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Girls Basketball Roundup
Prairie Valley
The Prairie Valley Lady Bulldogs lost a tough game at home on Tuesday night against 2A Sam Rayburn.
The Lady Rebels won 61-28 against the overwhelmed Lady Bulldogs.
Prairie Valley was hoping to try and compete well despite coming off more than a week break thanks to the Thanksgiving holiday.
Unfortunately, the Lady Bulldogs let the game slip away the longer it went on despite a competitive start to the game.
Prairie Valley knocked in some 3-pointers and trailed 17-11 after the first quarter.
The shooting did not keep up the rest of the game as the Lady Bulldogs scored only 17 points the final three quarters.
The more physical Lady Rebels continually got extra shots thanks to rebounding while limiting Prairie Valley to only one shot.
The lead grew more and more as the game went along as frustration set in with shots not going down and players trying to navigate a physical defense.
Sam Rayburn won 61-28.
Makaylee Gomez led the Lady Bulldogs with 13 points while Linzie Priddy was second with eight points.
Nocona
The Nocona Lady Indians got to show off in front of their home crowd for the first time this season on Tuesday as they blew out Vernon.
The Lady Indians won 63-28 coming back from the holiday break.
State-ranked Nocona is still undefeated early in the season despite playing in a tough tournament in Decatur a few days before Thanksgiving against all bigger schools. Coming out of that experience, the Lady Indians knew they just had to play decent against Vernon to win, though Coach Kyle Spitzer would be hoping for more than the bare minimum.
His team delivered as they started off on fire, grabbing control with a 23-6 lead after the first quarter.
The lack of conditioning might have affected Nocona after that as well as Spitzer trying different things throughout the game to try and make all game time valuable despite his team already, having the win in hand.
Only the fourth quarter was close as the Lady Indians slowed down the pace and played keep away to limit the chance of Vernon making a final late-game push even though the deficit was too high. It was still a scenario Nocona usually ends any games with, no matter the score being close or not that has proved Spitzer and his team well as it won 63-28.
Meg Meekins led the team with 28 points, nine assists and four steals. Skyler Smith was second with 20 points while grabbing a team high eight rebounds.
Aubree Kleinhans added six points, Reagan Phipps five and Jolie Rose four points.
Saint Jo
The Saint Jo Lady Panthers won at Gainesville in their first game back from the holiday break on Tuesday night.
The Lady Panthers won decisively 50-31 against the Lady Leopards.
Saint Jo used its aggressive pressure defense to control the fast pace and cause some chaos, but it was not all good for Coach Daniel Lindenborn.
“We never could get in a groove shooting threes, but the girls did a great job of adapting and getting the ball inside,” Lindenborn said. “Defensively we still have some kinks to work out, but it is nothing that practice reps cannot fix.”
Forestburg
The Forestburg Lady Horns won their first game back from the long holiday break at home against Savoy.
The Lady Horns won 42-37 against the Lady Cardinals in come from behind fashion.
Forestburg trailed Savoy 20-9 at halftime as the Lady Cardinals size was too much for the Lady Horns.
Still, Forestburg’s fast pace seemed to be wearing on Savoy at the end of the first half which meant Coach Cori Hayes kept with his team’s original plan to push the ball to tire the Lady Cardinals out.
That along with a few adjustments allowed the Lady Horns to start coming back. Savoy made three 3-pointers in the third quarter to keep Forestburg at bay and still up double-digits 33-22 heading into the final period.
The fourth quarter saw the Lady Horns defense limit the Lady Cardinals to just four points. This allowed Forestburg on the other end to almost double its three-quarter total, scoring 20 points to come all the way back.
The Lady Horns won 42-37.
Lili Cisneros led the team with 15 points, scoring 12 in the final quarter to help power Forestburg offensively late in the game. Brenna Briles was second with six points.
Bellevue
The Bellevue Lady Eagles won a one-sided game at Garner on Tuesday night.
The Lady Eagles won 73-20 against the Lady Horns.
Bellevue was coming off a rough tournament playing against bigger schools in Hirschi the days following Thanksgiving so the team had some experience following the holiday break.
The Lady Eagles rolled over Garner from start to finish, using their press defense to never let the Lady Horns get set offensively while pushing a fast pace on offense.
Cirstin Allen led the team with 17 points as she made five 3-pointers in the game. Callie Martin was second with 14 points and Braylie Hager also finished in double-figures with 12 points.
Gold-Burg
The Gold-Burg Lady Bears lost to Vernon Northside at home on Tuesday night.
The Lady Indians won 44-25 against the Lady Bears in a game that was closer in the first half, but the lack of depth hurt them as the game went along.
Gold-Burg does not have any bench players and most of the team has little varsity basketball experience.
Playing against a Northside team that employs a full-court press is a nightmare for a team like the Lady Bears, but the first half saw Gold-Burg hang with the Lady Indians.
Northside led 23-14 at halftime.
Eventually the long layoff and the lack of depth wore the Lady Bears down as the Lady Indians lead grew and grew in the second half.
Northside won 44-25.
Ollie Gaston led the team with nine points and Raigen Hilton was second with eight points.
Missing scores
Bowie had a bye game on Tuesday.
To read the full stories, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.
Two former Bowie boy’s golf members played in the PGA University Championship on Nov. 12-13. (L-R) Cy Egenbacher and Imanol Walker are both in the Sam Houston University PGA Golf Managerment program. The team finished 16th overall. Egenbacher shot 168 during the two rounds and finished tied for 67th. Walker shot 180 and finished 84th. The tournament is a fun one for univesities that have PGA Golf Management programs, which is for individuals who want to work in the golf industry after graduation.
The Saint Jo Lady Panthers came up short at the regional final for the third straight season, one game away from state, on Saturday at the regional tournament in Midlothian.
The Lady Panthers beat Evant in straight sets 3-0 on Friday to reach the final game against Harrold which they lost 3-0.
Saint Jo knew before the season even started it would likely come to this big challenge, but it still had to go through all the steps to get there.
The Panthers reached the regional finals the previous two seasons, losing both times to eventual state champion Blum.
With district realignment meant a new region so a rematch with a Blum program that had graduated several key players from those teams would have to wait until state possibly.
Instead, a showdown against last year’s state runner-up Harrold was forecast in the regional final.
With the team having six seniors, with five of them having been on varsity since they were freshman, it was this year or bust for Saint Jo.
First, the Lady Panthers had to beat Evant. The Lady Elks leaned heavily on a big front court player. When she rotated to the back row, Evant showed almost no net resistance which meant Saint Jo hitters had free reign during that time.
The Lady Panthers won each set pretty easily, with the scores being 25-17, 25-17 and 25-19.
This set up the match with Harrold the team had been anticipating. The Lady Hornets had been at or near the top of the state standings since the beginning of the season.
Harrold had so much respect it had even played bigger local schools this season, beating Bowie in straight sets and Nocona in five sets during its pre-district schedule.
The two teams had met earlier in the season when the Lady Hornets attended Saint Jo’s hosted tournament. The two teams met in the tournament championship where Harrold won 2-1.
Still, with the tournament format being a best of three instead of five and the match after playing an exhausting schedule of five matches the previous two days, that result was not gospel, especially two months later.
The challenge is Harrold had multiple big hitters at the net, which is a big deal since most 1A teams are lucky to have one or two, which meant constant pressure on Saint Jo’s defense.
This also meant the Lady Panthers constantly had to find ways to attack the Lady Hornet defense as well or it would face strong hit after strong hit which was unsustainable for any team.
The first set saw the Lady Hornets get out to a good start before the Lady Panthers rallied back and took a little lead 8-7. Unfortunately, it started turn from there.
Harrold had some good runs from the service line that Saint Jo struggled to make much offense out of and led to the Lady Hornets pulling away. Harrold won 4-1 to get the lead to 11-9 and then extended it to 14-11, 17-13. Another 4-1 run and the Lady Hornets could smell the end of the first set coming.
The Lady Hornets won 25-17 to take the lead 1-0.
Saint Jo needed to bounce back, but unfortunately never got anything going in set two.
Harrold led 4-1 and then 8-2. The Lady Panthers would have needed a huge run at some point from the service line to get back into the set, but it never came as the Lady Hornets lead grew more and more.
Harrold took set two 25-13 to go up 2-0 and had all of the momentum.
Saint Jo had its back against the wall, knowing the only option was to hope for a comeback that would lead to a fifth set, but to get there it needed to win set three.
The Lady Panthers initially started on the right foot. After falling being 4-1 to start the previous two sets, it was Saint Jo that started well up 4-1. Unfortunately, the Lady Hornets came roaring back, going on an 8-2 run as it led 9-6, then 12-8 and 15-10.
It looked like it was heading towards a similar place as set one with Harrold slowly running away with the set before the Lady Panthers made one last gasp.
Saint Jo eventually cut the lead down to one point, trailing 20-19 as the set entered the final stretch and the Lady Panthers had their best momentum of the match.
Unfortunately, it was Harrold that was able to close the set out with momentum, earning the final five points to win 25-19 and the match 3-0.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News. For pictures from Friday’s match, click here https://www.dotphoto.com/go.asp?l=bnews1&AID=6870620&T=1
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