SPORTS
Bowie Lady Rabbits start season
It was an up and down first two games for the Bowie Lady Rabbit volleyball team this week.
The team traveled to Archer City on Monday before playing Alvord in one of the few home games at the junior high gym this season since the high school gym floor is being repaired. The Lady Rabbits lost the first game, but easily won the second game the next night.
Against the Lady Cats, Bowie struggled. The first set did not go according to plan as Archer City won easily 25-15.
The Lady Rabbits settled down some and took it to the Lady Cats in the second set. Unfortunately, Archer City was ready for a battle. With the set going to extra points, the Lady Cats pulled off the win 27-25 to take a 2-0 lead.
Bowie would need a big comeback to win the match overall, but it was not in the cards that night. The Lady Rabbits lost the set 25-20and the match overall.
Thankfully the team did not have long to dwell on that game as the Lady Rabbits hosted Alvord on Tuesday. Despite experienced senior player Lexi Kirkham sitting out with shoulder issues, it was a different story from the night before.
Bowie started sharp and kept the pressure on the Lady Bulldogs. The Lady Rabbits were ahead by double digits at one point and ended up easily winning 25-16 in the first set.
The second set was the most competitive of the match. Neither team could pull away by more than two points for most of the set, with the lead constantly getting swapped back and forth.
In the end, with Bowie holding a 23-22 lead, the Lady Rabbits closed the set outright to win 25-22 to go up 2-0 and looking to make sure there would only be one more set in the match.
Right from the start, Bowie built a big lead 11-4 in the first 15 points, never letting Alvord mentally back into the match.
The Lady Bulldogs picked up some spare points as the set closed to an end to not make the final score look as bad, but the Lady Rabbits never threatened to fall apart as they won 25-18 to win the match in straight sets.
Bowie next hosts a dual against state power Boyd and Iowa Park at 4:30 p.m. on Aug. 18.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekend 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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