SPORTS
NOTEBOOK: Cable piles on points for Nocona
The Nocona High School boys’ track and field team placed eighth with 25 points, 23 behind Windthorst, at the Glen Eickman Relays on Thursday in Wichita Falls.
City View served as the meet host.
On the varsity girls’ side, Nocona was in a tie for ninth place with Olney, scoring 20 points.
As for Nocona’s junior varsity teams, Nocona’s boys scored 11 points and the girls six.
Tanner Cable scored most of the points for the Nocona varsity boys, with second-place finishes in both the 110-meter high and 300-meter intermediate hurdles. Cable’s time in the 110 hurdles was 17.46 seconds and 43.81 in the 300 hurdles.
Luis Rico came through with a fourth-place in the 800-meter run, clocking in at 2:16.22.
Nocona’s 1,600-meter relay foursome consisting of Tanner Cable, Joan Gomez, Dylan Parker and Rico was fifth in 3:52.50.
Connor Barrett earned gold for Nocona in the junior varsity discus, with a mark of 98-feet, 2 inches. John Womack was fourth in the JV 800 run (2:39.32).
On the girls’ side, Maria Hernandez was second in the 3,200-meter run with a time of 13:04.7, while she was fourth in the 1,600 run (6:01.64).
BASEBALL
Nocona 12, City View 2
Three triples helped Nocona defeat City View 12-2 as the Indians garnered their first District 3A-9 game of the season.
The Indians showed up ready to hit against the home team with Charles Evans, Robert Hawkins and Jose Ogeda all recording triples.
SOFTBALL
City View 14, Nocona 0
The Lady Indians’ struggles continued against City View on Friday evening and the home team went on to blank Nocona.
Deziray Graham and Sherese Price were the lone Lady Indians to record a hit. Read more, and see box scores, in the March 30 edition of The Bowie News.
Luis Rico, shown here at the Bowie Invitational from March 28, was fourth in the 800-meter run at the Glen Eickman Relays in Wichita Falls on March 24. (News photo by Eric Viccaro)
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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