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Lady Rabbits stomp Mineral Wells
The Bowie Lady Rabbits made a good showing on Tuesday night at home by beating Mineral Wells with ease.
The Lady Rabbits won 51-39 against the Lady Rams, leading from the start with only little dips in energy that allowed Mineral Wells to cut into the lead a little bit.
The Lady Rams had only one loss on their schedule before Tuesday’s game and had beaten three of Bowie’s district teams early in its season so far.
Bowie had last played a week previously at its hosted Gayno Shelton Hoopin’ into the Holidays tournament before the holiday break. Despite expecting some rust after the long layoff, the team started off the game hot.
The Lady Rabbits led 12-2 at one point in the first quarter, carving up Mineral Well’s zone defense in all different ways while not giving the Lady Rams easy looks to score. Mineral Wells scored two baskets against most of Bowie’s bench to cut the lead to 12-6 heading into the second quarter.
Mineral Wells played much better in the next period, scoring 10 points against the Lady Rabbits ever shifting defense. Bowie is changing up its defensive strategy this season by never staying in any one look for too long before switching.
This can cause issues early in the season as players are not used to having to constantly change defensive looks, especially with the team featuring so many new players to varsity.
Offensively, the Lady Rabbits drew 10 free throws in the quarter alone, but only made four. Bowie scored 11 points and led 23-16 at halftime.
The third quarter saw the Lady Rabbits play well. The Lady Rams were only getting scoring out of one player during the period, who scored eight points.
Bowie had its best offensive quarter of the game, scoring 20 points. Laney Enolow and Parker Riddle each scored six points to lead the team during the quarter as the Lady Rabbits broke the game open and led 47-25 heading in the fourth quarter.
It was not the best finish to a game for Bowie. The Lady Rabbits failed to score double-digit points for the only time in the final period, finishing with eight points in the fourth quarter.
Mineral Wells on offense made a good push as the team made three 3-pointers and scored 15 points.
It was not enough to make Bowie sweat at all. The Lady Rabbits were able to coast to the end, holding onto the ball late to run some time off as they won 51-39.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.
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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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