SPORTS
Forestburg boys break six year streak and beat Saint Jo
The Forestburg Longhorns picked up their first win against Saint Jo since 2018 with a home win on Tuesday night.
The Longhorns won 56-40 in a game that was not that close for most of the game.
Saint Jo was coming into the game with 2-0 district record despite the young team struggling during its non-district schedule. The Panthers recently blew out a tough Gold-Burg team the previous week to show they were turning the corner in the games that really counted.
Forestburg came into district with high expectations to break its playoff drought, but dropped its first two games in disappointing performances. The Longhorns then won a come-from-behind game at Gold-Burg last week to give it some confidence heading into this game.
The Panthers were missing one starter, but with the way Forestburg came out at the beginning of the game, it did not seem anything was going to stop the Longhorns.
In every way Forestburg outplayed Saint Jo in the first quarter. The Longhorns attacked the Panthers full-court press and was able to get some quick looks on offense they took advantage of.
Jesus Sanchez was making shots from the perimeter, Jesse Wadsworth was keeping the ball moving while scoring from all over and Kyler Willett was using his size and skill to score in the post for Forestburg.
The Longhorns led 24-3 after the first quarter and it never got much better from there.
Even with Forestburg’s offense cooling off and the Panthers getting some success on offense going, Saint Jo could not turn the game around.
The Longhorns led 35-12 at halftime and 49-19 heading into the fourth quarter.
Frustration seemed to boil over at the start of the final period when the Panthers coach picked up his second technical foul arguing a call with the referees and was asked to leave. A Saint Jo fan then got asked to leave for similar reasons in the final two minutes of the game.
Saint Jo had its best stretch of the game in the fourth quarter, more than doubling its three quarter total with 21 points scored.
With Forestburg emptying its bench and playing with less aggression since it was comfortably up by so much, the Panthers took advantage.
It made the final score 56-40 a lot closer than most of the game was.
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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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