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.

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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.

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Bowie Head Football Coach Tyler Price said he was pleased with the performance of his varsity Rabbits in an Aug. 14 scrimmage with Holliday.

 I loved the energy and intensity of our kids from the start,” Price said following the 90-minute scrimmage. “We had a couple of positions that we really wanted to see step up tonight, both the offensive line and secondary. They were challenged and they both stepped up.”

The offensive line helped Bowie move the ball at times almost at will. Allowing for both the first and second teams to score several touchdowns. Holliday opened with a 10-play series against Bowie’s first team defense. 4 and 10 both had defensive stops. A big defensive stop on the final play had the Rabbits fired up  Lane Whitfield runs and a pass from Bryton Horton to 10 got the ball into the red zone. The drive stopped short even after a nifty Willie Brown block opened the door for Jaxon White.

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