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Volleyball Roundup
Nocona
The Nocona Lady Indians won a tough five-set match at Pottsboro on Tuesday, stopping short a furious Cardinals’ comeback that would have been tough to live with.
The Lady Indians are still trying to mesh their experience with their youth and almost gave away a match it looked like they had in the bag.
Nocona won a tight first set 25-21 before easily winning the second set with little trouble 25-10 to go up 2-0. Pottsboro would need to win three straight sets if it wanted to win, a small hope considering how the team had just been walloped in the second set.
Still, the momentum did turn and the Lady Cardinals came to win the next two sets 25-21 and 25-22 to force a fifth and final set.
Not wanting to go home a loser after blowing its lead, the Lady Indians pulled themselves together and washed Pottsboro in the fifth set, winning with little trouble 15-3 to win the match.
Prairie Valley
The Prairie Valley Lady Bulldogs lost a tough match against 2A Alvord at home on Tuesday.
The Lady Bulldogs lost in straight sets, though each one came down to the final few points with set scores being 25-21, 25-23 and 25-20.
Veronica Gutierrez led the team with 18 assists and 14 digs. Emily Carpenter led the team with 11 kills while getting 12 digs. Karagan Ritchie added seven other kills while adding 10 digs.
Saint Jo
The Saint Jo Lady Panther lost a tough match against 3A City View at home Tuesday night.
The bigger Lady Mustangs won in straight sets with set scores being 25-15, 25-20 and 25-9.
Aubrey Morman led the team with four kills and five digs. Kayden Skidmore had a team high four aces and five assists while Krista Reeves also had five digs in the back row.
Gold-Burg
The Gold-Burg Lady Bears lost a five-set match against Wichita Christian on Monday night.
The Lady Stars pulled out the win in the final set, but the Lady Bears made them work for it.
Gold-Burg was short three of its players and had move up some JV athletes to play. The Lady Bears won the first set 25-17, but just came up short in the second set losing 26-24.
The third set proved just as close as Wichita Christian again won by the narrowest margin 25-23 to take the lead. The Lady Bears came back to win decisively in the fourth set 25-20 to force a fifth and final set.
Unfortunately, it did not go Gold-Burg’s way as the Lady Stars won the set 15-9 to win the match.
Forestburg
The Forestburg Lady Horns won in straight sets at home Tuesday night against Savoy.
The Lady Horns won dominantly in every set with scores being 25-6, 25-15 and 25-5.
The majority of Forestburg’s points came from serving as the team had 34 aces. Reagan Ladewig led the team with 13 in the match.
Faith Moore led the team with six kills and six assists. On defense Rachel Allen and Bailey Payne each had a team high five digs.
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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