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Volleyball Roundup
Bowie
The Bowie Lady Rabbits lost a tough opening district match to Henrietta on Saturday morning at home.
The Lady Cats won in straight sets 3-0 against the Lady Rabbits, who struggled to stay with the more experienced Henrietta team.
Coming into district play, Bowie is still growing week by week and will need to in a district with plenty of great teams at the top. Henrietta is the defending district champs and returns plenty from that team to look poised to getting it again.
With the Lady Cats having some big blockers at the net and ability hit on quick hitting set pieces, it was a challenge for the Lady Rabbits despite the inexperience.
The first set did not start well as Henrietta got out to an 8-2 lead. Even when Bowie started to settle down and play more competitively point-to-point, it was the Lady Cats that won the next six five-point exchanges 3-2 which caused their lead to grow throughout the set. Henrietta won 25-14.
The start of the second set was up and down for both teams until the Lady Cats grabbed control. Henrietta started 4-1, but then Bowie went on a 4-1 run to tie the set at 5-5.
Then the Lady Cats went 5-0 to establish control and the Lady Rabbits could not get it back. Henrietta won the next four five-point exchanges 3-2 to grow its lead again. The Lady Cats then ended on a three-point run to close the set winning 25-13.
Bowie needed to show more in the third set now down 2-0. The Lady Rabbits were only down 6-4, but again Henrietta started to win the five-point exchanges 3-2 to slowly but surely grow its lead to 21-14.
Bowie showed some life, going on a 4-1 run to get back some of the deficit, but the Lady Cats sealed the set on a three-point run to win 25-18. Henrietta took the match 3-0.
Nocona
The Nocona Lady Indians lost a match against Lindsay on Friday night.
The Lady Knights won in straight sets 3-0, though two sets were pretty close.
Nocona was still missing senior outside blocker Meg Meekins, who missed her second game with an undisclosed injury.
The two teams have met in the third round of the playoffs the past two seasons, with Lindsay winning the first time and the Lady Indians winning last year’s match.
The first set was close, but the Lady Knights held control and won 25-22. The second set was not as competitive as Lindsay won 25-18 to take a 2-0 lead.
The third set could have gone either way as it went to extra points. In the end, the Lady Knights came out on top 27-25. Lindsay won 3-0.
Kaylea Bowles led the team with 15 kills while Ava Johnson was second with 11. Kasi Castro had a team high 22 assists while Leah Meekins was second with 11 assists. Avery Crutsinger and Castro both had one service ace.
On defense, Paige Davis led the team with two blocks while Jolie Rose and Krisyah Parker each had one. Aubree Kleinhans led the team with 24 digs while Jonson and Meekins each had 10.
Nocona is next scheduled to play at 4 p.m. on Sept. 20 at Saint Jo.
Saint Jo
The Saint Jo Lady Panthers finished second at their hosted tournament during the weekend.
The Lady Panthers went 5-1 overall during the tournament before losing in the championship match.
Saint Jo was hoping to get some good momentum going in its final tournament of the season with district play closing in.
The Lady Panthers swept through pool play, beat Ector, Sacred Heart and Lipan without losing a set.
Saint Jo then started bracket play with a win against fellow district opponent Prairie valley. The Lady Panthers won in two sets to move on. Against state-ranked 2A team Detroit, Saint Jo won a close three-set match to move on to play in the championship match.
There they played fellow state-ranked 1A team Harrold. The Lady Hornets were state runners-up last year and with them moving into Saint Jo’s region, the team that could potentially stand in the Lady Panthers way if they want to make it to the state tournament.
Saint Jo lost the first set 25-18, but the Lady Panthers battled back in set two to win 25-18 to tie the match at 1-1. In the third and final set, it was Harrold that came through to win the closest set of the match 25-22, securing the championship for the Lady Hornets.
Prairie Valley
The Prairie Valley Lady Bulldogs had an up and down tournament at Saint Jo last week.
The Lady Bulldogs went 2-3 overall, winning some matches but struggling against tough competition in others.
Prairie Valley started off well with straight set wins against Tishomingo and Munday in pool play. Unfortunately, the Lady Bulldogs lost to Grayson Christian to end the day 2-1.
This was good enough to advance the team into the gold bracket. Unfortunately, this meant the team was paired against future district opponent and eventual tournament runner-up Saint Jo. Prairie Valley lost 2-0 to move to the consolation side of the bracket. There the Lady Bulldogs faced 2A Alvord and fell short to end the tournament.
Forestburg
The Forestburg Lady Horns came back from a tough start to their tournament in Saint Jo to finish strong and earn the consolation championship.
The Lady Horns went 2-4 overall, but won their last two matches to earn the silver bracket consolation title.
Part of the trouble was in pool play where Forestburg had eventual tournament champion Harrold, state-ranked 2A team Detroit and 2A Chico to play all in the same day.
After the Lady Horns lost all three of those matches, they got put in the silver bracket where they played Sacred Heart. It was a close match in both sets, but Sacred Heart won both to send Forestburg towards the consolation side of the bracket.
There the Lady Horns beat Tishomingo easily to meet Ector in the title game.
After losing set one, Forestburg came back to win closely in both sets two and three to wrap up the victory.
Bellevue
The Bellevue Lady Eagles played some of the best volleyball they have all season at the Saint Jo tournament.
The Lady Eagles went 3-3 overall and ended up finishing second in the silver bracket.
The young and still inexperienced Bellevue team has struggled at times to compete this season while its tough schedule has tested it.
It seems to be paying off as the Lady Eagles easily won the first match of the tournament in pool play against Olney. Unfortunately, matches against Dodd City and Alvord did not go well and Bellevue ended pool play with 1-2 record.
That sent the Lady Eagles to the silver bracket. There they won matches against Tishomingo and Sacred Heart in straight sets to reach the championship game of the bracket.
Playing against 2A Chico, unfortunately Bellevue fell to the bigger school in straight sets to finish as runners-up.
Missing scores
The Bowie News did not receive scores from Gold-Burg’s match on Friday.
To read the full story pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
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Two former Bowie boy’s golf members played in the PGA University Championship on Nov. 12-13. (L-R) Cy Egenbacher and Imanol Walker are both in the Sam Houston University PGA Golf Managerment program. The team finished 16th overall. Egenbacher shot 168 during the two rounds and finished tied for 67th. Walker shot 180 and finished 84th. The tournament is a fun one for univesities that have PGA Golf Management programs, which is for individuals who want to work in the golf industry after graduation.
The Saint Jo Lady Panthers came up short at the regional final for the third straight season, one game away from state, on Saturday at the regional tournament in Midlothian.
The Lady Panthers beat Evant in straight sets 3-0 on Friday to reach the final game against Harrold which they lost 3-0.
Saint Jo knew before the season even started it would likely come to this big challenge, but it still had to go through all the steps to get there.
The Panthers reached the regional finals the previous two seasons, losing both times to eventual state champion Blum.
With district realignment meant a new region so a rematch with a Blum program that had graduated several key players from those teams would have to wait until state possibly.
Instead, a showdown against last year’s state runner-up Harrold was forecast in the regional final.
With the team having six seniors, with five of them having been on varsity since they were freshman, it was this year or bust for Saint Jo.
First, the Lady Panthers had to beat Evant. The Lady Elks leaned heavily on a big front court player. When she rotated to the back row, Evant showed almost no net resistance which meant Saint Jo hitters had free reign during that time.
The Lady Panthers won each set pretty easily, with the scores being 25-17, 25-17 and 25-19.
This set up the match with Harrold the team had been anticipating. The Lady Hornets had been at or near the top of the state standings since the beginning of the season.
Harrold had so much respect it had even played bigger local schools this season, beating Bowie in straight sets and Nocona in five sets during its pre-district schedule.
The two teams had met earlier in the season when the Lady Hornets attended Saint Jo’s hosted tournament. The two teams met in the tournament championship where Harrold won 2-1.
Still, with the tournament format being a best of three instead of five and the match after playing an exhausting schedule of five matches the previous two days, that result was not gospel, especially two months later.
The challenge is Harrold had multiple big hitters at the net, which is a big deal since most 1A teams are lucky to have one or two, which meant constant pressure on Saint Jo’s defense.
This also meant the Lady Panthers constantly had to find ways to attack the Lady Hornet defense as well or it would face strong hit after strong hit which was unsustainable for any team.
The first set saw the Lady Hornets get out to a good start before the Lady Panthers rallied back and took a little lead 8-7. Unfortunately, it started turn from there.
Harrold had some good runs from the service line that Saint Jo struggled to make much offense out of and led to the Lady Hornets pulling away. Harrold won 4-1 to get the lead to 11-9 and then extended it to 14-11, 17-13. Another 4-1 run and the Lady Hornets could smell the end of the first set coming.
The Lady Hornets won 25-17 to take the lead 1-0.
Saint Jo needed to bounce back, but unfortunately never got anything going in set two.
Harrold led 4-1 and then 8-2. The Lady Panthers would have needed a huge run at some point from the service line to get back into the set, but it never came as the Lady Hornets lead grew more and more.
Harrold took set two 25-13 to go up 2-0 and had all of the momentum.
Saint Jo had its back against the wall, knowing the only option was to hope for a comeback that would lead to a fifth set, but to get there it needed to win set three.
The Lady Panthers initially started on the right foot. After falling being 4-1 to start the previous two sets, it was Saint Jo that started well up 4-1. Unfortunately, the Lady Hornets came roaring back, going on an 8-2 run as it led 9-6, then 12-8 and 15-10.
It looked like it was heading towards a similar place as set one with Harrold slowly running away with the set before the Lady Panthers made one last gasp.
Saint Jo eventually cut the lead down to one point, trailing 20-19 as the set entered the final stretch and the Lady Panthers had their best momentum of the match.
Unfortunately, it was Harrold that was able to close the set out with momentum, earning the final five points to win 25-19 and the match 3-0.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News. For pictures from Friday’s match, click here https://www.dotphoto.com/go.asp?l=bnews1&AID=6870620&T=1
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