SPORTS
Nocona teams beat Tigers; Kleinhans meets milestone
The Nocona basketball teams both won at Jacksboro on Tuesday, with one individual achieving a career milestone.
The Lady Indians won with little trouble 66-29 while the boys won a tight game 45-41.
The big news of the night for the Nocona girl’s team was senior Averee Kleinhans scoring her 3,000 career point. She came into the game needing to score 20 points and she delivered scoring 35.
She joins elite company, becoming only the second girl basketball player in Montague County history to reach the milestone. Rene Hanebutt from Bowie scored 3,186 points playing in the early 1990s while she led the Lady Rabbits to the 1995 state title.
The game was not much of a contest. The Lady Indians kept the Lady Tigers from scoring double-digits in all but the third quarter, leading 29-7 at halftime.
Besides Kleinhans Sydni Messer scored 10 points and Kylie Rose scored nine points while making three 3-pointers.
The Nocona boy’s started out the game playing great. All five starting players scored at least one basket during the first quarter while playing shutdown defense, limiting Jacksboro to only one made basket.
The Indians led 15-4 heading into the second quarter. The Tigers woke up and played a much more competitive second quarter. Nocona still were in control, but the lead was only 28-20 heading into halftime.
The third quarter saw the Indians offense hit a snag. Only an Adam Meekins 3-pointer prevented Nocona from going scoreless.
This allowed the Tigers to cut the lead to one, trailing 31-30 heading into the fourth quarter and with the momentum.
Down the stretch the Indians were able to draw a ton of free throw attempts, 14 in all. Despite only one made basket during this time, Nocona made 10 free throws, which was enough to stave off the hard charging Jacksboro team.
The Indians held on to win 45-41.
Meekins led the team with 12 points and three made 3-pointers. Landry McCasland and Ryder Oswald each scored seven points.
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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