SPORTS
Montague County runners compete
Both cross country teams from Nocona finished first at a meet in Wichita Falls on Thursday while teams from Bowie and Saint Jo did well racing at Ponder on Friday.
The Indian teams both ran in the smaller races or with some of the bigger area schools’ JV teams.
The Lady Indians were led by Allie Brown who finished first overall with a time of 12:44. The top five runners also included Graci Brown (11), Jayce Rose (13), Raylee Sparkman (14) and Melissa Segura (16).
The Nocona boy’s team had Ivan Vera lead the team, finishing third overall with a time of 19:34. The top five runners for the Indians also included Freddy Duran (6), Alex Stephens (7), Frank Espinoza (8) and Claudio Segura (10).
Coach Colby Schniederjan liked how his athletes ran.
“I was very proud of the boys today,” Schniederjan said. “We finally ran smart. Our conditioning is getting better and strategy played strongly into our race today. Great overall job by our team.”
Prairie Valley runners also competed at the meet. To see those results pick up the Sept. 18 paper.
At Ponder on Friday the Jackrabbit boy’s team finished fifth overall. Nathan Rogers finished first for Bowie in 13th place with a time of 19:22.
The top five runners for the Jackrabbits also include Sebastian Martinez (23), Ignacio Saucedo (31), James Allison (53) and Alex Castro (59).
The Lady Rabbits team finished 11th and were led by Samantha Clarke, who finished 16th with a time of 14:24. The top five runners for Bowie also included Jojo Villarreal (57), Hadley Morris (65), Laisha Johnson (67) and Kaylee Johnson (77).
Coach Andy Atkins thought his team ran well on a tough course.
“We had a couple of runners run a bit stronger than they previously had and hopefully that’s a step in the right direction for them,” Atkins said. “Sebastian Martinez and Jojo Villarreal ran well for their respective races. Through this stretch of the season we really need to buckle down and train hard while keeping our bodies as healthy as possible.”
Saint Jo also ran at Ponder. The boy’s team finished eighth overall despite running against mostly bigger schools.
Collin Thomas finished first for the Panthers in seventh place with a time of 18:37. The top five runners also included Joshua Vogel (38), Kile Thurman (46), Jayden Curry (61) and Brice Durham (84).
On the girls side, Aubrey Morman ran alone and finished 69th with a time of 16:59.
Coach Lyndon Cook liked how several runners did and hopes his team can keep it going.
“Collin Thomas keeps racking up top 10 finishes and is getting into a nice rhythm, while I was really enthusiastic about how Josh Vogel improved his time and how Kile Thurman looked in his first race back from injury,” Cook said. “If we can keep improving as a group we will be in a very promising position come district.”
Bowie, Nocona and Saint Jo are all next scheduled to run at Alvord on Sept. 22.
To see results for all high school runners from these schools, 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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