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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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Bowie track runs at Peaster in final meet before district

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The Bowie track team competed in its final meet before district last week on March 27 at Peaster.
The boy’s team finished fourth overall while the girl’s team got seventh place.
The boy’s team had three athletes who won their events.
Russell Anderson won the 400 meter race, Braden Rhyne won the triple jump and Tyler Richey won the pole vault events.
Some other highlights for the team included Cody West getting second in the shot put, the 4×400 relay team getting second place, Richey getting fourth in the 110 meter hurdles, Rhyne getting third in the 300 meter hurdles and Jorge De Leon getting fourth in both the discus and shot put.
Brayden Willett got second place in the 3200 meters, third place in the 1600 meters and fourth place in the 800 meter race.
The Lady Rabbit highlights included Dallie Monroe getting fourth in the shot put, Laney Segura getting fifth in the 800 meters and Olivia Richey getting sixth in the 100 meters.
The 4×200 relay got fifth place and the 4×100 relay got sixth place to earn points.
Bowie competes in the district rack meet this week at Iowa Park. The running finals are scheduled for 5 p.m. on April 4.

Results for all Bowie varsity athletes who finished sixth or better are in the weekly edition of the Bowie News.

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Montague County has nine named all-region basketball players

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Nocona’s Meg Meekins (above) not only earned all-region honors, she also earned all-state honors and was named the Texas Girls Coaches Association 1A-4A Player of the Year.

Other Montague County basketball athletes who were named to all-region teams including Rayder Mann from Bowie and Reagan Phipps from Nocona. From Saint Jo, Payzlie Cervantes, Taylor Patrick and Barrett Johnson were named to the all-region team. From Forestburg, Jesus Sanchez, Brenna Briles and Kyler Willett were named to the all-region team.

For pictures of all nine athletes, pick up a copy of the weekly edition of the Bowie News.

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Baseball Roundup

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Logan Hoover dives head first into home plate, beating the tag to score one of Saint Jo’s three runs in the game. (Photo by Jennifer Gaston)

Saint Jo
The Saint Jo Panthers lost a close game at home against Perrin-Whitt on March 28.
The Pirates won 8-3, only taking the lead in the seventh inning after the Panthers had come back to tie up the game.
Saint Jo was coming into the game after a close one-run loss in extra innings against Perrin-Whitt earlier last week.
The second game started with two scoreless innings before the Pirates got on the board in the third inning. A line drive into left field resulted in a fielding error that allowed one run to score. A double followed that drove in another run as Perrin-Whitt went up 2-0.
The Pirates added to the lead in the fourth inning, driving in a run on a single to extend its lead to 3-0.
Saint Jo answered back in the same inning. Charlie Evans drove in one run with a single. Later in the inning, with a runners on second on third base, the Perrin-Whitt pitcher balked twice, an illegal pitching motion, that allowed both runners to advance to home plate. The Panthers had tied the score at 3-3.
After a scoreless fifth and sixth inning, the Pirates had the pressure on in the seventh inning.
With the bases loaded, a hit batter and later a walk scored two runs for Perrin-Whitt. Then a bases clearing double scored three more runs to break the game open in the final inning.
Saint Jo tried to answer in its final at-bats, getting two singles and drawing a walk but could not get enough things going to score.
The Pirates won 8-3.
Evans led the team with one RBI and two hits as the team finished with five hits and drew six walks.
Sam Martin allowed eight runs (two earned) on seven hits while striking out six and walking three batters in 6.2 innings of work. The defense committed three fielding errors overall.

Nocona
The Nocona Indians had a tough start to district last week, losing both games in their series against Lindsay.
The Knights won 11-4 and 7-3 against the Indians last week as Nocona hopes to get back into the playoffs.
Nocona was coming off a string of good wins the previous week against smaller schools, but knew Lindsay would be tough.
The first game saw Lindsay continually score runs in the first four innings, building a 9-0 lead before the Indians could get on the board in the bottom of the fourth inning with two runs.
Nocona added two more runs in the fifth inning to cut the lead to 9-4 and get some momentum heading into the final two innings.
After a scoreless sixth inning, the Knights scored two runs in the seventh inning to extend their lead and eventually win 11-4.
Miller Jentry led the team with two RBIs while RJ Walker also drove in two runs. The team had only two hits, but drew nine walks in the game.
Brody Langford allowed six runs (two earned) on five hits while striking out three in three innings pitches. Landon Fatheree allowed five runs (two earned) on seven hits while striking out one and walking four. The defense committed five fielding errors.
Nocona knew it could play better and tried to in the second game later in the week while playing on the road at Lindsay.
The Knights again took the early lead, scoring in three of the first four innings and going up 6-0. The Indians scored two runs in the fifth inning and one in the top of the sixth inning to initially cut the lead to 6-3. Lindsay answered with one run in the bottom of the sixth inning and held on to win 7-3.
Walker Murphey led the team with two RBIs after hit a double. Kutter Cabrera drove in the other run for Nocona. The Indians finished with three hits and drew only two walks, making the most of their limited opportunities.
Walker got the start on the mound and allowed seven runs (two earned) on eight hits while striking out six batters and walking two in six innings of work. The defense committed six fielding errors overall.

Bellevue
The Bellevue Eagles started district last week playing a series against fellow 1A team Bryson.
Unfortunately, the Cowboys won both games handily 11-1 and 10-1.
Bellevue was coming off a tough week where it hung tough playing 2A teams Nocona and Chico, not getting wins but competing well against the more experienced and bigger schools.
Unfortunately against Bryson in the first game, a few bad defensive innings threw away a good start to the game. Bryce Ramsey drew a leadoff walk in the first inning and stole his way around to second base, third base before eventually coming home on a steal.
Bellevue led 1-0 after the first inning.
That was the highlight as the Cowboys scored four runs in both the third and fourth inning to take control of the game. Bryson eventually added three more in the sixth inning.
The Eagles needed to score at least one run to avoid getting run-ruled and play the seventh inning, but could not do it. The Cowboys won 11-1.
Walker Strahan, Ryan Jones and Ramsey each had one hit to lead the team. With the Eagles drawing only one walk, it was a tough day swinging the bats for Bellevue.
Defensively, the Eagles allowed 12 hits and walked four batters, though avoided committing any fielding errors.
The second game on the road was not much better.
Bryson built up a 6-0 lead before Bellevue scored in the fifth inning. Cam Blaylock scored on the base paths to cut the lead to 6-1. The Cowboys responded in the same inning scoring four runs to go up 10-1.
The game cuts off on the Game Changer app from there.
Ramsey led the team with three hits in the game and Strahan was behind him with two hits as the team finished with six total and drew one walk.
Defensively, Bryson had nine hits and drew eight walks, but Bellevue did not commit any fielding errors.

To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekly edition of the Bowie News.

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