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Nocona volleyball breaks 10 year streak
The Nocona Lady Indians are heading to the regional tournament for the first time in 10 years after beating Lindsay on Tuesday night.
The Lady Indians won 3-1 against the Lady Knights in a rematch from last year’s playoffs.
Nocona was coming off a close five-set win against Como-Pickton from the previous area round match. It was the first close game the Lady Indians had played in nearly month after blowing through their district schedule and bi-district playoff match.
Funny enough, the last close match before district play came against Lindsay, which Nocona won in a five-set thriller on the road.
The Lady Knights had beaten the Lady Indians last year in the playoffs in the same regional quarterfinals round. Lindsay then went on to make it all the way to the state championship match before losing to Windthorst.
The Lady Knights graduated several key players from that team while Nocona returned most of the same faces from last year, but one year older and better.
The Lady Indians were probably slightly favored, but knew from the close win the previous month and a 2-1 loss against Lindsay in a tournament the month before that, the match would be tough.
Nocona came out with so much energy from the team and crowd that it seemed like it was going to set the roof on fire.
That energy lasted for the first 20 points as the Lady Indians jumped out to a 15-5 lead in the first set.
From there the Lady Knights settled down and started to play better and the blistering one-sided pace from Nocona cooled off a little bit.
With a 10-point lead, the Lady Indians were able to play even the rest of the set to win comfortably 25-15, but Lindsay had now woken up.
The Lady Knights went on a 7-3 run early in set two to open up an 8-7 lead into a 15-10. The lead kept growing as Lindsay’s big hitters started hitting their spots. The Lady Knights tied the match up, winning set two 25-17.
The third set was back-and-forth through the first 25 points. Nocona got some advantage, up four points 17-13. From there, the Lady Indians had control and were able to not let Lindsay string enough points in a row to come back.
Nocona won the set 25-20 and looked to close things out in set four, up 2-1.
The Lady Knights were looking to force another five-set match. Neither team could get up by more than two points the entire set.
Lindsay got a 16-14 lead and was able to keep it until the Lady Indians retook the lead 23-22 and looked to close the match.
The Lady Knights came back and had two set points ahead 25-24 and 26-25. Nocona won the next point both time to keep the set alive.
After tying the score at 26-26, the Lady Indians were able to win the next two points, closing out the match on a spike from Meg Meekins. Her teammates piled on her as Nocona won the set 28-26 and the match 3-1.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.
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.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
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.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
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.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
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