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HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL: Bowie prepares for Whataburger
By ERIC VICCARO
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Get ready, Bowie High School boys’ and girls’ basketball fans.
Both the Jackrabbits and Lady Rabbits will be competing in the Whataburger Tournament down in the Fort Worth area this coming week.
The court is sure to be as hot as a Whataburger with jalapenos and green chilies.
Bowie’s girls will take on Wall in this match up of two teams ranked among the top-20 in the Texas Association of Basketball Coaches Conference 3A poll.
Wall, with a record of 10-5, is ranked No. 3, behind Shallowater and Sunnyvale. Bowie (12-4) is situated at No. 19.
“Wall is a very talented team,” said Bowie head girls’ basketball coach Colby Davis-Pastusek. “They are well-coached and disciplined.”
This will mark Bowie’s third trip to the Whataburger Tournament on the girls’ side. The boys are playing in the event for the first time in many years.
“It’s an honor to play in it,” Davis-Pastusek said. “It’s a talented group of teams, top to bottom. It’s going to be a good challenge and great competition.”
Bowie comes into the tournament rolling, with a pair of district wins over Boyd and Henrietta by the whopping margin of 162-37.
But, the Lady Rabbits still have some things they need to work on, Davis-Pastusek stated.
Bowie will play Wall at 7 p.m. on Dec. 29, at Saginaw High School.
Should Bowie defeat Wall, the team will face Liberty Christian or Cisco in the next round on Dec. 30 at noon.
If Bowie loses, it will play Abilene Wylie or Crandall in the consolation bracket at 11:30 a.m.
The Bowie boys have a less daunting opening-round task, taking on Grapevine Faith Academy at 10 a.m. on Dec. 29, at Chisholm Trail High School in North Fort Worth.
Bowie (10-4) is coming off a tough 72-64 loss to Iowa Park.
Grapevine Faith has a record of 7-10. However, the Lions are a high-scoring team and they’ve put up 114 points on Gainesville.
Should Bowie win, it will play either Kennedale or Liberty Christian at 9:30 a.m. on Dec. 30. If the Jackrabbits fall, they will play either Wall or Argyle at noon the same day. Read more of the story in the weekend Bowie News.
Bowie’s Jordan Brightwell, shown here driving for a basket during a Dec. 12 game against Decatur, has been named one of the players to watch during next week’s Whataburger Tournament at Saginaw. See more information on Page 3B. (News file photo by Eric Viccaro)
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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