SPORTS
Lady Horns beat Saint Jo
The Forestburg Lady Horns won against rival Saint Jo at home on Tuesday.
The Lady Horns won the low scoring game 34-23.
Forestburg got its offense rolling early, getting the ball inside where Morgan Miller used her size to score despite the Lady Panthers bringing help.
Saint Jo drew a couple of free throw attempts and made one basket, but could not keep up early on.
Miller scored 10 points as the Lady Horns led 14-6 after the first quarter.
The second quarter was more low scoring for both sides. Only one basket had been scored from both teams until the final two minutes.
Shaden Johnson scored another basket for the Lady Panthers to get their total to double-digits, but Forestburg scored five points, including a 3-pointer from Faith Moore, to keep the lead comfortable up 21-10 at halftime.
The Lady Horns tried to shake things up by pressing Saint Jo to start the second half.
The Lady Panthers were ready and quickly forced Forestburg to get out of the defense.
Saint Jo’s defense did another good job on defense in the third quarter, holding the Lady Horns to only four points. On offense, the Lady Panthers started to exploit some of the open spaces in Forestburg’s zone defense and continuously made shots.
Johnson scored five of the team’s nine points to cut the lead to 25-19 heading into the final quarter with some momentum despite trailing.
The Lady Horns started the fourth quarter with Miller sitting out briefly due to a fall in the third quarter where she hurt her knee. While she was only briefly out for two minutes, Moore hit a 3-pointer push the team’s lead up to 28-19.
Saint Jo scored the next two baskets in a minute and a half to cut the lead to 28-23, again with the momentum and 4:40 still to play.
Miller then made a basket and would make a free throw to put Forestburg lead at 31-23 with 3:59 left to play.
The Lady Horns started trying to stall the game out to run the clock out. While the Lady Panthers were able to get the ball back several times, the shots stopped going in as valuable time ticked off the clock.
Forestburg made three free throws down the stretch to get the final score, winning 34-23.
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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