SPORTS
Bowie hosts second Rhonda’s Relays
Bowie hosted its Rhonda’s Relays track meet on Thursday that had 12 schools compete.
The Lady Rabbit team finished second overall and only one point behind first place Boyd.
Bowie girl’s standouts included Anahi Perez finishing first in the 100 meter hurdles event and the 4×100 meter relay team finishing first.
Other top finishers who contributed towards the team’s total included: Perez finishing second in the 300 meter hurdles; Neely Price finishing second in the high jump and fourth in the 300 meter hurdles; the 4×200 meter relay team finishing third; Laisha Johnson finishing third in the 400 meter race; Taygon Jones finishing fourth in the 100 meter race; Samantha Clark finishing fifth in both the 800 and 1600 meter races and Ziba Robbins finishing sixth in the 200 meter race and the 4×400 team finishing sixth overall.
The Nocona Lady Indians finished fifth overall at the meet and also had several standouts. Graci Brown won both the 200 and 400 meter races while finishing second in the long jump.
Allie Brown finished second in the 3200 meter race and fourth in the 1600 meters.
Raylee Sparkman finished fourth in the 400 meter race while Jayce Rose finished fourth in the 800 meters. Avery Crutsinger finished fifth in the discus and sixth in the 300 meter hurdles.
The Bowie boy’s team finished fourth overall and got most of its scoring from field events.
Coleton Price finished second in the shot put and sixth in the discus. Tucker Jones finished second in the long jump.
Aiden Lawhorn finished third in the high jump. Johnnie Arenas finished fourth in the shot put.
Sebastian Martinez finished fifth in the 800 meter race. Jaxson Johnston and Brody Armstrong finished fifth and sixth in the high jump. The teams only relay team in the meet, competing in the 4×200 meter relay, finished fifth overall.
The Nocona Indians team finished tied for ninth overall.
The team’s top finisher was Caden Gaston who finished second in the triple jump. Michael Wetmore would go on to finish sixth in the long jump.
The Indians only running event were the 4×100 and the 4×400 meter relay teams, who finished sixth and third overall.
Times and distances for varsity competitors from Bowie and Nocona who finished among the top six are in 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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