SPORTS
SPORTS IN BRIEF: Bowie plays in team tennis tournament
The limited fall team tennis schedule begins on Thursday for Bowie High School at the Millsap Team Tournament.
The Jackrabbits and Lady Rabbits are under the direction of first-year coach Avery Tate, a former player at Burleson High.
The event starts at 8 a.m., and runs all day.
For information, email dquy@millsapisd.net.
The team also is scheduled for a match on Oct. 22.
Twisted Oaks set for championship
The Twisted Oaks Golf Club championship is set for Oct. 24 and 25 at the course.
Note, this is a members-only event.
The fee is $75 and includes golf and a cart for two days, free range balls and dinner for two on the night of Oct. 24.
Five club championships will be awarded.
Championship Flight players will golf from the blue tees. The Presidents Flight will play from both the blue and white tees.
There will be a senior flight for players age 65 or older. Ladies golfers will have their own flight and play from the red tees.
One overall net score using the most recent handicap score as posted or as determined by the tournament committee.
There will be extra day money for those who wish to participate. Golfers are required to putt out everything, and there will be out-of-bounds areas clearly marked on the course.
For information, call Twisted Oaks at 1-940-872-4000.
Coaches, send schedules please
The first allowable date for University Interscholastic League girls’ basketball practices is coming up on Oct. 21.
Boys’ teams may begin practice one week later on Oct. 28.
The 2015-16 season will be here before you know it.
So, keeping that in mind, coaches are asked to send 2015-16 season boys’ and girls’ basketball schedules to The Bowie News sports department.
Sending schedules helps keep the readers informed when your games will take place since they run on the front page of the News.
We are seeking schedules from the following schools, both boys and girls basketball: Bowie, Nocona, Saint Jo, Forestburg, Gold-Burg, Bellevue, Prairie Valley and Midway.
Email schedules to sports editor Eric Viccaro at: bnewssports@gmail.com.
The News appreciates your cooperation in advance.
Sports in brief. (Graphic assembled by The Bowie News design department)
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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