SPORTS
Nocona, Saint Jo teams struggle earlier in week
Nocona softball
The Nocona Lady Indians lost their opening district game on Tuesday playing at Tioga.
The Lady Bulldogs won 7-1 against the Lady Indians.
Tioga found ways to score one run in five of the six innings it batted in. The other one saw the Lady Bulldogs score two runs.
Nocona did do a good job of limiting each inning to just one run despite Tioga scoring 13 hits in the game, but the Lady Indians did commit four errors in the game meaning two of the runs came unearned on the stat sheet.
Softball baseball
The Saint Jo baseball team lost a tough game against Alvord on Tuesday.
The Bulldogs won 14-1, with a lot of the runs coming in the final inning.
The Panthers got out on top in the bottom of the first inning. Matthew Butler-Everson scored on a double steal from third base to up 1-0.
Unfortunately, Alvord answered back with six runs in the second inning to take the lead.
The Bulldogs scored two more runs in the fourth inning to lead 8-1 all the way up until the final inning.
Alvord then scored six more runs in an inning that never seemed to end to make the final score 14-1.
Saint Jo softball
The Saint Jo Lady Panthers lost a tough game at Collinsville on Monday.
The Lady Pirates won 13-0 after four and half innings due to run rule.
Collinsville did all of its scoring in the first three innings, scoring five in the first and four in the second and third.
The Lady Pirates had 10 hits and drew six walks while taking advantage of three Saint Jo errors.
The Lady Panthers had three hits from Payzlie Cervantes, Taylor Patrick and Maxey Johnson. Reagan Wilson along with Cervantes also drew walks, but that was it offensively.
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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