Archive - Sports Article
May 29th, 2013
Registration is now open for the 2013 LeFlore County Express Fall Soccer League.
Registration can be done through the Internet at www.leflorecountysoccer.com.
Registration will end Friday.
Cost is $35 per child registered until Friday. Beginning Saturday, late registration cost per child will increase to $40.
Payment method details are available at the aforementioned website.
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The LeFlore County Soccer Association will have a general meeting and mandatory coaches meeting at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at the Department of Human Services meeting room in Poteau.
May 24th
For Poteau Pirates football fans, there’s some good news and some not-so-good news.
The not-so-good news is that the strength of last year’s team, the offensive line, only returns one starter, Stephen Smith. Gone is 1,500 pounds of people movers and lane creaters.
However, the good news is Roger Barcheers, who was the 2012 All-Arklahoma Football Team’s Freshmen of the Year, had more than 1,500 yards rushing in his freshman year, and will be back for his sophomore season in the fall, as will quarterback Jace Pitchford and wide receiver Jarrett Lowrimore to name just a few.
North Boys
Spiro — Jermaine Jimmerson.
Kinta — Chase Smith (Fanshawe).
Sallisaw-Central — Matthew Callahan.
McCurtain — Blake Palmer.
Muldrow — Nate Hamilton.
Roland — Seth Youngblood.
Eufaula — Cody Faries.
McAlester — Zach Skimbo.
Moss — Cody Robinson.
Coach — Brett Thomas, Weleetka.
South Boys
Talihina — Clark Austin.
Wister — Tyler Gibson.
Smithville — Justus Brown.
Achille — Austin Beene.
Antlers — Bryce Martin.
Boswell — David Markell Henderson.
Broken Bow — Chandler Rickey.
Haworth — Todd Eric Gambill.
Hugo — Nick Brown.
Moyers — Jake Dudley.
Three local high school golfers will participate in the 2013 Hudiburg Classic, which will take place Monday and Tuesday at John Conrad Golf Course in Midwest City.
Poteau's Hannah Ward and Cody Shore, along with Cameron's Kody Whitehead, will represent the area in the event.
Ward won her second straight Class 4A state title earlier this month, while Shore was fourth in the state tournament to be the highest Pirate finisher since Zac Poole was state runner-up in 2004.
Whitehead was 11th at the Class 2A State Tournament earlier this month.
Earlier this month, the Poteau Pirates soccer team brought home a state championship. However, before 2013 a local motorcycle racer brought home a national title.
Bart Winters, who works at Cargill's Yamaha in Poteau, won the Vintage National Championship Series.
“I raced in about 10 races last year,” said Winters. “I worked pretty hard for it, so it felt pretty good.”
However, it wasn't the only title Winters brought home. He also won a grand prix race at Hallett, located about 30 miles west ot Tulsa.
God gives us four seasons, all of which are special in their own way.
We have summer when outdoorsmen can pick blackberries, noodle for catfish or just catch fish the normal way by actually fishing for them — although I love grabbing those big flatheads with my hands.
We then have fall, which I look forward to each year with great anticipation. The squirrel and duck hunting, along with chasing after whitetail deer consumes me.
Winter has more duck hunting and chasing predators, but then comes spring.
