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Bowie JH volleyball teams compete at home tourney
The Bowie Junior High volleyball teams hosted their own tournament this past weekend with a successful second place finish from the eighth grade A team.
The older team opened the tournament with an easy two set win against Alvord by 25-14, 25-17. Carson Matlock powered the offense with 5 ace serves and 6 kills. BJ Mills added another 6 ace serves and Neely Price provided 5.
In game two, the Lady Rabbits topped the Nocona Lady Indians 25-10, 25-10, with 4 ace serves and 3 kills from Price, 4 ace serves from Julia Witt and 4 kills and 1 ace serve from Matlock.
The Lady Rabbits faced the Holliday Lady Eagles in the championship game, where they were defeated 20-25, 18-25, despite 1 kill and one ace from Price, 1 kill each from Mills and Peyton Clark, 1 block from Matlock and a dig from Rylie Vieth.
Despite the loss, Coach Jaimie Hickey was proud of the improvement the team showed from their matchup with Holliday the previous Monday.
“The girls showed a lot of enthusiasm throughout the day,” said Hickey. “We were excited to match up against Holliday again for the championship and although we lost, we showed improvement from our game against them Monday. We will face them one more time in a few weeks, and it’s sure to be an exciting game.”
The 7A team also opened Saturday’s competition with a two-set win against Alvord by scores of 25-20, 25-18. The team was topped in the second match against Jacksboro 9-25, 14-25, and lost in two to Holliday 17-, 12-25 for the last game of the day.
A combination B team competed in the tournament for Bowie, topping Bryson in three sets by 25-15, 12-25, 15-9. The offense was powered with 3 ace serves each from Haley Webb, Breanna Goodwin and Libby Roumillat.
The Lady Rabbits combo team was defeated by the Paradise Lady Panthers in two sets, 11-25, 13-15, with 1 ace serve each from Webb and Ella Richey.
The Bowie team also competed against Nocona. The Lady Indians topped the Lady Rabbits 20-25, 16-25, with 1 ace serve each from Roumillat, Kenzie Short, Allie Parr and Maycie Metzler.
“I am proud of the girls for finishing fifth in the tournament and for the improvements they have made,” said Bowie Lady Rabbits Coach Shawnda Rasco. “Thank you to all the parents and fans who came out, worked, brought food and snacks and who supported us.”
To see full results and stats from the tournament, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie 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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