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Bowie boys beat Wichita Falls 58-53
The Bowie Jackrabbits earned a win at Wichita Falls High School on Monday in a close game.
The Jackrabbits won 58-53 against the Coyotes, the first back-to-back wins for the program since the 2018-2019 season.
The game got started with both offenses finding ways to score.
The athletic and perimeter oriented team from Wichita Falls knocked in a couple of 3-pointers with scoring going through two featured players.
Bowie was not far behind as Drew Weber and Cade Thompson made 3-pointers and post player Riley Blackburn scored a couple of close baskets. The Coyotes led 16-15 heading into the second quarter.
Wichita Falls kept up its offensive pace, getting to the free throw line three different times while also hitting from outside some to keep its lead.
The Jackrabbits hung around, continuing to get to the free throw line.
Unfortunately, they only made half of their eight attempts while shots from outside did not fall.
Bowie trailed 32-27 at halftime and Coach Andy Atkins was frustrated with his defense.
“I felt like we were just doing a lot of things that we had not been doing in the previous games,” Atkins said. “We had just kind of veered off of what we do. We tried to reiterate that at halftime.”
The message was received. The Jackrabbits defense allowed only six points in the third quarter.
Bowie did not score much itself, but had cut the lead to 38-36 heading into the fourth quarter.
The Jackrabbits grabbed the lead early on in the fourth. They got help from Bayler Swint scoring nine of his 11 points in the quarter as well as Brody Armstrong scoring all six of his points as well.
Down the stretch, with Bowie trying to hold onto its lead, the team got a lift from senior Tru’Vion Sansom off the bench.
“Tru hit a big three in the corner and then made two free throws in the last 90 seconds,” Atkins said. “That really helped us out a lot and was huge. We shot poorly from the 3-point line, so for him to make that in that corner was absolutely enormous.”
It proved to be the difference as the Jackrabbits won 58-53.
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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