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Football Roundup
Nocona
The Nocona Indians season ended on Friday night with a loss against playoff bound City View.
The Mustangs passing attack proved too much for the Indians winning 55-24.
Nocona was able to score some points late in the game to avoid any shutout as Coach Rick Weaver and his team finished strong.
It was a tough season for this young Indians squad that went 1-8. The team forfeited one district game due to COVID-19.
Still, with the uncertainty every program went into the season with, playing nine games is an accomplishment in itself especially as Nocona has seemed to have been hit the hardest in the county when it comes to cases.
“Us getting in nine games when we didn’t know if we would get a season is just a blessing,” Weaver said. “Talked to the kids every week about how this could be our last one. After Holliday when we did miss one that reality set in and the kids had a great attitude and were just very excited to be able to play every week.”
Gold-Burg vs Forestburg
The Gold-Burg Bears spoiled Forestburg’s homecoming in both team’s final games of the season.
The Bears beat the Longhorns 50-0 midway through the third quarter to end their season in an anti-climatic way.
While this game carried playoff aspirations for the winner the previous two seasons, both teams came into the game with the playoff door closed with the district expanding to four teams.
Gold-Burg did pick up a win against Forestburg earlier in the season on Oct. 2, so a grudge match between the teams with pride on the line was motivation enough for both teams playing their final games regardless.
However things went bad for the Longhorns right away with turnovers the Bears directly turned into points. Forestburg’s defense did make one stop when Jeremiah Perez intercepted a tipped pass at the Longhorns goal line, but Gold-Burg’s offense moved the ball at will all night.
The Bear’s Will Hodges found Matthew Fatheree for three touchdown passes. Hodges took an interception back for a score and Fatheree collected one of his own in his final game.
Kani Grace scored two rushing touchdowns and threw a touchdown pass to Kolton Whitaker. Jayon Grace recovered a fumble on the Longhorns opening drive.
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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