SPORTS
Nocona girls win, boys lose at City View
There were drastic different outcomes for the Nocona basketball teams playing at City View on Saturday.
The Lady Indians won in a blowout 83-35 while the Indians got blown out 90-46.
The Nocona girl’s team jumped out to a big lead and did not let up.
The Lady Indians scored 27 points in the first quarter alone, with six different players scoring points.
That continued for most of the game, though Nocona did not score more than 27 points. The second and fourth quarters saw the Lady Indians just fail to score 20 points while the Lady Mustangs scored in double-figures in those quarters themselves.
Still, it was never much of a game as Nocona won by almost 50 points.
Averee Kleinhans led the team with 27 points. Stephanie Gutierrez and Karlee Brown joined her in double-figures, scoring 12 and 10 points.
The Indians fell behind early behind a barrage of Mustang 3-pointers. City View made six 3-pointers and hopped out to a 19-7 lead in the first quarter.
Nocona responded in the second quarter scoring 21 points as the team did a better job getting to the free throw line. Unfortunately, the Mustang offense did not slow, scoring 23 points in the fast paced quarter
The Indians could not make up any ground and went into halftime trailing 42-28.
Nocona had some 3-pointers go in in the third quarter and scored 15 points, but just could not slow down City View at all.
The lead grew a little bit with the Indians needing a miracle down 63-43 heading into the fourth quarter.
The Mustangs seemed to get better as the game went on and never let up. City View scored a game high 27 points in the fourth quarter, thoroughly putting Nocona from any possibility of a comeback.
The Indians scored only one basket in the quarter, making the final score an ugly 90-46.
Ryder Oswald led the team with 10 points. Sam Davis and Landry McCasland each scored eight points.
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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