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Volleyball Roundup
Bowie
The Bowie Lady Rabbits lost a tough opening district match to Henrietta on Saturday morning at home.
The Lady Cats won in straight sets 3-0 against the Lady Rabbits, who struggled to stay with the more experienced Henrietta team.
Coming into district play, Bowie is still growing week by week and will need to in a district with plenty of great teams at the top. Henrietta is the defending district champs and returns plenty from that team to look poised to getting it again.
With the Lady Cats having some big blockers at the net and ability hit on quick hitting set pieces, it was a challenge for the Lady Rabbits despite the inexperience.
The first set did not start well as Henrietta got out to an 8-2 lead. Even when Bowie started to settle down and play more competitively point-to-point, it was the Lady Cats that won the next six five-point exchanges 3-2 which caused their lead to grow throughout the set. Henrietta won 25-14.
The start of the second set was up and down for both teams until the Lady Cats grabbed control. Henrietta started 4-1, but then Bowie went on a 4-1 run to tie the set at 5-5.
Then the Lady Cats went 5-0 to establish control and the Lady Rabbits could not get it back. Henrietta won the next four five-point exchanges 3-2 to grow its lead again. The Lady Cats then ended on a three-point run to close the set winning 25-13.
Bowie needed to show more in the third set now down 2-0. The Lady Rabbits were only down 6-4, but again Henrietta started to win the five-point exchanges 3-2 to slowly but surely grow its lead to 21-14.
Bowie showed some life, going on a 4-1 run to get back some of the deficit, but the Lady Cats sealed the set on a three-point run to win 25-18. Henrietta took the match 3-0.
Nocona
The Nocona Lady Indians lost a match against Lindsay on Friday night.
The Lady Knights won in straight sets 3-0, though two sets were pretty close.
Nocona was still missing senior outside blocker Meg Meekins, who missed her second game with an undisclosed injury.
The two teams have met in the third round of the playoffs the past two seasons, with Lindsay winning the first time and the Lady Indians winning last year’s match.
The first set was close, but the Lady Knights held control and won 25-22. The second set was not as competitive as Lindsay won 25-18 to take a 2-0 lead.
The third set could have gone either way as it went to extra points. In the end, the Lady Knights came out on top 27-25. Lindsay won 3-0.
Kaylea Bowles led the team with 15 kills while Ava Johnson was second with 11. Kasi Castro had a team high 22 assists while Leah Meekins was second with 11 assists. Avery Crutsinger and Castro both had one service ace.
On defense, Paige Davis led the team with two blocks while Jolie Rose and Krisyah Parker each had one. Aubree Kleinhans led the team with 24 digs while Jonson and Meekins each had 10.
Nocona is next scheduled to play at 4 p.m. on Sept. 20 at Saint Jo.
Saint Jo
The Saint Jo Lady Panthers finished second at their hosted tournament during the weekend.
The Lady Panthers went 5-1 overall during the tournament before losing in the championship match.
Saint Jo was hoping to get some good momentum going in its final tournament of the season with district play closing in.
The Lady Panthers swept through pool play, beat Ector, Sacred Heart and Lipan without losing a set.
Saint Jo then started bracket play with a win against fellow district opponent Prairie valley. The Lady Panthers won in two sets to move on. Against state-ranked 2A team Detroit, Saint Jo won a close three-set match to move on to play in the championship match.
There they played fellow state-ranked 1A team Harrold. The Lady Hornets were state runners-up last year and with them moving into Saint Jo’s region, the team that could potentially stand in the Lady Panthers way if they want to make it to the state tournament.
Saint Jo lost the first set 25-18, but the Lady Panthers battled back in set two to win 25-18 to tie the match at 1-1. In the third and final set, it was Harrold that came through to win the closest set of the match 25-22, securing the championship for the Lady Hornets.
Prairie Valley
The Prairie Valley Lady Bulldogs had an up and down tournament at Saint Jo last week.
The Lady Bulldogs went 2-3 overall, winning some matches but struggling against tough competition in others.
Prairie Valley started off well with straight set wins against Tishomingo and Munday in pool play. Unfortunately, the Lady Bulldogs lost to Grayson Christian to end the day 2-1.
This was good enough to advance the team into the gold bracket. Unfortunately, this meant the team was paired against future district opponent and eventual tournament runner-up Saint Jo. Prairie Valley lost 2-0 to move to the consolation side of the bracket. There the Lady Bulldogs faced 2A Alvord and fell short to end the tournament.
Forestburg
The Forestburg Lady Horns came back from a tough start to their tournament in Saint Jo to finish strong and earn the consolation championship.
The Lady Horns went 2-4 overall, but won their last two matches to earn the silver bracket consolation title.
Part of the trouble was in pool play where Forestburg had eventual tournament champion Harrold, state-ranked 2A team Detroit and 2A Chico to play all in the same day.
After the Lady Horns lost all three of those matches, they got put in the silver bracket where they played Sacred Heart. It was a close match in both sets, but Sacred Heart won both to send Forestburg towards the consolation side of the bracket.
There the Lady Horns beat Tishomingo easily to meet Ector in the title game.
After losing set one, Forestburg came back to win closely in both sets two and three to wrap up the victory.
Bellevue
The Bellevue Lady Eagles played some of the best volleyball they have all season at the Saint Jo tournament.
The Lady Eagles went 3-3 overall and ended up finishing second in the silver bracket.
The young and still inexperienced Bellevue team has struggled at times to compete this season while its tough schedule has tested it.
It seems to be paying off as the Lady Eagles easily won the first match of the tournament in pool play against Olney. Unfortunately, matches against Dodd City and Alvord did not go well and Bellevue ended pool play with 1-2 record.
That sent the Lady Eagles to the silver bracket. There they won matches against Tishomingo and Sacred Heart in straight sets to reach the championship game of the bracket.
Playing against 2A Chico, unfortunately Bellevue fell to the bigger school in straight sets to finish as runners-up.
Missing scores
The Bowie News did not receive scores from Gold-Burg’s match on Friday.
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By Luke Clayton
As an outdoors writer for the past forty years and a lifelong outdoors person, I have more than my share of down right comical things that occurred while spending time hunting, fishing and kicking around the outdoors. I’m betting if you have spent much time on the water or in the field, you too could fill a small book expounding upon your experiences. Looking back, sometimes WAY back, here are a few of the mishaps that have occurred that come to mind.
Many years ago I was invited by to hunt desert mule deer on Clayton William’s West Pyle Ranch out in the Trans Pecos region of Texas. I asked Paul Henderson, the wildlife manager on the ranch, if I could bring my muzzleloader. I could tell he was a bit hesitant but agreed-providing I could prove how well it shot at the range before the hunt. West Texas cowboys served as guides on the West Pyle and they were all intrigued with my “old west” looking TC SCOUT 50 caliber. They were also impressed at the groups the rifle was shooting at 100 yards. Just before it was time to go hunting, I was circled by six or so of the guides, all intent upon learning how to load and cap the muzzleloader.
The wind was blowing a gale and I made the mistake of looking away from the task of pouring powder into the rifle’s bore for an instance. A few hours later, I was putting the sneak on a tremendous 10 pointer that was with a herd of 12 or so does; the rut was going strong. Walt was watching me with binoculars as I stalked from rock to rock. When about 100 yards from the buck, I eased behind a big rock, scooted the Scout over the top of the rock, cocked the hammer and settled the sights on the buck’s shoulder. BANG.
I (and Walt, through binoculars) watched the big 350 grain conical bullet kick up dust way short of the buck. I realized I had just fired a very light powder charge (remember the wind was blowing hard when I loaded and I made the mistake of looking away from the task at hand). I slumped behind the rock, reloaded as quickly as my shaking hands could work, placed the #11 primer on the nipple eased back over the rock and to my amazement, the buck had only moved about 20 yards; he was still within range.
With a full charge of 90 grains of Pyrodex pushing it, the big conical bullet found its mark and I had my buck on the ground. Back at the truck Walt said something like “you don’t recon the wind blew the powder away before you could get it down the bore, do you”? I replied, “I recon it did.”
Way before I became a veteran outdoors writer, I was a fisherman; a fisherman that owned some of the most “clunkiest” old boats and motors one could imagine. Back in the early eighties, I remember buying an old Lone Star Commander 14 foot V nose aluminum boat that had seen years and years of use and abuse before I became its proud owner. I had an 18 HP. Evinrude mounted on the boat’s transom, vintage 1958. The old motor ran pretty well, most of the time but I simply could not get the boat’s battered hull to stop leaking. I dabbed everything from roofing tar to glue on the rivets and just when I thought I had the leaks stopped, a new one, or several
would pop up.
! A good friend, the late Loren Flynn who was my bass tournament partner, presented me with two empty coffee cans, a one pound can and a two pound can. It’s important to note that Loren owned a state-of-the-art (of the day) bass boat with all the bells and whistles available at the time. He enjoyed kidding me about the “Sea Dog”. “Here you go, Luke, I want you to keep these in the “Sea Dog”. The small one is your 12 volt bilge pump, the larger will serve duty your 24 volt. Use the smaller can for days when the boat is only leaking slightly. When things get really bad, go for the 24 volts.!” We had many laughs over Loren’s bilge pumps through the years!
I remember getting the idea to make the raggedly old trailer that came with the boat a “drive on”. I had another buddy that was a pretty good shade tree welder. He used some of the old black gas pipe to extend the wiring up from the trailer and I sprang for some brand new lights which he mounted to the top of the gas pipe extensions. His welding looked pretty good after I mounted the lights up high so they would not be exposed to the water when we backed the trailer down into the water. Nobody told us that the gas pipe was made from cast iron, a metal know known for taking much abuse! I backed the trailer down into the water and off loaded the boat just fine. The problem came when the fishing trip was over and it was time to load the boat. I will never forget easing the old boat just a few feet upwind from the trailer so that I could center the boat’s keel on the rollers. The nose of the boat contacted the left vertical piece of gas pipe and it instantly snapped off at the trailers frame. The wind caused the boat to contact the right vertical pipe and it too snapped as though it were made of a peppermint stick! From then on, I remember wading out and pushing the vintage craft back onto the trailer by hand! We caught a lot of bass and crappie from that ole boat and spent many happy hours fishing Lakes Crockett and Coffee Mill near Honey Grove.
Contact outdoors writer Luke Clayton through his website www.catfishradio.org. Catch Luke’s weekly podcast “Catfish Radio with Luke Clayton and Friends” just about everywhere podcasts are found.
The All-District 10-A volleyball team is loaded with Montague County players.
Saint Jo’s Savannah Hill was overall MVP with Forestburg’s Brenna Briles offensive MVP and Bellevue’s Tristan Shook defensive MVP. Co-blockers were Kamron Skidmore of Saint Jo and Mattie Broussard of Bellevue.
Saint Jo’s Maxey Johnson was setter of the year with teammate Jordyn O’Neal libero of the year. Forestburg freshman Addy Conway was newcomer of the year with Saint Jo Coach Kelly Skidmore named coach of the year.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Bowie’s girls competed Dec. 4-6 at the Cornfield Classic in Lubbock.
The Lady Rabbits split a pair of Thursday games, opening the tournament with a 41-15 loss to No.7 in Class 3A Coahoma. Lanie Moore’s 3-pointer and a Laney Enlow bucket accounted for all of Bowie’s offense in the first quarter, which ended with the Lady ‘Dogs up 6-5.
Moore added a second quarter 3-pointer to make up all the Lady Rabbit offense. Coahoma scored 10 points in the frame to go ahead 16-8.
Bowie had just three free throws from Parker Riddle and Emma Read in the third quarter with Coahoma more than doubling its first half offense with a 17-point frame for a 33-11 lead.
Riddle and Laney Segura each had a single basket in the final frame.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
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