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Volleyball Roundup
Nocona
The Nocona Lady Indians traveled on Tuesday to take on Bridgeport, one of the top ranked teams in 4A.
The Lady Indians hung in there in a back and forth match with neither team able to put the other away. Unfortunately, the home team pulled out the win in the fifth set to send Nocona home a little put down, but also encouraged.
The Sissies came in with division I recruit Zoe Hall and tall Anna Strother. The Lady Indians knew they were going to give them issues all night with the team’s relative lack of elite height at the net.
Still, Nocona battled in a first set that could have gone either way. Some service errors from the Lady Indians cost them the set as Bridgeport won 26-24.
Nocona refocused and dominated set two to win 25-10 to tie the match. The Sissies wrestled back control by closing out the end of set three to win 25-18 to retake the lead.
The fourth set was another battle with neither team able to gain much of a lead. This time the Lady Indians were able to make the plays at the end to take the set 26-24 to force a fifth set.
Bridgeport grabbed control of the set and won 15-9 to take the match.
Averee Kleinhans led Nocona with 26 kills while adding 11 digs, three assists and two blocks. Ella Nunneley provided a good second option with 15 kills while setter Trystin Fenoglio had a season high of 50 assists to go along with a team high three aces.
On defense, libero Laramie Hayes led the team with 19 digs while middle blocker Jessica Dingler led the team with three blocks.
Nocona next plays Lindsay at home at 6 p.m. on Aug. 27 before they get ready for its hosted Buckle Up for Lane tournament next weekend.
Prairie Valley
The Prairie Valley Lady Bulldogs traveled to Chillicothe on Tuesday night and picked up a solid win against the Lady Eagles in straight sets.
The Lady Bulldogs had to work to win each set, but were able win each by a comfortable enough lead to not sweat things too much. Prairie Valley won 25-18, 25-19 and 25-2.
Emily Carpenter led the team with 12 kills with Shelby Roof right behind her with 10 kills. Veronica Gutierrez dished out 14 assists to lead the team while libero Hailey Winkler led the team with 10 digs.
Prairie Valley next plays Northside at 5 p.m. at home on Aug. 27.
Forestburg
The Forestburg Lady Horns traveled to Perrin-Whitt on Tuesday and showed some good things to the Lady Pirates.
Unfortunately, the Lady Horns came up short as they lost in four sets.
Perrin-Whitt won the first set 25-13, but Forestburg came back to win a tightly contested second set 25-23 to show it was not playing around. The Lady Pirates tightened things up in sets three and four and took care of business to win 25-13 and 25-17 against the Lady Horns.
Keeleigh Burnam led the team with four kills and seven digs. Katie Willett led the team with five assists to go with her three kills. Athena Britain had a team high five aces to go along with two kills and five digs on defense.
Forestburg next plays at 5 p.m. at Bryson on Aug. 27.
To read the full story, 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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