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Volleyball Roundup
Prairie Valley
The Prairie Valley Lady Bulldogs took down 3A Whitesboro’s JV team at home on Tuesday night.
The Lady Bulldogs won 2-0, with the second set being more competitive after easily winning the first set.
Prairie Valley was coming off a second place finish at its first tournament in Electra. With an experienced core of seniors, the team has started the season well.
The first 10 points were neck and neck, but once the Lady Bulldogs started rolling the Whitesboro JV team collapsed. A string of hot serving and solid play allowed Prairie Valley to win dominantly 25-9.
With a set in the can, Coach Belinda Lloyd started focusing on getting some of her lesser experienced players into the game in certain situations.
Initially the Lady Bulldogs fell behind 7-3, but quickly came back to tie the score up at 10-10 and 15-15. Despite the competitive back and forth, it always felt like Prairie Valley was going to get its stuff together when it counted.
Nursing a 21-19 lead in the final stretch, the Lady Bulldogs closed on a 4-1 run to win the set 25-20 and the match 2-0. With the match being against a JV team, it was only a best of three instead of the usual best of five.
Nocona
The Nocona Lady Indians hosted Iowa Park on Tuesday and won a competitive match.
The Lady Indians won 3-1 as the middle sets proved to be the tightest part of the game.
Coming off a second place finish in the silver bracket at its last tournament, Nocona was hoping to pick up a win heading into their hosted tournament this weekend.
The first set went the Lady Indians way as they won 25-18. The second set went into extra points and the Lady Hawks won the set 28-26 to tie the match at 1-1.
The third set was another competitive one, but Nocona took it 25-22 to go up 2-1. Not wanting to give Iowa Park hope for a come back to force a fifth set, the Lady Indians won the fourth set in convincing fashion 25-15 to seal up the match 3-1.
Saint Jo
The Saint Jo Lady Panthers came up just short of pulling off a comeback in a match at Garner on Tuesday night.
The Lady Longhorns won the fifth and final set to close out the match 3-2, but not before the Lady Panthers won the previous two to get the game to that point.
The first two sets were neck and neck throughout. The type where neither team looked like the better one except the scoreboard demanded that one be declared the winner.
Garner won both sets by the smallest of margins 26-24 and 25-23 to go up 2-0.
A lot of teams would have folded after coming up just short not just once, but twice. Instead, Saint Jo buckled down and started to grind back.
The third set proved almost as close as the first two. In the end, the Lady Panthers were able to close out the set more definitively and won 25-22.
The fourth set saw Saint Jo get the lead and never let it go as it pulled away for the first time in the match. The Lady Panthers won 25-19 to tie the score at 2-2 and force a fifth and final set.
Fifth sets are a different beast than the rest of the match comes before it. Even with all of the momentum Saint Jo had coming in, that was thrown out the window entering set five.
With it being the first to 15 instead of 25, every scored point and every lead feels multiplied.
It was close, but Garner pulled out the win in set five 15-11 to be named the victors 3-2.
Forestburg
The Forestburg Lady Horns had to rework themselves on the fly in their match at Sacred Heart on Tuesday.
The Lady Tigers won 3-1 against the Lady Horns, but with the circumstances Forestburg would take that result.
It was the first game for Forestburg following two players quitting the team and another that was out for the game due to family issues.
The Lady Horns did come out and probably surprised everyone, including themselves, by taking the first set 25-18. Unfortunately the good times did not last forever.
Sacred Heart won the next three sets 25-19, 25-22 and 25-17. Ultimately, more work is still needed to be done with Forestburg’s new lineup.
Missing scores
The Bowie News did not receive scores from Bellevue and Bowie. Gold-Burg did not have a game earlier this week.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News. To see pictures from the Prairie Valley match, click here https://www.dotphoto.com/go.asp?l=bnews1&AID=6865521&T=1
The Red River High School Bass Club competed this past weekend, May 31 – June 1, at the State Tournament on Lake Conroe for the two-day tournament.
Two of the teams from Montague County traveled south to try their best at the culmination of the year for the state title. Teams were able to pre-fish on Friday before the Saturday and Sunday competition. On Friday, there was a flipping contest for the youth and Cooper Johnson won third overall and won a $500 scholarship and an Academy gift card.
The club’s two teams who competed were Lane Smith/Colt Henry with boat captain Jimmy Smith. The team placed 63rd with a total of 16.22 pounds. The second team of Cooper Johnson/Corbyn Patton and boat captain Jayson Toerck placed 169th with a total weight of 2.29 pounds.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekly edition of the Bowie News.
The Maskat Shrine Oil Bowl is this week on June 6-7 and graduating athletes from Bowie, Nocona and Saint Jo are confirmed to be playing.
In total, seven athletes from Bowie, five from Nocona and three from Saint Jo are planning to play in the all-star games this week. Nocona also will have a pair of coaches participating as well.
The girl’s basketball game kicks off events on June 6, scheduled for 6 p.m. at Wichita Falls Memorial High School. In the game, the east team will have Nocona players Avery Crutsinger, Meg Meekins and Reagan Phipps playing while Kyler Spitzer and Clayton Brown coach them one last time.
On the west team, Saint Jo’s Payzlie Cervantes is confirmed to be playing.
The boy’s basketball game is scheduled to follow at 7:30 p.m. On the east team, Bowie’s Boston Farris and Nocona’s Jose Gomez Jr. will be playing.
On June 7, the volleyball games are scheduled to start at 4 p.m. with the small school game. On the west team, Nocona’s Kaygan Stone and Saint Jo’s Taylor Patrick are confirmed to play. On the east team, Saint Jo’s Aubrey Morman will get to play her teammate.
There are no local athletes confirmed to be playing in the big school volleyball game.
The final event is the football game, scheduled for 7:30 p.m. at Memorial Stadium. It is an all Bowie affair with six players confirmed to be playing for the east team: Justin Clark, Jorge De Leon, Hunter Fluitt and Braden Rhyne, Preacher Chambers and Moh Azouak.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekly edition of the Bowie News.
Nocona Independent School District officials looked inward for a new athletic director/head football coach, selecting Jeff Hill for the position.
Hill, who served last year as Nocona football’s offensive coordinator and also led the softball program to the playoffs for the first time in a while as its head coach, was upgraded to the role.
This came on the heels of former Athletic Director Blake Crutsinger, who served in the role the last four years, resigned in May.
For Hill, the choice to apply for the position was a no brainer. His one year in Nocona had impressed upon him and his wife that it was the place they would like to be long term.
“I’m looking for a town to raise my kids in and Nocona has treated my family really well,” Hill said. “There are some really good people. The kids work hard. Everything I am looking for in a hometown is right here in Nocona and I want to try and make it as best as it can be, especially through athletics.”
Before Nocona, Hill served as the athletic director at S&S Consolidated while also spending time at Hebron and Whitewright in his coaching career.
Hill expresses great respect for the departing Crutsinger and besides changing a few small things in how he personally wants to do things, he is not trying to come in with a sweeping restructuring of the whole athletic department.
The program had five of its six team sports make the playoffs, with volleyball playing in the regional final and the girl’s basketball team winning the state championship.
That along with two athletes competing at the state championship in cross country and track with one earning a gold medal, it was one of the more successful school years in athletic program history.
“Coach Crutsinger was awesome and did a great job so honestly just little tweaks, a little bit of structure and cohesion amongst the coaching staff between boys and girls,” Hill said. “I hope to keep the winning tradition going overall in the athletic department.”
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekly edition of the Bowie News.
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