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Girls Basketball Roundup
Nocona
The Nocona Lady Indians dominated in their opening game of the 2018-19 season with a 73-53 win against Vernon on Saturday.
The Nocona Lady Indians led 16-11 by the end of the first quarter, but the Lady Lions fought back and were down just one point, 31-30, as the teams entered halftime.
The Lady Indians outscored the Lady Lions 16-11 in the third, but with Averee Kleinhans back in the fourth, they broke wide open with a 25-12 lead to take the win 73-53. Kleinhans led the offense with 24 points. Trystin Fenoglio also scored in double digits with 14 points, while Brooke O’Neal added 10.
“Vernon hung around a lot longer than we expected them to, but the first quarter we broke out to a 10-point lead pretty quick, then they battled back. We had a lot of bad turnovers, but we ran the floor okay so there are some good takeaway, but definitely a lot of stuff we have to work on,” said the coach.
Spitzer hopes to see an improvement in his team’s three-point shooting, as well as defense after the Lady Lions managed to score 53 points, but offensively his team put up 73, which he was pleased with.
The Lady Indians game against Iowa Park has been rescheduled for Saturday. The junior varsity will begin at 11 a.m. with varsity immediately following.
Bellevue
The Bellevue Lady Eagles triumphed over Ector in a 55-36 game on the road Friday to win their third game.
However, despite the win, it was a difficult game for many of the players.
“The first half we didn’t play very well. The girls had heard about the young lady in Bowie who passed in a car wreck, and a lot of the girls knew her, so that weighed in on their minds,” said Bellevue Lady Eagles Coach John McGee. “However, we talked them through that and the second half they played much better.”
McGee said they discussed focus at the half, and the girls went out and took control of the game.
Sophomore Kaylee Trail led the Lady Eagles with 14 points, followed by FreeDom Morris and Cassie Simpson who tallied 13 points each.
Zoe Berry added an additional six points, Sky-Lar Embry had five and Bre Malaer contributed four.
To read the full story, 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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