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ry April 9, 2022 Top finishers for Merritt Golf at Ft. Cobb L-R Kiera Stehr and Lexie Frazier. Courtesy photo. Merritt Golfers win Weatherford, Merritt Oilerette Golfers at Weatherford L-R Peytyn Broadbent, Lexie Frazier, Taylor Ford, Kiera Stehr, Dayli Pol- lard, ans Madison Robinson. Courtesy photo. 3rd at Ft. Cobb By Kerry Hookstra The squad headed to Merritt runs place well at Sweetwater Weatherford Apr. 1 and came Oilerette golf continues home with the meet champi- By Kerry Hookstra Flowers added a fifth place in the long jump with a leap of 19-5. to excel. Merritt played at Ft. onship. The team shot a 372 Cobb Mar. 29 and claimed Luke Peffer cleared 5-6 for third in the high jump. Herndon went with Stehr winning the indi- Track competition took the Oilers and Oilerettes to Sweet- 8-6 for fourth in the pole vault. third shooting a 386 with Ki- water Apr. 1. Merritt's boys took second with 92 just behind first era Stehr taking fifth among vidual title at 82. Dayli Pol- place Hobart at 97. A third place finish went to the girls at 110. ‘The Oilerettes had strong performances with Dailee Taylor individuals and Lexie Frazier lard was runner-up and Taylor taking second in the 100 at 13.68 and she won the 200 running a Hobart also won the girls’ meet scoring 135 ahead of Seiling at settling in at eighth. Ford was in fifth place. 28.46. The 400 saw Chloe Stout place fourth with a 1:09.37. Pay- 127. Mos Flowers ran to third in the 100 with a 12.03. Caleb ten Fite was third in the 800 at 2:47.31. Elizabeth White claimed Compton ran to fifth in the 200 at 25.21. The 400 saw Bryce La- first in the 1600 with a time of 6:33.02. The Oilerettes took sec- Merritt gunas win with a 54.09. Riley Herndon took third at 56.05. Mer- ond in the 4X100 relay with a 53.85 and second in the 4X400 re- ritt was third in the 4X100 relay at 46.43 and the 4X200 relay lay at 4:29.65. The 4X800 squad was second in 11:17.56. Breegan team placed first in 1:34.75. The 4X400 team also ran to first with Barnett leapt 15-5% to win the long jump and Ella Porter was Baseball a 3:40.78 while the 4X800 relay came in fifth running a 9:47.65. fourth 15%. 1-1 on the week Oilerettes 1-1 in second week of action By Kerry Hookstra answered with a three run rally one apiece from Kayde Hern- one strikeout. The defense By Kerry Hookstra in the sixth and shutout Sen- don, Hartman, Jancy Rippe- committed three errors while Sentinel came to visit Mar. tinel in the top of the seventh toe, Tasiah Hartman, and Ca- R. Hartman and Lexi Smith Elk City hosted the Oilers Mar. 28 and handed out an 11-3 28 and they were edged 7-6. for the one run win. dence Krueger. turned a double play apiece. defeat. Merritt traveled to Sayre Mar. 29 and came home with Merritt hosted Blair Mar. 31 Lexi Smith took the deci- Oilerettes-Blair and dropped a 5-4 nail biter. sion in the circle. She scattered Merritt got out to a 4-1 ad- At the plate the Oilerette a 15-10 win. Oilerettes-Sentinel eight hits with two walks and vantage in the first inning. The managed nine hits, drew two Oilers-Elk City The Lady Bulldogs scored a strikeout. The defense made Lady Broncos put up two in the walks, and had one strikeout. Each team scored one in the first inning. The Big Elks tacked two in the top of the first and three miscues. Oilerette bats top of the third and the game They had help from one mis- on four in the second with Merritt picking up their last two Merritt picked up three in the were good for 11 hits with no was then scoreless through the cue. Jancy Rippetoe and Smith runs in the top of the third. Elk City added on in the bottom bottom of the inning. Sentinel walks and one strikeout. They next two frames. Blair tacked delivered a double apiece with of that frame and five more in the fifth to secure a run rule added three in the third after had help from three errors. on a pair of runs in the sixth two singles from Kayde Hern- a scoreless second with the Riely Hartman tagged a triple and shutout the Oilerettes decision. Oilerettes adding one in the while Gracee Carnes delivered over the next two stanzas to don and Danni Dobbins. Riely Oiler pitching was roughed up for 12 hits with eight walks and no strikeouts. The defense made one miscue. At the plate bottom of the frame. The Lady a pair of doubles and Raegon hold onto the win. Hartman, Tralee McCain, and Bulldogs went up 6-4 with one Gilliland had one. Tralee Mc- Merritt pitching gave up Cadence Krueger each swatted Merritt managed five hits with two walks and seven strikeouts. in the top of the fifth. Merritt Cain swatted two singles with eight hits with no walks and asingle. ‘They were helped by one error. Raydon Cordell, Mos Flowers, Layton Freas, and Brylan Jones delivered a double apiece while Big Elks in Kingfisher/Piedmont Flowers also swatted a single. Oilers-Sayre One run came home for each team in the first and the sec- ond was scoreless. Merritt picked up one in the third before exploding for 13 in the top of the fourth. The Eagles then ral- lied for nine in the bottom of the fifth to put the final score on Tournament the board. Cody Vaught got the start and the decision over three in- By Kerry Hookstra rors. got the decision with one hit, no walks, nings. He scattered three hits with no walks and a strikeout. Catch Geno was the winning pitcher and no strikeouts. The defense made six Layton Freas worked in relief with two hits and two walks. Elk City had a pair of games early in the with six strikeouts and no runs over four miscues. At the plate the Big Elks collected Caden McGilbert tossed 2/3 inning with a hit and a walk. The week called off due to weather. They then innings. Kaden Holder was 3-3 at the plate 10 hits with five walks and five strikeouts. defense committed four errors while Mos Flowers turned a traveled to Piedmont Mar/ 31 to meet up while Rylee Boyd went 3-4 with I-40 neighbor Canute. The Trojans Big Elks-Piedmont/Game One ‘They had help from four errors. double play. At the plate the Oilers collected 11 hits with four tossed a 9-0 shutout at the Big Elks. Put- In a nail biter Elk City and Piedmont Big Elks-Piedmont/Game Two walks and eight strikeouts. They were helped by three miscues. nam City was next up on Apr. 1 and Elk each scored one in the first inning. The In a rematch Elk City went up 1-0 in Anthony Arizpe hammered a home run with two doubles from Vaught and one apiece for Tyler Adams, Raydon Cordell, Freas, City shut them out 4-0. The second game Wildcats pushed one run home in the sec- the top of the second. They added one of the day saw the Big Elks and Piedmont ond before the Big Elks erupted for four in more in the fourth and three in the fifth to and Gentry McGuire. Tanner Newton swatted a pair of singles hook up in an extra innings shootout with the third. Piedmont kept chipping away at with one from Braden Puckett, the Big Elks taking an 8-7 walk off decision the lead with one run in the fourth, one lead 5-0 going to the bottom of the inning. in nine innings. The two teams met again in the fifth, and one in the sixth. Blk City ‘The Wildcats scratched out one run in the Apr. 2 and the Wildcats edged Elk City 7-6. went up 6-5 with one run in the bottom of bottom of the frame. One Big Elk runner Elk City Big Elks-Canute the sixth. The Wildcats scratched out one came home in the top of the sixth for a ‘The Trojans scored four in the bottom in the top of the seventh to tie the contest 6-1 advantage. The Wildcats found some of the first and that was all they needed in at 6-6. They forced extra innings by hold- offense and scored three in the bottom of the shutout. They added two in the second ing the Big Elks scoreless in the bottom of Golfers play at the frame. the stanza. After shutting out Elk City in and tacked on three in the fourth. Hold- ing Elk City scoreless in the fifth ended the Each team pushed home one runner the top of the seventh Piedmont rallied for contest on the run rule. in the eighth inning. Piedmont was shut- three in the bottom of the inning to post a Big Elk pitching was touched for 10 out in the top of the ninth and Elk City Boiling Springs walk off win. hits including a home run with three walks managed to load the bases with walks and Big Elk pitching allowed eight hits with and four strikeouts. The defense made one a single. Kaden Holder came to the plate two walks and two strikeouts. They com- error. At the plate Elk City was limited to with the bases juiced and slapped a ground three hits, no walks and one strikeout. ball that was mishandled to score the win- mitted to errors. Offensively Elk City hit By Kerry Hookstra place individual medalist. Drake Hughes, Kash Mayfield, and Ma- ning run on a walk off error. well with 13 while drawing two walks with Elkette Golfers played at son Price had a hit apiece with no miscues Cooper Church got the start and three strikeouts. They were assisted by five ‘The Big Elks headed north Ft. Cobb-Broxton Ma. 29. from Canute. worked four innings allowing six hits, miscues. Culver and Drake Hughes each Big Elks-Putnam City West a walk, and five strikeouts. Matt Bales delivered a double with two single from Mar. 31 for the Mooreland ‘The team was second with a In the first game of the day Elk City tossed 1 2/3 innings with no hits, not Invitational at the Boiling 381behind first place Altus at rolled over the Pirates 13-5 in a game de- strikeouts, and two walks. Aiden Hopper Culver and one by Hughes. Kaden Holder Springs Course. The team 376. Brett Barnett shot an 86 scribed by head coach Jay McClure as not threw 2 1/3 innings with three hits, two hammered three base hits with two from finished second in the meet. to finish third with Campbell avery good performance with poor hitting walks, and three strikeouts. Corey Culver Jaston Holder and one apiece by Rylee Nathan Womack was the first Rainey taking sixth with a 93. but lots of walks and lots of opponent er- was the final pitcher in the committee and Boyd, Austin Jones, and Mason Price.