Underdog Pirates win it all

Dale’s High School baseball team has captured its second state championship under the guidance of Coach Eddie Jeffcoat, defeating Silo 18-11 in the finals played at Bricktown Ball Park in Oklahoma City.

All-conference fastpitch team

Conference MVP: Keelie Treat Coach of the Year: Dailyn King, Prague Champion: Prague All-Conference Team Prague: Liyah Dauman Kailey Rich Ady Custar Tessa Cooper Jayle Friend Honorable mention: Lexsey Trevizo Jadyn Hightower Chandler: Grace Hulsey Grace Haas Hannah Edmonds Kali Beall Carson...

Sports week in photos

Top left, Riley Randall from Meeker won the boys’ division at the OBU cross country meet at Gordon Cooper Technology Center last week. Photo/ Robyn Miller Top right, Cassie Wright from Chandler was the champion in the girls’ division.

Sports week in photos

Above, North Rock Creek third baseman Caty Baack takes a throw and prepares to tag a Comanche runner who tried to stretch a double into a triple in the Class 3A fastpitch state tournament.

Davenport rolls up Strother

Davenport’s Bulldogs opened their district play last week, easily winning a home contest and needing only one half to defeat Strother 58-6. Davenport Coach John Greenfield said, “We played well. Strother had only nine players, but we had only 15 ourselves,” he noted.

Stroud moves to 4-2, 3-0 in district

Stroud rolled off its fourth straight win and moved into a two-way tie for first place in District A-6 by clipping the Hartshorne Miners 42-21 Friday night. The Tigers and the Mounds Eagles sit atop the district with 3-0 league records and will meet at Jack Poskey Stadium in Stroud on Oct. 21.

Meeker hammers Kellyville for homecoming

Meeker pounded Kellyville 56-12 Friday to put an exclamation mark on homecoming and keeping pace in District 2A-2. Sophomore Treyvon Compton replaced injured start Ty Gabbert at quarterback against Kellyville and threw for five touchdowns and 260 yards.

NRC, Dale hit the semifinals

Top, Hannah Earlywine’s North Rock Creek teammates await at the plate as she comes home after slugging a home run in the Lady Cougars’ state semifinal game against Tishomingo.

All those good feelings

At the end of a super hard and exhausting Sunday as I stood there with my face buried in your neck, while you had your arms wrapped around me, I felt safe. I felt loved. All the good things people want to feel I felt.

Memories of big league baseball

As I was finishing up a meeting the other evening, a sports new alert popped up across my phone that Roger Maris’ American League record of 61 homers in a season had been broken. When I got home, I asked my wife Pat had she seen that on her phone. She quietly uttered an unenthused “huh huh.