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Bowie volleyball holds on against City View
The Bowie Lady Rabbits picked up their second straight district win at home on Tuesday night against City View.
The Lady Rabbits won 3-1, having to battle hard in the final two sets after taking a lead halfway through the match.
Bowie was coming off its first win in several games with its straight sets win against Jacksboro. The team wanted to try and keep it going against a program it is used to beating in volleyball.
The Lady Mustangs came in with a 1-2 district record, with a win against Vernon but losses against Holliday and Iowa Park. The team had a lot of height and length all over the court as well.
The first set was pretty competitive throughout. Bowie did not trail throughout, but only a four point lead when it led 17-13 was the biggest the Lady Rabbits had throughout the set until the end.
Leading 21-19, Bowie won four of the last five points to close out the set strong with a win 25-20 to take a 1-0 lead.
The second set was a runaway train. The Lady Rabbits went from trailing 8-7 to leading 12-8, 15-10 and 19-11. Bowie won by double-digits 25-14 to take a 2-0 lead and commanding confidence towards ending the match.
The second set proved to be a little too easy for the Lady Rabbits as the team took too long to find their footing in set three. Also, City View had everything working.
Borderline looking shots near out of bounds continuously were just inside the line. Every hustle point was saved and eventually scored for the Lady Mustangs.
Bowie found itself in the biggest deficit of the match down 16-6 as Coach Ashley Sanders had to call two timeouts before the Lady Rabbits snapped out of it.
Bowie won six of the next eight points to make the lead a bit manageable initially down 18-12. Eventually, the Lady Rabbits clawed it to within three points down 21-18.
Unfortunately, Bowie could not complete the comeback. City View closed the set strong, winning four of the next five points to win set three 25-19 and keep the match alive.
The Lady Rabbits needed to not have any flat moments in set four or the momentum from a City View team with some hope might be too much to overcome.
The fourth set proved to be the most competitive of the match from start to the compelling finish.
Bowie initially got up 9-6 early in the set, but the Lady Mustangs rallied to take their first lead of the set 13-12.
For the rest of the set it was point-to-point as neither team was able to get more than a one-point lead. Near the end it was City View that had a 23-22 lead and needed to close with its narrow lead providing the opportunity to win the set.
Instead it was the Lady Rabbits who clutched out the end of the set, winning four of the next five points to win the set 26-24 and the match 3-1.
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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