher, a position she had little familiarity with.
The baseball game featured pitcher Payton Price and infielder Evan Kennedy from Bowie and outfielders Logan Barnes and Tyler Richards from Nocona. All four played on the blue team, which wound up being the losing side as the red team put together back-to-back seven run innings to win 14-2.
Price came in during the second seven run inning and put out the fire while pitching a scoreless inning afterwards. He later drove in one of the blue team’s only runs. Despite the one sided game, the boys relished getting to play high school baseball one last time.
To read the full story and see photos of all seven athletes, 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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