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MONTAGUE COUNTY ALL-STAR TEAM: Girls’ hoops shines
By ERIC VICCARO
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Girls’ basketball teams from Montague and eastern Clay County shone brightly during the 2014-15 season.
Bowie had its deepest penetration in the playoffs since 2009, advancing to the regional semifinals and finishing with 30 wins.
“Each and every player on our team had vital roles that contributed to our successful season,” Colby Davis-Pastusek said. “Twenty win seasons are few and far between in this profession, and to win 30 games is remarkable.”
Forestburg qualified for the postseason and won its first playoff game in nearly a decade, playing in the area round versus a tough group from Saltillo.
“I believe all my players did an awesome job this year,” said Forestburg head coach Rosana Barbosa, who was named Coach of the Year in District 1A-21. “They worked hard to improve every day and results definitely showed. Each player had a job, and they executed well.”
Bellevue made the playoffs, too, under first-year head coach Bryan Goehring, and also earned a postseason victory. Alex Brown and Hannah McWilliams both landed on our newspaper’s all-star team because of the Lady Eagles’ strong season.
“Alex showed a lot of promise for us,” Goehring said. “She will be an inside factor for us in the upcoming years, even though she is a sophomore. Hannah left everything out on the court every time she played. She led us in many statistical categories and will be hard to replace next year.”
All of this success made the Lady Rabbits, Lady Horns and Lady Eagles hungry for even more during the forthcoming 2015-16 season.
Bowie landed five girls on the all-county team, spearheaded by Conference 3A all-state Texas Girls Coaches Association honoree Courtney Brady and TGCA all-region pick Addy Cook.
Saint Jo’s Karla Fernandez was also an all-region selection, in Conference 1A. Read more, and see all the selections, by reading the weekend Bowie News.
Bowie’s Courtney Brady looks for a teammate during the Conference 3A regional semifinal against Alba-Golden at Rockwall-Heath High School. (News 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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