SPORTS
Volleyball Roundup
Nocona
The Nocona Lady Indians started the second round of district on Tuesday with a win at City View.
The Lady Indians won in straight sets against the Lady Mustangs as Nocona got better as the match went along.
The first set was a back and forth affair from beginning until end, though the Lady Indians were in control and closed out the set well winning 25-22. Nocona won the next two sets with little drama with scores 25-17 and 25-12.
Taylor Newmon led the team with 10 kills. Skyler Smith had a team high 14 assistsand 13 digs. Karlee Brown led the team with five blocks and two service aces.
Prairie Valley
The Prairie Valley Lady Bulldogs lost a close four-set match on the road at Petrolia Tuesday night.
The 2A Lady Pirates won by barely winning the fourth set to prevent the Lady Bulldogs from forcing a fifth and final set.
Prairie Valley lost the first two sets despite both being competitive 25-21 and 25-23. The Lady Bulldogs then came back to win the third set 25-21.
The fourth set then went back and forth before requiring extra points. Petrolia came out on top 28-26 to win the set and the match.
Emily Carpenter led the team with 21 kills and 23 digs. Veronica Gutierrez had a team high 34 assists.
Karagan Ritchie added nine kills and Brianna Harris added eight kills. Sara Horton led the team with four service aces.
Gold-Burg
The Gold-Burg Lady Bears lost against 2A Archer City on Tuesday on the road.
The Lady Cats won in straight sets with scores 25-6, 25-8 and 25-4.
It is always tough to compete against, but there were outside reasons for the poor performance.
“We have been displaced once again for practices because they were putting our bleachers in,” Coach Cheryl Cromleigh said. “We were able to practice some at the Bowie Community Center but not every day. We also had our bye and hadn’t played a match since Sept. 28. Archer City is very good, but we were flat due in part to all of the adversity.”
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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