SPORTS
Bowie, Nocona lifters compete at Breckenridge and Valley View
The Bowie boys and Nocona powerlifting teams competed at recent meets and did well while getting some work in improving totals.
The Jackrabbits competed at Breckenridge back on Feb. 1 and finished third overall. Nocona competed at Valley View on Thursday and the Lady Indians got second and the Indians placed in fifth place.
Bowie had eight lifters finish in the top five in their weight classes and scored points for the team. Two of the lifters won their weight class.
Noah Brown won the 275 class while lifting 1,280 total pounds. Jacobi McGregor won the super heavy weight class by lifting 1,260 pounds.
Tripp Brewer finished second in the 198 class. Patel Shiv, Gavyn Brown and Cooper McShan all finished third in the 123, 132 and 148 classes. Noah Metzler and Jett Black both finished fifth in the 181 and 198 classes.
The Lady Indians had six lifters finish in the top five in their weight class. Three of them were in first place in their weight class.
Kaitlyn Tiffner won the 97 class by lifting a total of 445. Savannah Wade won the 114 class as she lifted 585 pounds. Kylea Wallace won the 123 class as she totaled 520 pounds.
Yazmin Ibarra and Caris Johnson both finished second in the 123 and 132 classes. Jacie Pirkey finished third in the 148 class, only five pounds behind second place.
The Indians team had four lifters earn points by finishing among the top five in their weight class. There was one lifter who won his weight class.
Mitchell Gaston finished first in the 123 class as he lifted a total of 580 pounds.
Kaden Wallace and Hayden Matthews both finished second in the 114 and 242 classes. Josiah Messer rounded out the team by finishing fifth in the 198 class.
To see totals for all lifters from Bowie and Nocona who completed all three lifts, 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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