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Girls Roundup
Nocona
The Nocona Lady Indians won their last big test for a while with a win at Decatur on Tuesday.
The Lady Indians beat the Lady Eagles 49-36 in Nocona’s final game before district starts.
The Lady Indians came into the game following their toughest stretch of the season, going 2-2 at a super tough holiday tournament at Saginaw, playing mostly bigger or at least highly rated state-ranked teams.
This was another one of those games. Decatur is ranked fourth in the state in 4A according to the Texas Association of Basketball Coaches poll coming into this week. Nocona’s recent losses have the Lady Indians down to sixth in 2A.
Like in many match ups, Nocona’s lack of size in the post was a concern against the Lady Eagles, but it’s a familiar problem at this point for the Lady Indians. Along with the team trying to deny Nocona’s top ball handlers Meg Meekins and Skyler Smith, it was not a new strategy the Lady Indians were facing.
Nocona got out in the first quarter as both teams were making shots early and the Lady Indians led 17-13. There was a little bit of a lull in the second quarter, which allowed Decatur to come back and tie the game up at 24-24 heading into halftime.
After halftime adjustments, Nocona had a great third quarter, outscoring the Lady Eagles 15-6 to go up by nine points.
Playing with the lead, the Lady Indians were able to run out the clock with a slow paced fourth quarter and increase their lead a little bit.
Nocona won 49-36.
Forestburg
The Forestburg Lady Horns stayed undefeated in district with a blow out win against Midway at home on Tuesday.
The Lady Horns won 59-26 as they dominated once again and improved to 4-0 in district play.
Forestburg scored 13 or more points in every quarter while holding the Lady Falcons to single-digit point totals for the game.
Brenna Briles led the way with a season high 33 points while leading the team with nine rebounds and seven assists. Lili Cisneros was second with 13 points while grabbing a team high 11 steals for an unconventional double-double.
Prairie Valley
The Prairie Valley Lady Bulldogs lost a tough one at home against Slidell.
The Lady Greyhounds won 71-28 as the Lady Bulldogs struggled overall.
“We didn’t really play our best,” Coach Seth Stephens said. “We made too many defensive mistakes and allowed them too many easy shots. On offense, we just didn’t do a good job of taking care of the basketball.”
Makaylee Gomez led the team with 16 points and made four 3-pointers while Linzie Priddy scored the team’s other 12 points.
Missing scores
Saint Jo’s game against Gold-Burg was canceled due to the Lady Bears lack of players available earlier in the week. Bellevue had a bye-game earlier in the week.
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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