SPORTS
Prairie Valley hosted meet challenges area runners
Prairie Valley had its cross country meet on Wednesday with more than 50 area high school runners competing including Saint Jo and Bellevue.
The Saint Jo boy’s team finished ahead of the host team in first place while the Prairie Valley girls finished second overall. The rest of the schools did not have five runners to compete as teams.
The Panthers were led by Kile Thurman who finished second overall with a time of 18:49. His teammates Collin Thomas (fourth), Josh Bogel (ninth), Noble Koelzer (12th) and Brice Durham (23rd) all combined to come ahead overall.
The Lady Bulldogs had Molly Gilleland finish eighth overall with a time of 15:38. The top five runners for the team included Hailey Winkler finishing 11th, Karagan Ritchie finishing 14th, Brianna Harris finishing 15th and Emily Carpenter finishing 20th.
Coach Jeannie Carpenter knew the times would not be a factor since the course was much harder, but she was proud of how her girls ran considering all of them had played a volleyball match the night before.
The Prairie Valley Bulldogs finished second overall as Tyler Winkler finished fifth overall with a time of 19:22.
Michael Cole joined him in the top 10 finishing 10th. Konner Ritchie and Isaac Yeargin finished 16th and 17th while Aydan Sampson finished 22nd to round out the team.
Coach Seth Stephens thought the challenging terrain and steep inclines was a good change of pace for his team to experience.
The Bellevue girl’s team runner Sky-Lar Embry finished third overall with a time of 14:18. Grace Martin was not far behind in fifth place while Austin Ford and Cirsten Allen finished 13th and 21st.
The Eagles top runner was Jayson Gill who finished 13th with at time of 21:55. Teammate Kason Roper, Josh Benson and Leland Sims finished 19-21.
To see times and places for all of the high school runners from the schools in this 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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