SPORTS
Bowie boy’s win district title
The district track meet wrapped up Thursday night at City View for both Bowie and Nocona teams.
The Bowie boy’s team repeated as overall team district champions for the second straight year despite some new faces in the district.
The Jackrabbits went into the final relay race with the title wrapped up and won by 12 points to district newcomer Childress thanks to a big first day in field events.
District champions included: Alex Shelton winning the 3200 and 1600 races; Joey Crawford winning the pole vault; A.J. Craddock winning the 110-meter hurdles; Logan Lawhorn winning the high jump and Daniel Mosley winning the shot put.
All of those athletes and some others also earned valuable points in many other events.
Up big after day one of field events, Coach Justin Prescott credits Childress cutting the lead close.
“We came out 40 points up and usually with a 40 point lead you feel secure, but they kept fighting back, fighting back until our guys just gutted it out,” Prescott said.
The Lady Rabbits came up a painful half point short of tying for the district lead with the district champions from Holliday. Bowie had the lead heading into the final relay and needed to finish at least one space behind the Lady Eagles to hold on to the win. Unfortunately, the Lady Cats from Childress finished in front of Bowie and a tie on a field event on day one ended up costing the Lady Rabbits winning back-to-back district titles like the boy’s team.
District champions for Bowie included: Abby Zamzow winning both the hurdle races and both the long and triple jumps; Jayci Logan winning the both the 100 and 200 meter races and Hope Howard winning the shot put. The 4×100 meter relay team of Zamzow, Logan, Brysen Richey and Landra Parr also won as well.
The teams from Nocona had trouble overall with both finishing sixth. However a couple athletes won their events and many more qualified for area. Tyler Richards and Kylie Rose each won the 400 meter race.
Top four finishers in each event qualify for the area meet.
To see the full list of results for athletes who finished in the top six, 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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