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Lady Indians beat Bowie 63-47

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In a showdown between the only unbeaten teams in the district, the Nocona Lady Indians came out on top against rival Bowie on Friday.
The Lady Indians won 63-47, taking control in the second quarter and never letting the Lady Rabbits back into the game.
Nocona came out trying to press Bowie to start the game, but the Lady Rabbits were ready for it.
Bowie avoided catastrophe and ran its offense smoothly with five different players scoring. The Lady Rabbits have had issues scoring in some games this season, but were looking great in the first quarter.
The Lady Indians had a couple of early opportunities in transition with long outlet passes, but Bowie was mostly concerned with stopping Nocona’s leading scorer Averee Kleinhans in the half court.
The Lady Rabbits were playing a diamond and one defense with one player trailing Kleinhans wherever she was and the rest of the defense playing zone behind ready to try and stifle any drives to the basket.
This gave up some corner 3-point opportunities to other players and the Lady Indians took advantage with some early makes. Also Nocona really hurt Bowie on the offensive glass, getting multiple looks in certain possessions and also close shots at the rim.
The first quarter closed with both sides having done positive things and the Lady Rabbits up 16-15.
One adjustment Nocona made on defense was to stop pressing Bowie and just play man-to-man defense in the half court. The Lady Rabbits had a hard time trying to get to the basket and mostly elected to fire away with decent looks from 3-point range.
Unfortunately for Bowie, the shots were not going in in the second quarter. The Lady Rabbits, despite not having great height, are usually tenacious trying to track down offensive rebounds themselves to manufacture some offense.
Playing Nocona though, that left them open to full-court outlet passes. The Lady Indians also had the size advantage in their frontline with Karlee Brown, Stephanie Gutierrez and Kleinhans all being taller than anyone in Bowie’s starting five.
Nocona continued to use that to its advantage while its players also were making corner 3-pointers, with the team making three in the second quarter.
The Lady Rabbits made only one basket and scored four points in the quarter as they trailed 34-20 heading into halftime, all momentum from the good first quarter gone and Nocona comfortably in the lead.
The third quarter was more even though it looked like the Lady Indians were on their way to a route. Up 41-24 late in the quarter, it looked like Nocona’s lead might grow to 20 plus and eventually to 30 plus before the game was done.
Bowie got a jump on offense from its bench as Kaydee Jones made a 3-pointer and Season Eudey made a couple of heavily contested floaters. Starter Jasmine Jones, who had been doing her best to match up with Kleinhans on defense, continued to make the most of her shot opportunities in the post as she scored a couple of baskets to keep the Lady Rabbits offense from putting up another dud quarter.
The Lady Indians offense never slowed down their pace. Even with Bowie changing to a box instead of a diamond to not give up the corner shots, Nocona still was not slowed.
Kleinhans picked her spots and even with all of the attention from the defense she scored a couple of baskets including her only 3-pointer of the game.
The Lady Indians still led comfortably 47-31 heading into the fourth quarter. Nocona started to try and stall the game about midway through up 51-36.
This forced the Lady Rabbits to switch to their usual full-court trapping style defense so the Lady Indians could not just hold the ball for eternity.
This sped up the game and both team’s offenses took advantage. Bowie’s Jayci Logan thrived as the Lady Rabbits needed to score quickly as she scored nine of her team leading 13 points in the fourth quarter.
Nocona continued to score at its usual pace with Gutierrez scoring half of the teams 16 points in the fourth quarter to keep Bowie at bay despite the effort.
The Lady Indians would win with little drama and a score of 63-47.

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(L-R) Braden Rhyne, Justin Clark, Mo Azouak, Preacher Chambers, Hunter Fluitt and Jorge De Leon.

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

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Langford coming back home

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Sandy Langford is returning to Nocona after 11 years at Glen Rose to lead the Lady Indian volleyball and track teams. Her sons are Camden and Keltyn and her husband is Matt. (Courtesy photo)

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.

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Two teams compete at state tourney

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Colt Henry, Lane Smith, Cooper Johnson and Corbyn Patton competed at the state high school bass tournament at Lake Conroe. (Courtesy photo)

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.

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