SPORTS
Lady Rabbits open district play
The Bowie Lady Rabbits fell on the road Tuesday night in four sets 3-1.
Playing at Holliday, a program usually in the running for the district title, the struggle came in the middle sets.
Bowie started the match well and authoritative as it attacked the Lady Eagles. The Lady Rabbits controlled most of the first set. Holliday tried to make a late run to steal the set, but Bowie held on to win 25-22.
The second set was competitive the first 20 points as the score was locked at 10-10. The Lady Eagles started to pull away as their defense started to lock down.
Blockers at the net were affecting the quality of hits at the net while Holliday’s offense was quick to transition to devastating counters.
The Lady Eagles lead grew to 17-13 and 21-14, coasting to the finish to tie the match winning 25-16.
The only thing the Lady Rabbits could do was try to brush that off and move forward, but the third set saw them immediately fall behind. Holliday was up 15-5 after the first 20 points.
Bowie’s offense continued to effectively attack the Lady Eagles. While the Lady Rabbits serve-receive was relatively fine during this, Bowie just could not crack Holliday enough to keep pace.
The Lady Eagles won the set 25-15 to go up 2-1. The Lady Rabbits would have to figure something out if they wanted to have a chance to win the match in five sets, but first they would have to win the fourth set.
It was a back-and-forth affair for all of the set, with neither team able to pull ahead by more than two points at a time. With the score tied at 20-20, it was either team’s set to win if it could catch fire down the stretch.
It looked like Bowie was going to pull it off. Up 23-22, Holliday would not go away easily as the scores were tied at 25-25.
With the set going to the first team to pull ahead by two points, the Lady Rabbits had two chances to win the set, but the Lady Eagles came back to win the next point both times.
Eventually Holliday pulled away by the two points to win the set 29-27 and win the match overall.
Bowie plays its first home district game at 6 p.m. on Sept. 15 against Henrietta.
To read the full story, 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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