SPORTS
TRACK AND FIELD: Saint Jo, Forestburg excel
By ERIC VICCARO
sports@bowienewsonline.com
The Saint Jo High School girls’ track and field team garnered the Area 21-22 championship with 142 points on Saturday at Yellowjacket Stadium in Boyd.
The Lady Panthers finished with 28 points more than Slidell, another noted regional track and field power. Forestburg’s girls placed sixth.
On the boys’ side, it came down to sheer numbers and Tioga earned the title with 142 points, 52 better than Forestburg.
Still, Forestburg had an outstanding day on the track, and Prairie Valley also excelled with a fifth-place finish and 62 points.
“I am really proud of the girls’ performances on Saturday,” Saint Jo head coach Chad Tallon said. “We felt like we had a chance to win the team title, and they worked hard for that.”
Tallon noted Marysol Avila’s performance in the 200-meter dash as an unexpected finish for the Lady Panthers.
The top-four performers from the area meet will advance to the Conference 1A Region III meet set for April 29-30 at Tarleton State University in Stephenville.
Forestburg head coach Steve Sandusky gave his boys’ and girls’ squads plenty of plaudits.
“We are very pleased with all of our results,” Sandusky said. “We were pretty confident the boys had the capability to score some points, and that the girls could do well in their events, which they did. Forestburg athletes really earned everything they got.”
Boys
Forestburg’s Bear Osteen and Skyler Sandusky gave fans a thrilling duel in the 100-meter dash with Osteen winning in a time of 11.75, just five one-hundredths ahead of Sandusky.
Osteen also had the top area finish in the 200 (24.61, third) while Sandusky was golden in the 400 dash, clocking in at 56.59.
Girls
Like Prairie Valley’s boys, Saint Jo dominated the pole vault with Sarah Patrick taking gold with a mark of 9-6.
Caitlyn Holley (7-0) was second and Destiny Diaz fourth for the Lady Panthers. Bellevue’s Ally Corwin also qualified, marking at 6-6 for third.
Haley Nolan gave Forestburg points with a third-place finish in the triple jump, marking at 32-1¼.
Two-time state qualifier Cheyenne Banks, from Forestburg, earned gold in the discus at 106-9, with Gold-Burg’s Horton second. Banks also claimed a silver medal in the shot put (31-11¼). Read more in the April 20 Bowie News.
Forestburg’s Bear Osteen (left), Prairie Valley’s Alec Ducharme and Forestburg’s Skyler Sandusky race toward the line during Saturday’s running of the 100-meter dash at the Conference 1A-21-22 Area championship at Boyd. See more photos on Pages 5B-6B of today’s sports section. (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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