SPORTS
Nocona’s Stone advances to regional golf tournament
The Nocona golf team competed at the district tournament on two different days last week.
In the end, the Indians are sending one player, Johnny Stone, on to regionals as he finished fifth overall individually and the second best among players who were not on teams that were regional qualifiers.
Stone led Nocona by shooting 86-77 as the Indians shot 689 and finished seven shot behind Seymour, missing out on qualifying for regionals as a team with a third place finish.
“I am very proud of Johnny and how much work he has put in to advance,” Coach Kyle Spitzer said. “He plays a lot of golf, so I was happy he was able to put together two solid rounds.”
Jake Pribble shot 86-87 and Landon Fatheree shot 82-92.
Caden Gaston shot 91 the first day to get the team’s first day total. He shot 107 the second day as Caden Belcher improved his first day’s total of 94 and shot 88 to add to the second day’s total.
The Nocona boy’s second team finished in sixth place with an 804 total.
Charlie Fuller shot best both days for the team, shooting 95-87. Cooper Waldrip was second shooting 102-98, Brady McCasland was third as he shot 110-98 and Caden Hammer was fourth shooting 115-99. Peyton Reed shot 123-137, but his scores were not added to the team’s total.
The Lady Indians had two players compete as medalists. Jessie Howard shot 105/106 and finished third behind two girls from Olney who qualified for regionals. Alexa Sosa shot 144-139 and finished fifth among medalists.
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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