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Bowie boys and girls get challenged at tournaments
Bowie girls
The Bowie Lady Rabbits had a tough final tournament at Poolville last week to get them ready for the rigors district play that starts this week.
The Lady Rabbits went 2-3 overall while playing some tough teams and learning a lot.
Bowie started off the tournament with a dominant win against Chico 41-15. Ziba Robbins led the team with 13 points and Parker Riddle was second with 11 points.
The difficulty quickly ramped up as the Lady Rabbits next played the top ranked 3A private school in the state Lubbock Christian. Bowie lost 55-25 as Robbins had a team high seven points.
In bracket play the next day, Bowie had its best win of the tournament, beating a tough Windthorst team 43-35. Robbins had a team high 12 points followed by Hanna Bell who scored 11 points.
The Lady Rabbits moved on, but ran into eighth ranked team in the state in 3A Paradise. The Lady Wildcats showed why as they beat Bowie 58-30. Emily Cueva led the team with nine points.
The Lady Rabbits final game of the tournament was against Gordon. It was the lowest scoring game of the tournament for Bowie as the defense played lights out, but the ball would not go into the basket for the Lady Rabbits.
Bowie lost 26-18. Riddle led the team with seven points.
Robbins and Cueva each were named to the all-tournament team individually.
Bowie boys
The Bowie boy’s basketball team had a much tougher time playing its second tournament at Graham last week.
The Jackrabbits went 1-3 overall while playing mostly bigger schools after finishing runners-up at S&S Consolidated the previous weekend.
Bowie played well at times and competed well, but just could not do enough of the small things to give it a chance to win in the end of these games.
The Jackrabbits lost to Wichita Falls High School 51-40. Andrew Sandhoff led the team with 19 points while Tucker Jones was second with 11.
Bowie then lost its closest game of the tournament against Lubbock Coranado 57-51. Sandhoff had a team high 18 points while Rayder Mann was second with 11 points.
The Jackrabbits then lost to Sweetwater 54-42 in a game where a bad third quarter dug Bowie too deep of a hole to get out of. Sandhoff scored 17 and Jones scored 10 to lead the team on the scoresheets.
The Jackrabbits got to end the tournament on a high note, dominating Olney 60-23. Sandhoff scored 21 points and Mann scored 16 to lead the team.
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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