SPORTS
Prairie Valley girls win second straight district title
The district cross country meet took place at Bowie’s Pelham Park for Montague County’s 1A schools Wednesday afternoon.
A quick redesign of the course had to be done due to the heavy rainfall from the night before, but by the time the race came around it was perfect racing weather with cool temperatures.
Only the unavoidable soggy ground kept the runner’s times down as a whole.
Overall one team and three individuals qualified for the regional meet from Montague County.
The Prairie Valley Lady Bulldogs won their second straight district team title as their top four runners finished within the top 10. Cosima Ermert was first overall with a time of 14:08.
Shelby Roof came in not far behind in third place, followed closely by Allie Brown in fourth place. Hailey Winkler in 10th and Molly Gilleland in 11th rounded out the Lady Bulldogs top five.
Taylor Franklin in 13th place and Emily Carpenter in 18th place were the final varsity runners for Prairie Valley.
The Prairie Valley boy’s team was not so lucky as they finished fourth. William Winkler, who ran at the state meet last year, was battling an injury and just squeezed into qualifying for the regional meet by finishing ninth with a time of 21:15.
Isaac Yeargin finished 17th, Tyler Reid finished 19th, Kaden Fleming 22nd and Zack Smith in 23rd place.
Coach Seth Stephens was a bit disappointed with the results, but could not fault his guys for giving their all.
Saint Jo brought three runners, with two of them qualifying for the regional meet for the second straight year.
Logan Morman was first overall with a time of 18:42 as he ran away from the field as the race went along. A state qualifier last year, Morman is hoping to make it back.
Kassidy Pitman finished eighth with a time of 14:55 to qualify for the regional meet. Grant Stitler did his best, but his 24th place finish was outside of contention.
Forestburg brought two runners and both were hoping to qualify for regionals. Unfortunately, they both finished just outside the top 10.
Isabella Roller finished 12th with a time of 16:19 while Sol Martinez finished 16th with a time of 16:48.
The regional meet will be on Oct. 22 at Lynn Creek Park in Grand Prairie.
To read the full story and see every high school Montague County kids time, pick up a copy of the weekend 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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