SPORTS
Bowie, Nocona compete at district
The Bowie and Nocona track teams competed at the district meet at City View last week.
The Lady Rabbit team finished the highest of all the teams in third place.
The Lady Indians finished seventh while Indian and Jackrabbit teams finished sixth and seventh.
Any individuals who finished in the top four in their event qualified for the area meet. All teams had several qualify, some in several events.
Overall winners included Bowie’s Laisha Johnson winning the girls 400 meter race and Nocona’s Trent Sappington winning the boys 400 meter race.
The Lady Rabbits’ 4×200 relay team of Taygon Jones, Jayci Logan, Hannah Love and Ziba Robbins also won the event as well.
Other area qualifiers for the Bowie girl’s team includes Jayci Logan in the 200 meters, Anahi Perez in the 100 meter and 300 meter hurdles, Neely Price in the 300 meter hurdles and high jump, the 4×100 and 4×400 relay teams.
The Nocona girl’s team area qualifiers include Raylee Sparkman in the 200 meter and 400 meter races, Kylie Rose in the 800 meter race and Allie Brown in the 1600 meter and 3200 meter races.
For the Jackrabbit team area qualifiers included Ignacio Saucedo in the 800 meter race, Tucker Jones in the 110 meter hurdles, Cade Thompson in the high jump and Case Curry in the pole vault.
The Indian team area qualifiers also saw Sappington advance in the 100 meter and 200 meter races along with Bodie Davis in the 400 meter race, Noe Estrada in the 300 meter hurdles and the 4×400 meter relay team.
The area meet is scheduled for April 15 at Dublin.
Results for individuals from Bowie and Nocona who finished among the top six in their events is in the 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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