SPORTS
Montague County athletes compete at state cross country meet
Montague County athletes competed at the state cross country meet on Friday and Saturday at Round Rock.
Gold-Burg’s Isaac Renteria came back with some hardware, finishing ninth in the boy’s 1A race.
With it being Renteria’s third trip to the state meet, his goal this year was to break through and get on the stand as he ran 17:09.
He was joined for the first time by Ollie Gaston who was the first girl Gold-Burg runner to make it to the state meet. She finished 86th with a time of 14:07.
The Saint Jo Lady Panthers finished ninth overall as a team. With three of the five girls coming straight from playing a five-set playoff volleyball match the night before, it was a tough turnaround they battled through.
Abby Carter led the team by finishing 18th overall with a time of 12:58. Her teammates included Tatum Morman (58th), Taylor Patrick (84th), Kaycee Clark (98th) and Aubrey Morman (107th).
From Prairie Valley, Linzie Priddy finished 64th with a time of 13:48 in the girls 1A race. It was her second time at the state meet after missing last year.
Josh Stout competed in the boy’s 1A race and finished 90th with a time of 19:43 in his first time at state.
The Nocona Lady Indians’ team was celebrating just getting back to state for the second straight year. With it being the same group that did it the previous year for the first time in school history and the last race for the team as a whole, with two graduating seniors running their final race, the race itself was gravy.
The Lady Indians finished 15th overall running in the 2A girl’s race. Bayler Smith led the team with a 31st finish with a time of 12:45.
The team’s top five runners included Jayce Rose (104th), Melissa Segura (105th), Jolie Rose (128th) and Reagan Phipps (131st).
The Nocona boys’ team also was represented by Claudio Segura. Unfortunately for Segura, he suffered a sprained ankle at the beginning of the chaotic start of the race and could not finish.
Still, he was the second Nocona boy to make it to the state meet in the last two years.
For results for all Montague County runners, 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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