SPORTS
Volleyball Roundup
Prairie Valley vs Gold-Burg
The Prairie Valley Lady Bulldogs won an important game at Gold-Burg on Saturday.
Despite some starters dealing with injuries the Lady Bulldogs were able to win in straight sets against the Lady Bears.
Gold-Burg has zeroed in on Prairie Valley with the hopes to beat them and get a chance at a district title the last several years with the Lady Bulldogs having a hand in the last three years of district titles.
The Lady Bears were without a middle-blocker and down to seven players while Prairie Valley was just getting back its middle blocker Brianna Harris from injury while all-state outside hitter Emily Carpenter was laboring through a back injury.
The first set was going Gold-Burg’s way up 17-13, but the Lady Bulldogs came back to steal the set 25-22.
Prairie Valley then got out to a lead in the second set 15-5 and the Lady Bears could never recover. Gold-Burg did make a late run to build some momentum, but the Lady Bulldogs won 25-17 to take a 2-0.
The third set saw Prairie Valley build a narrow lead, but the Lady Bears did not allow it to get out of hand. The Lady Bulldogs led 21-19 down the stretch and then was able to close out the set and match strong 25-20.
Bowie
The Bowie Lady Rabbits won their first district game on Saturday at home against Jacksboro.
The Lady Rabbits won in straight sets against the Lady Tigers with the set scores 25-12, 25-22 and 25-14.
Cailyn Johns led the team with 10 kills. Neely Price was second with nine kills while leading the team with 18 assists and one block.
Taygon Jones led the team with 16 digs while she and Maddie Mandela each had three service aces.
Nocona
The Nocona Lady Indians beat Breckenridge on Friday to close out homecoming week for them.
The Lady Indians won in straight sets with little trouble against the Lady Bucks. Nocona won with set scores 25-16, 25-11 and 25-19.
Skyler Smith led the team with seven kills to go with 11 assists. Megyn Meekins had a team high 15 assists to go with six kills and three aces.
Makenna Nobile had a team high 11 digs. Laney Yates and Kaygan Stone also each had three service aces.
The team’s next three game stretch is the toughest playing Holliday, Bowie and Henrietta all in a row. The Lady Indians
Saint Jo
The Saint Jo Lady Panthers lost to Chico on Friday.
The Lady Dragons won in straight sets against the Lady Panthers, with set scores being 25-16, 25-18 and 25-12.
Aubrey Morman led the team with seven kills and three aces. Kayden Skidmore led the team with nine assists while Elaina Everson had seven digs.
Forestburg
The Forestburg Lady Horns lost at Poolville on Friday.
The Lady Monarchs won in straight sets against the Lady Horns with set scores being 25-12, 25-12 and 25-15.
Rachel Allen, Kendall Cross each had two aces to lead the team. Bailey Payne, Faith Moore, Reagan Ladewig and Allen each had two kills.
Payne led the team with three assists while Moore had 12 digs.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
SPORTS
Bowie Sports Banquet
The Bowie sports banquets was on Monday night. Olivia Gill and Tucker Jones were named Jackrabbit and Lady Rabbit of the year. Pick up the mid-week paper for all of the sports team awards and pictures.
SPORTS
Chisholm Trail Rodeo entertains crowd
The 72nd Chisholm Trail Rodeo was a big success on Friday and Saturday nights at Nocona.
The rodeo had big crowds and saw some good competition from both local and far reaching talent.
Winners in the events included Zach Hibler in bareback riding, Lindsey Muggli in barrel racing, Ashley Goforth in breakaway roping, Leanardo Lima in bull riding, Cody McCartney in calf roping, Thomas Moellering in ranch bronc riding, Wacey Hathcock in saddle bronc riding, Renato Finazzi in steer wrestling, Rowdy Jones and Rance Doyal in team roping.
To see full results and more pictures, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
SPORTS
Saint Jo pair heading back to state tennis
The regional tennis tournaments were late last week in North Richland Hills and a doubles team is moving on to state.
The Saint Jo girl’s doubles team Kyler Dunn and Taylor Patrick won the 1A region III tournament and will return to state for the second straight year.
The pair rolled through teams from Morgan, Dodd City, Priddy before beating a Graford team in the finals. The pair did not lose a set and only lost five of the 53 games it played, never losing more than one in a set.
The team made it to state last year after finishing second at regionals and won a match at the state meet against a team from Vernon Northside. They then lost to the eventual state champion team from Utopia and finished tied for third place.
They will be the only tennis players from Montague County playing at state this week as others did not have as successful regional tournament.
The Saint Jo teammates and fellow girl’s doubles team Bailie Nobile and Maxey Johnson won their first match against Ector 6-1, 6-4, but fell in their next match against Lometa, 6-1, 6-1.
From Prairie Valley, Case Carpenter was competing in boy’s singles. His first match was a draining two and half hour battle against a player from Strawn Carpenter came through in the three-set battle, winning 6-4, 5-7, 6-4.
Unfortunately, the magic was not there in the second game. Paired against the eventual tournament champion from Gustine, Carpenter lost 6-0, 6-1.
From Gold-Burg, Alyson Rojas and Jimena Garcia competed in girl’s singles. Rojas won her first match against a girl from Avinger 7-6, 6-2. Unfortunately, the next match she lost to a girl from Graford 6-0, 6-0 to end her tournament.
Garcia lost a tough first match against a player from Ector. Both sets could have gone either way with the scores being 6-4, 7-5 to the winner.
The mixed doubles team from Forestburg, Jesse Wadsworth and Alli Cisneros, also did not make it through.
From Nocona, Kaygan Stone was playing in the girl’s singles 2A region II tournament.
Unfortunately, she got paired against the player who would go on to win the tournament in the first round to end her season.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
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