SPORTS
Bowie sending two girls to the state powerlifting meet
Girls from Bowie and Nocona competed at the regional powerlifting tournament on Friday and Saturday at Bells High School hoping to punch their tickets to the state meet.
In the end two lifters from Bowie, Kinley Russell and Jordan Vaught, are both making return trips to the state meet after winning their weight classes.
Russell competed in the 148 class and put up a season high total of 800 total pounds, improving by 35 pounds from her previous high this year. It was how much she won by compared to second place as she qualified for state for the second straight season.
Vaught competed in the 242 class. Her 930 pound total was also a season high, improving by 60 pounds. She out lifted second place by five pounds.
Coach Quinn Wilson was happy for his two top lifters who have put in the work this season.
“I am beyond proud of them,” Wilson said. “This was the expectation going in for them. Our goal this year was to automatically qualify for state, and then do their best after that, and that led to them both to getting first place. They worked their tails off in the weight room and it showed on their totals. They were the first girls in and the last ones to leave every day and now they are looking to increase their lifts at state. We are right back to work with our eyes on state medals.”
Their teammates were not as lucky. Alleson Aguirre and Trently Brewer both finished in eighth place in their weight classes though both also set season highs. Aguirre also competed in the 148 class and finished with a 645 pound total. Brewer competed in the 123 class and lifted 535 total pounds.
Mira Anderson competed in th1 165 class, completed her squat at 270 pounds before missing on bench and busting out, or not completing the rest of her lifts.
Still, with two first place medalists, Bowie finished in fifth place out of 14 teams at regionals.
For Nocona, the team had no state qualifiers though three of the team’s five lifters finished in the top five in their weight classes.
Savannah Wade finished third in the 123 class with a total of 600 pounds. She was 45 pounds behind second place.
Caris Johnson finished in fourth place in the 132 class, lifting 595 total pounds which was 15 pounds better than her previous best this season.
Jacie Pirkey finished in fifth place in the 148 class as she lifted 625 total pounds. Yazmin Ibarra missed out on scoring points as she finished in sixth place in the 132 class with a total of 525 pounds.
Kaitlyn Tiffner, who was a state qualifier last year in the 97 class, unfortunately did not complete a lift and busted out.
To see results for all of the lifters from Bowie and Nocona, pick up a copy of the mid-week 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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