SPORTS
Red River Bass Club fishes in first tournament
On Sept. 14 the Red River High School Bass Club competed at its first tournament at Lake Ray Roberts.
The club belongs to the Texas High School Bass Association with more than 1,500 teams in nine divisions.
Six teams of local youth were able to fish the highly competitive tournament against 190 other teams from the west division.
Based in Montague County, the club has representation from Bowie, Nocona, Prairie Valley, Henrietta and Wichita Falls.
Eleven of the youth are new this year to the club, with three returning from the Bowie High School Bass Club.
The first tournament turned out to be extremely tough with only a handful of the 198 teams weighing in a full bag of five bass.
A hot, humid day meant fishermen had to catch those fish at the most opportune time.
A majority of the 198 teams were blanked on fish large enough to weigh, but the club did have three of the six teams bring fish across the scales.
One team had a fish lost at the boat before it was landed, and another team had one exit out of the top of the live well. Lots of little bass were caught by all the teams, but not measurable or weighable to be considered a catch. Average fish weighed at the tournament was 2.5 pounds.
The teams consisted of: Baylen Farris and Gunnar Valverde with boat captain Mike Turner weighed in two fish at 5.22 pounds and placed 22nd; Cooper Harris and Finn Stevens with boat captain Brian Clark weighed in one fish at 2.02 pounds and placed 75th; Kooper Hansard and Spencer Uncel with boat captain Jason Uncel weighed in one fish at 1.72 pounds and placed 92nd; Jayden Corr and Heath Bell with boat captain Jeremy Corr; Konner Ritchie and Easton Womack with boat captain Randal Ritchie; Cole Scribner and Shane Chitwood with boat captain John Ballard.
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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