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Three LeFlore County Class of 2021 graduates played in Oklahoma Coaches Association All-State basketball games with each making significant contributions.

2020: Whitesboro lost 7-4 to Lookeba-Sickles in the Class B state quarterfinal.

Fast-pitch season is less than two weeks away. Here's a look back at the teams from LeFlore County that made state tournament runs. The past decade includes one state champion from the county (2011 Panama) and two state runners-up (2015 Wister and 2019 Whitesboro).

The landscape is shifting for LeFlore County softball teams between Class 2A and 4A. Talihina has departed from the district format as it drops from Class 2A to A. Pocola is set to shake up Class 2A as it moves down from 3A, joining two county teams in a district.

The Young Professionals of Poteau will present an all-night kickball tournament at the Poteau Area Recreational Complex on Aug. 28, with check-in at 8 p.m. and games starting at 9 p.m. They’ll have music, food and fun all night long. There’s an event holding fee of $60. The rest of the team’…

The Red Oak Eagles won twice on Friday night to make the OK Kids 12-and-under final four, which will be Saturday in Weatherford.

The Red Oak Eagles and Talihina Tigers won their losers bracket games in the 12-and-under OK Kids state tournament on Thursday and will square off 6 p.m. Friday in Weatherford.

Three area teams made it past the second day of OK Kids baseball state tournament competition.

Zane Collins of Buffalo Valley and Pocola graduate Reed Richison earned a top-10 team roping time to start the second go-round  of the International Finals Youth Rodeo on Wednesday.

Four teams from the LeFlore County area are in OK Kids state baseball tournaments this week, which start Tuesday.

Six from LeFlore County are competing in the International Finals Youth Rodeo, the richest youth rodeo in the world, this week in Shawnee, all of them boys involved in roping events.

The Poteau Area Recreational Complex Church League starts this evening, July 6, with the first games at 6 p.m. The league includes 11 teams. Games will be Tuesdays and Thursdays.

The Poteau Kiwanis Club has arranged to pay the pool out of its account so that children can have lessons for free and parents do not need to pay. Parents who have paid for the first day of lessons can come back and have their fees refunded.

Benito's Revenge, the golf tournament in which the Choctaw Country Club groundskeeper sets the pins in the toughest placement, will be June 26, with a 9 a.m. shotgun start. This will be a three-person scramble. The cost is $120 per team.

Five area players were big factors for the east teams in All-State baseball games in Enid on Saturday. 

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Due to the high probability of rain today, Poteau High School golf team’s Mud Duck Golf Camp will be a two-day camp Wednesday and Thursday through Thursday at Choctaw Country Club from 9 a.m. to noon each day for ages 6-15. The cost is $20. Registration begins at 8:15 a.m. Wednesday.

Poteau's high-school golf team will have its Mud Duck golf camp June 1-3 at Choctaw Country Club from 9 a.m. to noon each day for ages 6-15. The cost is $30. Registration begins at 8:15 a.m. that Tuesday. All are welcome to attend.

The Spider Webb Memorial Golf Tournament will be June 18-20 at Wolf Ridge Country Club. June 18 provides the opportunity for practice rounds. Round 1 on June 19 starts at 9 a.m. The low scores and ties in each flight will qualify for a sudden elimination alternate shot team horserace followi…

Longest winning streaks

Five players and two coaches from the area made Oklahoma Baseball Coaches Association All-State teams.

Poteau's baseball team lost its Class 4A state quarterfinal 8-5 to Heritage Hall on Thursday at Shawnee. High School's Ed Skelton Field.

Thirteen players from area teams were selected for Oklahoma Slow-Pitch Coaches Association All-State teams.

The two area baseball teams in state championship games at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark in Oklahoma City on Saturday were unsuccessful in finding enough hits to win gold.

Carl Albert State College's baseball team won one of two games in a doubleheader at Western Oklahoma State College on Friday.

Carl Albert State College's softball team (20-23, 8-8 Region II) entered the NJCAA Region II tournament on Friday in Pryor as the No. 2 seed. CASC made good on it by winning the first game 3-2 against National Park College (Ark.) on a game-winning two-out, two-run triple by Unique Robinson. …

The Poteau Kiwanis Club will present its Par 3 Scramble on May 14 at Wolf Ridge Country Club. Registration starts at 8 a.m. It's a shotgun start at 9 a.m. The event is a three-person scramble. Fees are $60 per person. Anyone interested in sponsoring a hole, it's $100. The hole sponsorship de…