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STORM CENTER: Team Hall in force
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and all throughout the country schools, fire departments and other civic organizations have donned pink.
The color pink is the official color for this awareness initiative.
In the past week, the Dallas Morning News and the Wichita Falls Times Record have delivered pink newspapers to customers.
The Bowie News produced its own special breast cancer awareness section in Oct. 3 edition. This newspaper has done a publication of this type for the past several years, general manager/editor Barbara Green reported.
On Oct. 2, the Nocona Independent School District had “Pink Out” games for breast cancer awareness against Holliday.
Football coaches were brave enough to wear pink, including the signature ‘N’ on their caps.
Volleyball players competed for Cindy Womack, who’s currently battling breast cancer, and there’s a photo circulating Facebook as a show of support.
The football field at Jack Crain Stadium was adorned with a pink ribbon. Cheerleaders wore pink T-shirts.
Saint Jo will be having a “Pink Out” football game on Oct. 23 versus Tioga, the District 9-1A-I opener for the Panthers.
Head coach Chad Tallon said he will leave it to the discretion of the players how much pink they want to wear.
“Breast cancer is something that has affected a lot of people in Montague County,” Tallon said. “The Halls (Lynn and Chuck and their family) lived here forever, and we have close ties with them. We are out there doing what we can to support women with breast cancer.”
At Bowie Elementary School, Montague County diagnostician Krista Duvall and BES principal Blake Enlow came up with the idea of “Team Hall” T-shirts.
Let’s say, for the record, everyone in the county is on “Team Hall” right now, and it actually extends to other surrounding counties as well.
“This was something we came up with to show our support to the family,” Enlow said. “Lynn is a great lady, and we wanted to help her out. This has been an awesome deal.”
Lynn Hall has served BES as a Response to Intervention Coordinator. Hall helps students who are struggling with reading and mathematics. She has excelled in this position other school districts, too. Read more of this column in the weekend Bowie News.
Editor’s Note: The Storm Center column is the expressed written views of sports editor Eric Viccaro and not The Bowie News.
Bowie Elementary School teachers, administrators, professionals and more wear “Team Hall” T-shirts in honor of Lynn Hall, who is currently battling breast cancer. Click on the image itself for the complete photo. (Courtesy photo from the Bowie Independent School District)
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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