SPORTS
Nocona’s Stone advances to regional golf tournament
The Nocona golf team competed at the district tournament on two different days last week.
In the end, the Indians are sending one player, Johnny Stone, on to regionals as he finished fifth overall individually and the second best among players who were not on teams that were regional qualifiers.
Stone led Nocona by shooting 86-77 as the Indians shot 689 and finished seven shot behind Seymour, missing out on qualifying for regionals as a team with a third place finish.
“I am very proud of Johnny and how much work he has put in to advance,” Coach Kyle Spitzer said. “He plays a lot of golf, so I was happy he was able to put together two solid rounds.”
Jake Pribble shot 86-87 and Landon Fatheree shot 82-92.
Caden Gaston shot 91 the first day to get the team’s first day total. He shot 107 the second day as Caden Belcher improved his first day’s total of 94 and shot 88 to add to the second day’s total.
The Nocona boy’s second team finished in sixth place with an 804 total.
Charlie Fuller shot best both days for the team, shooting 95-87. Cooper Waldrip was second shooting 102-98, Brady McCasland was third as he shot 110-98 and Caden Hammer was fourth shooting 115-99. Peyton Reed shot 123-137, but his scores were not added to the team’s total.
The Lady Indians had two players compete as medalists. Jessie Howard shot 105/106 and finished third behind two girls from Olney who qualified for regionals. Alexa Sosa shot 144-139 and finished fifth among medalists.
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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