SPORTS
SPORTS BRIEFS: BHS offers fall tennis
Bowie High School will have its fall tennis program once again this year under head coach David Hall.
Fall tennis will begin the first day of school on Aug. 25, and will finish in the middle of October. Jackrabbit tennis players are urged to begin conditioning now.
The primary purpose of fall tennis is to practice and improve for the upcoming spring 2015 season.
Signing up for fall tennis isn’t mandatory, but athletes that do show up are “committing to practice after school for the allotted time frame,” according to a press release.
Practice will take place from 3:45-5 p.m. at the high school tennis courts on campus grounds.
To practice, athletes must have passed a physical and completed a battery of both University Interscholastic League and Bowie Independent School District forms.
For information, call Hall at 940-531-0077.
Fishing tackle is available
The Wichita Falls Texas Parks and Wildlife Department office is offering free loans of fishing tackle for those who need it.
The equipment is designed for family members to take children fishing, but the gear is open to anyone.
For information, call 940-766-2383.
Hunter safety course Aug. 23
Copper Breaks State Park in Quanah will offer the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department-approved hunter safety course at 9 a.m. on Aug. 23.
Wendell Barberee, Copper Breaks State Park ranger, will serve as the instructor.
The course is required by law for all hunters born after Sept. 2, 1971.
Proof of course completion must accompany the licenses.
Participation is by reservation only. Younger hunters should be accompanied by an adult.
The cost is $15, and payment is nonrefundable. The park admission fee is $2 for adults, but waived for course participants.
Copper Breaks is within driving distance of Bowie, 13 miles south of Quanah and eight miles north of Crowell on Texas Highway 6.
For more information, call Barberee at 940-839-4331.
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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