SPORTS
Football Roundup
Saint Jo vs Forestburg
The Saint Jo Panthers hosted county rival Forestburg on Friday.
Like last year’s two games, this year the Panthers won easily 62-0 by halftime.
Despite constant rain on a grass field, touchdowns came fast for Saint Jo as it scored on almost half (nine) of its total plays ran (20).
Eli Jones completed all four of his passes for 87 yards and all for touchdowns. Pepe Gam caught two, Chance Bennett caught one and Jarrod Reeves caught one. On the ground Logan Brawner led the team with three touchdowns, while Brayden Bell and Connor Thompson each had one.
The defense did not allow a completed pass and intercepted three passes while limiting the Longhorns to simple runs up the middle.
Saint Jo travels to Newcastle and Forestburg travels to Gold-Burg. Both games kickoff at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 1.
Nocona
Coming off a bye week and needing to win their last three games of the season, the Nocona Indians got off to a great start on Friday at S&S Consolidated.
The Indians won in pretty dominant fashion 25-6 against the Rams.
Coach Rick Weaver decided the wet conditions on a grass field would make be a slog to try and run the ball in, so he opted to throw the ball early with good results.
Quarterback Carter Horn threw two touchdown passes to Jason Sparkman and one to Ian Hostetter. Outside of one run up the middle for a touchdown, Nocona’s defense stifled S&S all night.
Coach Rick Weaver knows it is a tall task for his team to win out if they want to make the playoffs with likely playoff teams Holliday and City View left. Still, the Indians hold their destiny in their own hands and are focused on just trying to beat the Eagles this week at home on senior night.
Kickoff is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 1.
Gold-Burg
The Gold-Burg Bears entered district play on Friday traveling to district favorite Fannindel.
The Bears lost 44-6 as they had a hard time trying to contain the Falcons Dayton Dunbar. Gold-Burg did do a good job of not letting the game get too far away.
The Bears have one game left and it can change the narrative of the whole season in which they have not won a game and have struggled to compete. Gold-Burg hosts Forestburg where the winner is guaranteed a playoff spot.
It will be senior night for Gold-Burg’s one senior Waylan Whitaker and the team will be extra fired up.
Kickoff is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 1.
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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