SPORTS
Bowie tennis falls to Holliday
The Bowie Jackrabbit tennis team got a preview for a future district match when they hosted Holliday for a pre-district match on Monday.
The Eagles won the close match 11-8, getting some manner of revenge for their loss to the Jackrabbits last year during district play.
Bowie did not have a great day for its doubles teams, with only its top two teams earning wins early on.
First position girls doubles team Heidi Siebert and Laney Enlow continued their preseason dominance, winning defiantly 8-4 to improve their overall record to 7-0 this early in the season.
On the boy’s side, first position doubles team Rush Williams and Brooks Gray dominated in their match, winning 8-3.
Unfortunately, the Jackrabbits were trailing 5-2 heading into singles matches, but Bowie would rally.
Siebert and Williams would both win their matches in first position. Williams won 8-4 and Siebert 8-5. This improved Siebert’s record to 7-0 in singles matches this pre-season.
Enlow kept her day undeafeated winning a close match in the third position girl’s singles.
She won the tie breaker 9-7 to win the overall match 9-8.
Alyssa Airington in the fourth position girl’s singles 8-3. Gentry Gray won in the sixth position girl’s singles 8-5. Bryson Mills also won in the sixth position in boy’s singles with the score being 8-4.
Unfortunately, it was not enough for Bowie to come back after digging the hole. Holliday only needed to win four of the 12 singles matches to win overall and the Eagles ended up winning five of them to win 11-8.
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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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