SPORTS
Bellevue girls beat Forestburg
District play started Tuesday night for the area 1A girls teams as Forestburg hosted Bellevue.
The undermanned Lady Eagles won 47-20 against the Lady Horns despite a close first half.
Bellevue comes into district play with only five players on its roster. This has caused the team to go away from its typical full-court press and up-tempo style of play since the team has no depth. Autsin Ford and Grace Martin are the only upperclassmen.
Forestburg comes into district play leaning heavily on Faith Moore and Braylee Briles scoring the ball and playing scrappy zone defense since the team does not have a monster post presence for the first time in years.
The game started out as a low scoring affair. The first quarter barely totaled more than 10 points as Forestburg led 6-5.
The Lady Horns were trying to use some full-court pressure, but it didn’t affect the Lady Eagles that much.
Bellevue sat back in a zone and its players started to aggressively jump the passing lanes for steals. This led to better scoring chances in transition since the team was not making its shots in the half court and Forestburg was doing a good job of rebounding the basketball.
The Lady Eagles led 15-12 heading into halftime. The Lady Horns were trying to get baskets at the rim, but were not rewarded with any free throw attempts in the first half compared to Bellevue’s eight attempts.
The Lady Eagles doubled down on going for steals to come out in the second half and were able to turn more of them into easy points.
Bellevue’s lead went up to 24-12 midway through the quarter as the Lady Eagles started playing with more energy as the lead went up. They started getting more offensive rebounds for second chance points and the free throw attempts kept coming.
The Lady Horns could not keep up offensively as the turnovers prevented them from running their offense and getting shots at the rim.
Forestburg scored all six of its points in the last few minutes of the third quarter, but not before Bellevue’s lead had turned to double-digits.
The Lady Eagles led 31-18 heading into the fourth quarter.
It was more of the same for Bellevue in the final period. Steals, layups and free throw attempts off of offensive rebounds allowed the Lady Eagles lead to continue to grow.
Forestburg’s offense was only able to score one basket in the final period.
Bellevue did have one of its players foul out of the game which meant the team had to play the rest of the way a player down. Thankfully for the Lady Eagles, it was with only 2:32 left in the game and they were up 44-20.
The final score was 47-20.
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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