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Volleyball Roundup
Nocona
The Nocona Lady Indians won their first home game on Tuesday winning in four sets against Ponder.
The Lady Indians were able to rebound after a bad second set to win each set by a comfortable margin against the Lady Lions.
Nocona won the first set 25-14, but lost the second set by almost the same score 25-15. The Lady Indians won sets three and four by the score 25-18.
The Lady Indians are next scheduled to play at 6 p.m. on Aug. 24 at Windthorst.
Prairie Valley
The Prairie Valley Lady Bulldogs won at Chillicothe on Tuesday.
The Lady Bulldogs won in straight sets, with none being won with much drama with set scores of 25-11, 25-9 and 25-14.
Prairie Valley is next scheduled to play the team that ended its season last year in the playoffs. The Lady Bulldogs will travel to Saint Jo to play at 6 p.m. on Aug. 24.
Gold-Burg
The Gold-Burg Lady Bears lost on the road Tuesday night at Graford.
In a rematch in last year’s bi-district playoff game, this time the Lady Rabbits got their revenge against the Lady Bears.
Graford won a tight first set 27-25 before going on to win the next two sets by scores of 25-15 and 25-14.
The Lady Bears finish up a tournament at Chico on Saturday before hosting Forestburg at 6 p.m. on Aug. 24.
Forestburg
The Forestburg Lady Horns lost their first home game on Tuesday against Quanah.
The Lady Indians won in three sets against the Lady Horns.
Forestburg did play better as the match went on which is reflected in the set scores 25-12, 25-16 and 25-20.
Forestburg is next scheduled to play at 6 p.m. on Aug. 24 at Gold-Burg.
Bowie
The Bowie Lady Rabbits hosted a two-match dual with Iowa Park and Boyd on Tuesday.
The Lady Rabbits won their match against Iowa Park in straight sets with scores of 25-20, 25-23 and 25-22.
Bowie is next scheduled to play at the Glen Rose tournament this weekend before traveling to Millsap to play at 6 p.m. on Aug. 24.
No additional details were available from the coach by press time.
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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