SPORTS
HIGH SCHOOL POWERLIFTING: Local girls come up empty
By ERIC VICCARO
sports@bowienewsonline.com
Neither Bowie High School’s foursome of female powerlifters nor Nocona’s Deziray Graham lifted well enough to receive a medal.
But, it gave all of them a chance to experience the Texas High School Women’s Powerlifting Association state meet again.
Lifting on the grand stage at The American Bank Center in Corpus Christi isn’t easy.
“The competition was strong and the atmosphere is big,” Bowie head powerlifting coach Quentin Berend said. “I thought the girls competed well, and it’s different than any other meet they go to.”
These are the best powerlifters in the state, and many of them pulled astronomical figures.
Mylena Escudero, the foreign exchange student from Brazil, was the closest of all five Montague County lifters to earning a medal.
Escudero pulled 880 pounds, which included a 380-pound squat, for sixth place overall. It was 20 pounds behind Sarah Oltivero of Dimmitt. Mikayla Morris from Whitesboro won the weight class with a three-lift total of 955 pounds.
Graham placed seventh in the 220-plus class, finished with a grand total of 975 pounds. It was 30 pounds less than Emilia Betancourt from Bruceville-Eddy. Read more, and see complete Conference 3A state results in box form, in the March 23 Bowie News.
Bowie’s Montana Holbach shows off a certificate for a $1,000 scholarship she won at the Texas High School Women’s Powerlifting Association meet at American Bank Center in Corpus Christi. (Courtesy photo)
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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