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HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL: Rabbits play in Decatur
The Bowie High School boys’ basketball team will play in the Decatur Tournament starting at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday.
Bowie will face Weatherford in an opening-round game.
The Jackrabbits don’t play again until the first game at 8:30 a.m. on Friday versus Azle. The team will play Odessa Permian at 7 p.m.
The Bowie boys participate in the Decatur Tournament every year.
The Jackrabbits close out pool play with a game versus Cleburne at 10 a.m. on Saturday.
The Gold third-place game is set for 5:30 p.m. with the silver championship at 7 p.m. and the gold championship at 8:30 p.m.
The Bowie junior varsity team faces Western Hills at 10 a.m. and then Castleberry at 3:10 p.m. on Thursday in the same event. The second game will be at the middle school gymnasium.
The Jackrabbits’ ninth-grade team will face Springtown at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, followed by games versus Western Hills at 3:10 p.m. and Benbrook at 8:30 p.m.
Forestburg, Saint Jo
Both the Forestburg and Saint Jo girls’ and boys’ basketball teams will compete in the Chico Tournament beginning on Thursday.
Forestburg boys match up with Boyd at 3:30 p.m. while Saint Jo’s boys play the hosts at 6:30 p.m. on the same night.
On the girls’ side, Forestburg plays the Paradise JV at 2 p.m. while Saint Jo’s girls take on Newcastle at 5 p.m.
The girls’ championship will be at 6 p.m. on Saturday with the boys to follow at 7:30 p.m. The third-place games will be at 3 p.m. for girls and 4:30 p.m. for boys.
Nocona, Bellevue boys at Poolville
The Nocona and Bellevue boys both will participate in the Mesquite Pit Tournament set for Poolville from Thursday through Saturday.
Bellevue plays Smyer in the first round at 3:10 p.m. on Thursday in the junior high school gymnasium, and Nocona takes on Tom Bean in the high school gym at 5:30 p.m. the same day. Read more in the Dec. 7 Bowie News.
Bowie’s Keck Jones plays defense on a Bridgeport player during the Jackrabbits’ own tournament last weekend. Jones and the rest of the Jackrabbits are competing in the Decatur Tournament this week. (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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