SPORTS
LOCAL: Williams will lead Gold-Burg
By ERIC VICCARO
sports@bowienewsonline.com
Gordon Williams is coming home to Montague County.
Williams’ move as new Gold-Burg athletic director and head boys’ basketball coach was made official when he was approved by the school board at its Monday meeting.
“We’re excited,” said Gold-Burg superintendent Roger Ellis. “We’re jumping up and down. I think we are moving in the right direction with an established, seasoned coach.”
With Williams taking over at Gold-Burg, the Conference 1A school that makes up Ringgold and Stoneburg, it’s hopeful the coaching carousel will stop spinning. There will be five different head coaches in five seasons.
In related news, Gold-Burg boys’ athletics coach Michael Taylor has accepted a position in Flower Bluff. Ellis reported recent boys’ basketball coach
Michael Ball has resigned in hopes of being closer to his hometown of Mineral Wells.
There’s still one boys’ athletics vacancy at Gold-Burg, with the possibility any hire will be the head football coach.
As of right now, Williams will be the head football coach as well.
This will mark Williams’ second stint at Gold-Burg, also coaching at the school for six years during the 1990s.
Longtime Bowie head coach Gayno Shelton is excited to see Williams return home.
“Gordon’s a great guy,” Shelton said. “He does a good job on the fundamentals, and his kids play with a lot of energy. That’s important.”
Shelton served as Williams basketball coach in the early-1980s at Bowie High School.
“I remember Gordon as an excellent shooter and he was athletic,” added Shelton, who now plans on making trips to Stoneburg to watch Williams mentor the Bears. Read more in the June 10 Bowie News.
Gordon Williams. (Courtesy photo from the Petrolia Independent School District)
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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