SPORTS
SPORTS IN BRIEF: Golf tournament winners announced
There was a golf tournament this past Saturday at Twisted Oaks Golf Club with proceeds going to the Bowie Project Graduation Class of 2015.
Forty-eight golfers competed in the event, said course professional Ron Moxom.
The first-place team was comprised of Terry Gunter, Todd McMurray, Kevin Polk and Mike Shaw with a 54.
Greg Shaw, Cory Hickey, Cody Brady and Sawyer Heugatter teamed to finish second, with a score of 57.
The Jackrabbit Prize went to the team of Greg Vicars, Lois Vicars, Malinda Peters and Gary Bogan posted a score of 68.
This marked the final tournament at the course as an 18-hole entity. Twisted Oaks is the name for the former Top O’ The Lake Country Club.
Bowie ranked in girls basketball
The Bowie High School girls’ basketball team is ranked No. 11 in Conference 3A in the preseason Texas Association of Basketball Coaches poll.
The Lady Rabbits finished 23-7 last season, a regional qualifier who advanced through the Conference 2A tournament before losing to Jim Ned.
The University Interscholastic League moved Bowie up to Conference 3A this season.
Coincidentally, Jim Ned is No. 10 in the poll.
Wall is tops in Conference 3A, with Brock second, Franklin third, Shallowater fourth and Sunnyvale fifth.
Bowie also was given consideration in the Texas Girls Coaches Association poll.
The Lady Rabbits are the only team in Montague County to be ranked.
Girls’ basketball practices began on Oct. 22, and the boys will begin practice today, Oct. 29.
Nighthawks’ tryouts Nov. 15
Want to try your hand playing professional indoor football?
The Wichita Falls Nighthawks, a member of the Indoor Football League, will be having tryouts on Nov. 15 from 10:15 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Tryouts will take place at Kay Yeager Coliseum in downtown Wichita Falls.
Registration is set for 9 a.m. The cost of registration is $50, except $60 the day of the event.
This will be a pro-style combine tryout with the following measured: Individual specific position drills, 1-on-1’s, L-drill, short shuttle and 40-yard dash.
No cleats are allowed on the indoor turf.
All athletes must sign a waiver to attend the tryout.
For information, call 940-761-5575.
Sports In Brief. (Graphic by Barbara Green)
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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