SPORTS
Bowie tennis wins first dual
The Bowie tennis team won its first dual match of the season after beating Holliday at home on Thursday night.
The Jackrabbits won by the narrowest margin 10-9 against the Eagles.
Bowie had gotten close this season, narrowly losing to Hirschi earlier this month before getting close again in their dual against Bridgeport on Saturday.
The Jackrabbits lost 11-8 against the Bulls. Bowie was far behind after doubles with only the first position boy’s doubles team of Rush Williams/Gavyn Brown along with the mixed doubles team Heidi Siebert/ Tucker Childers winning their matches.
Bowie made up for it with its singles play. On the girl’s side, Siebert in the first position along with Lily Hodges in third, Alyssa Airington in fourth and Gentry Gray in the sixth position won their matches.
The boys had Williams win in the first position singles and Childers win the second position. Unfortunately, it was not enough as the team fell a few matches short of coming back.
On Thursday against Holliday, the Jackrabbits were not in a hole. Bowie was up 4-3 after doubles play was completed.
The boy’s side swept its matches, with Rush/Brown winning at position one again in a close match 9-8. Position two team with Brendan Dudley/Brooks Gray dominated winning 8-3 and position three team with Alex Castro/Shiv Patel won easily 8-2.
On the girl’s side, only the position three team featuring Gentry Gray/Leah Cantrell won their match with the score of 8-3.
In singles, the boy’s side was strong again as all Bowie players won five of the six matches. Williams won in position one 8-5, Dudley won in position two in a tight match 9-7, Gray won in position four 8-4, Castro won in position five 8-5 and Brown won in position six in dominant fashion 8-2.
The girls needed to win one of its six singles matches and Siebert was the one, winning her match in position one with the score 8-5.
Bowie won its first dual of the season 10-9.
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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