SPORTS
BOWIE NOTEBOOK: Cross country runs Wednesday
The Poolville Independent School District will have a cross country meet on Sept. 24 on the high school campus grounds.
Poolville High School is located at 1001 Lone Star Road.
Bowie and Bellevue are among the area schools competing in the race.
The varsity and junior varsity girls combined will run at 2:30 p.m. This will be a two-mile race.
The varsity and junior varsity boys combined will run at 3 p.m., in a three-mile race.
The junior high school girls’ race is set for 4 p.m., followed by junior high boys at 4:45.
The festivities will conclude with an elementary school fun run, which will cover one mile, at 5:30 p.m. The fun run is for boys and girls in grade six or lower.
Boosters approve
several purchases
The Bowie High School Booster Club had a meeting this past Monday in the high school commons, and agreed to several purchases.
The boosters agreed to the purchase of new basketballs for the Bowie boys’ and girls’ basketball programs. Basketballs cost $640 per team.
In addition, basketball warm-ups were approved for purchase totaling $800 for the girls program.
Softball practice shirts and shorts were purchased for $1,200.
In addition, Booster Club member Craig Stallcup reported there was a discussion on the forthcoming Homecoming game against Gunter on Sept. 26 and Bleacher Creatures.
Booster Club
meets Monday
The next meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. on Monday in the BHS commons.
Bowie JV maroon team falls to Boyd
The Bowie High School JV maroon team lost to Boyd on Tuesday in two games 25-10, 25-20 at the high school.
Ivy Dennis and Lauren Gill both supplied two assists for the Lady Rabbits.
Heather Skinner served up one ace and had one kill. Kylie Robinson and Gill both had two kills.
JV maroon team stands at 7-8.
The JV white squad didn’t play on Tuesday.
All teams are expected to compete on Saturday against Jacksboro at home, with the junior varsity matches starting at 11 a.m.
Bowie Junior High
competes at NCTC
The Bowie Junior High School eighth-grade and seventh-grade “A” teams will both compete at the North Central Texas College volleyball tournament today.
Matches will begin at 8 a.m. Both the seventh- and eighth-grade championship matches are scheduled for 6 p.m.
Joining Bowie in this one-day tournament are the following: Valley View, Krum, Callisburg, S&S Consolidated of Sadler, Gainesville, Whitesboro and Lindsay.
All-day admission will be $5 for adults and $3 for those under 18 years old.
The NCTC volleyball team will operate a concession stand.
Bowie Jackrabbits. (Logo provided by the Bowie Independent School District)
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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