SPORTS
Nocona baseball plays second tournament
The Nocona Indians baseball team traveled to Tulia last weekend to play in their second tournament of the season.
While the two games on Friday saw the Indians come out on the wrong side, Nocona ended the tournament in a positive fashion.
Nocona first played Muleshoe. The Mules struck first going up 7-0 in the first two innings. The Indians cut the lead to 7-2 with an RBI double from Trenten Womack and a hit batter with the bases loaded.
Nocona further cut into the lead as Womack drove in another run on a single. Two wild pitches allowed two more runs to score to make the score 7-5.
Muleshoe answered with three runs in the top of the fourth inning. The Indians Logan Barnes drove in a run on a single to cut the lead to 10-6.
Unfortunately for Nocona, that would be where the score would end after the teams traded a scoreless fifth inning.
The Indians next played Slaton and had another rough start. The Tigers put four runs on Nocona in the first inning.
Blayne Gomez was able to drive in a run to answer for the Indians, but Slaton score four more runs as they were up 8-1 after two innings.
After loading the bases, Jason Sparkman was able to drive two runs home on a double. The Tigers added one run in the bottom of the third to make it 9-3.
Nocona would not give up as they loaded the bases again and was able to get one run across when Hunter Fenoglio hit a single. Unfortunately, the Indians could not stop Slayton, who scored three more runs in the bottom of the fourth before the game was called. Nocona lost 12-4.
The Indians had one more game to play on Saturday against Friona. Again Nocona found themselves down big early in the game as the Chieftans scored three runs in the second and third inning.
The Indians were able to cut into the lead a little bit as Tyler Richards drove in a run to make the score 6-1 heading into the fourth inning.
After a scoreless fourth inning, Nocona further cut into the lead as Barnes drove in a run on a double. Two batters later Womack drove in another run to make it 6-3 heading into the sixth inning.
After another scoreless inning the Indians were down to their final at-bats. They were able to load the bases with no outs when Jacob Morris was able to drive in two runs with a double to cut the lead to within one.
Next batter Gomez was able to drive in the two base runners to give Nocona the walk-off win 7-6 in its final game.
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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