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Football Roundup
Nocona
The Nocona Indians traveled to Valley View on Friday in their final non-district game of the season.
A week after playing their most complete game of the season with a blowout win against Ponder on homecoming, the Indians lost to the Eagles 61-7.
When pressed to think of a positive he saw from his team, Coach Rick Weaver could only say his team continued to fight through adversity.
Valley View’s strength on the line was a major factor in contributing to the final score.
Still, the Indians come out of non-district play with a 2-2 record. Nocona has been at its best and at its worst in its first four games.
While Weaver wishes his team had at least one more game, the seven team district starts play this Friday.
The Indians start out with possibly the district’s best team as they host state-ranked Gunter at 7:30 p.m. on Friday.
Forestburg
A week after earning their first win in more than a season, the Forestburg Longhorns could not make it two straight as they took on Denton Calvary Academy for their homecoming.
The Lions beat the Longhorns 56-6 mostly with their speed on sweeps around the end as Forestburg has struggled handling teams with good team speed.
The Longhorns started the game on a positive note after homecoming festivities and a lightning delay pushed the game to start at 7:50 p.m. Zach Bradley found Tony Smith on a 35-yard touchdown pass on Forestburg’s opening drive to go up 6-0.
After that it was all Denton Calvary. Sweeps to the sideline went for big plays for most of the game. The Longhorns struggled to complete passes consistently and the Lions limited big Bradley from getting too big of a head of steam when he decided to run.
Add in a couple of Forestburg turnovers, including one in the red zone, and some successful Denton Calvary onside kicks and the score was 50-6 at halftime.
The Lions received the ball to start the second half and went down and scored a touchdown to end the game due to the mercy rule.
Forestburg travels to Newcastle to play at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 27.
Gold-Burg
The Gold-Burg Bears had another stiff challenge on Friday as they traveled to Perrin-Whitt.
The Pirates gave the Bears another tough outing, winning 60-6. While the results have been similar to past games, the improvements have been enough week-to-week to keep the team hopeful.
Coach Leo Murguia used the example of Waylan Whitaker, who despite being a senior is his first year playing football.
“He’s playing nose for me and he made a mistake,” Murguia said. “I came down on him once and he couldn’t understand exactly what it was. I had to show him a couple of times and you could tell watching him after that feedback session that he responded and it clicked. He went on to make three or four tackles for loss.”
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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