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Basketball roundup
Saint Jo boys
The Saint Jo Panthers picked up two big wins on Friday and Saturday.
The Panthers won at Era 54-31 and beat Chico 71-20 at home.
Saint Jo got out to a 14-4 lead in the first quarter against the Hornets and never looked back. While Era had a better second quarter and cut the lead to 23-17 at halftime, the Panthers’ defense put the clamps back on in the second half. The offense did enough to not let the Hornets get closer.
Saint Jo then ended the game strong scoring 20 points in the fourth quarter to win the game by 23 points.
The next day against the Dragons at home, it was all about the defense. Chico scored nine points in the first quarter and trailed the Panthers only 15-9.
Saint Jo’s defense then allowed the Dragons to score only 11 points for the next three quarters.
The Panther’s offense never slowed down, again ending the game strong scoring 22 points in the fourth quarter to pull away and win by 51 points.
Saint Jo is next scheduled to play at 6 p.m. on Dec. 18 at home against Perrin-Whitt.
Prairie Valley girls
The Prairie Valley Lady Bulldogs won against Notre Dame on Friday.
The Lady Bulldogs won a close game 48-40 against the Lady Knights.
Carmen Gomez led the team with 16 points while Hailey Winkler was right behind her scoring 14 points.
Coach Jeannie Carpenter is liking what she is seeing from her team so far as district play kicks off this week.
“I am liking what I see out of our younger players,” Carpenter said. “They are really stepping up and contributing in big ways. We need to continue to work on rebounding and get more confident in our ball handling, but overall things are looking good.”
Prairie Valley is scheduled to host Bellevue at 6 p.m. on Dec. 18.
Prairie Valley boys
The Prairie Valley Bulldogs picked up a big win at home on Friday against Notre Dame before losing at Electra on Saturday.
The Bulldogs won by 30 points against the Knights 61-31, but lost by nearly that many against the Tigers 70-41.
Isaac Yeargin led the team with 25 points while Konner Ritchie and Tyler Winkler also scored in double figures scoring 18 and 15 points. All three also grabbed eight rebounds.
Prairie Valley had a good first half against Electra. The Bulldogs led by two at halftime, but shots stopped going in in the second half. Some easy baskets allowed the Tigers to get into rhythm.
The fourth quarter Prairie Valley seemed to run out of gas which allowed Electra to start extending its lead.
Yeargin led the team with 19 points, Winkler scored 11 points while grabbing a team high six rebounds and Konner Ritchie led the team with five assists.
The Bulldogs are next scheduled to play Huckabay at 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 18 at home.
Forestburg boys
The Forestburg Longhorns lost to Sacred Heart on Friday.
The Tigers won a one-sided game 76-30 against an overmatched Longhorns team.
Forestburg scored well to start the game scoring 13 points, but could not keep up with Sacred Heart scoring 29 points in the first quarter.
While scoring slowed down the rest of the game on both sides, it went way down for the Longhorns while the Tigers kept scoring enough to keep building their lead.
Dylan Ronken led the team with 12 points while Braxton Osteen joined him in double-figures scoring 10 points.
Coach Eldon Van Hooser thought the team played better than its previous games, but the young and inexperienced team has a long way to go. Still, he is happy with the improvement he has seen so far.
The Longhorns are next scheduled to open up district play at 3 p.m. on Dec. 21 at home against Prairie Valley.
Gold-Burg girls
The Gold-Burg Lady Bears lost a close game at Bryson on Friday.
The Cowgirls won 39-29 against a Lady Bears team that was missing a key senior player due to quarantine.
Kelly Contreras led Gold-Burg with 15 points while Sadie Whitaker was second with nine points.
Coach Cheryl Cromleigh thought her team would have definitely won if it was at full strength, but her team fell short.
The Lady Bears are next scheduled to play at 6 p.m. on Dec. 18 at Midway.
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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