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Bellevue girls
The Bellevue Lady Eagles won at Slidell on Friday in a close game and threw a wrench into the top of the district standings.
The Lady Eagles won 49-46 thanks to a big fourth quarter where Bellevue scored 20 points, making up a 37-29 deficit after three quarters.
The win makes up for the first loss the Lady Eagles suffered to the Lady Greyhounds. Kaylee Trail led the team with 17 points. Sky-Lar Embry joined her in double-figures with 13 points even fouling out.
Coach Jon McGee said the team had to fight foul trouble all night, but was proud his team came together at the end to get the win.
Bellevue next hosts Midway at 6 p.m. on Feb. 7.
Prairie Valley
The Prairie Valley teams hosted Midway on Friday with the boy’s team pulling off the close win while the girl’s team had a night to forget.
The Bulldogs won 45-44 and the Lady Bulldogs lost 51-21.
The boy’s team was able to get the tough play form its defense to win the game in the end.
“This was our second close game this week, and when we really needed stops, we were able to get the job done defensively,” Coach Seth Stephens said.
Tyler Reid led the team with 12 points. Nicholas Bell also scored in double-figures with 11 points.
The Lady Bulldogs had a game where nothing went right.
“We couldn’t get any shots to fall until late in the game and by then there was not enough time left to come back,” Coach Jeannie Carpenter said. “There are really no excuses for how this game turned out.”
Shelby Roof led the team with eight points and Emily Carpenter grabbed seven rebounds.
Prairie Valley hosts Saint Jo with the girl’s game starting at 6 p.m. and the boy’s game starting after on Feb. 7.
Gold-Burg vs Forestburg
The Gold-Burg basketball teams hosted Forestburg on Friday.
The Lady Bears won the first game 42-31 while the Longhorns won the boy’s game 44-33.
Taylor Lyons led Gold-Burg girls with 19 points as the Lady Bears earned their second win of district play. Coach Carlynn Murguia was proud of her team, getting their second win in a much better fashion than the first time. Morgan Miller led the Lady Horns with 11 points.
For the Forestburg boy’s team, Riley Sandusky led the team with 17 points. The Longhorns Coach Eldon Van Hooser thought the Bears played his team tough, switching to man defense this time around.
For Gold-Burg Jack Henry led the team with 11 points.
Forestburg next plays at Slidell on at 6 p.m. on Feb. 7. Gold-Burg next hosts Prairie Valley at 6 p.m. on Feb. 11.
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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