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Jackrabbits lose to Decatur 58-26
The Bowie Jackrabbits completed its challenging week against two state ranked 4A teams versus Decatur at home Saturday morning.
Maybe it was the early starting time of 10:30 a.m. Maybe it was because the Jackrabbits were playing its second straight game without all-state player Daniel Mosley. Maybe it was because the Eagles are just that good.
Whatever the reason, Bowie played its ugliest game of the season as Decatur won 58-26.
It was a slow paced, defensive grind it out affair from both teams in their approach. The Eagles were trying to get to the rim and were looking for driving lanes. The Jackrabbits were looking for open perimeter shots.
Bowie did a good job of staying in front of drivers, but Decatur made up for it by dominating the glass and getting put backs. The Eagles led 11-0 near the end of the first quarter.
No matter how much passing and screens were set, the Jackrabbits could not get anyone open. This led to some forced drives from players that missed with no foul call to bail them out. Bowie scored its first points with a little more than two minutes to go. Decatur led 13-6 heading into the second quarter.
With no Mosley inside, the Jackrabbits’ post players had a hard time dealing with the physical Eagles. Coach Jonathon Horton would sub in another player anytime he saw a post player give up an offensive rebound. At one point, after Horton had gone through all of his post players, he sent in guard Kade Hilton to play two minutes in the post and he held up better than you would think.
Not much changed throughout the game. Open shots were hard to come by for Bowie and players had to make something happen, usually falling on Justin Franklin’s shoulders. The Jackrabbits trailed 27-12 at halftime.
With the third quarter usually being Bowie’s best quarter, things looked like it was going to be a different half. The Jackrabbits scored six of the first eight points in the quarter’s first two minutes and looked like offensively things might pick up.
Unfortunately, Bowie’s offense went on a drought for the rest of the quarter while Decatur steadily continued extending its lead by finding driving lanes and offensive rebounding. The Jackrabbits went into the fourth quarter with little hope of a comeback trailing 42-18.
At some point, Bowie started isolating Franklin on offense, hoping he could get hot from the field creating his own shot.
Despite trying many things offensively and defensively throughout the game, the results from each quarter did not change much. The final score was 58-26.
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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