SPORTS
Lady Panthers loses tough one
The Saint Jo Lady Panthers lost their first game of the season falling to 3A Valley View on Tuesday.
The Lady Panthers lost 3-1 against the Lady Eagles in a match where each set could have gone either way.
It was a raucous environment led by the Saint Jo student section which was unusual for such an early season game. It gave the match a much bigger feeling than just the third game of the season, especially since the crowd was not as big as the Lady Panthers will eventually play in front of this season.
Saint Jo came into the match winning both of its games the first week of the season without dropping a set, a great start for the mostly freshman populated team.
The Lady Panthers got their first tough test on Tuesday playing against a bigger school.
It was back and forth in the first set until mid-way through when Saint Jo opened up with an 18-12 lead.
The Lady Eagles got back into it to cut the lead down to 21-19, but the Lady Panthers closed the set off well to win 25-22.
The second set saw Saint Jo have a rough start as the team fell behind 8-2. The Lady Panthers came storming back to retake the lead 11-9 before the teams were tied up at 15-15.
The two teams exchanged four-point swings to tie the score back up at 21-21. It was point-for-point the rest of the way, with Valley View pulling out the narrow win 25-23 to tie the match up at 1-1.
The third set saw Saint Jo again fall behind early on 11-4. Playing from behind, the Lady Panthers cut the lead as close to two, down 16-14.
Down 23-17, it looked like the Lady Eagles had an easy path to winning the third set. Saint Jo came all the way back to make Valley View earn it and ultimately fell just a few points short.
Serving down 24-23, the Lady Panthers committed a service violation to give the Lady Eagles the final point to win the set 25-23 and the lead.
The fourth set again saw Saint Jo fall behind, down 15-10 before storming back to tie the set up at 16-16. Valley View got another lead and extended it to 22-18.
The Lady Panthers made one final storming comeback attempt to cut it to one point down 24-23, but the Lady Eagles closed the set to win 25-23 and the match 3-1.
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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