FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS

Week 9 on the high school football schedule brought some more clarity to district title races as well as which games will matter in this week in the chase for playoff spots. In Class 4A District 1 action on Friday night the Clinton Red Tornadoes sewed up 2^nd in the district and a home playoff game with a 42-21 win against the Big Elks. Clinton dominated on the ground racking up almost 500 rushing yards and all 6 TDs were on the ground. The Elks had their best night through the air this season completing 5/7 for 97 yards and a TD. Elk City though is now officially eliminated from any playoff contention which will snap their school record streak of 6 straight seasons. In other 4A-1 action, Wford held off a late challenge from Woodward in a 23-20 win. Bethany blasted Douglass 57-0. Wford’s the district champs finishing a perfect 6-0. Clinton’s secured second at 4-1. Bethany will finish 3^rd and are 3-2. Cache and Woodward will play for the final spot this week at 2-3. Elk City’s 1-4. Douglass is 0-5.

Class A-1 District 1 is still up for grabs this week. Merritt and Watonga played a defensive struggle that saw the Eagles top the Oilers 3-0. Hooker won a very important one in Sayre 28-0. Fairview whipped Hinton 42-8. Tonkawa got the better of Crescent 38-22. Fairview leads the district at 6-0. Crescent and Tonkawa are tied at 5-1. Hooker’s 3-3. Sayre and Watonga are 2-4. Hinton’s 1-5 and Merritt’s 0-6.

In other high school football around the area, Texoma edged Boise City 14-6, Thomas hammered Carnegie 31-7, MVG blanked Canton 46-0, Hollis shutout Central High 62-0, Waynoka whipped Corn Bible 50-3, Hobart smacked Mooreland 41-6, Mangum got the better of Minco 27-14, Sharon-Mutual sewed up their district with a  30-8 win against Timberlake, Shattuck outlasted Turpin 24-16

COLLEGE FOOTBALL WEEKEND

It was a brutal weekend for the two in state schools on the college football gridiron. Oklahoma was dominated on their home field by South Carolina for the second time in the last 3 years this time 52-25 in a game that wasn’t nearly even that close. The Gamecocks rolled up 521 on the Sooners defense. It took the Sooners nearly 3 quarters to find their 100^th yard then saved face on the statsheet in garbage time the entire 4^th quarter. Oklahoma St once again were tripped up in Ames, IA by the Cyclones in a 51-49 shootout loss. The Cowboys’ offense was stellar with 533 total yards, but the defense was eviscerated to the tune of 581 Iowa St yards of offense. Ok State QB Drew Mestemaker completed 27/42 for 323 yards with 5 TDs and a pick. Caleb Hawkins rushed it 25 times for 194 and two scores in a losing effort.

THUNDER FALL IN HOUSTON; CHET OUT A COUPLE MONTHS

The Ok City Thunder only played one game this weekend, but they somehow suffered two losses. On Friday night news filtered out that Chet Holmgren would be out 8-10 weeks with a patellar tendon tear. Then Saturday night what’s left of OKC went down to Houston and suffered their second straight loss to the Rockets 119-98. SGA led Ok City with 26 in the loss. Ok City is in Cleveland tonight to take on the Cavaliers. You can hear it live on 98.1fm and 1240 am. Pregame will start at 4:30 ahead of the 6 o’clock tip.

It positive Thunder news it was announced today that long time face of the franchise Russell Westbrook will get his jersey retired and hung in the rafters this season. The ceremony will happen on February 7^th with the New York Knicks in town to play the Thunder.