SPORTS
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Rabbits can’t dig out
By ERIC VICCARO
sports@bowienewsonline.com
Late in the second quarter, the Bowie High School football team forced Littlefield to punt the ball.
The Jackrabbits were in good position to hopefully level the score before intermission in Saturday’s Conference 3A Division I Region I Area game at Mustang Bowl in Sweetwater.
However, Bowie muffed a punt – and that set Littlefield up in prime scoring position. The Wildcats took advantage as Brian Acevedo scored his second rushing TD of the half – and put them up 22-8.
Littlefield’s lead proved to be too insurmountable as the Wildcats defeated the Jackrabbits 29-20, advancing to the regional round.
“That muff punt, it was a break that got us going,” said Littlefield head coach Bryan Huseman. “In a playoff game like that, you need a break like that to help you come out on top.
“The kids hustled on that,” Huseman added. “It was a good punt. They dropped it, and we were able to cover it.”
Bowie’s season ended the same way it did a year ago, as an area runner-up with a 6-6 record.
Meanwhile, Littlefield (9-3) played Wall at 7 p.m. on Friday at Ratliff Stadium in Odessa, the stadium made famous in “Friday Night Lights.”
Bowie head coach Dylan Stark said there were other plays besides the muff punt that made any rally more difficult.
“There were four or five key plays in the game that made it tougher for us to come back,” Stark said. “I’m not going to narrow it down to one play. There were some plays they made that hurt us.”
Gabe Allen threw three interceptions, with them occurring in down-and-long distance situations. Two of those picks happened during the final moments of each half. Read more, and see complete statistics and the season-ending district standings, in the Nov. 23 Bowie News.
Bowie’s Brandon Hutto looks into the camera as he runs during a Nov. 19 Conference 3A Division I Region I Area round game at Mustang Bowl in Sweetwater. Hutto capped an outstanding career with 127 yards on 16 totes for two scores.
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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