SPORTS
HIGH SCHOOL CROSS COUNTRY: Area teams run Monday
By ERIC VICCARO
bnewssports@gmail.com
There are plenty of enticing storylines heading into Monday’s Conference 3A-Region II and Conference 1A-Region III meet at Lynn Creek Park in Grand Prairie.
Forestburg’s Skyler Sandusky and Saint Jo’s Juan Sanchez return to the same venue they ran at last year.
“I am proud of him and where he’s at,” said Forestburg head coach Steve Sandusky. “We will have the same plan as last year, to go for his best time.”
Sandusky won the District 1A-21 meet in a time of 18 minutes, 53 seconds, his season best. He won the race over Bellevue’s Gavin Moore and Sanchez.
Nocona brings a full complement of boys and girls – including dazzling freshman Maria Hernandez.
“It’s very rewarding experience for the kids for all the hard work they’ve put in,” said Nocona head coach Bret Botard. “And it’s an opportunity for us to advance further.”
Hernandez leads the Lady Indian contingent, coming off a fourth-place effort in the District 3A-9 meet at Kiwanis Park on Oct. 15. Her time was 12:05.91. Brayden Skinner and Luis Rico were seventh and eighth, respectively, in the boys’ race.
Both Gold-Burg and Bellevue boys and girls qualified for the regional meet together. Saint Jo fields a strong girls’ team coming off a District 1A-21 championship. And like Hernandez, Prairie Valley has a talented runner in Avry Hawthorne joining the fray.
“We are looking forward to the regional meet and learning from the experience so the kids know what to expect in the future,” Gold-Burg head coach Aaron Tefertiller said.
Both Tefertiller and girls’ coach Cheryl Cromleigh are looking to use this meet as an opportunity for achievement to overlap into other athletic programs. Brandon Lee leads the boys’ squad while Haley Davis guides the girls. Both runners are coming off top-5 district performances.
Bellevue has plenty of depth on both rosters with Emily Trail and Devon Cassetty pacing the girls and Moore and Jonah Belcher each recording top-5 finishes for the Eagle boys at district at Twisted Oaks Golf Club here in Bowie. Read more in the weekend edition of The Bowie News.
Ashley Reyling (left) and Caitlyn Holley represent Saint Jo at the University Interscholastic League Region 1A-3 meet at Lynn Creek Park in Grand Prairie on Monday. (News file 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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