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Nocona
The Nocona Lady Indians got some revenge in their win against Iowa Park at home on Tuesday night.
The Lady Indians won 51-38 against the Lady Hawks in a game that went their way much more than it did a couple days before.
Nocona played at the Iowa Park tournament the previous weekend and played the tournament hosts in its second game.
In that game the Lady Hawks won a close game 53-49. Tuesday night it was a different game.
At first Iowa Park got out to a small lead 13-10 after the first quarter. That would be the most the Lady Hawks would score in any of the remaining three quarters.
In both the second and fourth quarter, Nocona’s defense allowed Iowa Park to score only seven points.
The Lady Indians took a narrow 22-20 lead into halftime.
Nocona then turned the pace up in the third quarter, almost doubling its first half total in the period alone.
Sydnee Mowry and Stephanie Gutierrez combined to score 15 of the teams 21 points in the quarter as the Lady Indians lead ballooned to double-digits as they led 43-31 heading into the fourth quarter.
The pace slowed way down in the final period Nocona did not want to allow Iowa Park chances to make up the lead.
Neither team scored in the double-digits which meant the Lady Indians were able to coast to end of the game, winning 51-38.
Forestburg
The Forestburg Lady Horns were able to get some revenge on the road Tuesday night at Perrin-Whitt.
The Lady Horns won a low-scoring, close game 22-18 against a Lady Pirates team that had beaten them at an earlier tournament.
Kylie Willett led the team with nine points and four rebounds.
Coach Cori Hayes liked how his defense played and how aggressive his team was at getting to the free throw line.
On the other side of the coin Hayes wishes his team would have made more of its open shots during the game.
Forestburg is set to open up district play next at 6 p.m. on Dec. 14 at home against Bellevue.
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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