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Saint Jo heads back to regional tournament
The Saint Jo Lady Panthers are on to the regional tournament for the second straight season after beating Dodd City on Tuesday night.
The Lady Panthers won in four sets against the Lady Hornets in a repeat of last year’s playoff road.
Saint Jo was coming into the match following a close five-set win against Sulphur Bluff that went down to the wire in the area round.
It was the second time the teams would play this season. The two played in the championship game of the Lady Panthers hosted tournament in mid-September. Saint Jo won that match which was only a best of three instead of best of five sets 2-0, with only the first set being close.
Dodd City had only lost three matches since that time as the Lady Hornets were ranked among the top 15-20 in the state in 1A.
Like every year in almost every sport, at some point a county 1A team will have to go through Dodd City in the playoffs if they want to break through and go farther than a week in the playoffs.
Forestburg found that out in the previous area round match, losing in straight sets though competing well in defeat.
Saint Jo won the first set 25-19. The Lady Hornets fired back with an equally competitive set two win 25-21 to tie the score at 1-1.
The third set proved to be the closest and most important. It went back and forth as neither team was ahead by more than a point or two at any time.
Coming down to the final stretch, neither team was ahead by the two-point margin it needed to win at 25 points. The Lady Panthers were then able to close out the set by winning the next two points, making the set three score 27-25 and giving Saint Jo a 2-1 lead.
The edge-on-your seat win for the Lady Panthers seemed to broken Dodd City heading into the fourth set. Saint Jo came out on fire and the Lady Hornets could not answer back.
After the close win in set three, the match came to an end with little drama in the most one-sided set of the match with the Lady Panthers winning 25-14 to close out the match 3-1.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.
Bowie, playing on a short rest, held with host Jacksboro for most of the volleyball match Oct. 1, but the Tigerettes pulled away late and defeated the Lady Rabbits 3-1 (26-24, 12-25, 25-14, 22-25).
The match was scheduled for Oct. 2 but was moved. Both teams are now 2-2 in District 6-3A.
Jacksboro got out to a quick lead in game one before Olivia Stewart’s kill and a three-point Olivia Richey serving run put the visitors up 8-7. Junior Abby Reneau broke things open with a six-point string to give Bowie a 15-8 cushion and force Jacksboro into a timeout.
The Tigerettes came back and took an 18-16 lead. KP Rutherford’s kill broke the serve and allowed Molly Enlow to tie the game at 18.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Gold-Burg Football Coach Austin Norman called his Bears’ 35-32 loss to host Perrin a “barn burner”.
It most definitely was as Gold-Burg, now 1-5 for the year gave the 5-1 Pirates everything they wanted for four quarters. Gold-Burg scored on the last play of the first half on a Peyton Epperson run with the two point conversion cutting the deficit to 20-16.
The Bears were their own worst enemy to open the third quarter with face mask and offside penalties moving the Pirates downfield setting up a first-and-goal at the Bear three. Defense by Epperson, Keelyn Case and Barrett Allen and a pair of Perrin penalties helped stop the drive and force a turnover on downs.
Gold-Burg was slapped with an intentional grounding penalty on the first play, giving Perrin a safety and extending the Pirate lead to 22-16. Defense by Epperson and JoJuan Grace after a first down run closed out the third quarter.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Nocona and Prairie Valley cross country teams took part in the Prairie Valley Invitational Sept. 20 while Bowie varsity runners competed in the Lubbock Invitational.
Lubbock
Leading the Rabbits was Kellen Rater who finished 10th among 162 runners with a time of 17:24.50. Finishing behind Rater was Shawn Willett with a time of 19:33.20. Hayden Sutton ran a 20:27.10 followed by Taven Melton in 20:39.20, Coleman Holloway in 20:53.80 and Jaxon Castro with a time of 21:31.60.
Laney Segura led the Lady Rabbits with a time of 14:41.30. She was followed by Kylee Waldrep in 15:56.80, Bella Lozano in 16:04.80, Angeles Alvarez with a time of 16:15.40, AnDee Miller in 16:23.70 and Isabella Caswell in 16:51 flat.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
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