ARAPAHO BUTLER GOES BACK TO BACK IN CLASS A FAST PITCH

For the 3^rd straight season and back to back in fast pitch, the Class A State Championship trophy is back in Western Oklahoma. The Arapaho Butler Lady Indians brought home the fast pitch trophy for the second straight season with a 4-0 shutout of Okarche on Saturday in the Class A State Finals. Once again Lauren McHenry was the star of stars for the Lady Indians shutting out Okarche in 7 innings giving up only 2 hits with 6 strikeouts and 2 walks. She also had two hits in three at bats with an RBI. McHenry went 8 for 9 in the 3 games at the state tournament. Madi Lockhart had two hits and a rbi. Kylin Oakes knocked in a pair as well. AB ends the season with another state championship and a sterling 36-5 record. Congratulations to Coach Thompson and the Lady Indians on the Class A Fast Pitch State Championship.

The Class 2A Fast pitch tournament went to Dale in a 4-2 win over Dover. Red Oak is your Class B State champ after blanking Caney 10-0.

The Fall Baseball state titles went to Silo in Class 2A after whipping Dale 10-2. Rattan was as dominate as anyone in Class A. The Rams surrendered only a single run in 3 games including a 10-0 shutout of Navajo in the finals. #2 Tupelo shocked #1 FCB 8-3. It’s the first time since the spring of 2022 the Class B State Title didn’t go to either FCB or Calumet.

VOLLEYBALL REGIONALS

We get Volleyball State Tournaments this week in Class 4A and 3A. The Wford Lady Eagles received a tough draw for the second straight season heading into the state tournament. Wford was ranked 6^th going into regionals, as high as 4 most of the season, but they are the 8 seed in the State Tournament and will face #1 Mt. St Mary’s at 11:15 Thursday at Claremore High School. Wford’s one of only two public schools to make the 4A State Tournament. Collusion anyone? In 3A only Choteau-Mazie was the only public school to make state.

FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS

Week 6 on the high school football schedule came and went on Friday night. The Elk City Elks put up a great fight in the first half and were tied with undefeated Wford 7 apiece at halftime. The Eagles removed any hope of a brown and white upset with a 28 point explosion in the 3^rd quarter to pull away and win 35-7. Elk City falls to 0-6, 0-3 in the district while wford improved to 7-0, 3-0 in the district. Elsewhere in 4A District 1, Clinton pulled away from Woodward late to win 38-24. Cache trounced Douglass 58-6. Wford’s alone atop the district at 3-0. Bethany’s next with a 2-0 mark. Cache is 2-1, Clinton’s 1-1, Woodward’s 1-2. Douglass is 0-2 and the Elks are in the cellar at 0-3.

It was a rough night for the two Beckham County schools in Class A Div 1 District 1. Merritt went to Fairview and fell to the Yellowjackets 62-6. Sayre was also up in Northern Oklahoma against Tonkawa. The Bucs whipped the Eagles 62-13. Also in that district Crescent got the better of Hooker 41-18 and Watonga hammered Hinton 46-22. Tonkawa, Fairview, and Crescent are all tied at 3-0. Hooker, Watonga, and Hinton are all 1-2. Merritt and Sayre are in the basement at 0-3.

In other scores around the area on the high school football gridiron, Hobart blasted Apache 53-14, Waukomis smoked BFDC 58-12, Empire beat up on Carnegie 33-6, Cherokee outscored Seiling 56-44, Mangum throttled Stratford 63-0, OBA knocked off MVG 52-36, Texoma outlasted Shattuck 42-28, Thomas went to SW Covenant and won 30-13, Hollis put it on Cyril 56-6 on Thursday night.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL WEEKEND

Both in state schools played conference games on Saturday. Oklahoma St was at home against a beat up Central Florida squad. The game was tied at 21 at halftime before Oklahoma St mashed the gas and dominated the second half in a 42-28 Big 12 win. Qb Drew Mestemaker completed 19/28 for 304 yards and 2 TDs. The Pokes improve to 4-1, 2-0 in the league with a big one coming up this week at Houston. The annual Red River Shootout was down in the Cotton Bowl at Dallas between Oklahoma and Texas. The Horns led 17-7 at halftime before the Sooners came back to tie it at 17 early in the 4^th quarter. Oklahoma’s defense came up big a couple of  possessions later…. Peyton Bowen’s 42 yard interception return for a Touchdown gave Oklahoma their first lead 24-17. Texas took the ensuing possession and scored to tie it at 24. After another Arch Manning interception with 19 seconds left, the Sooners gave Tate Sandell a chance to win it with a field goal…. When Sandell’s 47 yard field goal split the uprights the Crimson and Cream stormed the Cotton Bowl field with a 27-24 upset win over #1 Texas snapping a two game losing streak to the Horns.