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LOCAL NOTEBOOK: NCTC’s Potter player of the week
North Central Texas College outside hitter Kelsey Potter has been named the North Texas Junior College Athletic Conference volleyball player of the week.
Potter, a 5-foot-9 freshman who played her senior season for former Nocona head coach Sandy Langford in Glen Rose, peppered 29 kills, recorded 38 digs and put up six solo ace blocks for the week from Sept. 13-19.
Potter is ranked third in the nation in total kills, and she also posted a season-high 22 digs. She made less than 10 errors in 120 swings in two conference matches – and had double-digit kills and digs in both matches.
She hit .246 in the match against Temple College.
Junior golf tourney this weekend
The North Texas Junior Golf Tour will have a special fall event at 2 p.m. on Sept. 26 at Runaway Bay Golf Club.
Sign-up is still available.
The entry fee is $30 for this tournament only.
Mail entry fees to: 4100 Weeks Park Lane No. 152, Wichita Falls, Texas 76308.
This is the first of three fall tournaments, with others scheduled for Oct. 17 in Jacksboro on Sept. 7 in Decatur.
More information is available on the website: www.ntjgt.weebly.com, or call Terry McCutchen at 1-817-243-4034.
Bass association will have open house
The Texas High School Bass Association will have an open house at 6 p.m. on Sept. 25 at Bass Pro Shops beside Lake Ray Hubbard in Garland.
Pre-registration will take place for the Lake Ray Hubbard Tournament on Sept. 26.
There will be door prizes, and a seminar is set for 7 p.m.
The special guest speak is Fishing League Worldwide professional James Briggs.
There will be a special 10 percent discount on tackle with your THSBA membership card.
Kelsey Potter was named player of the week. Potter, from Glen Rose, is an outside hitter who played for former Nocona coach Sandy Langford during her senior year for the Tigers. (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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