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Bowie vs Nocona
Bowie will welcome Nocona to its newer football field for the first time ever on Friday night.
Last year’s game was the rival schools’ first since 2009 in football as the Jackrabbits won mostly with a first half effort in a one-sided affair 35-6.
The programs are at different points in their developments coming into this season. Bowie Coach Cory Mandrell is entering his third year and finally had a full uninterrupted offseason to prepare for the season.
The Indians are hoping to rebound this year after winning one game last season. Coach Blake Crutsinger takes over a young team that has seen growth week after week in practice as the team learns new systems on both sides of the ball.
Crutsinger knows the challenge ahead of his team as they start their fight back towards respect.
The game is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 27 at Jackrabbit Stadium.
Saint Jo
The Saint Jo Panthers start off their season with a bang playing the defending state champions of the Texas Christian Athletic Fellowship private school division.
The Panthers will travel to Wylie Prep Academy to play at 2 p.m. on Aug. 28 in a break from convention.
The Patriots went undefeated last year on their way to a state title. Despite losing to some offensive playmakers, they are still considered the top six-man team competing in the TCAF division in the state.
Coach Mark Stevens knows matching up with Wylie Prep’s spread offense will be a stylistic challenge his team will need to overcome which is one of the reasons why he scheduled the game.
Gold-Burg
The Gold-Burg Bears start their highly anticipated season at home playing a tough Perrin-Whitt team.
It is a rematch from last year’s opening game where the Bears came up just short losing 70-64. Despite the loss the fact that Gold-Burg was even competitive in that game last year was promising to see.
The Bears then went on to win six games to be the most successful team in school history.
This year, competing won’t be the goal. A win was possible last year and this year Gold-Burg now expects to against the Pirates.
The game is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 27.
Forestburg
The Forestburg Longhorns got dealt some unfortunate news on Monday as their first game this week was canceled due to COVID-19 protocol from opponent Lone Star North.
It will be treated as a bye-week and an opportunity for Coach Greg Roller to get ready for the team’s next opponent Wichita Christian.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
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Lady Panthers fall in the regional final
The Saint Jo Lady Panthers came up short at the regional final for the third straight season, one game away from state, on Saturday at the regional tournament in Midlothian.
The Lady Panthers beat Evant in straight sets 3-0 on Friday to reach the final game against Harrold which they lost 3-0.
Saint Jo knew before the season even started it would likely come to this big challenge, but it still had to go through all the steps to get there.
The Panthers reached the regional finals the previous two seasons, losing both times to eventual state champion Blum.
With district realignment meant a new region so a rematch with a Blum program that had graduated several key players from those teams would have to wait until state possibly.
Instead, a showdown against last year’s state runner-up Harrold was forecast in the regional final.
With the team having six seniors, with five of them having been on varsity since they were freshman, it was this year or bust for Saint Jo.
First, the Lady Panthers had to beat Evant. The Lady Elks leaned heavily on a big front court player. When she rotated to the back row, Evant showed almost no net resistance which meant Saint Jo hitters had free reign during that time.
The Lady Panthers won each set pretty easily, with the scores being 25-17, 25-17 and 25-19.
This set up the match with Harrold the team had been anticipating. The Lady Hornets had been at or near the top of the state standings since the beginning of the season.
Harrold had so much respect it had even played bigger local schools this season, beating Bowie in straight sets and Nocona in five sets during its pre-district schedule.
The two teams had met earlier in the season when the Lady Hornets attended Saint Jo’s hosted tournament. The two teams met in the tournament championship where Harrold won 2-1.
Still, with the tournament format being a best of three instead of five and the match after playing an exhausting schedule of five matches the previous two days, that result was not gospel, especially two months later.
The challenge is Harrold had multiple big hitters at the net, which is a big deal since most 1A teams are lucky to have one or two, which meant constant pressure on Saint Jo’s defense.
This also meant the Lady Panthers constantly had to find ways to attack the Lady Hornet defense as well or it would face strong hit after strong hit which was unsustainable for any team.
The first set saw the Lady Hornets get out to a good start before the Lady Panthers rallied back and took a little lead 8-7. Unfortunately, it started turn from there.
Harrold had some good runs from the service line that Saint Jo struggled to make much offense out of and led to the Lady Hornets pulling away. Harrold won 4-1 to get the lead to 11-9 and then extended it to 14-11, 17-13. Another 4-1 run and the Lady Hornets could smell the end of the first set coming.
The Lady Hornets won 25-17 to take the lead 1-0.
Saint Jo needed to bounce back, but unfortunately never got anything going in set two.
Harrold led 4-1 and then 8-2. The Lady Panthers would have needed a huge run at some point from the service line to get back into the set, but it never came as the Lady Hornets lead grew more and more.
Harrold took set two 25-13 to go up 2-0 and had all of the momentum.
Saint Jo had its back against the wall, knowing the only option was to hope for a comeback that would lead to a fifth set, but to get there it needed to win set three.
The Lady Panthers initially started on the right foot. After falling being 4-1 to start the previous two sets, it was Saint Jo that started well up 4-1. Unfortunately, the Lady Hornets came roaring back, going on an 8-2 run as it led 9-6, then 12-8 and 15-10.
It looked like it was heading towards a similar place as set one with Harrold slowly running away with the set before the Lady Panthers made one last gasp.
Saint Jo eventually cut the lead down to one point, trailing 20-19 as the set entered the final stretch and the Lady Panthers had their best momentum of the match.
Unfortunately, it was Harrold that was able to close the set out with momentum, earning the final five points to win 25-19 and the match 3-0.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News. For pictures from Friday’s match, click here https://www.dotphoto.com/go.asp?l=bnews1&AID=6870620&T=1
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