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Football Roundup
Saint Jo
The Saint Jo Panthers won their final non-district game on Saturday playing a tough Groom team at Chillicothe.
The Panthers came out on top 60-48 in a game that was a competitive test.
After sitting out of the previous weeks game, Logan Brawner came through with 217 yards rushing and five touchdown. However it was Matthew Butler-Everson, who’s three touchdown passes came in the crucial second half stretch where Saint Jo took its lead, that came through when the Tigers were geared up to stop Brawner.
He completed six passes for 210 yards. Three of those catches came from Jonathan Diaz who had 124 yards receiving and one touchdown. Both of Trevor Connor’s catches were for touchdowns and went for 69 yards.
Coach Mark Stevens was pleased with how his team played overall. With the team as healthy as its been heading into district play, Stevens is confident his team is primed to win its third straight district title.
Saint Jo’s opens district at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 22 in its final home game against Bryson.
Nocona
The Nocona Indians lost to Henrietta at home on Friday night.
The Bearcats won pretty easily 47-14 as the young Indians team did not play its best game.
Henrietta got on the board with an interception return for a touchdown that set the tone for the rest of the night as Nocona’s offense had five turnovers on the night.
Defensively, the Indians were determined to not give up the big play to explosive receiver Baron Brown. Nocona did limit Brown to only one catch for negative yardage on the night.
Unfortunately, that led to the Bearcats gaining 287 yards on the ground. Henrietta’s other receivers picked up the slack as the team still passed of 195 yards in the air.
Indian quarterback Brady McCasland did find Bodie Davis for two touchdown passes in the fourth quarter to avoid the shutout.
McCasland ended the game with 176 yards passing. Sam Davis led the team with four catches for 85 yards. Johnny Stone had a team high 70 yards rushing.
Nocona is next scheduled to play district favorite Holliday. The game is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 21 at Holliday.
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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