SPORTS
CROSS COUNTRY: District meets start today
All local high school and junior high school cross country teams will be involved in district cross country meets this week.
The District 1A-21 meet will take place at Twisted Oaks Golf Club here in Bowie.
Gold-Burg is serving as the event host. Other schools in the event are as follows: Bellevue, Midway, Saint Jo, Prairie Valley and Forestburg.
Gold-Burg, Bellevue, Midway and Prairie Valley all will field complete boys’ teams.
The complete girls’ teams will be Gold-Burg, Saint Jo, Bellevue and Midway.
There will be two more junior high schools in the mix with Montague and Walnut Bend of Gainesville.
The meet will start with the boys’ varsity/junior varsity race at 2 p.m. with girls’ varsity/JV at 2:30 p.m.
The junior high school boys’ will run off the line at 3:30 p.m. followed by the girls at 4 p.m.
The top-10 individuals and top-three teams will advance to the regional meet at Lynn Creek Park in Grand Prairie. The top-two teams also will receive plaques.
District 3A-9 meet
The Bowie and Nocona Junior High School teams will compete at the District 3A-9 meet today with the junior high girls running at 4 p.m. and the boys at 4:30 p.m.
The meet will take place at Kiwanis Park in Wichita Falls.
The high school meet is set for Thursday.
Here’s the schedule: 9 a.m., varsity girls; 9:40 a.m., varsity boys; 10:40, junior varsity girls; 11:20 a.m., junior varsity boys.
District 3A-9 features the following schools: Bowie, Nocona, Henrietta, Jacksboro, Paradise, Boyd, Wichita Falls City View and Holliday.
District 4A-5 also will compete at this course on the same day, with Burkburnett, Iowa Park, Vernon and Wichita Falls Hirschi all competing.
The Nocona High School girls’ cross country team comprised of Maria Hernandez, Crystal Duarte, Yesenia Duarte, Flor Gomez and Daisy Ibarra competes Thursday. Click on the image itself for the complete photo. (Courtesy photo from Tammy Mullins-Skinner)
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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