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Bowie girls win at Jacksboro for second win in district
The Bowie Lady Rabbits kept the good times rolling in Jacksboro on New Year’s Day with their first district game following the holiday break.
The Lady Rabbits won 43-30 against a Lady Tigers team that gave them a tough first half.
Bowie came into the game with a 1-1 district record before the break and the team had won a non-district game earlier in the week at Rio Vista. Jacksboro was looking to get its first district win.
With the game being on New Year’s Day, at noon, on the road the team did not start the game off with a lot of energy.
The Lady Tigers played a 2-3 zone on defense, though their defenders pressured shooters out on the perimeter to try and funnel players to driving to the rim where big Erin Jones was waiting.
The Lady Rabbits also had to worry about Jones on the other end. Macon Chambers got the assignment, but usually had at least one other defender ready to come help. That and some constant full-court pressure is what Bowie did on defense throughout the game.
The first half was low paced and low scoring. Bowie made a couple of 3-pointers in the first quarter and led 9-8.
For most of the second quarter the Lady Rabbits could not score. A couple of turnovers Jacksboro converted to points in transition as it built a 13-9 lead. Bowie scored four points in the final two minutes to avoid being shut out as the Lady Tigers led 15-13 at halftime.
The Lady Rabbits came out in the third quarter and more than doubled their total from the first half. Their top scorers Taygon Jones and Maddie Mandela started driving to the basket more aggressively than just settling for 3-pointers and got the free throw line and opened up more scoring opportunities.
The energy went up on the other end as Bowie continued to do a good job of preventing post opportunities for Jones and daring Jacksboro’s other players to keep up with the increased pace of play.
The Lady Rabbits led 27-20 heading into the fourth quarter.
Bowie’s lead quickly grew to double-digits and the team was easily able to coast to the finish even with the Lady Tigers scoring the most points in the final period. The Lady Rabbits had five different players make one basket as they won by the comfortable margin 43-30.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week 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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