SPORTS
Realignment: No big shake ups
Monday morning saw the official release for the University Interscholastic League’s district realignment for 2020-2022 school years with no big changes for local teams.
The cutoff numbers had already been released back in December for schools going up or down in classification whereas Monday was the release of districts.
The Jackrabbit’s football team got no breaks as the same hard district stayed put. The Indians’ football program dropped state power Gunter and S&S Consolidated while picking up Valley View. The newcomers have made the playoffs in two of their last three seasons.
The Saint Jo football district drops Savoy, who went 0-4 in district, and picks up charter school TLC-Arlington, a program without much of a track record in six-man.
The Gold-Burg and Forestburg football district will now have four teams as Trinidad joins Ladonia Fannindel. The new Trojans have made the playoffs the last few years, making a playoff berth tougher.
In basketball and volleyball, Bowie and Nocona will no longer have to make the two-hour drive to Childress. The Bobcats were replaced with familiar district foe Jacksboro and Breckenridge. Both programs have held their own in district seven against Brock, Peaster, Boyd, Millsap and Paradise and look to only make the district harder in most cases.
For the 1A volleyball teams, things will still be tough, but different. For the Lady Panthers and Lady Horns, the familiar faces besides each other will be Alvord and Lindsay. The district gets another 1A school with Perrin-Whitt, but new 2A schools include Graford, Poolville and Chico.
What this changes is the automatic playoff berth for both programs. With the Lady Pirates in the mix, one team could stay home for the playoffs.
The district for Prairie Valley and Gold-Burg volleyball teams almost stayed the same. The only difference was the inclusion of another 1A school, Bryson, into the mix. With four 1A teams, the challenge to be one of the top two will be a tougher road as the Cowgirls are coming off a regional tournament appearance.
The 1A basketball district will keep the same seven teams that have been in the district since 2016. Slidell continues to rule on both the boys and girls side as state powers everyone has to deal with and aspire to.
The full district realignment list can be found online at https://realignment.uiltexas.org/.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week 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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