SPORTS
Area athletes run well at Alvord cross country meet
Runners from Bowie, Nocona, Prairie Valley, Forestburg and Bellevue ran at the Wyatt Dickerson Invitational meet in Alvord on Wednesday.
Bowie put on both boy’s and girl’s teams who finished third and fifth while the Nocona boy’s team earned fourth place and the Bellevue girl’s team placed sixth overall.
The Bowie boys were just two points off from second place Sanger and 12 points from first place Slidell.
The Jackrabbits were led by Isaac Renteria and Brayden Willett who finished in first and second place, Renteria with a time of 16:51 and Willett 17:19. Bowie’s top five runners included Monte Mayfield (21st), Judah Livsey (24th) and Jackson Frie (27th).
The Lady Rabbits were led by Ollie Gaston who finished 14th overall with a time of 13:40. Bowie’s top five runners included Laney Seguria (18th), Bella Lozano (25th), Harlei Hudson (40th) and Brilee Lemons (54th).
For the Nocona boys team, Freddy Duran was the team’s top runner who placed 13th overall with a time of 19:07. The Indians top five runners were Andrew Perez (18th), Omar Salinas (20th), Emilio Rocha (38th) and Corbyn Patton (45th).
The Lady Indians had only runner compete for them, but Bayler Smith made an impact as she finished third overall with a time of 12:34.
It was just one place and one second behind Bellevue girl’s top runner Mattie Broussard who got second place with a time of 12:33.
The Lady Eagles top five runners included Brittany Gill (31st), Mary Grace Broussard (38th), Kaycee Conner (44th and Tristan Shook (51st).
Prairie Valley had two high school runners compete, one in the boys and one in the girl’s race. Josh Stout finished eighth overall with at time of 18:48. Linzie Priddy got 22nd overall with a time of 14:01.
The Bellevue boy’s team had three runners compete. River Trail was the team’s fastest runner who got 30th with a time of 20:41. The Eagles other two runners were Brycen Bancroft (47th) and Hunter Blackburn (64th).
Forestburg had two runners compete who were brothers. Josiah Wadsworth was the faster one that day, earning 41st place with a time of 21:36. That was two places better and 15 seconds faster than Jesse Wadsworth.
To see results for all area varsity runners, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.
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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