SPORTS
Volleyball Roundup
Nocona
The Nocona Lady Indians won at home on Tuesday night against Burkburnett.
The Lady Indians won in straight sets, with only the last set being competitive near the end with scores 25-16, 25-15 and 25-21.
Skyler Smith led the team with 12 kills. Megyn Meekins was second with six while leading the team with 20 assists. Aubree Kleinhans had a team high seven digs and three service aces. Graci Brown also added two aces.
Saint Jo
The Saint Jo Lady Panthers won decisively at Electra on Tuesday night.
The Lady Panthers won in straight sets with little drama coming in any of them with scores being 25-18, 25-18 and 25-16.
Aubrey Morman led the team with six kills while Payzlie Cervantes was second with four. Kayden Skidmore had a team high three service aces while leading the team with seven assists along with Maxey Johnson. Taylor Patrick had a team high eight digs while Reagan Wilson had seven.
Prairie Valley
The Prairie Valley Lady Bulldogs lost a heartbreaker at Valley View on Tuesday.
The Lady Eagles won a close fifth set to win a match that could have gone either way with all of its ups and downs.
The teams traded haymakers in the first two sets, each winning with the one-sided score 25-16 to tie the match at 1-1.
Sets three and four were a bit closer, but in the end the team that was able to get a bit of control at the end of the set was able to close things out with scores 25-21 and 25-22.
That set up a fifth and final set where anything could happen and any lead feels that much bigger with the score going to only 15 instead of 25.
It was back and forth, but unfortunately it was Valley View that was able to pull it out in the end with the score 15-12.
Gold-Burg
The Gold-Burg Lady Bears lost a tough match at Graford on Tuesday.
The Lady Rabbits won in straight sets against a Lady Bears team that Coach Cheryl Cromleigh felt did not bring their A game.
Cromleigh cited missed serves and not adjusting well to Graford tipping the ball over the front line.
Still, the scores in the first and third set were competitively close as the Lady Rabbits won 25-21, 25-15 and 25-22.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.
Bellevue’s girl’s basketball team led at halftime but a quick 9-0 Jacksboro run in the opening moments of the second half would prove the difference in a 28-25 Lady Eagle loss June 15 in a Nocona Summer League game.
Leading 12-9 at the half, Bellevue continued to shut down the inside game of the Tigerettes. Jacksboro switched tactics and began firing from outside. Three 3-pointers in the span of just under two minutes gave Jacksboro an 18-12 lead.
Bellevue kept things close, however, getting on the second half scoreboard with Mattie Broussard’s basket and free throws cutting the deficit to two, 18-16. A Haven Jones 3-pointer put the Lady Eagles up 19-18 midway through the second half.
The Tigerettes had just one 3 -pointer the rest of the way but got inside for a pair of buckets to take a 25-21 lead with 4:50 to go. Both offenses shut down late.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Most school-age athletes start off playing everything. By the time they graduate, they whittle it down to just one or two.
New Bowie girl’s track and overall cross country coach Shawnda Childers is no exception. While at Iowa Park she competed in volleyball, cross country and track before cutting out volleyball and focusing on track and cross country to close out high school.
Childers did not stay with athletics while moving on to Midwestern State University, where she received her bachelor’s and master’s Degrees. After graduation, shestarted coaching in Electra. She came to Bowie for one year, then went back to her old stomping grounds in Iowa Park where she spent the next four years.
The return home also put her in contact with now-Bowie Coach Griffin Fields, who was a coach there at the time. From Iowa Park, she spent the next three years at City View.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
New Saint Jo Girl’s Basketball Coach Grant Gooch isn’t completely unfamiliar with the area.
“We went to Muenster quite a bit when I was a kid,” Gooch, who will be going into his 20th year as a coach, said. “We’d load up the cooler from the meat markets. It’s good to be back.”
Gooch worked with Saint Jo Athletic Director CJ Hantz when the pair were in Throckmorton. Gooch comes to town from Menard where he spent three years at the West Texas school.
Gooch says coaching and education kind of come naturally to him.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
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