Sports

There’s one word that can be used to describe all the scoring plays in Thursday’s JV White game with Burkburnett.

It’s been a long day as i write this, the third of three stories. They’ll be plenty more of these to come.

Jacksboro’s volleyballers continued a strong turnaround Sept. 1 with a hard-fought five set thriller over host Burkburnett.

After a rollercoaster of up and down games to start the season, Jacksboro’s varsity volleyballers may have found a way to right the ship:

Get down by a large deficit and then fight their way back.

Twice in their five game marathon with Archer City Aug. 25, the Tigerettes rebounded from a five-point deficit and wound up taking the game twice. After a disastrous performance in their prior match vs. Paradise, Jacksboro rebounded with a 19-25, 25-22, 25-20, 15-25, 15-8 win over the visiting Lady Cats at Tiger Gym.

Jacksboro goes to 5-3 on the campaign.

The COVID virus has taught everyone about adjustments and being where you have to be when you have to be there.

When games first started getting cancelled, my wife and I absolutely loved spending time together and having maybe 2-3 nights apart in a month. We’d have dinner, play games, watch TV etc.

My colleague Nathan then left the paper in June so I did all the news but there was little or no sports so I was working about the same number of nights for the past few years when I split news and sports.

PARADISE – Led Zeppelin’s 1970’s classic “Communication Breakdown” should’ve been the theme song of the day at Panther Gym Saturday for the Jacksboro varsity volleyball team.

The girls never seemed to get into a zone with communicating leading to mental and physical mistakes throughout the matches with Lake Worth and the host team. Jacksboro did manage to beat Lake Worth in four games 25- 19, 25-15, 17-25, 25-22.

After a big five-game win over Archer City early in the week, Jacksboro’s varsity volleyball squad prepared itself for what certainly would be a battle vs. Windthorst Friday afternoon.

The Tigerettes held their own for most of the match, third game let down was the only blemish in a 25-19, 25-20, 22-25.25-23 win over the Trojanettes.