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Jackrabbits open district with loss to Jim Ned
The Bowie Jackrabbits started district play on Friday by taking on perennial state power Jim Ned at home on Friday.
The Jackrabbits gave the Indians a competitive first half, but the game got away from them in the fourth quarter as Jim Ned won 48-18.
Bowie came into the game following a bye week and is hoping district play can be a fresh start for the team after a disappointing pre-district run of 0-5.
The Indians have been one of those programs that have been among the top 10 in the state the past several seasons. This year’s team though had a 2-3 pre-district record which was more losses than the previous two seasons combined.
Bowie was hoping it could shock the Texas High School football world and show things were going to be different during district play.
For most the first half, the Jackrabbits showed that. Jim Ned took the lead in the first quarter, capping off a drive with its run heavy attack on a short touchdown run to make it 7-0.
Bowie came back and scored a short touchdown as quarterback Brody Armstrong found Brycen Park for a four-yard touchdown pass. It was 7-6 heading into the second quarter.
The Indians scored again, this time on a six-yard pass to extend the lead to 14-6. The Bowie defense answered back as Park intercepted a pass and took it 43 yards for a touchdown to cut the lead down to 14-12.
Bowie had the ball back with the chance to go ahead, but unfortunately an interception was returned by Jim Ned deep in Bowie territory. This set up a short touchdown run to make it 20-14 heading into halftime, taking some of the wind out of the Jackrabbits sails after a competitive two quarters.
More of that momentum went to the Indians’ side to start the third quarter. On Jim Ned’s first possession, the team executed an offensive drive that was punctuated by a 20-yard touchdown run. This put the Indians ahead 27-12.
Bowie was not just going to lay down as it had come back from bigger deficits this season. The defense buttoned up for the rest of the quarter, but the offense kept getting in its own way.
Big plays were hard to come by and anything that put the Jackrabbits behind the sticks, like negative plays or penalties, proved to be drive killers.
It was the same score at the start of the fourth quarter. The Bowie defense that had been battling against a big Indian line and a bruising offensive attack started to wear down the Jackrabbits.
Jim Ned took advantage, scoring three touchdowns in the quarter on a 31-yard run, an 11-yard pass and a one-yard plunge to run away with the game up 48-12.
With the time running out on the chance for a come back, the Jackrabbits got one last thing highlight for the night. Jaden Hopson got his first carries of the season and while not all of them produced good results, he did break off a 61-yard touchdown run to make the final score 48-18.
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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