SPORTS
Football kicks off this week
The start of the high school football season is this week as all teams strive to make its record 1-0.
All five Montague County teams play, with all but Gold-Burg playing on the typical Friday night. The Bears are scheduled to play on Thursday night.
For Bowie, the Jackrabbits open the season at home playing a fellow 3A team Callisburg. The Wildcats are coming off a 5-6 season where they finished fourth in the district to earn a playoff spot.
For Nocona, the Indians are hosting Lindsay. The Knights are coming off a 5-6 season where they finished fourth in the district to earn the final playoff spot.
The team graduated only one starter on both sides of the ball and is expected to build on it, picked to finish second in its district.
They are ranked 15th in the state in 2A division II.
For Saint Jo, the Panthers are hosting Fort Worth THESA. It stands for Texas Home Educators Sports Association.
The Riders went 5-6 last year and finished third in their district to advance to the playoffs.
They advanced far enough before losing one round short of the state championship game.
For Gold-Burg, the Bears get one less day to prepare for their first game at Perrin-Whitt.
The Pirates are coming off a 2-8 season, but just missed the playoffs. Gold-Burg won last year’s game easily 64-16, but things are a bit different with both teams this season.
The game is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 29 at Perrin-Whitt.
For Forestburg, the Longhorns are playing Savoy this week. The Cardinals went 3-7 last year, but one of those wins came in district play to finish third in district.
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The Forestburg Lady Horns lost their home match against Victory Christian Academy on Friday night.
The Lady Patriots won in straight sets 3-0 against the Lady Horns in a match that was competitive for the first two sets.
Forestburg started the match out well, having a bit of a lead and going back and forth with Victory. Up 8-7, the Lady Horns hit a bit of a slump as the Lady Patriots went 7-3 to get a lead 14-11.
Forestburg struggled with some communication issues in the back row and missing serves, which was how it got the lead early on.
The Lady Horns played better and more competitively against Victory the rest of the way, but could not go on a run to make up the deficit.
The Lady Patriots wrapped up the first set, winning 25-19 to take the early lead 1-0.
Forestburg bounced back strong, getting a strong run of serves from hard hitting Logan Ladewig. The Lady Horns led by as much as 9-1.
Unfortunately, once that run was over, Victory started to come back fiercely. The Lady Patriots tied the score at 15-15, but had all of the momentum after going on a 14-6 run.
Thankfully, Forestburg was able to bounce back and play point-for-point with Victory the rest of the way.
It went into extra points, but unfortunately, it was the Lady Patriots that came out on top 27-25 to extent their lead to 2-0.
The Lady Horns would need to win three straight sets in a row if they wanted to come all the way back to win the match. Unfortunately, set three was the only set the team did not have a good start in.
It never got better as everyone could see the end of the match coming fast.
Victory won the set 25-9 to close out the match 3-0.
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