SPORTS
Bowie, Nocona sending runners to regional cross country meet
Teams from Bowie and Nocona competed Thursday morning in Holliday at the district cross country meet, hoping for a chance to qualify for the regional meet.
While meet host Holliday’s teams took overall titles, both of Nocona’s teams and Bowie’s boys team qualified for the regional meet while one Lady Rabbit qualified individually.
The Jackrabbit cross country team finished second as a team, with Alex Shelton the first Jackrabbit across the finish line in third place with a time of 18:49. Trevor Vann and Syd Mayfield finished in the top 10 by finishing eighth and ninth respectively.
Riley Harris and Daniel Mosley rounded out the Jackrabbits top five runners who scored by finishing 13th and 16th. Taylor Pigg was not far behind Mosley, finishing in 18th place while Seth Robinson battled through a rolled ankle for more than half the race to finish 35th.
For Nocona, the Lady Indians finished second, with four of their runners finishing in the top 10. Mariah Hernandez finished first for Nocona in fourth place, with a time of 13 minutes. Kylie Rose finished a second later in fifth place and Raylee Sparkman was two seconds after that in sixth place.
Claudia Espinoza snagged the final individual medal in 10th place and Madilyn Feguson rounded out the scoring for the Lady Indians in 17th place. The final two runners saw Cobi Womack finish 25th and Naomi Enriquez finish 35th.
The Nocona boys team finished third and snagged the final team spot to regionals. Joan Gomez did not let an injury to his hand get in his way as he finished second overall with a time of 18:43. John Womack finished 15th, Hank Ulbig 20th, Lyndon Fenoglio 22nd and Adam Meekins 23rd to round out the top five runners.
Other runners saw Tyler Richards finish 26th and Rowdy Waters finish 32nd.
The Bowie Lady Rabbits came up just short of qualifying for the regional meet as they finished in fourth place.
Abby Zamzow medaled and finished ninth with a time of 13:29, good enough to punch her ticket the regional meet individually.
Landra Parr came in at 19th while Desarai Raeyes was right behind her in 20th place. Brysen Richey was two spots back in 22nd place and Ali Frie came in four seconds later in 24th place.
Thirteen seconds and two spots later Sage Bullock finished in 26th place and Sierra Skinner rounded out the Lady Rabbits in 31st place.
The regional meet will be Oct. 22 at Mae Simmons Park in Lubbock.
To read the full story and see full results, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.
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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