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The Nocona Lady Indians were able to pull out a close win at Bowie on Tuesday night.
The Lady Indians won 60-52, but the Lady Rabbits made them work for it till the very end.
Nocona came into the game favored to win. The Lady Indians were undefeated in district play and were ranked 13th in the latest state poll. Nocona also had won the last six meetings between the programs.
Bowie liked its chances though. After a tough start to the season, with the new team running into injuries to key players in the first month, the Lady Rabbits have played their best stretch of games during district play. After losing at Holliday, the Lady Rabbits had won five straight games, four of them against district opponents.
The game started out a bit slow for both sides, which favored Bowie in the long run. Nocona is always looking to push the ball and usually surprise teams with how hard its players run in transition ahead of the defense.
Fouls were called early and often on both sides that took a toll on both teams with slim benches.
The Lady Rabbits were leading 9-7 midway through the quarter. The Lady Indians decided to bring some full-court pressure that helped feed into an 11-0 run that took only 1:25 of game time.
Nocona led 18-9 and it looked like the team was ready to run away with the game.
Bowie closed the quarter well after that explosive run from the Lady Indians, as Nocona led 21-14.
The Lady Indians had made three 3-pointers and gotten multiple baskets from lead ball handler Megyn Meekins and post player Stephanie Gutierrez.
The Lady Rabbits relied on Maddie Mandela, who had scored nine of her team’s 14 points in the quarter.
The second quarter saw Bowie change up its defense from man-to-man to a zone at times that seemed to mess up Nocona a bit.
After getting their lead up to 28-19 midway through the quarter, the Lady Indians failed to score another point until two minutes into the second half.
This allowed the Lady Rabbits to come back. Nocona had to call off its press since foul issues and fatigue were not making it worth it.
Bowie got a big boost as Neely Price came off the bench and knocked in two 3-pointers to help lead the team in scoring during that time.
The Lady Rabbits came back from nine points down to take the lead 29-28 heading into halftime.
The third quarter saw Nocona snap out of its offensive slump once the first basket went in after the first 1:46. It was back and forth for most of the quarter.
Bowie went to Mandela who scored seven points, scoring on a couple of floaters and mid-range pull ups.
The Lady Indians then made a change defensively to start trying to deny her and the Lady Rabbits lead ball handler Taygon Jones, who had scored eight points by that time, the ball.
This caused some initial issues for Bowie and led to some turnovers Nocona converted. This and Gutierrez scoring nine points in the quarter, led to the Lady Indians getting back the lead, with the score being 47-42 heading into the fourth quarter.
Early on Nocona stretched the lead to seven points, but Bowie refused to fade away. The next four minutes the Lady Rabbits came back to cut the Lady Indians lead down to one basket 53-50 with 2:30 to play.
A few seconds later Nocona got a big play as Meekins converted on an and-one finish, making a tough basket while drawing the foul and then making the free throw for a momentous three-point play.
With the Lady Indians lead 56-50 and time running out, Bowie would need to score and score fast to try and get the lead down to within one basket again.
The shots were not there for the Lady Rabbits. Nocona got possession and ran some clock before Bowie was forced to foul and put the Lady Indians on the free throw line.
Despite Nocona players not making every one, there would be no comeback from the Lady Rabbits in the final minutes.
The Lady Indians would win 60-52.

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(L-R) Braden Rhyne, Justin Clark, Mo Azouak, Preacher Chambers, Hunter Fluitt and Jorge De Leon.

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

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Langford coming back home

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Sandy Langford is returning to Nocona after 11 years at Glen Rose to lead the Lady Indian volleyball and track teams. Her sons are Camden and Keltyn and her husband is Matt. (Courtesy photo)

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.

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Two teams compete at state tourney

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Colt Henry, Lane Smith, Cooper Johnson and Corbyn Patton competed at the state high school bass tournament at Lake Conroe. (Courtesy photo)

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.

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