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Football Roundup
Saint Jo
The Saint Jo Panthers won their final non-district game on Saturday playing a tough Groom team at Chillicothe.
The Panthers came out on top 60-48 in a game that was a competitive test.
After sitting out of the previous weeks game, Logan Brawner came through with 217 yards rushing and five touchdown. However it was Matthew Butler-Everson, who’s three touchdown passes came in the crucial second half stretch where Saint Jo took its lead, that came through when the Tigers were geared up to stop Brawner.
He completed six passes for 210 yards. Three of those catches came from Jonathan Diaz who had 124 yards receiving and one touchdown. Both of Trevor Connor’s catches were for touchdowns and went for 69 yards.
Coach Mark Stevens was pleased with how his team played overall. With the team as healthy as its been heading into district play, Stevens is confident his team is primed to win its third straight district title.
Saint Jo’s opens district at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 22 in its final home game against Bryson.
Nocona
The Nocona Indians lost to Henrietta at home on Friday night.
The Bearcats won pretty easily 47-14 as the young Indians team did not play its best game.
Henrietta got on the board with an interception return for a touchdown that set the tone for the rest of the night as Nocona’s offense had five turnovers on the night.
Defensively, the Indians were determined to not give up the big play to explosive receiver Baron Brown. Nocona did limit Brown to only one catch for negative yardage on the night.
Unfortunately, that led to the Bearcats gaining 287 yards on the ground. Henrietta’s other receivers picked up the slack as the team still passed of 195 yards in the air.
Indian quarterback Brady McCasland did find Bodie Davis for two touchdown passes in the fourth quarter to avoid the shutout.
McCasland ended the game with 176 yards passing. Sam Davis led the team with four catches for 85 yards. Johnny Stone had a team high 70 yards rushing.
Nocona is next scheduled to play district favorite Holliday. The game is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 21 at Holliday.
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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