April 28, 2021 Issue, Page 5 of 16

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5 April 28, 2021 Sports Elk City hosts WAC Track Elk City By Kerry Hookstra With cold weather in the 1600 with a time of 4:47.64. Mason Smith took sixth in the 3200 with an 11:35.26. in the shot put. The Elkettes were sixth in the girls’ division with 37 Delaja Martin, Matti Jones, and Remi Murray. In the 400 Elk City tied with Newcastle Soccer wraps up forecast the Western Athletic The 800 relay team of Kaleb points. Tuttle won the meet Conference moved the meet from Apr. 20 to Apr. 19 and Odom, Tucker Galeener, Jeron Seymour, and Cole Hull was scoring 144 ahead of second place Weatherford at 132. for third and fourth with a 53:34. The 800 relay at 1:54.45 placed fourth. The regular season the only problem with the day sixth in 1:34.86 with the same Third went to Kingfisher scor- was a danger of sunburn with team running to third in the ing 83 while Cache had 48 in 1600 team of Matti Jones, By Kerry Hookstra Apr. 22 and prevailed 4-3. temperatures in the 70’s. The 1600 at 3:34.05. The 3200 fourth and Bethany was fifth Makenna Dupree, Hailey The Elkettes also headed Big Elks scored 53 to place team of Riley Miller, Hull, with 42. Earle, and Ameri Attebery was Playing road warriors over to Cache and suffered a 5-0 de- fourth in the meet behind Galeener, and Lane Hargrove Dajanae Martin was sixth fifth with a time of 4:26.36. the final week of the regular feat Apr. 20. The trip to Altus meet Champion Cache with turned in a sixth place time in the 100 hurdles at 18:18. season the Big Elks traveled to Field events saw Earle, Jones, gave Elk City a 5-1 victory to 151. Kingfisher took second of 8:32.90. Field events saw The 200 saw Delaja Martin Cache Apr. 20 and came home at 109 and Weatherford was Seymour clear 7-6 for third take sixth in 28.48. The 400 and Murray tied for third, on the short end of a 4-0 end the season on a positive third scoring 56. in the pole vault while Logan relay team and the 800 relay fourth, and fifth in the pole score. Altus hosted Elk City note. Lane Hargrove won the Trevino went 44-2 for fourth team were Dajanae Martin, vault clearing 8-0. Big Elks sweep Harding Prep Elk City By Kerry Hookstra Elk City hosted a District sion. He allowed just two hits and no walks while striking out five. The defense had two Big Elks-Harding Prep/ Game Two Five runs in the bottom strikeouts. They had help from on error. Drake Hughes Tennis takes hammered a home run with doubleheader with Harding Preparatory Apr. 19. They took the opener 15-1 and tossed a errors. At the plate the Big Elks nailed nine hits with five walks and three strikeouts. of the first and nine more in the second took care of the scoring for Elk City. A shutout a triple apiece by Cooper Church, Hughes, Jayden Pauls Valley 14-0 shutout in the nightcap. They were assisted by three over three innings ended the Tournament Krajnik, and Kash Mayfield. Big Elks-Harding Prep/ miscues. Kash Mayfield tagged contest. Kye Keyes delivered a double. Game One a triple with a double apiece Addison DeLeon pitched Seven runs in the bottom delivered by Addison DeLeon, two innings for the decision Church cranked out for RBI’s of the first and eight more in Drake Hughes and Kye Keyes. with no hits, a walk and two with two from Mayfield and By Kerry Hookstra the second for Elk City gave DeLeon, Hughes, and Mayfield strikeouts. Kash Mayfield one each by Hughes, Keyes, them the contest. The visitors had two RBI’s each. Corey Cul- threw one frame with no hits and Krajnik. Mason Price reg- An Apr. 24 trip to the Pauls Valley Invitational Tennis picked up their run in the top ver and Hughes led in larceny or walks and three strikeouts. istered two stolen bases with Tourney Apr. 24 saw both the Big Elks and Elkettes come home of the second. with two stolen bases apiece The defense made no mis- Cooper Church worked while one each came from Jas- cues. Big Elk bats collected one apiece from Church and with Championship trophies. Players placed among the top four three innings for the deci- ton Holder and Mayfield. nine hits, six walks, and no Jaston Holder. finishers across the range of events. Oilerettes runner-up in Regional Qualifier Elkettes event. The team persevered and put together a team score of 391. They were Runner-up in the event just one stroke behind Oklahoma Christian Academy with a 390 to claim go 1-2 the Title. The top two golfers for By Kerry Hookstra OCA shot a 79 and 89 while the third place golfer from Crescent had a 90. BElk City hit the road to Watonga Apr. 19 and came home Kiera Stehr came in with a with a 9-1 win. They traveled to Cache Apr. 22 for a 3-Way 92 as she led Merritt and place including Anadarko. The Lady Warriors pulled out a 3-2 decision fourth. Dayli Pollard shot a 93 to and the Lady Bulldogs prevailed 12-0 land in a tie for fifth. Taylor Elkettes-Watonga Ford carded a 99 to earn ninth Jamie Peffer, Kierra Stehr, Coach Stehr, Taylor Ford, Dayli Pollard. Photo by Rose Cum- Three Elk City runs in the top of the first came from an Abby mings. as an individual. Lexie Frazier shot a 107 Jo Robbins single, a Dustee Warnke triple. a fielder’s choice to By Kerry Hookstra Merritt took the cold trek The Oilerettes battled the and Jamie Peffer had a 108 to Brianna Butler, a base hit from Jada Kimball, a walk to Alivia to Kingfisher Apr. 20. wind chill throughout the round out the team total Geno, and a fielder’s choice to Emily Lowrance. Another three Elkettes scored in the second behind a leadoff single to J’lynn Hodnett, a Madison Holladay base hit, a walk to Merritt Track at Thomas Hensley Fritzler, a Robbins sacrifice fly, a double by Warnke and a single from Butler. By Kerry Hookstra The 100 saw Drake Carnes as unattached scored 85 to Payten Fite was third in the Following a scoreless third both teams pushed a run home in third with an 11.85 and he place fourth. Hobart won the 800 with a 2:35.05 and Taylor in the fourth. Warnke delivered a one away double and zipped Oiler Track headed to was also third in the 200 at event at 143 with Thomas claimed fourth in 2:41.26. Fite Thomas Apr. 19 and was 23.59. Bryce Lagunas was sec- scoring 111 and Seiling in won the 1600 at 6:11.52 and home on base hit by Butler to account for the Elk City run. entered as unattached on the ond in the 400 with a 54.51. third at 94. Dailee Taylor had a 6:42 for Two more in the top of the fifth and a shutout of the Lady result sheets. They slipped The 800 saw Riley Herndon Ella Porter ran a 19.13 second. The 1600 relay saw Eagles ended the game on the run rule. Geno reached on a lead- in at fifth with 52 points take fourth in 2:13.04. The to place fourth in the 100 the Oilerettes finish third in behind Hobart in first with Oilers were fifth in the 400 hurdles in 18.96. Joshlyn 4:27.91 and they ran to first off error and Alyssa Brott tagged an RBI triple. Lowrance then 171. Thomas ran to second in relay at 46.88. In the 1600 Sanders had a 49.78 to win in the 3200 relay at 10:40.42. lofted a sacrifice fly to score the second Elk City runner. their home meet at 152 while relay Merritt took third with a the 300 hurdles. Dailee Taylor In field events Sanders went Butler took the win over five innings. She scattered four hits Carnegie took third scoring 3:46.68. They also placed third took fourth in the 400 at 16-2 to win the long jump and 56 to edge fourth place Sayre in the 3200 relay at 8:57.04. 1:05.26 while Lexie Frazier Porter covered 14-9¾ to take and allowed no walks with two strikeouts. Elkette bats collected with 55. In the girls’ meet Merritt finished sixth in 1:06.34. fifth place. 13 hits while walking two with no strikeouts. They were helped by one error. Elkettes-Anadarko Daniel Portillo. Photo by Rose Cummings. Elk City went out to a 2-0 lead in the top of the second. Dustee Warnke delivered a one away double and scored behind a two base shot by Brianna Butler. Jada Kimball singled and Alivia Geno hit into an RBI fielder’s choice. After two scoreless innings the Lady Warriors pushed one home in the bottom of the fourth. They added two in the fifth and made the one run edge stand up through seven. Madison Holladay and Abby Jo Robbins each swatted a single for the Elkettes in the top of the seventh but could not advance beyond second base before the third out. Elk City pitching scattered eight hits with no walks and no strikeouts. The offense committed two errors. Elkette bats banged out 10 hits along with one walk while having three strikeouts. Elkettes-Cache Four Lady Bulldog runs scored in the bottom of the first with two more in the second and six in the third. Elk City had just one hit which came from J’lynn Hodnett with one away in the third. Elkette pitching was touched for 14 hits and a walk while tossing no strikeouts. The defense made a pair of errors. With just one hit Elk City also had no walks and no strikeouts.