SPORTS
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.
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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