SPORTS
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Rabbit season begins Friday
By ERIC VICCARO
bnewssports@gmail.com
The Bowie High School football team is set for another season-opening game against Wichita Falls Hirschi.
Hirschi will attempt to spread Bowie’s defense thin with a spread offensive formation. The same alignment the Huskies gashed the Jackrabbits for 427 yards on the ground a season ago.
Still, Bowie head football coach Dylan Stark said the team has to be ready for it all.
“Hirschi has given us tough games,” Stark said. “They are athletic. On offense, they like to run a spread, but they still like to run and pass it about 50-50.”
Tavion McKinney and Gerrick McKinney will be counted on to replace Cedric Battle for the Huskies.
“We can’t miss any tackles,” Stark said. “They had some big plays on offense against us last year. We have to run to the football and wrap up.”
As of earlier this week, second-year Hirschi coach Danny Youngs was still deciding between senior Clayton Richardson and sophomore Mar’tez Vrana to be the quarterback.
Bowie will counter with a 4-3 defense spearheaded by Kevin Stallcup, a defensive lineman who produced 70 tackles last season. Safety Brandon Hutto had a team-best 78 stops. Carter Shackelford, Cayden Cox and LB Clement will be counted on to contain the Huskies as well.
Like Bowie, Hirschi also will run a 4-3 defense with the likes of linebacker Dorian Norwood leading the unit. Norwood recorded 103 tackles. Mammoth near 300-pounder Deondre Clark will be tough to run on inside.
That means Bowie’s running game may need to flare toward the outside. Shackelford is completely healthy this season. In fact, Bowie is in much better physical shape to start the 2015 campaign. Read more from this preview in the midweek Bowie News.
Bowie High School starting quarterback Trace Hardee throws an out pattern early during Friday’s scrimmage with Burkburnett. Hardee threw for two touchdown passes to Jeffery Howard. See more photos, page 3B of the Bowie News. (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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