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Presley’s 18 strikeouts lead Nocona to win against Chico
A great pitching day propelled Nocona baseball to a win against Chico at home on Tuesday night.
The Indians won 6-0 against the Dragons thanks to an 18 strikeout day from pitcher Ty Presley. He allowed only three hits and walked one batter during the shutout performance, pitching all seven innings in the process.
On the offensive side, Nocona hitters did their damage in the first three innings. Charlie Fuller led off the first inning with a walk. Presley followed with a double and Kooper Hansard drew a walk to load the bases with no outs.
Wesley Murphey then drew another walk to get in one run. After a strike out, Matthew Page grounded out at third base, but it allowed one more run to score to make it 2-0. A ground out followed for the third out.
In the second inning, leadoff for the Indians Bodie Davis was able to get on base thanks to a dropped strike three. Followed a strike out, Fuller drew a walk. Presley hit a ground ball to the pitcher, but an error allowed him to load the bases up.
Hansard then hit a fly ball to left field that was deep enough to advance all the runners and score a run. Murphey then hit a line drive single to left field that drove in the two base runners to make the score 5-0.
Anthony Torres followed, getting on base thanks to an error from the shortstop. That was followed by a third out fly ball to center field to end the second inning.
In the third inning leadoff hitter Miguel Olivares hit a single to get on base. After stealing second, Davis grounded out which allowed him to advance to third base. During the next at-bat he scored on the base-paths to put Nocona up 6-0. Two more strikeouts followed to end the third inning.
The Indians did not score for the rest of the game, but did have their chances. In the fourth inning, Hansard and Murphey drew walks and Torres hit a single to load the bases up with only one out. Unfortunately, a strikeout followed by a lineout at second base ended that scoring chance.
Murphey and Torres tried to start a two out rally in the sixth inning with back-to-back singles, with a balk allowing Murphey to eventually reach third base.
It would not matter though as Presley and the defense finished off the shutout in the next inning.
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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