Archive - 2013 - Sports Article
March 29th
WILBURTON — The Arkoma Mustangs were runners-up in Tuesday’s Wilburton Invitational.
Dakotah Roam won two events — the 100-meter (11.69 seconds) and the 200-meter dashes (24.95), while coming in second in the 110-meter hurdles (18.01).
Talon Woolsey took first in the 400-meter dash (57.98 seconds) and the long jump (16-7), and was runner-up in the 800-meter (2:21) and the 1,600-meter runs (5:28).
The 400-meter relay team of Roam, Woolsey, Nathan Willis and Ethann Gates won with a time of 49.96 seconds.
I went bowling Wednesday night at Strikes-a-Lot with the Double Branch Church. It was just like “The Beverly Hillbillies” came to town. I never laughed so hard in my life.
Brandon Wann and I teamed up against Johnny and Sara Baker, who creamed us 238 to 184. We really tried, but I knew the Bakers knew how to bowl because both of them bowled strikes on their first attempts. I still can't believe they beat us. We even had a bowling coach, “Superstar” Larry Wann. Back in the 1980s, he was a bowling machine. I bet he still has his ball, and, at one time, thought about turning pro.
March 28th
One of famous actor Gary Cooper's movies was entitled "High Noon." The Poteau baseball team will have its own high noon today.
The Poteau three-way baseball festival with Jay and Wister has been moved to a noon beginning today at Town Creek Park.
The Pirates and the Bulldogs will play at noon, followed by the Wildcats and the Bulldogs at 2 p.m. and the ’Cats and the Pirates at 4 p.m.
The Wister and Poteau junior varsity teams will conclude the festival with a 6 p.m. contest.
On Tuesday, the Poteau Pirates were voted the top seed of next week's LeFlore County Baseball Tournament. Just more than 24 hours later, the Lady Pirates got the same honor at Wednesday's seeding meeting at Western Sizzlin.
The Lady Pirates were voted the top seed of the 2013 LeFlore County Slow-Pitch Softball Tournament, which will be April 8-11 at the Poteau Area Recreational Complex.
Pocola was voted the second seed, with Wister third and Heavener fourth.
Whitesboro is the fifth seed, followed by Panama, Cameron, Howe and Talihina.
After a rough doubleheader against Rose State College Tuesday afternoon in Midwest City, the Carl Albert State College Vikings baseball team rebounded with a pair of wins over the Bacone College junor varsity Wednesday afternoon at Ival Goodman Field. The Vikings blanked the Warriors 10-0 in a five-inning, run-ruled victory in the opener, then took the nightcap 10-3.
PORTER — The Heavener Lady Wolves soccer team suffered its first loss of the season Tuesday night, losing its district opener 1-0 to the Porter Consolidated Lady Pirates.
The Wolves did not play since Porter Consolidated does not have a boys team.
The Lady Wolves and Wolves will play today and Friday in the Stilwell Tournament. The girls contest today is at 12:30 p.m., while the boys game today is at 5 p.m. Their opening-round opponents were not known at press time.
Well, we made it back from Tennessee without incident. The Smokey Mountains are awesome, and there are a bunch of deer and turkeys out there. I am planning a hunting trip to “The Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area” in the near future.
We spent part of the vacation on the shores of Kentucky Lake, and got to fish just a bit even though the weather was not very good. Wally Burchett let us stay in his cabin, which is bigger than my house.
The Poteau Pirates, ranked second in Class 4A, will enter tonight's home game with No. 1 Fort Gibson on a high note.
The Pirates beat the Van Buren (Ark.) Pointers 6-1 Tuesday night at Costner Stadium, and will meet the top-ranked Tigers at 7 tonight at Costner Stadium.
However, the Lady Pirates lost 3-0 to the Lady Pointers in the night's first contest. Poteau will try to rebound at 5 this afternoon when the Lady Pirates face Fort Gibson at Costner Stadium. The Lady Tigers are ranked third in Class 4A.
Tonight's soccer game between the top two boys soccer teams in Class 4A — No. 1 Fort Gibson and No. 2 Poteau — at 7 p.m. is perhaps the most important soccer match in Poteau Pirate history.
The Pirates lost last year's state semifinal game to eventual state champion Oklahoma City Mount St. Mary.
The Pirates lost three All-State players as Spencer Hall, Blake Williams and Jesse Woodson graduated. However, due to their expertise and returning most of their team intact, the Pirates are drawing favorable attention and affirmation.
SPIRO — The Spiro Bulldogs scored four runs in the fifth inning and two more in the sixth on Tuesday night, pulling away from the Stilwell Indians 8-3.
