SPORTS
1A district cross country results
Bowie’s Pellham Park was the sight for the county’s 1A schools district meet on Wednesday.
With the top three teams or a top 10 finish individually being the key to qualify for the regional meet, Students from Prairie Valley, Bellevue, Saint Jo and Forestburg qualified.
The Lady Bulldogs’ team won the program’s third straight district title, edging out a Slidell team by the barest of margins. With both teams tied after their top five runners places were added up, Prairie Valley’s sixth runner Carmen Gomez was the difference as she finished 19th compared to Slidell’s sixth runner finishing 21st.
The Lady Bulldogs were led by Shelby Roof finishing fourth overall with a time of 14:04. Hailey Winkler and Karagan Ritchie joined her in the top 10 in eighth and ninth place. Molly Gilleland and Emily Carpenter got 11th and 14th to round out the top five runners.
On the boy’s side, Saint Jo finished second overall as a team to Slidell. The Panthers were led by two-time state qualifier Logan Morman, who won the race with a time of 17:53. Kile Thurman and Collin Thomas also finished in the top 10 with third and sixth place finishes. The team was rounded out with Joshua Vogal finishing 13th and Connor Thompson finishing 18th.
Another team qualifying was the Bellevue girl’s team. The Lady Eagles were led by Sky-Lar Embry, who finished second overall with a time of 13:51. Among the top five runners for Bellevue included Austin Ford finishing 12th, Grace Martin 13th, Hailey Hanvey 17th and Cecilie Fjeldborg 26th place.
As far as individuals who qualified, Prairie Valley boy’s had Tyler Winkler finish ninth as he ran 19:29. On the girls side, Forestburg had Constance White finish 10th as her time was 14:50.
The regional meet will be on Oct. 28 at Jesse Owens Memorial Complex in Dallas.
To read the full story and see results for all area high school runners, 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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