SPORTS
Volleyball Roundup
Nocona
The Nocona Lady Indians won a tough five-set match at Pottsboro on Tuesday, stopping short a furious Cardinals’ comeback that would have been tough to live with.
The Lady Indians are still trying to mesh their experience with their youth and almost gave away a match it looked like they had in the bag.
Nocona won a tight first set 25-21 before easily winning the second set with little trouble 25-10 to go up 2-0. Pottsboro would need to win three straight sets if it wanted to win, a small hope considering how the team had just been walloped in the second set.
Still, the momentum did turn and the Lady Cardinals came to win the next two sets 25-21 and 25-22 to force a fifth and final set.
Not wanting to go home a loser after blowing its lead, the Lady Indians pulled themselves together and washed Pottsboro in the fifth set, winning with little trouble 15-3 to win the match.
Prairie Valley
The Prairie Valley Lady Bulldogs lost a tough match against 2A Alvord at home on Tuesday.
The Lady Bulldogs lost in straight sets, though each one came down to the final few points with set scores being 25-21, 25-23 and 25-20.
Veronica Gutierrez led the team with 18 assists and 14 digs. Emily Carpenter led the team with 11 kills while getting 12 digs. Karagan Ritchie added seven other kills while adding 10 digs.
Saint Jo
The Saint Jo Lady Panther lost a tough match against 3A City View at home Tuesday night.
The bigger Lady Mustangs won in straight sets with set scores being 25-15, 25-20 and 25-9.
Aubrey Morman led the team with four kills and five digs. Kayden Skidmore had a team high four aces and five assists while Krista Reeves also had five digs in the back row.
Gold-Burg
The Gold-Burg Lady Bears lost a five-set match against Wichita Christian on Monday night.
The Lady Stars pulled out the win in the final set, but the Lady Bears made them work for it.
Gold-Burg was short three of its players and had move up some JV athletes to play. The Lady Bears won the first set 25-17, but just came up short in the second set losing 26-24.
The third set proved just as close as Wichita Christian again won by the narrowest margin 25-23 to take the lead. The Lady Bears came back to win decisively in the fourth set 25-20 to force a fifth and final set.
Unfortunately, it did not go Gold-Burg’s way as the Lady Stars won the set 15-9 to win the match.
Forestburg
The Forestburg Lady Horns won in straight sets at home Tuesday night against Savoy.
The Lady Horns won dominantly in every set with scores being 25-6, 25-15 and 25-5.
The majority of Forestburg’s points came from serving as the team had 34 aces. Reagan Ladewig led the team with 13 in the match.
Faith Moore led the team with six kills and six assists. On defense Rachel Allen and Bailey Payne each had a team high five digs.
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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