SPORTS
85th Oil Bowl this weekend
It is time for the 85th annual Oil Bowl this week as the area’s best graduating athletes represent their schools one last time.
Montague County and Bellevue will have 14 athletes competing in football, basketball and volleyball all-star games on June 17-18.
The Maskat Shrine Oil Bowl is one of the longest running all-star football games in the state, starting 1938. From 1945-2013, the format used to pit Texas versus Oklahoma.
After a 13-year absence, basketball was re-added to the proceedings in 2018. Volleyball was added for the first time in 2019.
The weekend starts with basketball on June 17 at Rider High School. The girl’s game is scheduled first at 6 p.m. with the boys following at 7:30 p.m.
In the girl’s game, Bowie’s Addie Farris and Bellevue’s Austin Ford will play on the west team. On the east team, Nocona will have Raylee Sparkman and Stephany Gutierrez play.
In the boy’s game, Bowie’s Drew Weber will suit up for the east team while Nocona’s Lyndon Fenoglio and Adam Meekins will play for the west team.
On June 18 the volleyball game will be played first also at Rider High School starting at 4 p.m. with the small school game.
Gold-Burg’s Kelly Contreras on the west team and Prairie Valley’s Emily Carpenter on the east team will play in that game.
The big school game will follow where Bowie’s Taygon Jones will play on the west team.
The football game is that night. This year the game will be at Iowa Park High School instead of Midwestern State University’s Memorial Stadium. The game is scheduled to start at 7:30 p.m.
Both Bowie and Nocona players will play on the east team. The Jackrabbits have Jake Fallis and Hunter Wade playing while the Indians have Sam Davis and Ian Hostetter. The east team has won six of the last seven years.
Saint Jo clinched a playoff spot in their home finale. Nocona and Gold-Burg both suffered regular season losses.
Brief summaries of the games follow:
Tioga 50, Nocona 0
After losing a Nocona High students a few days before the Nov. 5 game, the Indians never fully recovered and wound up on the short end of the stick to the Bulldogs.
Nocona had just 95 yards of offense. Quarterback Brody Langford was 6-11 passing for 21 yards. Logan Gaston had 53 yards on 10 carries. McCrae Crossen had 22 yards on eight carries with Jax Fuller adding 18 yards on four totes.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Looking to get back to the State championship, Nocona’s volleyball team got off to a quick start in its area round matchup with Coleman Nov. 3.
A bit of a letdown in the middle games was rectified in game four, allowing the Lady Indians to post a 3-1 (25-12, 26-24, 22-25,25-13) victory. Nocona Coach Sandy Langford said getting back to its style of game helped.
“We’ve had to overcome a lot this week,” Langford said in reference to the school losing a student in an accident two days prior. “We talked during a timeout about getting back to playing fast which is more our style. Coleman had us playing a slower style of play and they took advantage of it.
The fast style of play benefitted the Lady Indians, who got out to a 4-0 lead in game one courtesy of Paige Davis. Maddyn Bowles added a kill to keep things moving.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
When you’re gunning for a playoff spot, playing error free football is paramount.
Or is it?
In a District 4-3A Division I battle for the fourth and final playoff spot, Bowie had made five turnovers in the first nearly three quarters but still managed to lead 21-17 late in the third quarter. The Jackrabbits received a pep talk from their coaches and did not turn the ball over again while receiving some clutch defense down the stretch in a much closer than it looked 42-17 win over the Boyd Yellowjackets.
With the victory, Bowie clinched its first playoff spot in football since 2017. The Jackrabbits, 1-3 in district and 5-5 overall, will travel to Cisco for a 6 p.m. Nov.13 game vs. defending state champion Wall, who is ranked No. 4.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
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