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HIGH SCHOOL TRACK AND FIELD: Three ready to shine
By ERIC VICCARO
bnewssports@sbcglobal.net
Field events will be taking center stage for three Montague County-based athletes.
The University Interscholastic League state meet is set for Mike A. Myers Stadium at the University of Texas in Austin from May 14-16.
In order, Forestburg’s Cheyenne Banks will compete in the Conference 1A girls’ shot put at 10 a.m. on May 15.
Saint Jo’s Sarah Patrick is set for the 1A girls’ pole vaulting competition at 3 p.m. on the same day.
Bowie’s Zeke Vaughan will leap in the boys’ Conference 3A high jump at 10 a.m. on May 16.
Banks, Patrick and Vaughan are all juniors. Banks also qualified for the state meet last year, but in the discus.
Vaughan finished second at the Conference 3A Region II meet in the high jump, leaping to a mark of 6-feet, 4-inches, one inch less than winner Trenton Wallace of Grandview.
“I started off at 6-feet, and I cleared it on my first attempt,” Vaughan said. “I was stoked. I cleared 6-2 on my third attempt, so I knew I had a good chance (to qualify for state). When I cleared 6-4 on my first attempt, it was crazy.”
For Vaughan, competing at the state meet is the fulfillment of a dream come true.
Vaughan is an exceptional athlete competing at a high level in a broad range of events from jumps to hurdles and relays.
The high jump area is located inside the track near a giant scoreboard, and that’s where Vaughan hopes to work his magic this Saturday. Read more in the mid-week Bowie News.
Bowie’s Zeke Vaughan will compete in the high jump on Saturday at the University Interscholastic League state track and field meet in Austin. Click on the image itself for the complete photo. (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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