SPORTS
Volleyball Roundup
Nocona
The Nocona Lady Indians won another straight sets district game against Poolville at home on Tuesday night.
The Lady Indians won with little drama against the Lady Monarchs as Nocona continued its dominant district run.
Nocona has yet to lose a set even as the second round of district play starts up. The Lady Indians won with set scores 25-10, 25-19 and 25-16.
Bren Fenoglio led the team with four blocks at the net while Bailey Waters was second with three.
Meg Meekins led the team with 10 kills and seven digs while Aubree Kleinhans was second with six digs. Skyler Smith had a team high 16 assists while being second with eight kills.
Meekins, Smith and Kleinhans each had two service aces to lead the team as well.
Saint Jo vs Bellevue
The Saint Jo Lady Panthers won their final district home game of the season on Monday against Bellevue.
The Lady Panthers won in straight sets against the young Lady Eagles team.
Saint Jo did not give Bellevue much room to breathe as the eventual district champions won with set scores 25-5, 25-12 and 25-9.
Aubrey Morman and Payzlie Cervantes led the Lady Panthers with seven kills each. Cervantes also had a team high 11 assists while Morman had two blocks and four service aces. Maxey Johnson was second with eight assists and five kills. Kamron Skidmore was second with three aces.
Gold-Burg vs Forestburg
The Forestburg Lady Horns won at Gold-Burg on Tuesday night.
The Lady Horns won in straight sets in a closer match than the final score would indicate.
Forestburg was needing to win to keep its hope for competing for second place in district alive while the Lady Bears were hoping to pick up their first district win.
All three sets were competitive and got closer as the match went along. The Lady Horns won with the scores being 25-19, 25-20 and 25-22.
Forestburg Coach Kayla Firth thought her team played well in the win, but knows her team is still trying to make strides in areas.
For Gold-Burg, despite the loss Coach Cheryl Cromleigh was proud of how her team played and competed after some previous rough performances.
Missing scores
Prairie Valley had a bye-game earlier in the week.
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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