SPORTS
Bowie, Forestburg football lose final games, miss playoffs
The Bowie Jackrabbits lost their final game on Friday at Vernon.
The Lions won 34-2 in a game that still had value as the Jackrabbits were fighting for a playoff spot in spite of everything.
Bowie came in with a 1-8 record, but with a win a 2-3 district record would give it the tie-breaker against Vernon and get the Jackrabbits the fourth and final seed.
Unfortunately, it did not come to that. Bowie’s offense failed to do much in the game, finishing with 109 yards of offense, four first downs and three turnovers.
Vernon mostly moved it on the ground, though three completed passes went for big gains.
Bowie’s defense held on as best it could, but with the offense doing so little with the ball it eventually wore down as the game went on.
Vernon took the lead in the first quarter with an interception that was returned for a touchdown. The Lions then hit on a 61-yard touchdown pass in the second quarter.
In the second half, Vernon finished off three drives with its running back scoring on two short runs and one from 22 yards out.
One of the only bright spots for Bowie came when it blocked an extra point in the second quarter and it was scooped up in the end zone and returned 104 yards by Tucker Jones for the lone two points the Jackrabbits got all night. Another positive was the team committing only four penalties on the night.
Quarterback Brody Armstrong led the team with 53 yards passing 34 yards rushing. Running back Matthew McCarty led the team with three catches for 15 yards.
Forestburg
The Forestburg Longhorns lost a tough game against district champs Newcastle at home on Friday.
The Bobcats won 50-0, with the game ending in late in the third quarter due to the mercy rule.
The Longhorns knew it was a long shot to try and beat a tough team like Newcastle, who had won easily against the other two teams in the district so far. Still, Coach Greg Roller wanted his team to fight and make the Bobcats earn everything they got in the game.
At the end, Roller felt like he got that from his team.
If the Longhorns could have hooked up on a few long passes or done a few small things here and there, the score would have been a bit different according to Roller. Making the Bobcats play most of the third quarter was a win in his book.
The season ends with the young Forestburg team missing the playoffs with a 2-8 overall record. Still, Roller thinks his team and the program is growing in the right direction, it is just taking longer than many would like.
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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