SPORTS
Volleyball Roundup
Nocona
The Nocona Lady Indians started district play with a test on Tuesday traveling to Jacksboro.
The Lady Indians had to scrape and claw to get the win in five sets, coming back from 2-1 deficit.
Nocona came out swinging the first set as it won in a one-sided fashion 25-16. The second set was the most competitive of the whole match.
The Lady Indians had a chance to go up two sets, but the Lady Tigers fought hard. Jacksboro would win the set in extra points 29-27 to tie the match at 1-1.
Nocona fell behind in the third set and could never make up the margin. The Lady Tigers won the set 25-18 to take the lead in the match 2-1.
The Lady Indians would need to win the last two sets if they wanted to win the match, but first had to take care of business in the fourth set.
Nocona played with great energy and spirit Jacksboro could not match as it won the fourth set by the same margin it won the first set 25-16. This tied the match at 2-2 to force a fifth and final set.
It was competitive, but the Lady Indians pulled away in the end to win the set 15-12 and the match 3-2.
Averee Kleinhans led the team with 22 kills. Sydni Messer was second with 11 kills while leading the team with 27 assists and five service aces.
Nocona next plays a non-district game at Melissa at 6 p.m. on Sept. 15.
Prairie Valley
The Prairie Valley Lady Bulldogs traveled to Olney on Tuesday night to face the Lady Cubs.
The Lady Bulldogs were able to avenge some tough recent performances as they easily beat Olney in straight sets. None of the sets were competitive with scores like 25-15, 25-7 and 25-14.
Emily Carpenter led the team with 11 kills and six service aces while Veronica Gutierrez led the team with 13 assists.
Coach Jeannie Carpenter thought this was a game her team really needed to win to move past some not so good recent play.
Prairie Valley next plays at Electra at 5 p.m. on Sept. 15 to start district play.
Forestburg
The Forestburg Lady Horns traveled to Graford on Tuesday as they opened up district play.
The Lady Horns fell to the Lady Rabbits in straight sets. The second set was the most competitive, but Forestburg just could not make enough good things happen consistently enough to hang with Graford with scores of 25-10, 25-17 and 25-13.
Athena Britain led the team with three service aces and Faith Moore had five assists. Moore and Katie Willett each had a team high five digs. Bailey Payne, Keeleigh Burnam, Kendal Cross and Willett each had two kills apiece to lead the team.
The Lady Horns next travel to Alvord to play at 5 p.m. on Sept. 15.
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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