June 8, 2022 Issue, Page 4 of 8

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4- The Elk City News Sports/Education June 8, 2022 Taylor Varnell takes over Trojan Baseball By Kerry Hookstra to take on the Head Coach re- He spent a year in the Instruc- the 2021-22 seasons as an as- COACHES CORNER 3 sponsibility. Varnell, a gradu- tional League, another year in sistant coach in football, bas- ‘By Kerry Hookstra With J. W. Gillet moving to ate of Sayre High School played Class A Baseball and was called ketball, and baseball at Sayre Elk Coaches Corner Head Coach of Canute Softball college ball at Western Okla- up to Double A before decid- before accepting the Canute the Trojans have homa State and Oral Roberts ing to give up the profession- position. He will teach person- Baseball saw the start of summer action May 26 with Clinton tapped former volunteer as- University before being draft- al scene to come home and be al financial literacy, computer, in town. They downed the Red Tornado twice and stopped Merritt sistant coach Taylor Varnell ed by the Chicago White Sox. with his family. Varnell spent and history classes. at Clinton. Weatherford was on tap June 6 with Canute up June 7. ‘The Big Elks started Edmond Summer League play May 24 and Merritt’s Peffer in All-State Game 26 and played June 2. They will also head east June 9 and June 30, Spring football has wrapped up for the Big Elks with Zac Maynard stepping in as the new Head Football Coach. Cross country looks to have a summer camp. Softball will do summer league in July. Oiler Coaches Corner Baseball began at Sayre June 6 and will meet the Eagles again June 7 with both high school and junior high games scheduled. Oil- er Basketball opens summer camp action with a trip to Hydro-Eak- ley June 6-10. Oilerettes will play summer league and had their first summer camp at Amber-Pocasset. Their performance was sol- id as the Oilerettes look to reload for this season. Summer Pride conditioning will run at 7 a. m. and 7 p.m. under the direction of Coach Richardson in the a. m. and Coach Laub in the p. m. ‘Trojan Coaches Corner Baseball opened summer play with Cheyenne May 31 and host- ed Navajo June 6 before traveling to Elk City June 7. The Troja- nettes who went to Seiling May 26-27 and had a successful team camp. Head Coach Tatum Ridling noted that it was just good to get By Kerry Hookstra Basketball contest June 4. Her West squad rolled to a 117-79 vic- a ball back in our hands. tory. Peffer played her usual solid inside game on the boards. She Jamie Peffer had a productive outing in the Oklahoma All-State went 2-2 from the field to put four points on the board. We hope each of you have a great seagon! EIk City Nursing Home OK National Guard Pays 301 N. Garrett, Elk City 580-225-2811 Helicopter Visit To SWOSU We Hope Have A Great Season! Yes Finance 1414 W. 3rd St, Elk City, OK » 580-225-1525 OILFIELD SERVICE HINTON,OK. ELK CITY,OK. great Have Fun This Year! TERRY'S ARN TURE (580)225-4006OR (800)925-4006 {errjsfurnitureshowroomcom 2001S0UTHMAIN, —Sahorctedk| MO” BLKCITY,OKLAHOMA Speci inancing SOY GOOW LICK Teams! The Oklahoma Army National Partnerships Chad Kinder. tional Guard Soldiers who attend Guard (OKARNG) spent Friday on SWOSU. The program was created 1210 S. Main St, Elk City the campus of Southwestern Okla- Prior to taking off, all visitors and on November 8, 2007, as a collab- 580-225-0100 homa State University (SWOSU) community members present had oration between the Oklahoma www.elksupply.com in Weatherford as part of a com- the ability to take pictures and get National Guard and SWOSU. This munity outreach event for western inside a pair of helicopters brought program was instituted to develop Oklahoma where local area educa- to campus by the National Guard. future federally commissioned offi- tors had the opportunity to fly ina Area educators were then briefed cers for the OKARNG. CH-47 Chinook helicopter around for safety and information and tak- campus. en ona flight around Weatherford. Additional information on the Takeoff occurred east of Mann Hall. GOLD Program can be found Great Plains Bank Among those who had the opportu- https://www.swosu.edu/aca- 2017 W. Third | 1300 $. Main | gpbankok.com nity to fly were SWOSU President SWOSU offers a Guard Officer demics/academic-departments/ fay 580-225-2265 Dr. Diana “Diane” R. Lovell and As- Leadership Development (GOLD) parks-recreation-management/ sistant Vice President for Strategic Program to Oklahoma Army Na- gold/index.php Good Luck Area Teams! We want to wish our area teams a great 720 South Main Street HAO are Visit us on Facebook! ExpreSS EMPLOYMENT PROFESSIONALS season and we look fk City, Oklahoma ‘a @elkcitycoop 903 S. 10th, inton - 580.323.4400 sn, (580)225-0191 > (4 1110 Hillcrest joodward - 580.256.5433 forward to watching _ e ot efi) you succeed! Want fo sponsor the sports pages? Contact Neva at [email protected]