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HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL: Bowie girls move up to 15th
The Bowie High School girls’ basketball team, fresh off of two straight district victories over Boyd and Paradise on the road, keeps moving up.
The Lady Rabbit bumped from 17th to 15th in the latest Texas Association of Basketball Coaches Conference 3A girls’ poll.
The poll was released on Monday.
As the Bowie boys’ basketball team continues to struggle – with four straight losses – the Jackrabbits were ousted from the Conference 3A TABC poll this week.
GIRLS
Canadian (14-2) is now No. 1 in the Conference 3A girls poll with Wall second, Brock third, Tuscola Jim Ned fourth and Little River Academy fifth.
Undefeated Pottsboro is slotted ninth with Shallowater is 12th and Ponder 18th among regional teams of note.
Dodd City remains No. 1 in the Conference 1A poll with an unblemished 14-0 record, with Nazareth second, Hermleigh third, Huckabay fourth and Garden City fifth.
Eula is 10th, Lipan 13th, Roby 20th and Slidell, a member school in District 1A-21, has moved up to 23rd. Lance Shelton, son of Bowie legend Gayno Shelton, is the Slidell coach.
BOYS
Lipan is No. 1 in Conference 1A boys with a 13-1 mark, followed by Happy in second, Nazareth third, Waelder fourth and Leggett fifth.
Lingleville is next in sixth with Graford, coached by Ty Tabor, seventh. Eula is 16th to round out the regional teams of note.
Muenster, coached by Bowie graduate Lynn Cook, is No. 1 in Conference 2A at 13-0 with Anthony second, Mumford third, Clarksville fourth and Clarendon fifth.
Electra is ninth, Albany 15th, Petrolia 16th and Poolville, who Bellevue has beaten twice this year, in 25th spot.
Santa Rosa is No. 1 in Conference 3A with a 13-3 mark. La Marque is second, Dallas Madison third, Brock fourth and Ponder fifth.
Peaster, who beat Bowie 64-47 last week, is next in sixth with Wall seventh, Littlefield ninth, Dallas Triple-A 16th and Canadian 20th. See more rankings in the Dec. 21 Bowie News.
Bowie’s Addy Cook drives toward the basket during Friday’s District 3A-8 game at Paradise. The Lady Rabbits moved up to 15th in the Texas Association of Basketball Coaches Conference 3A poll this week. (News photo by Dani Blackburn)
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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