SPORTS
Drawn hunt program exclusively online
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s new online-only public hunt drawing system is now live, the agency reported.
The new online-only system is currently accepting applications for drawn hunts for the 2014-15 calendar. This includes special permit hunts, E-Postcard hunts and United States Forest Service Antlerless Deer Permits.
The entire process – from applications to fee payments and permit issuance – is being handled electronically.
“Applications for Drawings on Public Hunting Lands,” booklets, application forms and permits will no longer be mailed out.
Hunting options can be browsed online by category, and there is an interactive map. A downloadable PDF of the catalog is also available.
Hunters can apply for multiple hunt areas within the same category, and the online system allows individuals more time to fill out applications. Applicants will have until midnight Central Time on the day of a given deadline to apply.
Applicants will also retain and accrue Preference Points, now called Loyalty Points. People will be able to check their application status and Loyalty Points online.
Only complete and accurate applications will be accepted, the TPWD reported. Once an application submission and billing process are completed, orders cannot be canceled and fees will not be returned.
All applicants must have a customer account. Those who do not have an account must create one with the new system, with a unique ID number. An ID number can be a Texas driver’s license number, social security number or passport number.
The drawn hunts program offers hunting experiences at more than 80 locations in the state in more than two dozen hunting categories.
Adult application fees for special permits are either $3 or $10 depending on category. Adult hunters that are selected will also need to pay an additional permit fee of $80 for regular hunts and $130 for extended hunts. There are no application fees for hunters ages 8-16, and non-hunting supervising adults.
To participate, applicants need Internet access, an email address, and a credit or debit card. Application deadlines start in August and wrap up in January.
For more information, call the TPWD at 1-512-389-4505 during normal business hours Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. or email: hunt@tpwd.texas.gov. There also a link to the new system on the TPWD website.
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
Bowie had six players play in the Maskat Shrine Oil Bowl football all-star game. For pictures from not just the football game, but the basketball and volleyball games as well that feature athletes from Bowie, Nocona and Saint Jo, click here https://www.dotphoto.com/go.asp?l=bnews1&AID=6875584&T=1
Nocona is welcoming back Coach Sandy Langford, former coach and alumnus for the Lady Indians, as its new volleyball head coach.
Langford comes back to Nocona after spending the past 11 years leading the Glen Rose volleyball program.
Her circumstances with her family allowed her to jump at the opportunity once she became aware the position at Nocona was available.
“My youngest graduated and is playing football at Midwestern (State University),” Langford said. “All of our family is here and I knew that Coach Kara (Lucherk) was leaving. We were eventually going to retire here. Our oldest son plays college football at West Texas A&M and we’ll be two hours closer to him as well.”
She again will lead the Lady Indians volleyball program, one that she led all the way to the state title game in 2011, which is the farthest the volleyball program has ever gone in its prestigious history.
Langford kept up that level of success during her 11 years at the bigger 4A Glen Rose. She won less than 20 games only twice during her time, winning her 500th career game back in 2023. Her teams were ranked among the top 10 in the state five times and Langford led Glen Rose to the state tournament in 2017, the best finish in program history.
With the Lady Indians also having its own string of success, appearing in back-to-back regional finals while finishing atop the district standings both years, Langford is excited to not just keep the success going, but shoot for the stars.
“We are not expecting anything less than a state championship,” Langford said.
She has stacked the non-district schedule with strong, state-ranked 3A and 4A teams as well as big tournaments that will test Nocona’s mettle early next season in the hopes it will prepare them for a long playoff run.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekly edition of the Bowie News.
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.
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