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Nocona boys compete well
The Nocona baseball team did well playing three games in two days on Thursday and Friday.
The Indians went 2-1 in their final games before opening district play.
Nocona first played Perrin-Whitt on Thursday night. The Indians started the game strong scoring three runs in the first inning thanks to RBIs from Wesley Murphey, Carlos Castro and Ty Presley.
Nocona added one more in the second inning thanks to a Colton Russell single that extended the lead to 4-0. The Pirates came back scoring two runs in the third inning to cut the score to 4-2.
After that the Indians held on to win by that score after six innings.
Vinit Patel got the start on the mound struck out five batters and allowed two hits and no runs in three innings pitched.
Nocona then played Paradise in the early afternoon on Friday. Despite being only four innings, it was a high scoring game.
The Wildcats scored four runs in the second inning to take the lead. The Indians scored two runs in the same inning thanks to an RBI double from Castro and a drawn walk from Trey Pepper with the bases loaded.
Paradise continued to score runs adding two in the third and five in the fourth inning. It was a pace Nocona could not keep up with, though the Indians did score two more runs in the final inning on a Murphey double with the bases loaded. Nocona would lose 11-4.
The Indians would end Friday on a good note against Hirschi. The two teams exchanged one run each in the first inning, with Patel driving in Pepper on a single.
Nocona would then have a big second inning with a little help from the Huskies. The Indians scored seven runs in the inning thanks to five hits, four fielding errors from Hirschi and one hit batter.
Nocona’s lead was 8-1 after the second inning and was able to keep that score for the final five innings to win.
Patel, Russell, Murphey and Kooper Hansard each drove in a run each. Hansard got the start on the mound and struck out seven batters while giving up two hits and one run through five innings.
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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