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Football kicks off this week

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The start of the high school football season is this week as all teams strive to make its record 1-0.
All five Montague County teams play, with all but Gold-Burg playing on the typical Friday night. The Bears are scheduled to play on Thursday night.
For Bowie, the Jackrabbits open the season at home playing a fellow 3A team Callisburg. The Wildcats are coming off a 5-6 season where they finished fourth in the district to earn a playoff spot.
For Nocona, the Indians are hosting Lindsay. The Knights are coming off a 5-6 season where they finished fourth in the district to earn the final playoff spot.
The team graduated only one starter on both sides of the ball and is expected to build on it, picked to finish second in its district.
They are ranked 15th in the state in 2A division II.
For Saint Jo, the Panthers are hosting Fort Worth THESA. It stands for Texas Home Educators Sports Association.
The Riders went 5-6 last year and finished third in their district to advance to the playoffs.
They advanced far enough before losing one round short of the state championship game.
For Gold-Burg, the Bears get one less day to prepare for their first game at Perrin-Whitt.
The Pirates are coming off a 2-8 season, but just missed the playoffs. Gold-Burg won last year’s game easily 64-16, but things are a bit different with both teams this season.
The game is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 29 at Perrin-Whitt.
For Forestburg, the Longhorns are playing Savoy this week. The Cardinals went 3-7 last year, but one of those wins came in district play to finish third in district.

To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.

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Lady Horns lose to Lady Patriots

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Forestburg's Logan Ladewig receives a serve and is looking to direct it towards her setter.

The Forestburg Lady Horns lost their home match against Victory Christian Academy on Friday night.
The Lady Patriots won in straight sets 3-0 against the Lady Horns in a match that was competitive for the first two sets.
Forestburg started the match out well, having a bit of a lead and going back and forth with Victory. Up 8-7, the Lady Horns hit a bit of a slump as the Lady Patriots went 7-3 to get a lead 14-11.
Forestburg struggled with some communication issues in the back row and missing serves, which was how it got the lead early on.
The Lady Horns played better and more competitively against Victory the rest of the way, but could not go on a run to make up the deficit.
The Lady Patriots wrapped up the first set, winning 25-19 to take the early lead 1-0.
Forestburg bounced back strong, getting a strong run of serves from hard hitting Logan Ladewig. The Lady Horns led by as much as 9-1.
Unfortunately, once that run was over, Victory started to come back fiercely. The Lady Patriots tied the score at 15-15, but had all of the momentum after going on a 14-6 run.
Thankfully, Forestburg was able to bounce back and play point-for-point with Victory the rest of the way.
It went into extra points, but unfortunately, it was the Lady Patriots that came out on top 27-25 to extent their lead to 2-0.
The Lady Horns would need to win three straight sets in a row if they wanted to come all the way back to win the match. Unfortunately, set three was the only set the team did not have a good start in.
It never got better as everyone could see the end of the match coming fast.
Victory won the set 25-9 to close out the match 3-0.

To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News. For more pictures, click here https://www.dotphoto.com/go.asp?l=bnews1&AID=6865451&T=1

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Volleyball Tournament Roundup

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Nocona was the silver bracket runner-up at the Lu Allen tournament in Graham. (Courtesy photo)

Nocona
The Nocona Lady Indians finished second in the silver bracket at the Lu Allen tournament in Graham during the weekend.
The Lady Indians went 4-3 overall, going 2-2 during pool play before finishing 2-1 in the silver bracket.
Nocona started off the tournament with a tough straight set win 2-0 against Midland Greenwood that was competitive the whole match.
The Lady Indians then suffered two straight losses to Dumas and Peaster. Both matches were straight set losses, but every set saw the team compete well and reach at least 20 points.
Nocona then finished pool play with a match against Vernon. After losing a close first set, the Lady Indians came back to take set two easily before winning a tightly contested set three to win the match 2-1.
With a 2-2 record, Nocona was put into the silver bracket on the final day.
The Lady Indians took care of business against Burkburnett in 2-0 before playing a thrilling match against Caprock that went three sets as Nocona won 2-1 to reach the championship game of the bracket.
There, the Lady Indians played a rematch against its pool partner Midland Greenwood. Depite beating the team in straight sets two days earlier, both sets were so close that result was thrown out before the game with higher stakes.
Nocona won the first set 25-19, but Greenwood came back to take set two by the same score 25-19 to tie it up. In the final set, Midland kept up that momentum and won 25-18 to take the match 2-1.

Bowie
The Bowie Lady Rabbits went to their toughest tournament of the season last weekend at Glen Rose, playing some of the top teams in the state.
The Lady Rabbits went 1-5 overall in the tough field.
In pool play Bowie first lost to 4A Lorena in straight sets 2-0. In the second match against private school Trinity Valley, the Lady Rabbits won the first set, but then went on to lose the next two sets.
Against 4A Carter Riverside, Bowie won both sets by narrow margins to get its first win of the tournament.
The final pool game was against Lubbock Liberty, which the Lady Rabbits lost in straight sets. Bowie went 1-3 during pool play, which sent them to the silver bracket for the final day.
There, the Lady Rabbits first played the defending back-to-back 1A state champions Blum. Bowie bounced back after a bad first set to win set two. Unfortunately, Blum won set three to move on while the Lady Rabbits went to the consolation route.
Bowie then played 5A Cleburne. After losing the first set, the Lady Rabbits battled in the second, but lost by the smallest margin.
The loss ended Bowie’s tournament.

Prairie Valley
The Prairie Valley Lady Bulldogs finished second overall at their first tournament of the season last week at Electra.
The Lady Bulldogs went 4-2 overall, losing to the tournament host in a tough three-set match.
Prairie Valley did not start off the tournament on the right note. Playing Newcastle, the Lady Bulldogs lost 2-0, with one of the sets being close.
Prairie Valley bounced back, winning the next two matches in pool play against Olney and Vernon Northside in straight sets 2-0 to finish 2-1.
That put the Lady Bulldogs into the gold bracket on the final day. There, Prairie Valley beat Woodson and fairly easily 2-0 before winning a tightly contested match against Crowell that was also 2-0.
In the championship match, the Lady Bulldogs played Electra. Prairie Valley won the first set with some matter of control 25-19, but lost a closely contested second set 25-22. In the third and final set, the Lady Bulldogs let it get away from them and lost 15-11.
Renee’ Stout and Natalee Young were selected to the all-tournament team.

Missing scores
The Bowie News did not receive results from Saint Jo’s match, Gold-Burg’s tournament and Bellevue’s tournament last week.

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Kleinhans gets 1,000 dig

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The Nocona Lady Indians team celebrated junior libero Aubree Kleinhans getting her 1,000 career dig after their match against Holliday on Tuesday night at home.

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