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Bowie girls lose to Henrietta
The Bowie Lady Rabbits continued to struggle as they lost to Henrietta at home on Friday night.
The Lady Cats won 35-27 as they held off a furious second half comeback attempt by the Lady Rabbits.
Both teams were coming into the game seeking its first district win. Bowie nearly upset first place Jacksboro earlier in the week.
The Lady Rabbits have struggled scoring during district play with their top scorer, Ziba Robbins, out with an injury. Bowie knew the best chance was to play lights out defense and hope it could gut out some wins by having points come from somewhere.
Unfortunately, despite playing a struggling and young Henrietta team, the points did not show up in the first half.
The Lady Rabbits scored only four points in both the first and second quarter, as they just could not crack the Lady Cats 2-3 zone.
To make things worse, Henrietta was taking advantage of any crack it could find in Bowie’s defense and made four 3-pointers and scored 12 points in both the first and second quarters. Even with the Lady Rabbits switching their defense up to a full-court press, the Lady Cats seemed to be able to quickly break it and score during several sequences.
It upped Bowie’s energy a bit more than in the first quarter as the girl’s started crashing the offensive glass with ferocity and got second, third and fourth chances at the baskets in some cases.
Unfortunately, the lid on the basket seemed to remain shut even with extra chances. The Lady Rabbits went into halftime down 24-8.
Coach Matthew Miller implored his team that just playing with more energy and want to would get better results in the second half.
Thanks to back-to-back possessions where Maycie Metzler knocked in a pair of 3-pointers, Bowie cut the lead down to single-digits at one point in the third quarter. Henrietta went on a 6-1 run to close the quarter as it led 32-18.
The Lady Rabbits offense had more than doubled their first half total, but would need to pick it up on defense even more for a chance to come back.
Bowie did play almost lock-down defense all of the fourth quarter.
The press-defense was tightened up and the Lady Rabbits forced some turnovers and created some scoring chances with their energy and pressure.
The Lady Cats scored only three points in the final period, which gave Bowie a chance if they could put together a really good offensive quarter.
While the Lady Rabbits again scored more than they did in the first half combined in the fourth quarter, the nine points was not enough to come all the way back.
Henrietta ran the clock out and survived Bowie’s second half onslaught to win 35-27.
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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