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Lady Rabbits win big at Rio Vista
The Bowie Lady Rabbits won their first game back from the holiday break on Tuesday in a non-district game at 2A Rio Vista.
The Lady Rabbits easily dispatched the Lady Eagles 52-22.
Bowie had not played in more than a week when it had won its first district game against Breckenridge. It was one of the team’s best played games of the season after struggling for most of its pre-district schedule thanks to injuries and inexperience.
The team seemed to pick up where it left off against Rio Vista in a game to get the Lady Rabbits ready to resume district play.
Bowie’s defense swarmed and limited the Lady Eagles in the first half, allowing only one basket in each quarter and only three free throw attempts.
The Lady Rabbits offense has had trouble scoring the ball at times this season, but has gotten better of avoiding long slumps by not just relying on shooting open perimeter shots.
It helps when the team is making them though. The team made two 3-pointers in the first quarter and scored 15 points to build a double-digit lead from the get go. The second quarter was more of the same as Bowie scored 15 more points as the team led 30-5 at halftime.
With such a dominating half of play, it was going to be next to impossible for the Lady Rabbits to keep it up in the second half. Rio Vista came out and actually outscored Bowie in the third quarter 13-12.
The Lady Rabbits did finish the game strong though as they limited the Lady Eagles to only four points in the fourth quarter to make up for the one quarter anomaly. With the pace slowed down a lot and bench players finishing out the game, Bowie was able to score in double-digits in the final quarter to not have any offensive slumps in the blowout win that was already decided.
The Lady Rabbits won 52-22.
Taygon Jones continued her recent good shooting while leading the team with 21 points and three 3-pointers. Maddie Mandela was second scoring nine points.
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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