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Football Roundup
Saint Jo
The Saint Jo Panthers started their season on Saturday afternoon at Hico playing Medina.
Despite the afternoon sun making game conditions appropriately toasty, the Panthers dispatched the Bobcats 58-12, ending the game due to mercy rule early in the fourth quarter.
Saint Jo scored on its first possession and never looked back. The only offensive drives the Panthers did not score on were two fumbles, but the defense limited Medina to only two touchdowns in the third quarter and recovered one fumble themselves.
Running back Logan Brawner was all the offense Saint Jo needed, racking up 328 yards on the ground and six touchdowns. He also returned a kickoff 50 yards for a touchdown. All his touchdowns came on plays of 30 yards or longer.
Quarterback Cade Stevens completed three of his five passes for 69 yards, throwing a touchdown to Payton Harris.
Saint Jo next plays county foe Gold-Burg. Despite recent one-sided history, Stevens said he is not taking the Bears lightly, calling them the most improved team in six-man from the film he has seen.
The Panthers play at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 4 at Gold-Burg.
Forestburg
The Forestburg Longhorns dominated their season opening game at home against Mount Calm on Friday.
The Longhorns won by mercy rule 59-14 midway through the third quarter.
Despite some big plays early on from the Panthers, the adjustments made by Forestburg on defense put a stop to any more scoring from then on. The offense had its way with Mount Calm, scoring at will.
Coach Trey Cumby liked what he saw overall, but knows there are areas of improvement all over that are correctable.
The Longhorns next play Rising Star, a team that Cumby said has some playmakers the team will have to key on if they want to win. Forestburg plays at 7 p.m. on Sept. 3 at Bryson.
Gold-Burg
The Gold-Burg Bears came up just short of winning at Perrin-Whitt on Friday night.
The Bears lost by one score in a back-and-forth battle 70-64 in a game that was more competitive than almost all of their games the previous year.
At one point Gold-Burg was behind by 20 points in the third quarter, but came all the way back to take the lead at one point. The Pirates would retake the lead and had a two score advantage late in the game.
The Bears did everything they could to score and scored with a little time left to cut the lead to six points. Their only hope was recovering the onside kick or forcing a turnover with little time left and no timeouts.
Unfortunately, Perrin-Whitt recovered the onside kick and was able to kneel the ball to secure the win.
Gold-Burg will face an even bigger challenge this week as it hosts county foe Saint Jo, a state-ranked team that will test the Bears in how physical they are.
Gold-Burg kicks-off at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 4 at home.
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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