SPORTS
Bowie cross country teams run at Lipan and Ponder
The Bowie cross country teams competed last week with high school in its third meet and junior high in their second meet.
The Bowie High School girl’s team ran at Lipan on Sept. 16 and finished fourth overall. The boy’s team and the junior high teams ran Friday and Saturday at Ponder.
The high school girl’s team saw Samantha Clarke take a big leap as she finished fifth overall with a time of 14:34.
Her teammates Jojo Villarreal and Sheyenne Long finished 20 and 21 while Hannah Craddock and Desarai Reyes finished 26 and 41.
Coach Joe Crabb says he keeps seeing improvement the more times his team runs and is pleased with the team’s progression.
The high school boy’s team finished seventh overall as a team. Ignacio Saucedo finished first for the Jackrabbits in 25th place with a time of 18:58.
Sid Mayfield was right behind him in 26 while other scoring runners included Nathan Rogers finishing 31, Andrew Sandoff in 32 and Alex Castro in 42.
Coach Any Atkins said the team did not run its best meet which has the boy’s motivated to run better this week.
Both teams are scheduled to run at Slidell at 9:15 a.m. on Sept. 25.
Junior High
The Junior High teams had enough runners to compete as a full team this time around.
The boy’s team finished third overall and the girl’s team finished fourth overall.
Top runners included Sebastian Martinez finished third overall with a time of 13:26 for the boy’s team.
Lanie Moore finished eighth overall with a time of 15:20 for the girl’s team.
To see results from all the Bowie runners, 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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