SPORTS
Nocona teams beat Tigers; Kleinhans meets milestone
The Nocona basketball teams both won at Jacksboro on Tuesday, with one individual achieving a career milestone.
The Lady Indians won with little trouble 66-29 while the boys won a tight game 45-41.
The big news of the night for the Nocona girl’s team was senior Averee Kleinhans scoring her 3,000 career point. She came into the game needing to score 20 points and she delivered scoring 35.
She joins elite company, becoming only the second girl basketball player in Montague County history to reach the milestone. Rene Hanebutt from Bowie scored 3,186 points playing in the early 1990s while she led the Lady Rabbits to the 1995 state title.
The game was not much of a contest. The Lady Indians kept the Lady Tigers from scoring double-digits in all but the third quarter, leading 29-7 at halftime.
Besides Kleinhans Sydni Messer scored 10 points and Kylie Rose scored nine points while making three 3-pointers.
The Nocona boy’s started out the game playing great. All five starting players scored at least one basket during the first quarter while playing shutdown defense, limiting Jacksboro to only one made basket.
The Indians led 15-4 heading into the second quarter. The Tigers woke up and played a much more competitive second quarter. Nocona still were in control, but the lead was only 28-20 heading into halftime.
The third quarter saw the Indians offense hit a snag. Only an Adam Meekins 3-pointer prevented Nocona from going scoreless.
This allowed the Tigers to cut the lead to one, trailing 31-30 heading into the fourth quarter and with the momentum.
Down the stretch the Indians were able to draw a ton of free throw attempts, 14 in all. Despite only one made basket during this time, Nocona made 10 free throws, which was enough to stave off the hard charging Jacksboro team.
The Indians held on to win 45-41.
Meekins led the team with 12 points and three made 3-pointers. Landry McCasland and Ryder Oswald each scored seven points.
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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