SPORTS
Girls Playoff Roundup
Bellevue
The Bellevue Lady Eagles were able to pick up where they left off in the bi-district playoff game against Throckmorton on Tuesday in City View.
After coming up just short of winning the district title a few days before against Slidell, the Lady Eagles took their frustration out on the Lady Greyhounds 71-22.
Like most of district play, Bellevue’s pressing defense and quick trigger on offense allowed them to get the lead early and never look back.
Coach John McGee did not have much to complain about.
“I was really pleased with their performance,” McGee said. “It wasn’t hard to stay engaged or focused because we understand that strange things have happened on a basketball court and we didn’t want that to happen to us. All of the girls got plenty of playing time.”
Cassie Simpson led the team with 22 points and FreeDom Morris was second with 16 points.
They had a tough task on Friday against number one seed Dodd City, but McGee is not worried his team will be intimated.
“I believe the girls have set their hearts to play for a long time so it doesn’t matter whose program it is,” McGee said. “With hard work anything can happen. We realize that every game could be our last game so we know that we have to leave it all on the court every night.”
With a big senior class, this is the year for this successful generation of Bellevue girls who have first round playoff wins now five seasons in a row.
The last four years have ended against Dodd City in the second round. Will this be the year the Lady Eagles break through?
Saint Jo
The Saint Jo Lady Panthers season came to an end with a loss to Bryson on Monday night in Henrieatta.
The Lady Panthers had a tall task coming in as the third seed against the Cowgirls and would end up losing 46-23.
Down 12-6, but still competitive in the first quarter, the game got away from them as they could only score two points in the second quarter.
With four senior starters and everyone returning from last years team, making the playoffs was the big accomplishment for this team. They fought tooth and nail against the rest of the district once it became known that Bellevue and Slidell had the top two spots.
Close wins at home and on the road really showed the maturity of this team when a lot of the teams in the district fielded younger starting fives.
Their wins were not always pretty, but this group was able to keep a calm head and make crucial halftime adjustments throughout the year to give them the advantage they needed in those close games.
With it being the programs first playoff appearance since 2014, that accomplishment says all that you need to know about this team.
Future teams and younger players have a standard to chase.
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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