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HIGH SCHOOL VOLLEYBALL: Saint Jo pushes Collinsville to five

Published

11 years ago

09/23/2015

The Saint Jo volleyball team, in defeat, played its best match of the season in extending Collinsville to five games.
Collinsville topped the Lady Panthers by scores of 25-16, 23-25, 25-20, 20-25, 15-9.
Saint Jo fell to 6-14, 0-2 in District 2A-10.
“I am very proud of our girls for playing the way they did,” Saint Jo head coach Dakota Crockett, a former Bowie High standout, said. “That was the first five-set game we’ve played this year. Now they know what it feels like.”
Crockett said Saint Jo made unforced errors in the fifth set to give Collinsville the match. The Lady Panthers were actually up 8-3 in the fifth before Collinsville rallied.
“Collinsville showed up things we need to work on and vice versa,” Crockett said. “I don’t think they expected us to play the way we did.”
Sarah Patrick and Bailey Melton provided the Lady Panthers with kills late in the fourth set, which forced the match to go the full five.
Patrick finished with a team-best 15 kills to go with eight ace serves and seven digs. Melton also had a solo ace block.
Delaney Hall, from her libero spot, recorded a team-best 12 digs to go with three kills and two ace serves. Read more in the weekend Bowie News.

Saint Jo’s Bailey Melton and Alyssa Hennessey combine on an ace block here during a Sept. 15 match versus Collinsville. (News photo by Eric Viccaro)

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Bowie softball team falls in area round

Published

5 days ago

05/07/2026

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Bowie softball had a historic season, where the squad made the postseason for the first time since 2019 and knocked a top seed from the playoffs, come to an end April 29.

No-4 ranked Tuscola Jim Ned got out to a quick start and took an 11-1, five inning win in the area round of the Class 3A Division I playoffs. Bowie had its season end at 19-15.

With a large crowd at Weatherford High rooting them on, Bowie took the field looking to knock out another top seed, as they did with Early last week.

For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.

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Willett, Richey off to State

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5 days ago

05/07/2026

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Bowie will have two track athletes at the State track and field meet May 14 with top two finishes at the Region 1-3A track meet at Abilene Christian University May 1-2.

Tyler Richey finished 2^nd in the pole vault with a 15’ leap. Richey was also 9^th in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 15.39. Sophomore Braden Willett was 3^rd in the 1,600-meters with a school record best of time of 4:21.93. Willett was 4^th in the 3,200-meter run with a time of 9:29.71.

Several other Rabbits and Lady Rabbits competed at the regional meet. The 800-meter relay foursome of Colton Dosch, Richey, Finn Riddle and Jaxon White finished 6^th with a time of 1:30.24 while the 1,600-meter relay team of Dosch, Judah Livsey, Riddle and Blaine Leonard finished 8^th with a time of 3:30.76.

For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.

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Fourteen track athletes head to State

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5 days ago

05/07/2026

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Saint Jo’s boys and girls track teams took top honors at the Region III-A track meet at Hewitt Midway High School May 1-2 and will send several athletes to the state track and field meet May 16 in Austin.

The boys were led by Damon Byrd who won both the long jump with a 22’9 ¾” leap and triple jump with a 45’ 10 ½”. Byrd also won the 100-meter dash with a time of 1.03 and was a member of the victorious 800-meter relay along with Trent Gaston, Barrett Johnson and Lee Yeley with a time of 1:30.80.

Yeley won the high jump with a 6’ leap. Byrd, Yeley, Dominic Luna and Gaston combined for a 2^nd-place finish in the 1,600-meter relay with a time 3:32.81. Gaston was 2^nd in the 110-meter hurdles with a tie of 16.09. Johnson was 2^nd in the 400-meter dash in 50.75, Ayden Giambruno was 6^th in the 3200-meter run in 11:05.24 with Yeley 8^th in the 200-meters with a time of 25.61.

For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.