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Buckle Up for Lane’s Sake tourney recap
Bowie
The Bowie Lady Rabbits wrapped up their final tournament of the season with their best stretch of play at Nocona’s Buckle Up for Lane’s Sake tournament.
The Lady Rabbits went 7-0 and won the overall tournament championship despite facing several tough teams.
Bowie did well earlier in the month at its first two tournaments at both Burkburnett (third place) and in a tougher field at Glen Rose (runner-up to consolation title).
The Lady Rabbits started the tournament with a familiar foe. Boyd had given Bowie its only loss in its first tournament and later won on the Lady Rabbits home court.
This third meeting was different as everything went Bowie’s way. The Lady Rabbits dispatched the Lady Jackets easily 25-16 and 25-18 to start off pool play on Thursday.
Bowie won its second match easily playing Henrietta’s JV team with scores 25-15 and 25-12. The toughest match ironically came against a 1A Bryson team that kept the sets close and easily could have won either one. The Lady Rabbits came out on top in both sets with scores 26-24 and 25-20.
Thursday pool play wrapped up against an Archer City team Bowie easily beat to open the season two weeks earlier. Things went much the same as it did in the first matchup, with the Lady Rabbits winning dominantly 25-8 and 25-15.
After going 4-0 in pool play and not dropping a set, this gave Bowie a one seed entering the gold bracket two days later on Saturday.
The Lady Rabbits started off playing the varsity Henrietta team, a district opponent that is expected to challenge them in the standings. Bowie beat the Lady Cats at last week’s previous tournament to get the early season mental edge, but would Saturday be a different story?
It was only the since the match ended after two sets instead of three. Bowie came out on top again, though both sets were pretty competitive with scores of 25-20 and 25-21.
The next match against an always tough Windthorst program only gave the Lady Rabbits pause for the first set. Bowie won the tightly contested set 25-22 before easily running away with the second set, winning 25-13.
This put the Lady Rabbits into the championship match against Lindsay. It was the most consistently close match of the tournament for Bowie, but the team kept up its streak of not losing a set throughout the whole tournament, winning both sets 25-22 to win the tournament championship.
Nocona
The Nocona Lady Indians wrapped up tournament season by hosting the always important Buckle Up for Lane tournament.
The Lady Indians went 5-2 overall and finished fourth overall in a field full of some of the toughest teams in the area.
Nocona first played pool games on Thursday. Old district opponent City View stole the first set off the Lady Indians, but that would be the only one they lost that day. Nocona went on to win that game 2-1.
Another former district opponent Jacksboro fell in straight sets along with matches against Wichita Falls and Petrolia to finish pool play undefeated. This meant the Lady Indians advanced to the gold bracket on Saturday.
Nocona started out the day with a good start, beating Iowa Park in straight sets to advance to the winner side of the bracket.
It was here where the Lady Indians had their first blemish of the tournament. A Lindsay team that wound up being tournament runners-up won the match in straight sets which meant Nocona played its final match for third place.
Unfortunately, the Lady Indians ran into Windthorst for the fourth time this season and who they played earlier in the week.
The Lady Trojans won the first three matches and unfortunately Saturday was no different. It went to three sets, but Nocona fell to Windthorst to finish fourth overall.
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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