WELLSTON — Tyler Factor earned a pitching victory Saturday as Tecumseh clipped Seminole, 7-3.
BETHEL ACRES — Juniors Brandon Williams and Derek McMahon posted pitching victories Saturday as Bethel rang up convincing victories over Holdenville (17-0) and Stroud (14-1).
Both games went just 4 1/2 innings because of the run rule.
Kaylee Wilkins summed it up best.
“Sweet revenge. It’s just awesome,” Wilkins, a Dale High School senior, said just moments after she and her fellow Lady Pirates smothered defending champion Pawnee for the Class 2A basketball title Saturday at State Fair Arena.
Derek Claytor hurled a five-inning no-hitter Friday, dishing out five strikeouts and never issuing a walk as the Asher Indians clobbered host Allen 14-0.
The game was halted on the run rule.
The Bulldogs of Meeker were limited to two hits Friday in an 11-1 setback to Jones.
Logan Palmer and Derek Roubidoux had a singe apiece for Meeker. The Bulldogs collected their only run in the third as Caleb Martin walked and eventually scored on an error.
Jones collected 11 hits off two Meeker hurlers.
Cydney Ramirez and Niki Haddad of Shawnee rang up three victories Friday to capture the No. 1 doubles championship of the Guthrie Tournament.
After posting straight-set victories over Edmond Santa Fe and Guthrie, Ramirez and Haddad defeated the Edmond North entry 6-2, 4-6, 6-1 for the crown.
Shawnee let go an early one-run lead Friday, and left several runners stranded late en route to falling 4-2 to the host McAlester Buffaloes.
Leadoff batter Saulyer Saxon sent the game’s opening pitch over the fence for a 1-0 lead for the Wolves, but the Buffs answered and closed the first frame with a 2-1 edge.
An early two-point slump didn’t daunt Dale Friday, and the Lady Pirates dispatched Snyder, 40-23, to reach today’s final round of the Class 2A state tournament at State Fair Arena.
Dale, 26-4, will clash with Pawnee at 10:30 a.m. today to see who has the rights to top-team status. Pawnee, the defending state champion, smothered Washington 64-45 in Friday’s semis.
“I was real pleased,” Dale head coach Benny Burnett said of his team’s performance Friday. “(Snyder) tried to take away Brenna (Burnett) and Kaylee (Wilkins), and the other three girls really stepped up.”
The Dale Pirates’ quest for the Class 2A basketball championship hit a roadblock Friday night.
Talihina’s Jordan Eagleroad torched the Pirates’ defense in the State Fair Arena nets, giving the Golden Tigers a 58-34 win.
Eagleroad scored 28 points and hit six 3-pointers against several types of defense that the Pirates threw at him.
In a thrilling 2A state quarterfinal with a little bit of everything, Dale rallied for a 71-69 overtime victory over Hulbert Thursday night at Norman High School.
The Pirates, who trailed 48-41 with five minutes remaining, earned a regulation-play tie at 59. Hulbert’s Richard Henson knocked down a 3-pointer with 17 seconds remaining for the tie.
Dale’s Turner Coon missed a long jumper at the buzzer after being knocked hard to the floor seconds before. No foul was called on the play, much to the chagrin of Dale head coach Jeff Edmonson.
A late rally was just enough Thursday afternoon as Tishomingo slipped by Prague, 31-27, to end the Lady Red Devils’ season and their bid for a Class 3A state title.
The game was held at Choctaw High School.
The fourth-seeded Lady Indians took advantage of 13 Prague turnovers — five in the first half and eight in the second — to cut away at the Lady Red Devils’ lead and take over down the stretch. Three turnovers in a row were the most costly.
“We threw it away at a time that was crucial,” said Prague coach Jay Depanion. “That really, really hurt us, because we had the tempo and the pace. The turnovers caught up with us.
We just fell a little short.”
The Macomb Hornets opened the 2010 baseball campaign with a doubleheader sweep of visiting Maud on Thursday. They opened the twinbill with a 7-0 win and followed it up with a 9-2 decision.
Senior Jordan Parsons registered a hat trick Thursday evening as Shawnee ran over the host Guthrie Lady Bluejays, 4-1.
Parsons scored her first goal unassisted at the 15-minute mark in the first half, then received help from Jennifer Jett to put the Lady Wolves up 2-0 at halftime.
Sierra Ward scored Shawnee’s third goal, assisted by Parsons, and Parson finished her hat trick with an unassisted shot late.
Dale needed a half to get used to the surroundings of the “Big House,” but once they did, Newkirk offered little resistance in the Lady Pirates charging into today’s Class 2A semifinals. Dale handed the Lady Tigers their walking papers in a 31-21 triumph.
“It took a little while for us to adjust to the arena,” said Dale head coach Benny Burnett. “We showed a lot of poise in the second half.”
Shawnee’s varsity soccer team fell into a 7-0 rut in the first half Tuesday before succumbing 12-0 to the host Tigers.
The Dale boys and girls, with a combined 34 state tournament appearances, will up that count to 36 today when Class 2A play begins at two sites.
Dale’s boys, with nine previous tournament appearances, will be back at state for the first time since 1996. Under coach Jeff Edmonson this season, the Pirates have produced a 22-6 record, with all of the losses coming to ranked teams.
Visiting Carl Albert dished out 22 hits to Shawnee’s four Tuesday, and collected half a dozen home runs in the process in leveling the Wolves, 25-2, at Memorial Park.
Two of the homers — by J.T. Realmuto and Clark Roberts — accounted for six of the Titans’ seven fifth-inning runs. The game ended after five frames on the run rule.
Realmuto’s shot cleared the right-field fence, while Roberts’ made it over the right-center wall at over 370 feet.
Tecumseh hurler Kevin Hill went the distance Tuesday, delivering 16 strikeouts and issuing no walks as the Savages upended McLoud’s Redskins, 5-1.
Hill surrendered only three hits, and McLoud’s only run came on a balk.
“He threw real well for his first outing,” Tecumseh coach Quintin Nichols said. “The kids played pretty good defense behind him. They played hard and got after it.”
Hill and the Savages are now 1-0 on the season.
Shawnee tennis coach Terry Woodward was pleased with the performance of his squads Tuesday at the Ponca City Tournament.
Shawnee’s girls finished second in the eight-team field, trailing only champion Jenks. Edmond Santa Fe and Muskogee were tied for third.
The Lady Wolves went 7-4 on the day while posting second-place finishes at No. 1 singles (Bailey Calder), No. 2 singles (Niki Haddad) and No. 1 doubles (Taylor Haddad-Cydney Ramirez).
