SPORTS
Gold-Burg football wins first district title in program history
The Gold-Burg Bears wrapped up the football program’s first district title on Friday night.
The Bears beat fellow Montague County team Forestburg 46-0 by mercy rule at halftime on senior night.
Gold-Burg came into the game confident after beating fellow district teams Trinidad and Fannindel by a combined score of 108-13.
The young Longhorns came in with a small hope of still making the playoffs if they could pull the upset and if the other district game played that night also went their way.
Forestburg’s first two drives did not go anywhere. Gold-Burg capitalized with two successful touchdown drives, one with Jayton Epperson completing a short pass to Aidan Foster and the other capped off by Jayon Grace scoring on a 14-yard run.
The Bears then recovered the onside kick. A few plays later Gold-Burg hit Kolton Whitaker on a 28-yard touchdown catch to put the Bears up 22-0.
The Longhorns next drive went backwards before turning the ball over on downs. Gold-Burg took over in Forestburg territory and capitalized as Kani Grace scored on a short run to start the second quarter and make the score 28-0.
The Longhorns had their most successful offensive drive of the game next as quarterback Jesus Sanchez completed some passes and Jeremiah Perez ran the ball hard. Forestburg got down inside the Bear’s five-yard line and had several shots at scoring a touchdown.
Unfortunately for the Longhorns, they just could not punch it in as they turned the ball over on down at the four-yard line.
Gold-Burg then took all of that momentum Forestburg had gotten and stomped on it as Jayon scored on the Bears next play on a 76-yard run to go up 34-0.
The Longhorn offense could not get that same magic going on their next possession, turning the ball over near midfield.
Gold-Burg then scored a few plays later as Epperson connected with Whitaker on a 31-yard touchdown to make the score 40-0.
With less than three minutes to play, the question for the Bears became if they would be able to score once more before halftime to end the game.
Forestburg was trying to move the ball through throwing the ball, but an errant pass went into the hands of Gold-Burg’s Jack Henry. He returned it 60-yards up his sideline for a touchdown, having to leap over a fallen Longhorn to get there.
The touchdown made the score 46-0 with only 41 seconds left. The Longhorns tried the desperately move the ball fast by throwing the ball, handing the ball over to their only senior Braxton Osteen who could throw it deep.
Gold-Burg’s defense did not allow Forestburg to go far as time expired and the game ended due to the 45-point mercy rule kicking in.
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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