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Nocona vs Bellevue
The Nocona Indians beat Bellevue at home on Tuesday night.
The Indians won by run-rule after three innings 20-2 against the young Eagles program.
Nocona was trying to knock the rust off as the previous week’s games were canceled due to the girl’s basketball team competing at the state tournament.
Bellevue is just trying to celebrate any positives early in the season with a young and inexperienced roster and program.
The highlight of the game for the Eagles was their brief 1-0 lead in the first inning. Brennan Criswell scored on a passed ball with the bases loaded and two outs.
Nocona then responded with eight runs. The Indians racked up two singles, a double and a triple, drew two walks and took advantage of three fielding errors to go up 8-1 after the first inning was done.
Bellevue scored one more run in the second inning. Connor Ward was trying to steal third base. An error on the throw allowed him to come in and score to cut the lead to 8-2.
Nocona looked like it was about to add more runs in the same inning. Three straight singles loaded the bases up with no outs. Bellevue was able to get an out at home plate, Bryce Ramsey got himself a strikeout and the next batter grounded out to first base and the Eagles got out of the jam.
After the Indians defense allowed no base runners from Bellevue in the third inning, Nocona’s offense then went to end the game. The Indians racked up six singles, one double, five walks, one hit batter and took advantage of two fielding errors to score 12 runs.
Bellevue batted one more time, but could not get anything going and the game ended.
Nocona won 20-2.

Nocona softball
The Nocona Lady Indians had a tough opening district game on Tuesday against Tioga.
The Lady Bulldogs won by run-rule 14-3 after five innings as the Lady Indians tried to get back on track while also initiating new players onto the team.
Nocona had a tournament scheduled the previous week, but the team did not play in it so they could support the girl’s basketball team playing at the state tournament. Also, two starters are coming straight from basketball, so a certain amount of rust was to be expected.
Tioga immediately loaded the bases up to start the game. All of them came into score thanks to a fielding error in the outfield. Two batters later the runner came in to score on a fielder’s choice groundout as the Lady Bulldogs were up 4-0.
Tioga added one more run in the second inning on the basepaths and then two more in the third inning on a hard hit single into the outfield.
Down 7-0, the Lady Indians bats found some success in the third inning. With the bases loaded and two outs, Evelyn Marquez came through with a bases clearing triple to cut the lead to 7-3.
Unfortunately, the Lady Bulldogs got those three runs back in the fourth inning. A groundout to first base scored one run along with a RBIs on a double and single later in the inning made it 10-3.
Tioga then looked to end the game as three RBI singles and one stolen home play scored four runs.
Down 14-3, Nocona needed to score two more runs to prevent the game from being ended early due to run rule. Despite back-to-back singles from Marquez and Avery Crutsinger and with both of them in scoring position, the Lady Indians fell short of getting them home. A strikeout following for out three and the game ended.

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(L-R) Braden Rhyne, Justin Clark, Mo Azouak, Preacher Chambers, Hunter Fluitt and Jorge De Leon.

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

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Langford coming back home

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Sandy Langford is returning to Nocona after 11 years at Glen Rose to lead the Lady Indian volleyball and track teams. Her sons are Camden and Keltyn and her husband is Matt. (Courtesy photo)

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.

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Two teams compete at state tourney

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Colt Henry, Lane Smith, Cooper Johnson and Corbyn Patton competed at the state high school bass tournament at Lake Conroe. (Courtesy photo)

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.

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