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The Nocona Lady Indians wrapped up their second straight undefeated district title with a win at home against Chico on senior night.
The Lady Indians won in straight sets, making it so they never dropped a set all throughout district play.
Nocona won with the set scores being 25-19, 25-13 and 25-14.
Aubree Kleinhans led the team with 16 digs and Ava Johnson was second with 10. Bailey Waters had a team high three blocks while Graci Brown got one.
Skyler Smith led the team with 15 kills and tied with Meg Meekins with 21 assists. Meekins and Kleinhans also each had two service aces to lead the team while Meekins was second with 14 kills.

Bowie
The Bowie Lady Rabbits lost their final district game on the road at Iowa Park in another close and tough five-set match.
The Lady Hawks won the back-and-forth 3-2 to win as the Lady Rabbits finished with the fourth seed in district play.
Bowie was coming off an important, but easy win against Vernon. While the Lady Rabbits ended up having the final playoff spot wrapped up and could not have moved up even with a win, it was still important for Bowie to play well heading into the postseason.
The Lady Rabbits first match against Iowa Park on senior night did not go well. The Lady Hawks won in straight sets, though two of the sets were competitive.
On Tuesday night, Iowa Park was hoping to have a happy senior night but Bowie looked to be the one to play spoiler this time.
The Lady Hawks won the first set 25-20 to go up early. The Lady Rabbits responded by winning one of the closest sets of the match 26-24 to tie the score up at 1-1.
Iowa Park then responded by winning set three by the same score as set one 25-20 to go back up by one set. Bowie then tied the score back up by winning set four, also by the score of 25-20 to force a fifth and final set.
It was the Lady Rabbits third five-set match during district play alone, all coming in the last two weeks. Bowie was 1-1 in those matches entering Tuesday.
The fifth set proved to be the closest set of the match as neither team could pull ahead by more than two points at any time. Unfortunately, it was the Lady Hawks that came away with the win 15-13.

Saint Jo vs Gold-Burg
The Saint Jo Lady Panthers sealed their second straight undefeated district championship with a win at Gold-Burg on Tuesday.
The Lady Panthers won in straight sets against the struggling Lady Bears who ended their season.
Gold-Burg hung with Saint Jo in the first set before the Lady Panthers won 25-19. The next two sets were not as close as Saint Jo won with scores being 25-6 and 25-9.
It was a tough end to a frustrating season for the Lady Bears. A program used to going to the playoffs and being able to have a competitive match against almost any 1A team struggled with inconsistent play and inexperience. Coach Cheryl Cromleigh is used to having her teams showing a bit more fight, even in matches where they lose. Cromleigh hopes the overall make-up of the team is improved by next season.
For Saint Jo, the Lady Panthers hope to have another long playoff run, but will have to wait a bit before they play in a real match again.
The district championship means they have a bye into the area round which is a week and half from Tuesday’s match.

Prairie Valley vs Bellevue
The Prairie Valley Lady Bulldogs had a happy senior night with a straight sets win against Bellevue on Tuesday.
The Lady Bulldogs win set up a play-in game against Forestburg on Friday to see which team will earn the second seed heading into the playoffs.
The first set was competitive as Bellevue showed some fight, but Prairie Valley closed well to win 25-21. After that, the Lady Bulldogs made quick work winning the next two sets 25-5 and 25-6.
It was a disappointing way for the Lady Eagles season to end, though it was an overall good first year for Bellevue’s resurrected volleyball program.
The Lady Eagles were actually able to win a few matches, including a district one, while competing better in some losses after a rough first month of not playing well.
Considering Bellevue had few athletes with any volleyball experience before this season and that most of the team were underclassmen, that is a successful first year for Coach Mollee Kirk and the Lady Eagles.
For Prairie Valley, Linzie Priddy had a team high nine kills. Kai Cearley led the team with 10 service aces. Renee Stout had a team high 12 assists.

Missing scores
Forestburg did not play earlier in the week.

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The Bowie News, the largest community newspaper in Montague County, has an immediate opening for a sports editor and we are looking for enthusiastic, motivated professional journalist to join our award-winning staff.
This job would involve covering (writing, page design and photography) across seven school districts (1A, 2A, 3A) in all aspects and levels of sports, as well as watching for breaking news such as coaching changes. Camera and lens provided for use.
The editor will coordinate the sports coverage schedule and work closely with the editor to make sure everything is covered each week.
This candidate should be experienced in InDesign, Photoshop, as well as 35mm photography and have knowledge of AP style. The sports editor is responsible for content and laying out the sports section each week, as well as posting those items on the website and social media.
The applicant should be someone who can work with a newsroom team and also be a self-starter who can take the initiative. The editor should be able to work under deadline pressure producing clean copy. Organizational skills are vital. A reliable form of transportation is necessary. The editor also may be called upon to assist when necessary in covering news, working on special sections or covering breaking news. Salary is based on experience.
Send resume, references and work samples to Barbara Green, editor@bowienewsonline.com

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The football offenses that shape us

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Sometimes the world proves itself to be small in certain ways, where running into someone from your past in towns hundreds of miles away is par the course.
I played football at Midlothian High School back in 2008, at the back of the depth chart as was the case my whole football journey since a lack of physical ability and shaky self-confidence did not pair well together.
Starting the second half of my freshman year, after the football season, the school district hired a new head football coach named Robby Clark.
Sixteen years later, I finally had the guts to go up to Coach Clark at the district track meet since I had been seeing him at Henrietta sporting events since the beginning of the school year, when I read his wife, Jaime Clark, was hired as Henrietta’s new superintendent. Funny enough, she also taught me pre-calculus the second half of my senior year.
Midlothian was a huge growing school at the time and the football program had more than 150 kids in it, so I was not sure if he’d remember me, but he said he did and we caught up. It probably helped in part by being in the same senior class as a player that would eventually go on to the NFL, quarterback Bryce Petty.
Seeing him recently at a 7-on-7 event at Bowie and hearing him coaching up kids like he did half my lifetime ago, got me thinking about things.
My memory is good, but the fact I can remember several distinct things about the offense we ran nearly 20 years ago shows how important it was to me during that time.
We ran a spread offense out of the shotgun formation almost every play, a sort of precursor to the pass-happy way football has been heading since then. We went through three different centers because we had trouble finding one wouldn’t at least once a game snap the ball over our pretty tall quarterback’s head.
The year before my senior year, when we had a better running back and an offensive line that was both huge and experienced, it brought the beauty out of an offense that, despite appearances with three and four receivers lined up every play, was built around being balanced both running and passing the ball.
Instead of a traditional tight end, we employed an H-back, who could line up both in the backfield at fullback or line out wide like a receiver.
Despite having a quarterback who would go on to set records at Baylor and be drafted by the New York Jets, we found out my senior year when the running game struggled, the whole offense did as a result.
That experience proved to me how some team-focused activities, even ones that include having a superstar teammate, need everyone else to truly shine the way they are designed.
Football offenses shape entire teams. Some coaches are as defined by their systems as they are at every other aspect of coaching. It can be the identity of a team or program if one sticks for several years, but that is a luxury of either huge high schools, colleges and NFL teams.
At certain levels of high school, the best coaches try to be malleable enough to change with their available talent, not trying to fit a square peg into a round hole.
Almost every football coach was once a player at the high school level. Those who are more interested in offense usually played on that side of the ball more before becoming coaches and their experiences there can shape them into the coaches they later become.
Bowie’s head football coach Tyler Price is a Jackrabbit alumnus, playing for Bowie 2007-2010. He played every offensive skilled position during that time, quarterback, running back and wide receiver, while playing in coach Brad Keck and later Josh Castles offenses. Both coaches operated out of the spread offense (shotgun formation with three to four receivers) but did things differently.
“Under Coach Keck, we really established the run with zone read plays and it forced teams to tie extra men to the box,” Price said. “When teams did this we would throw the ball to Cyler Matlock who was the area’s best receiver at the time. Under Coach Castles, we were true spread offense and threw the ball around a little more. A lot of quick passing game stuff with the idea of getting the ball to receivers in space. Both offenses really liked to run with the quarterback.”
When he was later a quarterback, he relished using his head as well as athleticism on plays where he would have to make a read on either to hand the ball off or keep it on a run.
That experience helped shape him as a coach.
“I think giving your quarterback a read on every play is so beneficial in every offense,” Price said. “I want our players to have fun playing the game. This offense allows that. The great thing about the spread offense is that it allows a lot of flexibility on how you want to attack each week.”

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Rodeo action all next week

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The Jim Bowie Days celebrations will feature six nights where the rodeo arena will have action going on next week.

The Jim Bowie Days Celebration starts this weekend and lasts all next week, with several events taking place at Bowie’s Rodeo Arena.
The week kicks off on June 21 at Amon Carter Lake with the bass fishing tournament starting at 6 a.m. As of Tuesday, the lake is still closed due to water levels being too high from the abundance of rain, but look for updated information on if the tournament will take place at the Bowie News social media pages.
Also on June 21, Bowie’s Top of Lake is hosting a two-man golf scramble starting at 8 a.m. The cost to sign-up is $150 per team. You can call 940-531-1489 for more information.
Rodeo events start on June 22 with the Open 4D Barrel Racing event. Pre entries have been open since June 1 and will stay open until it is done.
This year the event will have two sections. Section one starts 2 p.m. Section two will start later at 7:30 p.m. Both section winners will have prizes of $3,500 awarded to the top riders.
For more information call either Blake Myers (254-977-2395) or Kellin Ann (254-223-1224).
The youth rodeo is set to start at 7 p.m. on June 24 and June 25.
The first night the activities are poles, barrels and goats.
The age brackets will be broken up into six and under, 7-10, 11-14 and 15-19.
No leadline category is available and the cost for entry is $35.
The second night activities will be breakaway roping, tie-down roping, ribbon roping and team roping. The age categories will be 13 and under and 14-19. Entry fee is $45.
All around buckles for one boy and one girl will be given for the person who earns most points on both nights.
Mutton bustin’ will be both nights before activities start, limited to 15 contestants per night for kids aged 4-6.
The books will open on June 23 from 6-9 p.m. Call Tennile Green at 940-577-9740 to sign-up.

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