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Volleyball Roundup
Bowie
The Bowie Lady Rabbits traveled to Boyd to play the state-ranked Lady Yellowjackets for the second time in 10 days.
Unfortunately, the results were similar to the first match as Boyd won in straight sets.
The Lady Rabbits struggled to compete in most of the sets with the Lady Yellowjackets winning with set scores 25-16, 25-14 and 25-13.
Coach Breanna Jones did not think her young team played at their best playing one of the top teams in 3A.
With district play starting next week there are only a couple of more games to get ready before the games start counting towards playoff seedings.
Bowie next hosts a dual against Poolville and Ponder on Sept. 5.
Nocona
The Nocona Lady Indians hosted a dual on Saturday against Glen Rose and Brock.
The Lady Indians had a great day winning both matches and dropping only one set.
Nocona first played the Lady Tigers, winning the first two sets 26-24 and 25-18. The team gave away set three according to Coach Tanya Samples with mental errors that snowballed once it got going, losing 25-9.
The Lady Indians bounced back strong in set four to win the set 25-21 and the match 3-1.
Nocona next played the Lady Eagles. The Lady Indians won a pretty competitive first set 25-22, but the next two set they won with comfortable margins 25-15 and 25-19.
Nocona travels to Paradise to play at 4 p.m. on Sept. 4 in the team’s final match before district play begins next week.
Saint Jo
The Saint Jo Lady Panthers hosted Vernon Northside on Friday night in the type of match that featured a lot of big momentum swings.
The Lady Panthers lost in straight sets 3-0 to the Lady Indians, though a look at the set scores shows that each one went down to the wire.
Saint Jo had a great start to the beginning of the match, up 9-1. Northside came back to tie the set 10-10. The Lady Panthers seemed to have the narrow lead as the set wound down, up 19-16 and 23-22.
The set went into extra points with both teams trading one point leads until the Lady Indians won 29-27 to win the first set.
The second set saw Saint Jo chasing Northside for all of the set, falling behind by as many as five points early on. The Lady Panthers cut the lead to two as the set neared the end and made it close, but the Lady Indians closed the set out by the barest margin winning 25-23.
Saint Jo would need to take three straight sets if it wanted to win. The third set started competitive, but midway through the Lady Panthers fell behind quite a bit 19-11.
It looked like Northside would be able to coast to a victory, but Saint Jo got on a roll serving to catch all the way back up within one point, trailing 23-22.
Unfortunately, the Lady Indians were able to wrestle away all of that momentum to win the final two points they needed to win the set 25-22 and the match 3-0.
The Lady Panthers next host Savoy at 4:30 p.m. on Sept. 4.
Gold-Burg
The Gold-Burg Lady Bears won at Perrin-Whitt on Friday.
The Lady Bears won in straight sets, with two of the three sets going down to the wire.
The first set went into extra points and was won 26-24 while the second was won 25-23 by the narrowest margin of points in regulation.
After coming away with those two hard fought wins, the Lady Pirates did not pose much of challenge in the third set as Gold-Burg won by a comfortable margin 25-14 to win the match.
Coach Cheryl Cromleigh was proud of her team as it was the type of match the team needed at this time.
Gold-Burg next hosts county foe Forestburg at 4:30 p.m. on Sept. 4.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
The Bowie sports banquets was on Monday night. Olivia Gill and Tucker Jones were named Jackrabbit and Lady Rabbit of the year. Pick up the mid-week paper for all of the sports team awards and pictures.
The 72nd Chisholm Trail Rodeo was a big success on Friday and Saturday nights at Nocona.
The rodeo had big crowds and saw some good competition from both local and far reaching talent.
Winners in the events included Zach Hibler in bareback riding, Lindsey Muggli in barrel racing, Ashley Goforth in breakaway roping, Leanardo Lima in bull riding, Cody McCartney in calf roping, Thomas Moellering in ranch bronc riding, Wacey Hathcock in saddle bronc riding, Renato Finazzi in steer wrestling, Rowdy Jones and Rance Doyal in team roping.
To see full results and more pictures, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
The regional tennis tournaments were late last week in North Richland Hills and a doubles team is moving on to state.
The Saint Jo girl’s doubles team Kyler Dunn and Taylor Patrick won the 1A region III tournament and will return to state for the second straight year.
The pair rolled through teams from Morgan, Dodd City, Priddy before beating a Graford team in the finals. The pair did not lose a set and only lost five of the 53 games it played, never losing more than one in a set.
The team made it to state last year after finishing second at regionals and won a match at the state meet against a team from Vernon Northside. They then lost to the eventual state champion team from Utopia and finished tied for third place.
They will be the only tennis players from Montague County playing at state this week as others did not have as successful regional tournament.
The Saint Jo teammates and fellow girl’s doubles team Bailie Nobile and Maxey Johnson won their first match against Ector 6-1, 6-4, but fell in their next match against Lometa, 6-1, 6-1.
From Prairie Valley, Case Carpenter was competing in boy’s singles. His first match was a draining two and half hour battle against a player from Strawn Carpenter came through in the three-set battle, winning 6-4, 5-7, 6-4.
Unfortunately, the magic was not there in the second game. Paired against the eventual tournament champion from Gustine, Carpenter lost 6-0, 6-1.
From Gold-Burg, Alyson Rojas and Jimena Garcia competed in girl’s singles. Rojas won her first match against a girl from Avinger 7-6, 6-2. Unfortunately, the next match she lost to a girl from Graford 6-0, 6-0 to end her tournament.
Garcia lost a tough first match against a player from Ector. Both sets could have gone either way with the scores being 6-4, 7-5 to the winner.
The mixed doubles team from Forestburg, Jesse Wadsworth and Alli Cisneros, also did not make it through.
From Nocona, Kaygan Stone was playing in the girl’s singles 2A region II tournament.
Unfortunately, she got paired against the player who would go on to win the tournament in the first round to end her season.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
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