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Nocona
The Nocona Lady Indians wrapped up their second straight undefeated district title with a win at home against Chico on senior night.
The Lady Indians won in straight sets, making it so they never dropped a set all throughout district play.
Nocona won with the set scores being 25-19, 25-13 and 25-14.
Aubree Kleinhans led the team with 16 digs and Ava Johnson was second with 10. Bailey Waters had a team high three blocks while Graci Brown got one.
Skyler Smith led the team with 15 kills and tied with Meg Meekins with 21 assists. Meekins and Kleinhans also each had two service aces to lead the team while Meekins was second with 14 kills.

Bowie
The Bowie Lady Rabbits lost their final district game on the road at Iowa Park in another close and tough five-set match.
The Lady Hawks won the back-and-forth 3-2 to win as the Lady Rabbits finished with the fourth seed in district play.
Bowie was coming off an important, but easy win against Vernon. While the Lady Rabbits ended up having the final playoff spot wrapped up and could not have moved up even with a win, it was still important for Bowie to play well heading into the postseason.
The Lady Rabbits first match against Iowa Park on senior night did not go well. The Lady Hawks won in straight sets, though two of the sets were competitive.
On Tuesday night, Iowa Park was hoping to have a happy senior night but Bowie looked to be the one to play spoiler this time.
The Lady Hawks won the first set 25-20 to go up early. The Lady Rabbits responded by winning one of the closest sets of the match 26-24 to tie the score up at 1-1.
Iowa Park then responded by winning set three by the same score as set one 25-20 to go back up by one set. Bowie then tied the score back up by winning set four, also by the score of 25-20 to force a fifth and final set.
It was the Lady Rabbits third five-set match during district play alone, all coming in the last two weeks. Bowie was 1-1 in those matches entering Tuesday.
The fifth set proved to be the closest set of the match as neither team could pull ahead by more than two points at any time. Unfortunately, it was the Lady Hawks that came away with the win 15-13.

Saint Jo vs Gold-Burg
The Saint Jo Lady Panthers sealed their second straight undefeated district championship with a win at Gold-Burg on Tuesday.
The Lady Panthers won in straight sets against the struggling Lady Bears who ended their season.
Gold-Burg hung with Saint Jo in the first set before the Lady Panthers won 25-19. The next two sets were not as close as Saint Jo won with scores being 25-6 and 25-9.
It was a tough end to a frustrating season for the Lady Bears. A program used to going to the playoffs and being able to have a competitive match against almost any 1A team struggled with inconsistent play and inexperience. Coach Cheryl Cromleigh is used to having her teams showing a bit more fight, even in matches where they lose. Cromleigh hopes the overall make-up of the team is improved by next season.
For Saint Jo, the Lady Panthers hope to have another long playoff run, but will have to wait a bit before they play in a real match again.
The district championship means they have a bye into the area round which is a week and half from Tuesday’s match.

Prairie Valley vs Bellevue
The Prairie Valley Lady Bulldogs had a happy senior night with a straight sets win against Bellevue on Tuesday.
The Lady Bulldogs win set up a play-in game against Forestburg on Friday to see which team will earn the second seed heading into the playoffs.
The first set was competitive as Bellevue showed some fight, but Prairie Valley closed well to win 25-21. After that, the Lady Bulldogs made quick work winning the next two sets 25-5 and 25-6.
It was a disappointing way for the Lady Eagles season to end, though it was an overall good first year for Bellevue’s resurrected volleyball program.
The Lady Eagles were actually able to win a few matches, including a district one, while competing better in some losses after a rough first month of not playing well.
Considering Bellevue had few athletes with any volleyball experience before this season and that most of the team were underclassmen, that is a successful first year for Coach Mollee Kirk and the Lady Eagles.
For Prairie Valley, Linzie Priddy had a team high nine kills. Kai Cearley led the team with 10 service aces. Renee Stout had a team high 12 assists.

Missing scores
Forestburg did not play earlier in the week.

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Bowie softball team falls in area round

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Bowie softball had a historic season, where the squad made the postseason for the first time since 2019 and knocked a top seed from the playoffs, come to an end April 29.

No-4 ranked Tuscola Jim Ned got out to a quick start and took an 11-1, five inning win in the area round of the Class 3A Division I playoffs. Bowie had its season end at 19-15.

With a large crowd at Weatherford High rooting them on, Bowie took the field looking to knock out another top seed, as they did with Early last week.

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Willett, Richey off to State

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Bowie will have two track athletes at the State track and field meet May 14 with top two finishes at the Region 1-3A track meet at Abilene Christian University May 1-2.

Tyler Richey finished 2nd in the pole vault with a 15’ leap. Richey was also 9th in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 15.39. Sophomore Braden Willett was 3rd in the 1,600-meters with a school record best of time of 4:21.93. Willett was 4th in the 3,200-meter run with a time of 9:29.71.

Several other Rabbits and Lady Rabbits competed at the regional meet. The 800-meter relay foursome of Colton Dosch, Richey, Finn Riddle and Jaxon White  finished 6th with a time of 1:30.24 while the 1,600-meter relay team of Dosch, Judah Livsey, Riddle and Blaine Leonard finished 8th with a time of 3:30.76.

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Fourteen track athletes head to State

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Saint Jo’s boys and girls track teams took top honors at the Region III-A track meet at Hewitt Midway High School May 1-2 and will send several athletes to the state track and field meet May 16 in Austin.

The boys were led by Damon Byrd who won both the long jump with a 22’9 ¾” leap and triple jump with a 45’ 10 ½”. Byrd also won the 100-meter dash with a time of 1.03 and was a member of the victorious 800-meter relay along with Trent Gaston, Barrett Johnson and Lee Yeley with a time of 1:30.80.

Yeley won the high jump with a 6’ leap. Byrd, Yeley, Dominic Luna and Gaston combined for a 2nd-place finish in the 1,600-meter relay with a time 3:32.81. Gaston was 2nd in the 110-meter hurdles with a tie of 16.09. Johnson was 2nd in the 400-meter dash in 50.75, Ayden Giambruno was 6th in the 3200-meter run in 11:05.24 with Yeley 8th in the 200-meters with a time of 25.61.

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