SPORTS
Bellevue girls beat Forestburg
District play started Tuesday night for the area 1A girls teams as Forestburg hosted Bellevue.
The undermanned Lady Eagles won 47-20 against the Lady Horns despite a close first half.
Bellevue comes into district play with only five players on its roster. This has caused the team to go away from its typical full-court press and up-tempo style of play since the team has no depth. Autsin Ford and Grace Martin are the only upperclassmen.
Forestburg comes into district play leaning heavily on Faith Moore and Braylee Briles scoring the ball and playing scrappy zone defense since the team does not have a monster post presence for the first time in years.
The game started out as a low scoring affair. The first quarter barely totaled more than 10 points as Forestburg led 6-5.
The Lady Horns were trying to use some full-court pressure, but it didn’t affect the Lady Eagles that much.
Bellevue sat back in a zone and its players started to aggressively jump the passing lanes for steals. This led to better scoring chances in transition since the team was not making its shots in the half court and Forestburg was doing a good job of rebounding the basketball.
The Lady Eagles led 15-12 heading into halftime. The Lady Horns were trying to get baskets at the rim, but were not rewarded with any free throw attempts in the first half compared to Bellevue’s eight attempts.
The Lady Eagles doubled down on going for steals to come out in the second half and were able to turn more of them into easy points.
Bellevue’s lead went up to 24-12 midway through the quarter as the Lady Eagles started playing with more energy as the lead went up. They started getting more offensive rebounds for second chance points and the free throw attempts kept coming.
The Lady Horns could not keep up offensively as the turnovers prevented them from running their offense and getting shots at the rim.
Forestburg scored all six of its points in the last few minutes of the third quarter, but not before Bellevue’s lead had turned to double-digits.
The Lady Eagles led 31-18 heading into the fourth quarter.
It was more of the same for Bellevue in the final period. Steals, layups and free throw attempts off of offensive rebounds allowed the Lady Eagles lead to continue to grow.
Forestburg’s offense was only able to score one basket in the final period.
Bellevue did have one of its players foul out of the game which meant the team had to play the rest of the way a player down. Thankfully for the Lady Eagles, it was with only 2:32 left in the game and they were up 44-20.
The final score was 47-20.
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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