SPORTS
NOTEBOOK: Cable piles on points for Nocona
The Nocona High School boys’ track and field team placed eighth with 25 points, 23 behind Windthorst, at the Glen Eickman Relays on Thursday in Wichita Falls.
City View served as the meet host.
On the varsity girls’ side, Nocona was in a tie for ninth place with Olney, scoring 20 points.
As for Nocona’s junior varsity teams, Nocona’s boys scored 11 points and the girls six.
Tanner Cable scored most of the points for the Nocona varsity boys, with second-place finishes in both the 110-meter high and 300-meter intermediate hurdles. Cable’s time in the 110 hurdles was 17.46 seconds and 43.81 in the 300 hurdles.
Luis Rico came through with a fourth-place in the 800-meter run, clocking in at 2:16.22.
Nocona’s 1,600-meter relay foursome consisting of Tanner Cable, Joan Gomez, Dylan Parker and Rico was fifth in 3:52.50.
Connor Barrett earned gold for Nocona in the junior varsity discus, with a mark of 98-feet, 2 inches. John Womack was fourth in the JV 800 run (2:39.32).
On the girls’ side, Maria Hernandez was second in the 3,200-meter run with a time of 13:04.7, while she was fourth in the 1,600 run (6:01.64).
BASEBALL
Nocona 12, City View 2
Three triples helped Nocona defeat City View 12-2 as the Indians garnered their first District 3A-9 game of the season.
The Indians showed up ready to hit against the home team with Charles Evans, Robert Hawkins and Jose Ogeda all recording triples.
SOFTBALL
City View 14, Nocona 0
The Lady Indians’ struggles continued against City View on Friday evening and the home team went on to blank Nocona.
Deziray Graham and Sherese Price were the lone Lady Indians to record a hit. Read more, and see box scores, in the March 30 edition of The Bowie News.
Luis Rico, shown here at the Bowie Invitational from March 28, was fourth in the 800-meter run at the Glen Eickman Relays in Wichita Falls on March 24. (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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