SPORTS
Teams ready to race at Bowie Rabbit Run
The Nocona, Forestburg and Bowie cross country teams are ready to compete today at the annual Bowie Rabbit Run at Pelham Park.
Bowie will feature its junior high teams, junior varsity teams and Lady Rabbits varsity team at the annual meet. Meanwhile, the Bowie varsity boys are set to compete at the Midwestern State University Texoma meet on Thursday at the J.S. Bridwell Agriculture Center.
The varsity boys division will kick off the Bowie Rabbit Run at 2 p.m. The girl’s 3,200-meter division will follow at 2:45 p.m., junior high boys at 3:30 p.m. and junior high girls at 4 p.m.
The day will wrap up with the Youth Fun Run at 4:30 p.m.
Several local teams are coming off strong showings at the Alvord High School meet on Sept. 15, including the Bowie Jackrabbits with sixth and seventh place individual finishes form Alex Shelton and Daniel Mosley.
Shelton broke the 19-minute mark with a time of 18:56.23, and Mosley crossed the finish line at 19:03.49. Syd Mayfield wasn’t far behind in tenth place with a time of 19:11.69. The other top five finishers for the Bowie Jackrabbits included Seth Robinson (19:29.94) and Riley Harris (19:33.40).
“I was pleased with our performance yesterday,” said Bowie Cross Country Coach Jonathon Horton. “The conditions were good and all of the boys competed well. Times are coming down and the guys are finishing strongly.”
However, it was Nocona’s Joan Gomez who took the gold at Alvord while leading the Nocona Indians to a third-place team finish.
“We still have room for improvement, but our times and competitiveness was much better from last week,” said Nocona Cross Country Coach Colby Schniederjan. “We are still learning how to strategically run and pace the race. I am proud of their efforts this week.”
The Lady Indians swept the top three spots in the Alvord meet with a first-place finish from Maria Hernandez (12:50), a second-place finish from Kylie Rose (14:13) and a third place finish from Raylee Sparkman (14:33).
Claudia Espinoza raced to a ninth-place finish with a time of 14:58. Madilyn Ferguson finished sixteenth (15:20), while Cobi Womack finished with a time of 16:21 and Naomi Enriquez, 17:14.
Bowie Junior High cross country teams also ran at Alvord on Sept. 12. Medalists for the meet included Case Curry and Julia Witt.
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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