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Volleyball Roundup
Bowie
The Bowie Lady Rabbits played at the Glen Rose Tournament and did well enough to earn their way to the gold bracket.
On Friday the Lady Rabbits did well in pool play. They were able to beat Peaster in three tightly contested sets 27-25, 19-25, 25-20.
Matches against Eastern Hills and La Vega were no contest as Bowie won both in straight sets by big margins. Their one loss of the day was against Denton as they were overmatched, losing in straight sets.
Their 3-1 record got them to the gold bracket where they played Sanger. They lost in straight sets when they played China Springs.
After losing the first set 25-14, the Lady Rabbits were able to win a close second set 25-21 to force a third set. Unfortunately they lost the third set 25-14 and were out of the tournament.
Aslyn Davis was named to the all-tournament team for the second straight time. Bowie plays in their final tournament this weekend at Argyle.
Forestburg
The Forestburg Lady Horns played in their first official tournament during the weekend in Chico.
The Lady Horns struggled, but were able to gain valuable experience. After coming up short against Electra and the Boyd JV on Thursday, Forestburg played much better on Saturday.
Against Quanah the Lady Horns just missed out on winning the first set 25-23 before losing the second set 25-15.
Forestburg was able to bounce back and played their best game of the tournament against Crowell. The Lady Horns dominated, winning the first set 25-4 and the second 25-12 for their first win of the tournament.
Unfortunately, Forestburg was matched up with Electra again and lost in straight sets to end their tournament.
Kassidy Travis led the team with 15 kills, Lacy Huddleston with 21 digs, Katie Willett with 14 assists and Faith Moore with 10 aces.
Coach Cori Hayes was able to look through the losses and find the good in the five matches his team needed at this point in the season.
“I think overall we played pretty well in all five games,” Hayes said. “Our strengths were service and hustle, our weakness would’ve been lack of communication. Our number one priority from here out needs to be improving communication.”
The Lady Horns’ next game is at 5 p.m. this Friday at Gold-Burg.
Gold-Burg
The Gold-Burg Lady Bears played in their second tournament last week at Chico.
The Lady Bears struggled to get wins, going 1-4, but they were able to keep some of the matches close.
After a terrible first set in their opening game against Petrolia, Gold-Burg played them a lot closer, losing only 25-22.
Against Quanah the Lady Bears played two back and forth sets with them that could have gone either way. Unfortunately, Quanah ended up pulling out both wins with close scores of 25-23 and 25-21.
Coming off just missing a win, Gold-Burg took their frustration out on Harold. The Lady Bears won the game in straight sets by good margins of 25-16 and 25-15.
Gold-Burg’s last two matches against tournament host Chico and Vernon Northside were less competitive as they lost both matches in straight sets.
Taylor Lyons and Kelly Contreras were named to the all tournament team.
Coach Cheryl Cromleigh saw positives in a lot of her team’s matches and areas they still need to improve.
“Once we got started against Petrolia I saw lots of improvement in our defensive coverage and our hitting,” Cromleigh said. “In the Harrold match everything clicked and we looked awesome at times. We still need to serve better. That cost us the Quanah match, we missed serves at the wrong time. I’m proud of the girls.”
The Lady Bears next game is when they host Forestburg at 5 p.m. on Aug. 24.
Prairie Valley
The Prairie Valley volleyball team hosted Savoy on Friday.
The first two sets were competitive, but saw Prairie Valley pull away at the end, winning 25-18 and 25-20. Then the third set came.
“We started off slow but by set three we were really playing together well,” Coach Jeannie Carpenter said. “Everything just clicked and the results were impressive.”
The Lady Bulldogs stomped Savoy in the third set, winning 25-3 to win the game overall in three sets.
Emily Carpenter led the team with 9 kills, Sydni Messer with 13 assists, Hailey Winkler with 10 digs and Kincaid Johnson with 9 aces.
Prairie Valley next plays at 5 p.m. on Aug. 28 at Northside.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
The Bowie sports banquets was on Monday night. Olivia Gill and Tucker Jones were named Jackrabbit and Lady Rabbit of the year. Pick up the mid-week paper for all of the sports team awards and pictures.
The 72nd Chisholm Trail Rodeo was a big success on Friday and Saturday nights at Nocona.
The rodeo had big crowds and saw some good competition from both local and far reaching talent.
Winners in the events included Zach Hibler in bareback riding, Lindsey Muggli in barrel racing, Ashley Goforth in breakaway roping, Leanardo Lima in bull riding, Cody McCartney in calf roping, Thomas Moellering in ranch bronc riding, Wacey Hathcock in saddle bronc riding, Renato Finazzi in steer wrestling, Rowdy Jones and Rance Doyal in team roping.
To see full results and more pictures, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
The regional tennis tournaments were late last week in North Richland Hills and a doubles team is moving on to state.
The Saint Jo girl’s doubles team Kyler Dunn and Taylor Patrick won the 1A region III tournament and will return to state for the second straight year.
The pair rolled through teams from Morgan, Dodd City, Priddy before beating a Graford team in the finals. The pair did not lose a set and only lost five of the 53 games it played, never losing more than one in a set.
The team made it to state last year after finishing second at regionals and won a match at the state meet against a team from Vernon Northside. They then lost to the eventual state champion team from Utopia and finished tied for third place.
They will be the only tennis players from Montague County playing at state this week as others did not have as successful regional tournament.
The Saint Jo teammates and fellow girl’s doubles team Bailie Nobile and Maxey Johnson won their first match against Ector 6-1, 6-4, but fell in their next match against Lometa, 6-1, 6-1.
From Prairie Valley, Case Carpenter was competing in boy’s singles. His first match was a draining two and half hour battle against a player from Strawn Carpenter came through in the three-set battle, winning 6-4, 5-7, 6-4.
Unfortunately, the magic was not there in the second game. Paired against the eventual tournament champion from Gustine, Carpenter lost 6-0, 6-1.
From Gold-Burg, Alyson Rojas and Jimena Garcia competed in girl’s singles. Rojas won her first match against a girl from Avinger 7-6, 6-2. Unfortunately, the next match she lost to a girl from Graford 6-0, 6-0 to end her tournament.
Garcia lost a tough first match against a player from Ector. Both sets could have gone either way with the scores being 6-4, 7-5 to the winner.
The mixed doubles team from Forestburg, Jesse Wadsworth and Alli Cisneros, also did not make it through.
From Nocona, Kaygan Stone was playing in the girl’s singles 2A region II tournament.
Unfortunately, she got paired against the player who would go on to win the tournament in the first round to end her season.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
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