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Bowie boys spoil Eagle district title
The Bowie Jackrabbits finished their regular season with a big morale boosting win against Holliday on Tuesday night.
The Jackrabbits won 71-67 in a game that went back and forth throughout the night.
Bowie came into the game following two disappointing losses against City View and Vernon which meant the team was stuck finishing fourth in the district no matter what happened in its final home game against the Eagles. Still, the Jackrabbits had something to play for.
This year Holliday was in a three-team race for the district title with City View and Vernon heading into the final game and needed to win to keep that hope alive.
On a personal level, despite the teams being close in talent the past two years, and exchanging buzzer-beating winners last year, the Eagles have found ways to finish ahead of Bowie both years in the coveted second seed.
That history combined with senior Brody Armstrong most likely scoring his 1,000 career point during the game meant there was plenty to play for on both sides.
The first quarter started with both teams coming out and hitting shots. The Jackrabbits usually liked to push the pace by pressuring teams with their defense, but Holliday made them pay for it in the first game. This time, Bowie sat back in a zone and tried to limit the Eagles chances in the paint and contest best it could on 3-pointers.
It was shaky in the first quarter, but the Jackrabbits were making enough shots to stay close trailing 21-17.
Bowie did make three 3-pointers in the first quarter to keep pace, but when that was not happening in the second quarter the team found other ways to score on mid-range shots and baskets around the rim off dump off passes.
Holliday’s offense took a dip down in the second quarter which allowed the Jackrabbits to tie the game up at 32-32 heading into halftime.
It was another back and forth third quarter, with Bowie coming back to tie the game again after Holliday pulled ahead a bit. The game was tied 48-48 heading into the fourth quarter.
Bowie had its best offensive stretch of the game, powered by Armstrong as he scored 12 of his team high 29 points in the final period.
The Jackrabbits powered ahead in the final minutes and got some clutch free throws in the final seconds from Tucker Jones, who scored all six of his points in the fourth quarter after dealing with foul trouble all game.
He put Bowie up by four with less than 10 seconds left to seal the game up and give the Jackrabbits the win 71-67.
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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