SPORTS
County football teams play final scrimmages before first game
Bowie
Bowie scrimmaged City View at home and by the end of the night had picked up enough momentum for everyone to feel good about themselves, having persevered through a slow start. The Jackrabbits dominated the second half of the scrimmage, scoring more touchdowns and making more big plays on the nights for the team to finish strong.For Coach Dylan Stark he saw good things and above all was glad he escaped the scrimmage with no major injuries, but would have liked his team to play better at the beginning.
“We’ve got to be able to start when it’s time to go,” Stark said. “We need a better start. We need to be able to get off the field on third down. I was proud how our kids played.”
Bowie opens the season at 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 31 at home against Godley.
Nocona
The Nocona Indians traveled to Petrolia on Thursday night.
With the drop in competition from the first scrimmage against Windthorst, Coach Brad Keck looked at other things besides the success his team had on the field.
“I thought we made fewer mistakes than we made the first week,” Keck said. “Our energy level was a little higher. We did some pretty good things offensively and defensively that I thought were good and obviously there are still some things we need to fix.”
One of the main issues Keck wants worked out was what he felt like unnecessary penalties, two of which brought back would be touchdowns.
Still, Keck feels like things went according to plan for him. Like a lot of coaches, Keck makes sure to not tip his hand to any future opponents by keeping certain players, formations and adjustments limited in a scrimmage that will not count towards anything.
The Indians open their season at 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 31 at Boyd.
Gold-Burg
The Gold-Burg Bears traveled to Vernon Northside on Thursday in their final scrimmage.
Coach Gordon Williams liked what he saw from the team, especially when comparing to where the team was last year at this time.
On the night the Bears had four scoring plays, with three coming on the ground and one through the air.
“We are so much more physical than we were last year,” Williams said. “We were able to run the ball and we were able to stop them from running, which were two of the main things I was looking for.”
While things were looking up, no scrimmage goes off without a hitch. One thing Williams wants to fix are some of the mechanical things they can control.
“In six-man, there are a lot of pitches and handoffs that go into plays and we had too many plays where we failed to execute those and they ended up being drive killing plays for us,” Williams said.
Gold-Burg opens the season at 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 31 at home against Notre Dame.
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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.
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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.
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