SPORTS
Prairie Valley hosts cross country meet
Cross country meets were happening all over on Wednesday as the area schools competed at Lindsay, Brock and Prairie Valley.
The team highlights included the Bowie boy’s winning first overall at Lindsay, the Gold-Burg boy’s winning first at Prairie Valley and both Saint Jo teams finishing in the top 10 at the big meet in Brock.
The Jackrabbits were led by Isaac Renteria and Brayden Willett, who finished first and second leading the team. Renteria had a time of 18:39 and Willett finished one second later. Both were more than a minute ahead of third place.
Bowie’s top five runners also include Monte Mayfield (9th), Jackson Frie (12th) and Hayden Sutton (14th).
Also in the boy’s race, Nocona, Bellevue and Forestburg had runners competing individually since they did not have a full team. The top Indian runner was Andrew Perez who finished fifth overall with a time of 21:00. The Longhorns only runner was Jesse Wadsworth who placed 11th with a time of 21:37. The Eagles first runner was River Trail who got 25th with a time of 25:25.
In the girls race at Lindsay, the Bellevue team finished third overall. Mattie Broussard was the team and meet’s top runner, finishing first with a time of 15:27. The Lady Eagles top five runners included Brittany Gill, (22nd), Mary Grace Broussard (23rd), Kaycee Conner (25th) and Tristan Shook (28th).
The Bowie girls’ team finished fourth overall. The Lady Rabbits top finisher was Ollie Gaston who placed sixth overall with at time of 16:41. The team’s top five runners included Bella Lozano (17th), Harlei Hudson (31st), Brilee Lemons (37th) and Isabella Caswell (38th).
The Nocona girls had one runner compete in the race. Bayler Smith finished second overall with a time of 15:38.
Prairie Valley hosted its own cross country meet and competed directly with Gold-Burg.
In the boy’s race, the Bears finished first overall. Claudio Segura was the team’s top runner who got first with a time of 18:27. Gold-Burg’s top five runners included Isaiah Willett (3rd), Jorge Montes (5th), Efren Villegas (6th) and Brady Allen (7th).
The Prairie Valley boy’s top runner was Josh Stout who got second with a time of 19:32. The Bulldogs top five runners were Dayne Sadler (4th), Aiden Clopton (8th), Sawyer Bray (10th) and Brody Tournay (12th).
The girl’s race had only two competitors. Linzie Priddy from Prairie Valley won first with a time of 14:20. Alyson Rojas from Gold-Burg got second with a time of 17:30.
Saint Jo participated in a huge meet at Brock that had at least 20 complete teams in each race.
The Lady Panthers placed ninth overall. The team was led by Savannah Hill who finished 32nd with a time of 13:49. Saint Jo’s top five runners were Abigail Carter (45th), Taylor Patrick (50th), Kaycee Clark (67th) and Jordyn O’Neal (95th).
The Saint Jo boy’s team got 10th overall. The team’s top runner was Jayden Curry who finished 20th with a time of 18:15. The Panthers top five runners were Barrett Johnson (24th), Elijah Young (26th), Julian Luna (57th) and Ayden Giambruno (98th).
To see results for all area high school 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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