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Girls basketball roundup
Nocona
The Nocona Lady Indians won both of their games heading into the Thanksgiving break in dominating fashion.
The Lady Indians won with big scores against Vernon (73-31) and Midway (82-26).
Nocona traveled to play the Lady Lions on Monday. It was a close first quarter with the Lady Indians leading 13-9, but they blew the game open in the second quarter.
Nocona scored 26 points to increase its lead to 39-18.
Vernon did not have the firepower to come back while the Lady Indians refused to let up in the second half.
Nocona’s up-tempo offense got to the free throw line quite a bit with the Lady Indians making 16 of 21.
Karlee Brown led the team with 25 points, with 10 coming from free throws. Averee Kleinhans was second with 18 points and Stephanie Gutierrez was right behind with 17 points.
Nocona next played the Lady Falcons, a 1A team the Lady Indians quickly overmatched. Nocona led 19-3 after the first quarter and 33-12 at halftime.
The Lady Indians could have coasted to the finish with the game in hand, but their offense went into overdrive. Nocona scored just short of 50 points in the second half as it rolled to the finish.
Kleinhans led the team with 23 points while Skyler Smith was second with 19 points. Brown, Gutierrez and Sydni Messer all scored in double figures as well.
Prairie Valley
The Prairie Valley Lady Bulldogs lost to Petrolia before the break.
The Lady Pirates won 35-22 after a bad fourth quarter from the Lady Bulldogs.
It was a close and physical, low scoring game for three quarters. Prairie Valley had trouble dealing with Petrolia’s defensive pressure that led to turnovers.
Still, the Lady Bulldogs battled rebounding the ball and got good looks as they trailed only 23-21 heading into the fourth quarter.
Unfortunately, things fell apart for Prairie Valley as it scored only one point. The Lady Pirates on the other end scored in double-digits as the final score ended up being not as close as most of the game was.
Emily Carpenter led the team with nine points and 11 rebounds. Hailey Winkler and Carmen Gomez each scored six points while Randi Gilleland grabbed eight rebounds.
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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