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Girls basketball roundup
Gold-Burg The Gold-Burg Lady Bears beat up on Petrolia’s junior varsity squad on Tuesday.
The Lady Bears won big 67-24 in a game they dominated against the Lady Pirates.
Gold-Burg scored in double-figures in the first three quarters before cooling off in the fourth quarter with the win in hand.
Kelly Contreras led the Lady Bears as she equalled the amount of points scored by Petrolia with 24 points. Sadie Whitaker, Taylor Lyons and Ashlyn Brown all scored in double-figures as well.
Gold-Burg next starts district play against perennial district favorite Slidell at 6 p.m. on Dec. 15 at home.
Forestburg
The Forestburg Lady Horns won at Perrin-Whitt on Tuesday thanks to a good defensive performance.
The Lady Horns won 42-35 against the Lady Pirates on the road.
Morgan Miller led the team scoring 17 points inside while Faith Moore was second scoring nine points.
Coach Cori Hayes liked what he saw from his team in the win, but still sees room for improvement.
Forestburg starts off district play next playing Bellevue at 6 p.m. on Dec. 15.
Prairie Valley
The Prairie Valley Lady Bulldogs lost a tough game to Newcastle on Tuesday.
The Lady Bobcats won 42-36, pulling away in the final minutes thanks to free throws.
The Lady Bulldogs had trouble all night defending one Newcastle player in the post as she finished with 28 points.
Prairie Valley fell behind 16-5 in the first quarter, but the Lady Bulldogs made up a lot of it in the second quarter as they trailed only 22-19 at halftime.
Carmen Gomez led the team scoring 13 points while Emily Carpenter finished with a double-double scoring 12 points and grabbing 14 rebounds.
Coach Jeannie Carpenter was glad her team stayed in the game despite so many things going wrong for them in the game, especially early on.
Prairie Valley starts district at Saint Jo next, playing at 6 p.m. on Dec. 15.
Saint Jo
The Saint Jo Lady Panthers lost a low-scoring game against Graford on Tuesday.
The Lady Rabbits won 27-12 in a defensive struggle.
The Lady Panthers took the lead early in the first quarter 7-4, but Graford scored in double-digits in both the second and fourth quarters while Saint Jo scored just five more points in the game.
Kayden Skidmore and Kaitline Harris led the team scoring four points each.
Coach Daniel Lindenborn thought his team played hard overall, but just needs more confidence scoring the ball.
Saint Jo starts off district play at home at 6 p.m. on Dec. 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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