SPORTS
Lady Rabbit lifters win at Nocona meet
Nocona hosted its powerlifting meet on Saturday that included lifters from Bowie.
The Lady Rabbits team won first and the Jackrabbits finished second while the Nocona boy’s team finished third and the girl’s team fifth.
It was a meet with 60 lifters from six different schools competing.
The Bowie girl’s team had 10 lifters finish within the top five in their weight classes, with three lifters winning their weight class.
Jessie Henry won the 105 pound weight class with a total of 545 pounds lifted.
Kerstin Kindsfather won the 181 pound weight class with a total of 840 pounds lifted, the highest total regardless of weight class. Katie Boyles won the 198 pound weight class with a total of 810 pounds lifted.
Other lifters who scored points for the Lady Rabbits included Emma Skinner, Brooke Keith, Maycie Metzler, Kinley Russell, Meridythe Metzler, Jordan Vaught and Leah Boyd.
The Jackrabbits also had three lifters win their weight classes. Johnny Arenas won the 181 pound class with a total of 960 total pounds. Colby Price won the 220 pound class with a total of 1010. Jacobi McGregor then won the 308 pound class with a total of 760.
The team had Trevor Hopson, Jakob Reed and Jakson Hofbauer finish second in their weight classes.
The Nocona boy’s had Cooper Waldrip finish second in the 123 pound class, lifting a total of 565 pounds. The Indians other scorer was Nicky Diaz finishing third in the 114 pound class lifting a total of 525.
The Lady Indians had one lifter win her weight class. Paige James won the 259 weight class with a total of 650. Other Nocona lifters who finished in the top included Natalie Pirkey, Kamryn Weaver, Keegan Norman and Olivia Six.
Pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News to see results for all Bowie and Nocona lifters who completed all three lifts.
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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