SPORTS
Nocona teams play at Henrietta
The Nocona basketball teams had drastically different types of games on Friday as they traveled to Henrietta.
The Lady Indians won a one-sided game 64-32 while the Indians lost another heartbreaker 43-42.
The Nocona girl’s basketball team came in confident, having beaten the Lady Cats by more than 30 points in the first matchup and sitting atop the district standings undefeated.
The Lady Indians led 13-6 after the first quarter, but let Henrietta hang around in the second quarter.
“We did not start the game with the sense of urgency we needed too, which led to Henrietta having a big second quarter,” Coach Kyle Spitzer said.
The Lady Cats scored 16 points in the quarter and trailed only 30-22 heading into halftime.
Nocona turned up the defensive intensity in the second half. Henrietta only scored 10 points combined in the second half while the Lady Indians continto score in bunches as they pulled away in the second half.
Averee Kleinhans led the team with 33 points while Karlee Brown also scored in double-digits with 10 points. The team shot well as Nocona made seven 3-pointers.
The Nocona boy’s started the game well, but the Bearcats took a 22-21 lead at halftime. The Indians played good in the third quarter and led 34-27 heading into the fourth quarter. Unfortunately, Henrietta was able to make some things happen, enough to pull out the one point win 44-43.
The loss is the second straight for Nocona by one point. Jason Sparkman led the team with 15 points while Cesar Gutierrez joined him in double figures with 11 points.
Only Childress got through unscathed as every other team has beaten up on the other with no rhyme or reason to the outcome. Nocona is still in a good spot, but is this close from being in second place with a 4-1 record.
Nothing to do now but keep moving forward as the Indians have the ability to play with and beat any team in district. Nocona travels to Childress to play at 7:15 p.m. on Feb. 7.
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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