Archive - Jul 2011
July 30th
KANSAS CITY, Kan. â The Oklahoma Elite softball team is now facing elimination every time it takes the field from here on at the 2011 World Series.
A day after posting a comeback victory, the Elite had the same thing done to it. Trailing 4-2, Nemesis 16 Gold from Lincoln, Neb., rallied to down the Elite 5-4 Friday morning.
The loss dropped the Elite into the loser's bracket, with the first elimination game slated for 8 a.m. this morning. The Elite must win five games today to survive to see action on Sunday.
TULSA â Thursday night closed a chapter in life which was dear to both Talihina Golden Tiger basketball players Taggart Lockhart and Jordan EagleRoad. The local duo played together in their final high school basketball game, so to speak.
Lockhart and EagleRoad played for the Small East in Thursday night's Oklahoma Coaches Association Small School All-State Basketball Game at the Oral Roberts University Mabee Center.
Can you believe it? The 2011 fall high school fast-pitch softball and fall baseball seasons are just around the corner, beginning Aug. 9.
With a year of being sports editor of The Poteau Daily News, I've learned how, at least I think so, to make things a little easier on everyone â myself, the coaches and the teams.
Since there's the annual Panama Preseason Softball Tournament the weekend prior to the fast-pitch season getting started, I figured when this year's version rolled around I would use it to my advantage.
July 29th
Joseph Andrew Sanders, 71, of Shady Point died July
21, 2011, in Muldrow. Memorial Services will be held at
3 p.m. Friday, July 29, at the First Assembly of God
Church in Shady Point. Arrangements are under the direc-
tion of Evans and Miller Funeral Home, Poteau.
There is nothing like getting a Christmas gift in July. On Sunday one local family received a gift better than any Christmas present they could ever imagine, a heart for their baby who has been fighting for life almost every day of the five months since he was born.
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. â The bad news Wednesday afternoon for the Oklahoma Elite softball team was it suffered its first loss in the 2011 World Series. But the good news was the Elite still won its pool-play division.
The Elite lost a heart-breaking 1-0 game to the Wichita (Kan.) Impact at Mid-America Sports Complex in its final pool-play division game.
July 28th
Joseâ Chavez, won $2,500 after he sunk a hole-in-one during the 46th Annual Spider Webb Invitational Golf Tournament at the Choctaw Country Club held Saturday, July 9-10. Chavez struck gold on Hole No. 2, sponsored by the Choctaw Country Club securing his prize right from the start. Mike Thomas, President of the Board of Directors at CCC, along with Pro-Shop Manager Francis Walston presented Chavez with a check after the two-day, 36 hole, best ball tournament was complete.
Walter Charles âCottonâ Carmack, 84,
of Poteau died Tuesday, July 26, 2011, in
Talihina.
Cotton was born in Poteau on Oct. 30,
1926, to Rube M. and Bertha (McClure)
Carmack. He was a veteran of the U.S.
Navy, serving as a SeaBee in World War II.
He was a retired teacher and also retired
from the state working as a health inspector
He was a member of the First Baptist Church in Poteau.
Cotton was preceded in death by his wife, Aldean
Carmack and brother, Ed Gene Carmack.
Survivors include his daughters, Kay Carmack of
Poteau and Sharon Lea Carmack of Vian; son and daughter-
