SPORTS
Lady Rabbits outlast Nocona in OT, 54-43
The first game was so close that the second had to go to overtime as the Bowie Lady Rabbits outlasted the Nocona Lady Indians at home on Tuesday.
The Lady Rabbits pulled things out to win 54-43 to stay undefeated in district and in first place as they got tested by the Lady Indians.
Bowie knew they had to try to shut down Nocona’s two top scorers, freshman Averee Kleinhans and senior Emma Meekins, who both liked to shoots 3’s off the dribble as well as drive hard to the basket. The Lady Indians knew they had to shut down the Lady Rabbits senior and captain Kamryn Cantwell as she poses the same problem on the perimeter, but does so while being more efficient.
It was low scoring and physical from the beginning. Bowie tried to use their size advantage to score inside early and Nocona tried to get some perimeter shots to fall from their top scorers. Still, not much was working offensively on either side.
The Lady Indians put junior Brooke O’Neal, their best defender, on Cantwell to start the game and had her try to deny her the ball wherever she was on the court. After their first two 3’s went down, it was a struggle for Kleinhans and Meekins to get many more 3’s to go down.
The Lady Rabbits led 10-8 after the first quarter, but were able to extend that lead to 24-15 at halftime by getting some baskets in transition and by rebounding on the offensive glass. The Lady Indians had to sit some players during the quarter as they were facing a common enemy in “foul trouble” with some of their starters.
Read the full story in the weekend News.
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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