SPORTS
Bowie boys cross country win Chico meet
Almost all area schools were busy running cross country meets on Wednesday.
Runners from Bowie, Gold-Burg, Bellevue and Forestburg ran at the Chico meet, with the Jackrabbit boy’s team winning first place. Teams from Nocona and Saint Jo competed at a meet in Lipan.
The Bowie boy’s team finished first and was led by Isaac Renteria who finished second overall with a time of 17:23. The Jackrabbits top five runners included Brayden Willett (3rd), Monte Mayfield (9th), Jackson Frie (13th) and Russell Anderson (15th).
The Gold-Burg boy’s team finished sixth overall. The Bears were led by Claudio Segura who finished fourth overall with a time of 18:39. The team’s top five runners included Isaiah Willett (32nd), Jorge Montes (45th), Brady Allen (54th) and Efren Villegas (59th).
The Bellevue boy’s team finished ninth overall at the meet. The Eagles fastest runner was River Trail who finished 16th with a time of 20:35. The team’s top five runners were Ryan Jones (36th), Bryce Bancroft (50th), Cowyn Langford (73rd) and Brennan Criswell (88th).
The only Forestburg runner was Jesse Wadsworth who got 28th place with a time of 21:56.
In the girl’s race, the Bowie team finished fifth overall. Ollie Gaston was the team’s top runner as she finished ninth overall with a time of 15:02. The team’s top five runners included Bella Lozano (14th), Harlei Hudson (30th), Brilee Lemons (47th) and Isabella Caswell (48th).
The Bellevue team was one runner short of competing as a team to get a result. The Lady Eagles top runner was Mattie Broussard who finished second overall with a time of 13:55.
Gold-Burg had one girl run in the meet. Alyson Rojas placed 51st with a time of 18:27.
At the meet in Lipan, both of Saint Jo’s cross country teams placed fifth overall.
The Lady Panthers were led by Abigail Carter who finished 11th overall with a time of 13:05. The team’s top five runners included Savannah Hill (23rd), Taylor Patrick (34th), Kaycee Clark (48th) and Tatum Morman (66th).
The Saint Jo boy’s team was led by Elijah Young who got seventh place with a time of 17:59. The Panthers top five runners included Barrett Johnson (12th), Jayden Curry (21st), Julian Luna (52nd) and Trent Gaston (61st).
For Nocona, the boy’s team finished ninth overall. The team was led by Andrew Perez who got 23rd with a time of 18:37. The Indians top five runners included Freddy Duran (27th), Omar Salinas (44th), Corbyn Patton (60th) and Brady Cunningham (108th).
The Lady Indians had only one runner compete in the race. Bayler Smith earned eighth place with a time of 13:01.
To see complete results for all high school runners from area schools, 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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