SPORTS
Bowie, Prairie Valley, Bellevue track teams compete at Era
The Bowie track team along with a couple of athletes from Prairie Valley and Bellevue competed at Era on Thursday.
The Lady Rabbit team finished second overall behind Lindsay while the Jackrabbit team finished sixth.
The Bowie girl’s team had several girls contribute toward the scoring. The 4×100 and the 4×200 meter relay teams both finished first while the 4×400 meter team finished fourth.
Samantha Clarke finished second in both the 3200 and 1600 meter races.
Ziba Robbins finished second the 200 meter dash followed by Hannah Love in third place. Taygon Jones got third in the 100 meter race.
Anahi Perez got third in the 100 meter hurdles and fifth in the 300 meter hurdles.
Neely Price finished third in the high jump while Maddie Mandela got fourth in the pole vault.
The Bowie boy’s team had several strong individual performances.
Tucker Jones finished first in the 300 meter hurdles, second in the long jump and third in the 110 meter hurdles.
Ignacio Saucedo finished third in the 1600 meter race while teammates James Fitch and Nathan Rogers got fourth and fifth. Rogers also finished fourth in the 3200 meter race.
Case Curry got third in the pole vault along with Johnny Arenas finishing third in the shot put. Coleton Price finished third in the discus and fourth in the shot put.
Braden Rhyne got fourth in the 300 meter hurdles while Seth Hall got fifth in the 100 meter race and Tyler Malone got sixth in the 800 meters.
The team’s relay team finished sixth in the 4×100 meter.
It was the final meet for the Bowie teams before this week’s district meet in City View. The running finals are scheduled for April 14 at City View.
Some athletes from Prairie Valley and Bellevue also competed to get some extra reps in before their area in Bryson on April 14.
From Prairie Valley, Tyler Winkler and Hunter Camden finished second and sixth in the pole vault.
Eli Croxton finished second in the 3200 meter race. Linzie Priddy finished sixth in the high jump.
From Bellevue, Terrence Perry finished sixth in the shot put.
Results for all varsity athletes from Bowie, Prairie Valley and Bellevue 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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