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Nocona loses to Bonham 3-1
The Nocona Lady Indians played their final non-district game at home against a power-hitting Bonham team on Tuesday.
The Lady Indians lost a disappointing match to the Lady Warriors in four sets.
The first set saw Nocona fall behind early 7-3 and were playing catch-up for the rest of the set. The Lady Indians at one time closed the lead to 11-9, but Bonham quickly grew it to a five point lead 15-10.
The lead grew to almost doubled-digits near the end, but Nocona was able to win some points to build some momentum for the next set before the Lady Warriors closed the first set, winning 25-19 to take 1-0 lead.
The second set was more competitive in the first few points, but the Lady Indians went on a 7-3 run to open up their lead to 15-10. Bonham was able to close that lead quick and make it a point-to-point affair for the rest of the set.
The score was tied at 20-20 and at 25-25. Unfortunately for Nocona, the Lady Warriors were able to pick up two straight points to steal the set 27-25 and take a 2-0 lead.
After losing an especially gutting set, the Lady Indians could have been like many teams and conceded the final set due to a sort of loss of hope hangover.
It looked like it was headed that way as Nocona was down early 7-3 and not looking good. The Lady Indians showed some heart as they came back to take the lead 13-12, but immediately Bonham retook the lead 16-14.
The Lady Warriors’ lead continued to grow to 19-16 and 22-18 and it looked like Nocona was dead in the water.
The vocal home student section had been yelling nonsensical chants throughout whenever a Bonham player was serving to try and throw them off.
For whatever reason, they happened to be yelling cheese steak at this point right when the Lady Indians made their comeback.
Nocona went on a 4-1 run to cut the lead down to one point, but still trailing 23-22. The student section continued to chant cheese steak despite the Lady Indians serving, having stumbled upon the magical chant.
The Nocona team, riding either the power of the cheese steak chant or possibly just the momentum of the set, was able come back and win by the narrowest of margins 26-24 and cut the match lead to 2-1.
Maybe the Lady Indians had sparked something with a come from behind win in the third set that could propel them to win the match.
Nocona fell behind early 9-6. That quickly grew to a substantial lead 13-7 for the Lady Warriors. Even the cheese steak chant did not conjure the magic to come from behind in the fourth set.
There was no big comeback as Bonham closed out the set 25-16 and the match 3-1.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of 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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