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Prairie Valley vs Forestburg
The Prairie Valley Bulldogs opened up district play with a win at home against Forestburg on Tuesday.
The Bulldogs won 51-21 against the young Longhorn team.
Prairie Valley used its pressure on defense to consistently create turnovers and scoring opportunities in transition.
The first quarter was slow scoring as the Bulldogs led 13-5, but the lead exploded to 30-11 by halftime.
In the half court, Prairie Valley had success driving and kicking to find great looks all over the floor.
Forestburg did most of its scoring inside with Braxton Osteen and Kyler Willett when they did have success, but it wasn’t often enough to keep up with the Bulldogs.
The Longhorns had to play for some stretches without their point guard as Jesus Sanchez had an ankle injury he suffered in the second quarter.
He was able to come out and play in the second half.
For Prairie Valley, guards Eli Croxton and Tyler Winkler led the team with 15 points each. Coach Seth Stephens was overall pleased with how his team played.
For Forestburg, Willett led the team with nine points while Osteen scored eight points.
Saint Jo
The Saint Jo Panthers lost their opening district game at Midway on Tuesday night.
The Falcons won 65-38 against a Panthers team that has struggled as late with bouts of being able to score.
The two games before the team let close games end up not so close thanks to shooting slumps. Kile Thurman led the team with 21 points, but didn’t get much help.
Coach Lyndon Cook hopes the coming break can fix this recent problem as district play is starting up.
“Another game where it’s been the same old song and dance,” Cook said. “We compete, but just can’t get the necessary stops to take games down to the wire. We turn the ball over instead of being patient and struggle with teams that can out athlete us.”
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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