SPORTS
Nocona cross country teams run well
The Nocona cross country teams ran at a wet and messy Alvord meet on Wednesday where both teams saw continued improvement.
The Lady Indians team took home another overall first place finish while the Indians team finished a solid third place.
The Nocona girl’s team was led by Allie Brown, who won her first high school race with a time of 13:06.
“Allie Brown stepped up big time, winning the race by a large margin (40 seconds),” Coach Kyle Spitzer said.
The Lady Indians top five runners all finished in the top 20 including Raylee Sparkman finishing third, Kylie Rose finishing fifth, Jayce Rose finishing 12th and Madilyn Ferguson finishing 20th.
Spitzer was proud of how his team ran overall despite not the best conditions.
Besides Brown’s performance, Jayce Rose’s jump to the fourth finisher along with a new personal best has him excited as the team is headed in the right direction.
The Nocona boy’s team saw Hank Ulbig finish in eighth place with a time of 19:29.
The next four runners all finished one after the other in the standings with Alex Stephens, Frank Espinoza, Adam Meekins and Noe Estrada placing 13-16.
Coach Colby Schniederjan was pleased with how his teams ran overall, but knows there is more work ahead of this team if the Indians want to be shooting on all cylinders at the district meet at the end of October and make it back to the regional meet.
“My two, three and four runners had their most complete race of the season and we as a whole did a good job of pacing with two good teams (Paradise and Alvord) who ended up beating us,” Schniederjan said.
The Nocona cross country teams are next scheduled to run at Brock on Sept. 30.
To see all of the Nocona runners results, 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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