SPORTS
Volleyball Roundup
Gold-Burg, Forestburg
The Gold-Burg Lady Bears hosted their tournament on Saturday and was able to come away with first place.
The Lady Bears beat teams from Wichita Christian, Graford and Forestburg to win the team’s final tournament of the pre-season.
The Lady Bears did not drop a set in all three matches as they played Saturday.
The tournament was named the “Playing for Nelda Memorial Tournament” in memory to Gold-Burg Coach Cheryl Cromleigh’s mom, who passed away in November.
Fellow Montague County team Forestburg was able to pick up a tough three-set win against Wichita Christian at the tournament before losing a three-set battle to Graford.
Lady Horn Coach Cori Hayes liked what his team got out of its final tournament as district play starts this week.
Bowie
The Bowie Lady Rabbits lost a tough match at Peaster on Friday night.
The Lady Rabbits lost in four sets, with the last one lost by the narrowest of margins.
The Lady Greyhounds beat Bowie in the bi-district last year in straight sets, but Friday was different.
Peaster won a competitive first set 25-21, but the Lady Rabbits came back in the second set to win 25-22.
The Lady Greyhounds rebounded to win set three 25-21 again, but the fourth set went down to the wire. It went to extra points, but unfortunately Peaster came out to win 27-25 and the match 3-1.
Nocona
The Nocona Lady Indians beat Valley View at home on Friday night in dominant fashion.
The Lady Eagles won in straight sets and controlled from start to finish with set scores 25-9, 25-16 and 25-17.
Taylor Newman led the team with 12 kills. Skyler Smith led the team with 14 assists while adding seven kills. Megyn Meekins was second with 10 assists to go along with six kills.
Prairie Valley
The Prairie Valley Lady Bulldogs won in straight sets at Graford on Friday.
The Lady Bulldogs played better as the match went along as indicated by the set scores 25-23, 25-16 and 25-8.
Emily Carpenter led the team with 11 kills and 12 digs. Veronica Gutierrez led the team with 17 assists while Randi Gilleland added five kills.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week 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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