SPORTS
Nocona girls win; boys face tough loss
The Nocona basketball boys and girls played different teams at home Tuesday night and had much different experiences.
While the Lady Indians were able to overpower Lindsay and coast to an easy 80-51 win, the Indians had to overcome a slow start against Lipan and fought uphill the entire game, only to come up short 64-56.
The Nocona girls came out running as they led 21-8 after the first quarter and 44-23 at halftime.
Coach Kyle Spitzer was able to play everyone and his team was able to keep up the intensity for one more quarter in the third before he had his team put on the breaks to keep the game from getting too ugly in the fourth quarter as they coasted to an 80-51 win they were happy to get.
Averee Kleinhans seemed to out due herself as she scored 38 points while also recording 10 rebounds, assists and steals for a quadruple double.
Besides her, Chloe Daughtry scored 13 points and almost everyone on the roster scored at least one point.
Coach Kyle Spitzer did not have much to complain about as the game quickly became a blowout full of breakaway lay ups in transition.
“I thought we played well,” Spitzer said. “In the first half we were getting after it on defense, diving for lose balls. We played hard. Overall it was good.”
The first quarter of the boy’s game went the other way for Nocona. Lipan came out hot from beyond the arc as the team made seven three-pointers in the first quarter alone.
The Indians trailed 26-12 at the end of the first quarter. At one point Nocona trailed by 23 points, but they battled back as Lipan led 37-24 at halftime.
“At halftime we talked about chipping away at a lead, continuing to get stops and play good defense,” Coach Colby Schniederjan said.
The lead got down to double digits as the Indians trailed 47-40 heading into the final quarter. Unfortunately, Nocona could not close the gap as Lipan won 64-56.
Jason Sparkman led the team with 21 points.
Schniederjan felt like his team played much better than their first game a week before since they have had a bit more practices to all get on the same page and get used to each other.
“We needed a couple more practices under our belts just to embrace what we are trying to accomplish,” Schniederjan said. “Our team chemistry is getting better. We are figuring out our roles. They are learning how to adjust and make game adjustments underneath me and my leadership.”
Both teams will play at their first tournaments this weekend as the Lady Indians play at Valley View and the Indians play at Pottsboro.
The boys play at home on Dec. 4 against Pottsboro at 7:30 p.m. The girls play at 5:45 p.m. at Burkburnett that same day.
To read the full story, 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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