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Forestburg girls win first game 19-15 against Saint Jo

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The Forestburg Lady Horns hosted Saint Jo on Tuesday in a rivalry game.
The Lady Horns won their first game of the season in a low-scoring hard fought game 19-15, pulling away in the final minute.
Forestburg comes into most games featuring one big advantage in post player Morgan Miller. Unfortunately, every team has known that and has done their best to take her away. The Lady Panthers were no different.
Most teams have pressed the Lady Horns to prevent them from setting up their half court offense and getting Miller the ball in the post. The young Forestburg team has struggled breaking presses and traps this season.
In the first game, Saint Jo played a half-court trap that allowed the Lady Panthers to build a big lead in the first quarter. Even with the Lady Horns playing better the rest of the game, they do not have the quick scoring ability to make up many double-digit leads.
This time Forestburg was ready for the half-court trap. Still, with Saint Jo draping two girls on Miller at all times, getting the ball to her was risky.
The Lady Panthers knew attacking the basket was not much of an option. Foul calls were rare for both sides, with girls falling to the floor not guaranteeing a call. Mid-range shots from Emma Martin and some knock down perimeter shots from freshman Kate Sherwin allowed Saint Jo to hold a narrow 7-6 lead after the first quarter. Little did both teams know that would be the highest scoring quarter of the game.
Forestburg’s zone defense did a good job of taking away most of space inside the 3-point arc. Active hands prevented easy passes to Martin in the high post area the Lady Panthers wanted to get her the ball.
Even trying to pass the ball along the perimeter was tricky as the Lady Horns started jumping lazy passes. Unfortunately for them, as many steals they racked up, Forestburg struggled to convert these transition opportunities into points.
Saint Jo did not score in the second quarter while Miller’s two baskets put the Lady Horns up 10-7 at halftime.
In the third quarter the Lady Panthers retook the lead. Sherwin made two mid-range shots on back-to-back possessions. Saint Jo then got out in transition and Martin was able to finish a basket. Combined with an earlier basket she made in the quarter, the Lady Panther’s led 15-10.
Forestburg struggled to get Miller the ball in the quarter. The Lady Horns lead ball handler Athena Britain sat for a bit and the team kept trying to take and make the open 3-pointers available to them to no avail.
The only points in the quarter from Forestburg came from defensive dynamo Keeleigh Burnam, who banked in a 3-pointer in the final two minutes to cut the lead to 15-13 heading into the fourth quarter.
Both teams struggled to score for most of the quarter. The open shots from the perimeter were not going in for the Lady Horns while Saint Jo kept turning the ball over.
The Lady Panthers tried to stall with less than four minutes to go, but to no avail. With 2:26 left in the game, Forestburg got the ball to Miller who finished through contact to tie the game while also picking up the foul.
The score was tied at 15-15 and the free throw would give the Lady Horns the lead. A Forestburg player grabbed the offensive rebound and was sent to the free throw line for another chance to take the lead. She missed both.
A minute later a Saint Jo player stole the ball and was fouled in transition, giving the Lady Panthers a chance to take the lead. She missed both.
On Forestburg’s next possession, a looping high pass to Morgan found its mark and she scored to give the Lady Horns the lead 17-15 with 56 seconds left. After a turnover from Saint Jo, Forestburg had the ball out of bounds at midcourt with 46 seconds left.
An aggressive pass up the court to Sol Martinez found its mark as she beat her defender to the basket and made the layup. The basket put the Lady Horns up two scores 19-15, essentially icing the game. Forestburg would hang on to win.
Forestburg next hosts Prairie Valley at 6 p.m. on Feb. 4. Saint Jo hosts Gold-Burg at 6 p.m. on Feb. 4.

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(L-R) Braden Rhyne, Justin Clark, Mo Azouak, Preacher Chambers, Hunter Fluitt and Jorge De Leon.

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

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Langford coming back home

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Sandy Langford is returning to Nocona after 11 years at Glen Rose to lead the Lady Indian volleyball and track teams. Her sons are Camden and Keltyn and her husband is Matt. (Courtesy photo)

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.

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Two teams compete at state tourney

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Colt Henry, Lane Smith, Cooper Johnson and Corbyn Patton competed at the state high school bass tournament at Lake Conroe. (Courtesy photo)

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.

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