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Gold-Burg vs Forestburg
The Gold-Burg Bears beat fellow Montague County team Forestburg on Friday as both teams opened up district play.
The Bears won 56-8, with the game ending late in the third quarter due to mercy rule.
Gold-Burg came in as the favorites with a 4-4 record compared to the Longhorns 2-6 record. Still, Forestburg was coming into the game after a win while the Bears had lost a competitive game the week before.
Gold-Burg started the game off strong. The Bears had Paul Jones score on a 34-yard run. Forestburg drove down the field, but eventually on fourth down, Gold-Burg saw Hayden Chambers come through with an interception deep in the Bears territory.
Gold-Burg took advantage as Jayton Epperson then got loose for a 50-yard touchdown run.
The Longhorn offense did not have as much luck moving the ball the next drive and turned the ball over on downs. The Bears took over and scored on their first play when Keelyn Case weaved his way for a 37-yard touchdown run.
Gold-Burg was up 20-0 heading into the second quarter.
The new quarter did not change the trend of the game. Forestburg turned the ball over on downs on its next drive and the Bears quickly scored on a 33-yard run from Epperson.
Then on back-to-back possessions, errant tosses on run plays from the Longhorns were picked up by no other than Epperson who took them the distance for scores, one a 35-yard return and the other covering 65 yards.
Forestburg bounced back before halftime. Jesus Sanchez got the ball and ran for a 13-yard touchdown to cut the lead down to 42-8 with less than a minute to play.
Gold-Burg was trying to do everything it could to end the game at halftime and now needed to score twice in short order.
Multiple long touchdown runs got called back due to penalties which got the Bears sidelined heated and led to angry shouts between coaches, players and officials, which was really the only black mark on a great night for Gold-Burg.
The Bears did not end up scoring and the halftime score was 42-8.
While Gold-Burg was trying to regain its composure so it could end the game on a more positive note, Forestburg had to forge ahead without its leading rusher Christian Binanti who hurt his shoulder enough to be done for the night.
The Bears started off the second half recovering the onside kick. They quickly drove down the field and scored on a six-yard run from Case to go up 50-8.
Despite missing its leading rusher, the Longhorns carried on and drove down to Gold-Burg’s red zone. Unfortunately for Forestburg, another turnover ended the scoring chance. The Bears’ Jones recovered the fumble at their own six-yard line.
Gold-Burg took some time to drive the length of the field before eventually ending the game when Levi Hellinger found Case open for a 10-yard touchdown pass.
The Bears won 56-8 with 3:44 to go in the third quarter.
Saint Jo
The Saint Panthers came off the bye-week and won a high-scoring district game at home against Leverett’s Chapel on Friday night.
The Panthers won 89-38, with the game ending at halftime due to mercy rule, but had already gone long enough since 127 points had been scored in only 20 minutes of game action.
Saint Jo came into the game confident with an undefeated record compared to the Lions who were 4-3.
The Panthers scored on almost half of their offensive plays in the game, scoring 11 touchdowns on only 23 plays. It was easily their best performance of the season as both its passing and running games were equally as potent.
Devin Stewart completed 10 of his 12 passes for 232 yards and five touchdowns. He also rushed for 80 yards and two touchdowns.
He was the team’s second leading rushing as Wyatt Lucas rushed for 85 yards and two touchdowns. Blayton Calabrese also rushed for a touchdown.
Lee Yeley led the team with six catches for 149 yards and four touchdowns. He also rushed for one touchdown as well. Wade Lucas caught two passes for 60 yards and one touchdown.
Nocona
The Nocona Indians lost another tough game on the road, this time against Tom Bean on Friday night.
The Tomcats won 49-0 against the Indians.
Nocona was hoping it could add to the free fall Tom Bean was on.
The Tomcats had won their first four non-district games but came into Friday’s game on a four game losing streak and had yet to win a district game.
Unfortunately, Tom Bean seemed to get back on track against the Indians.
Nocona’s defense did not have as many mistakes lining up or tackling last week, but that’s because the Tomcats just ran right at the Indians and dared them to stop them.
The Indians struggled to bring down Tom Bean’s big mobile quarterback, who ended the game with 152 yards rushing and was responsible for five of his team’s seven touchdowns.
Nocona’s offense struggled to move the ball. McCrae Crossen led the team with 39 yards rushing.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News. For pictures from the Gold-Burg versus Forestburg game, click here https://www.dotphoto.com/go.asp?l=bnews1&AID=6870068&T=1
Two former Bowie boy’s golf members played in the PGA University Championship on Nov. 12-13. (L-R) Cy Egenbacher and Imanol Walker are both in the Sam Houston University PGA Golf Managerment program. The team finished 16th overall. Egenbacher shot 168 during the two rounds and finished tied for 67th. Walker shot 180 and finished 84th. The tournament is a fun one for univesities that have PGA Golf Management programs, which is for individuals who want to work in the golf industry after graduation.
The Saint Jo Lady Panthers came up short at the regional final for the third straight season, one game away from state, on Saturday at the regional tournament in Midlothian.
The Lady Panthers beat Evant in straight sets 3-0 on Friday to reach the final game against Harrold which they lost 3-0.
Saint Jo knew before the season even started it would likely come to this big challenge, but it still had to go through all the steps to get there.
The Panthers reached the regional finals the previous two seasons, losing both times to eventual state champion Blum.
With district realignment meant a new region so a rematch with a Blum program that had graduated several key players from those teams would have to wait until state possibly.
Instead, a showdown against last year’s state runner-up Harrold was forecast in the regional final.
With the team having six seniors, with five of them having been on varsity since they were freshman, it was this year or bust for Saint Jo.
First, the Lady Panthers had to beat Evant. The Lady Elks leaned heavily on a big front court player. When she rotated to the back row, Evant showed almost no net resistance which meant Saint Jo hitters had free reign during that time.
The Lady Panthers won each set pretty easily, with the scores being 25-17, 25-17 and 25-19.
This set up the match with Harrold the team had been anticipating. The Lady Hornets had been at or near the top of the state standings since the beginning of the season.
Harrold had so much respect it had even played bigger local schools this season, beating Bowie in straight sets and Nocona in five sets during its pre-district schedule.
The two teams had met earlier in the season when the Lady Hornets attended Saint Jo’s hosted tournament. The two teams met in the tournament championship where Harrold won 2-1.
Still, with the tournament format being a best of three instead of five and the match after playing an exhausting schedule of five matches the previous two days, that result was not gospel, especially two months later.
The challenge is Harrold had multiple big hitters at the net, which is a big deal since most 1A teams are lucky to have one or two, which meant constant pressure on Saint Jo’s defense.
This also meant the Lady Panthers constantly had to find ways to attack the Lady Hornet defense as well or it would face strong hit after strong hit which was unsustainable for any team.
The first set saw the Lady Hornets get out to a good start before the Lady Panthers rallied back and took a little lead 8-7. Unfortunately, it started turn from there.
Harrold had some good runs from the service line that Saint Jo struggled to make much offense out of and led to the Lady Hornets pulling away. Harrold won 4-1 to get the lead to 11-9 and then extended it to 14-11, 17-13. Another 4-1 run and the Lady Hornets could smell the end of the first set coming.
The Lady Hornets won 25-17 to take the lead 1-0.
Saint Jo needed to bounce back, but unfortunately never got anything going in set two.
Harrold led 4-1 and then 8-2. The Lady Panthers would have needed a huge run at some point from the service line to get back into the set, but it never came as the Lady Hornets lead grew more and more.
Harrold took set two 25-13 to go up 2-0 and had all of the momentum.
Saint Jo had its back against the wall, knowing the only option was to hope for a comeback that would lead to a fifth set, but to get there it needed to win set three.
The Lady Panthers initially started on the right foot. After falling being 4-1 to start the previous two sets, it was Saint Jo that started well up 4-1. Unfortunately, the Lady Hornets came roaring back, going on an 8-2 run as it led 9-6, then 12-8 and 15-10.
It looked like it was heading towards a similar place as set one with Harrold slowly running away with the set before the Lady Panthers made one last gasp.
Saint Jo eventually cut the lead down to one point, trailing 20-19 as the set entered the final stretch and the Lady Panthers had their best momentum of the match.
Unfortunately, it was Harrold that was able to close the set out with momentum, earning the final five points to win 25-19 and the match 3-0.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News. For pictures from Friday’s match, click here https://www.dotphoto.com/go.asp?l=bnews1&AID=6870620&T=1
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