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Nocona Lady Indians volleyball finish runner-up at Graham
The Nocona Lady Indians had another successful tournament at Graham over the weekend, coming up just short of winning the entire tournament.
The Lady Indians cruised through pool play on Friday and the gold bracket on Saturday before falling short in the championship game against Denver City.
Nocona played four teams in pool play on Friday, with two of them against Hawley and Denver City having to go to a third and final set.
After blowing Hawley away in the first set 25-9, the next two sets were back and forth. Hawley was able to win the second set 25-21 to force a third set.
It could have gone either way, but the Lady Indians pulled out the win 25-23.
Against Denver City, Nocona was able to win the first set convincingly 25-18. The second set went back and forth, needing to go to extra points where Denver City pulled out the win 27-25 to force a third set. The Lady Indians were able to pull themselves together and won the third set by a comfortable margin 25-16.
The 4-0 record allowed Nocona to go to the gold bracket. Their opening game on Saturday against Miller Grove proved no challenge as the Lady Indians won in straight sets easily.
Their next game against Clyde provided more of a challenge, with Clyde stealing the first set 25-22 to take the lead. Nocona battled in the second set and was able to pull it out with a close 25-23 win to force a third set.
The Lady Indians took control of the third set and won by a comfortable margin 25-18 to win the match and put them in the championship game.
They would have a rematch against Denver City, where unfortunately things did not go like the previous day.
“In the championship game against Denver City, we lost a close first set (25-22) and just lost our focus,” Coach Tiffany Clay said. “We got blocked a couple of times and our mindset went from being aggressive to playing it safe. They had three big guns and defensively were pretty scrappy so that just gave them an opportunity to stay in system and attack back at us.”
Denver City won the second set easily 25-14 to win in straight sets and the championship.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
Bowie, playing on a short rest, held with host Jacksboro for most of the volleyball match Oct. 1, but the Tigerettes pulled away late and defeated the Lady Rabbits 3-1 (26-24, 12-25, 25-14, 22-25).
The match was scheduled for Oct. 2 but was moved. Both teams are now 2-2 in District 6-3A.
Jacksboro got out to a quick lead in game one before Olivia Stewart’s kill and a three-point Olivia Richey serving run put the visitors up 8-7. Junior Abby Reneau broke things open with a six-point string to give Bowie a 15-8 cushion and force Jacksboro into a timeout.
The Tigerettes came back and took an 18-16 lead. KP Rutherford’s kill broke the serve and allowed Molly Enlow to tie the game at 18.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Gold-Burg Football Coach Austin Norman called his Bears’ 35-32 loss to host Perrin a “barn burner”.
It most definitely was as Gold-Burg, now 1-5 for the year gave the 5-1 Pirates everything they wanted for four quarters. Gold-Burg scored on the last play of the first half on a Peyton Epperson run with the two point conversion cutting the deficit to 20-16.
The Bears were their own worst enemy to open the third quarter with face mask and offside penalties moving the Pirates downfield setting up a first-and-goal at the Bear three. Defense by Epperson, Keelyn Case and Barrett Allen and a pair of Perrin penalties helped stop the drive and force a turnover on downs.
Gold-Burg was slapped with an intentional grounding penalty on the first play, giving Perrin a safety and extending the Pirate lead to 22-16. Defense by Epperson and JoJuan Grace after a first down run closed out the third quarter.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Nocona and Prairie Valley cross country teams took part in the Prairie Valley Invitational Sept. 20 while Bowie varsity runners competed in the Lubbock Invitational.
Lubbock
Leading the Rabbits was Kellen Rater who finished 10th among 162 runners with a time of 17:24.50. Finishing behind Rater was Shawn Willett with a time of 19:33.20. Hayden Sutton ran a 20:27.10 followed by Taven Melton in 20:39.20, Coleman Holloway in 20:53.80 and Jaxon Castro with a time of 21:31.60.
Laney Segura led the Lady Rabbits with a time of 14:41.30. She was followed by Kylee Waldrep in 15:56.80, Bella Lozano in 16:04.80, Angeles Alvarez with a time of 16:15.40, AnDee Miller in 16:23.70 and Isabella Caswell in 16:51 flat.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
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