SPORTS
Girls powerlift at Nocona
The Bowie girl’s powerlifting team competed at Nocona’s hosted meet on Thursday.
The Lady Indians finished tied with Ponder for third overall while the Lady Rabbits finished sixth.
Bowie had five girls finish in the top five of their weight classes that contributed to the team total. The leading girl was Laisha Johnson, who won the 123 pound weight class with a total of 635 pounds.
Haley Henry nearly joined her in first place, but ended up getting second in the 105 pound weight class, her 510 pound total just five pounds off from first place. Kinley Russell also got second place in her weight class at 132 pounds, putting up a total of 680 pounds.
Jordan Vaught was also five pounds away from the girl in front of her. She finished third in the 220 weight class with a total of 790 pounds lifted.
Reegan Ferguson added one more point by finishing fifth in the 181 pound weight class with a total of 395 pounds lifted.
Nocona had six girls finish in the top five in their weight classes. Olivia Six won the 181 pound weight class by lifting 620 pounds. She was tied for first place with a girl from Ponder, but Six came in weighing less so she got first overall.
Paige James finished second in the 259 weight class, with her total of 770 pounds just 10 off from first place.
In the 165 weight class, the Lady Indians had three girls score points. Avery Crutsinger finished second with a 620 pound total. Tobie Cable was third with a 595 pound total and Kathryn Barrett finished fourth with a 550 pound total.
Savannah Wade also scored, finishing in third place in the 114 weight class with a total of 495 pound total.
The next girl’s league meet is scheduled for 5 p.m. on Feb. 2 at Paradise.
To see results for all Bowie and Nocona lifters who completed all three lifts, pick up a copy of 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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