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Football Roundup
Saint Jo
The Saint Jo Panthers started their season on Saturday afternoon at Hico playing Medina.
Despite the afternoon sun making game conditions appropriately toasty, the Panthers dispatched the Bobcats 58-12, ending the game due to mercy rule early in the fourth quarter.
Saint Jo scored on its first possession and never looked back. The only offensive drives the Panthers did not score on were two fumbles, but the defense limited Medina to only two touchdowns in the third quarter and recovered one fumble themselves.
Running back Logan Brawner was all the offense Saint Jo needed, racking up 328 yards on the ground and six touchdowns. He also returned a kickoff 50 yards for a touchdown. All his touchdowns came on plays of 30 yards or longer.
Quarterback Cade Stevens completed three of his five passes for 69 yards, throwing a touchdown to Payton Harris.
Saint Jo next plays county foe Gold-Burg. Despite recent one-sided history, Stevens said he is not taking the Bears lightly, calling them the most improved team in six-man from the film he has seen.
The Panthers play at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 4 at Gold-Burg.
Forestburg
The Forestburg Longhorns dominated their season opening game at home against Mount Calm on Friday.
The Longhorns won by mercy rule 59-14 midway through the third quarter.
Despite some big plays early on from the Panthers, the adjustments made by Forestburg on defense put a stop to any more scoring from then on. The offense had its way with Mount Calm, scoring at will.
Coach Trey Cumby liked what he saw overall, but knows there are areas of improvement all over that are correctable.
The Longhorns next play Rising Star, a team that Cumby said has some playmakers the team will have to key on if they want to win. Forestburg plays at 7 p.m. on Sept. 3 at Bryson.
Gold-Burg
The Gold-Burg Bears came up just short of winning at Perrin-Whitt on Friday night.
The Bears lost by one score in a back-and-forth battle 70-64 in a game that was more competitive than almost all of their games the previous year.
At one point Gold-Burg was behind by 20 points in the third quarter, but came all the way back to take the lead at one point. The Pirates would retake the lead and had a two score advantage late in the game.
The Bears did everything they could to score and scored with a little time left to cut the lead to six points. Their only hope was recovering the onside kick or forcing a turnover with little time left and no timeouts.
Unfortunately, Perrin-Whitt recovered the onside kick and was able to kneel the ball to secure the win.
Gold-Burg will face an even bigger challenge this week as it hosts county foe Saint Jo, a state-ranked team that will test the Bears in how physical they are.
Gold-Burg kicks-off at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 4 at home.
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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