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HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Shallowater dashes Bowie’s playoff run
By ERIC VICCARO
bnewssports@gmail.com
The Bowie High School senior class talked about being “different” than Jackrabbit football teams of the past.
Well, this team has set a precedent for future seasons as Bowie garnered its first playoff game in 34 seasons last week and gave Shallowater all it could handle on a crisp, autumn night at Tiger Stadium in Snyder.
Shallowater had just enough on offense – with standout running back Cooper Ogle – and special teams play courtesy a 71-yard kickoff return from J.D. Townsend to beat Bowie 64-50 in the Conference 3A Division I area round.
Tears were shed after the game, and Bowie finished the 2015 season with a 6-6 mark overall, third place in District 4-3A-I and a bi-district championship.
Bowie gained 671 yards in total offense, and averaged more than eight yards per play. However, Shallowater gained more than nine yards per snap, and the teams combined for 114 points.
“We’ve shown we can move the ball against everybody,” Bowie head coach Dylan Stark said. “Our offense has been rolling. We left everything we had on the field. We never gave up.”
Stark said Bowie had trouble with Ogle because of his “speed and vision.” Ogle rushed 37 times for 283 yards.
Shallowater would play either Muleshoe or Breckenridge in the regional quarterfinals next week.
Bowie’s 11 seniors stuck it out – even through a dismal 2014 season in which the Jackrabbits finished 2-8. The Jackrabbits returned for summer workouts with resolve, and that showed in every game they played. Read more, and see the complete box score, in the Nov. 21 Bowie News.
Josh Monkres (center) delivers a pancake block during Thursday’s Conference 3A Division I football game between Bowie and Shallowater at Snyder’s Tiger Stadium. (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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