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4- The Elk City News March 8, 2023 Elk City Elks Baseball kicks off season with companding 11-0 victory » ELITE By Shonda Little “Catch Geno started for us. He threw 2 innings, gave up ‘The Elk City Elks kicked two hits, struck out 3 hitters, off their season against the and gave up 0 runs. Catch got Altus Bulldogs with a strong the win. Kaden Holder threw a victory. 2 innings. Gave up 0 hits, ‘The final score was 11-0. Kash Mayfield led the hot bats with 5 RBIs. Kaden struck out 2 hittters, gave up 0 runs. Aiden Hopper threw Elk City Elite came out league champions Holder and Cole Buie led the hits with three each. Coach Jay McClure said, one inning. Gave 0 hits, struck out 2 hitters, gave up O runs.” in the Clinton Boosters League Elk City Soccer starts out with split Merritt Girls games with Mount St. Mary Eliminated in Area Consolation Boys win against former state champs By Shonda Little scorers. Marlie Mong scored 5 and By Shonda Little their soccer seasons this week hard but fell short 7-0 against death penalty kicks. Our Until this weekend, the Grace Carnes, Chloe Stout, against Mount St. Mary. Mount St. Mary. Our varsity player of the game was fresh- Merritt Oilerettes had suf- and Riely Hartman all added Both the Elk City Girls Head Coach Jason Xenos boys game ended in a one- man goalkeeper Josias Reyes. fered only one loss all season. 3. and Elk City Boys kicked off said, “Our varsity girls fought to-one tie, which inevitably Our varsity boys are ready to In the Area, they had lost Preslie Taylor and Hallie went into a penalty shootout. take state after beating a big two. Although Jeff Daugh- Smith both scored 2 points. Our Elks defeated Mount school former state champ tery’s girls ultimately came In the second game, the St. Mary’s 7 to 6 in sudden like Mount St. Mary.” up short, they played with Merritt girls lost in a nail-bit- the same bravado and deter- er to Pawhuska, 47-44, mination that fans have wit- Chloe Stout and Riely Want to sponsor the sports pages? nessed all season long. Hartman both put in 12 as The Merritt girls first Merritt's top scorers. squared up against Hooker Marlie Mong added 9 Contact Neva at for a 50-30 loss. Ella Porter and Addison points, Addison Hartman scored 7, and Breegan Bar- [email protected] Hartman both put 6 points on the board as Merritt's top nett put up 3. OU men’s gymnastics: Sooners hold on to beat Michigan, earn another top-five win Ves Finance 1414 W. Std St, Elk City, OK » 580-225-1525 Tarik Masri, The Nor- a few errors of their own, man Transcript and Jack Freeman posted a ‘The pressure was starting 14.100 for the highest score in the event, the Sooners the floor exercise. Vitaliy Guimaraes went third and posted the high- est score in the event with a in the week, The senior com- peted in four of five events with his two highest scores coming on floor and vault to build as No. 1 Oklahoma were able to do just enough 14.100. Emre Dodanli and (14.300). went through their high-bar to secure the victory. Jack Freeman each scored “He was really great on routines. Oklahoma walked away 13.950 as the Sooners jumped We want to wish you a great season! Looking for their second with a 414.550-410.400 win out to a 69.750-67.350 lead floor and he put together a pretty good pommel horse top-five home win in the last on senior night, and extend after the first event. set,” Williams said. “He's just >>> month, the Sooners built its home unbeaten streak to Mac Seyler (14.100), Zach been a little bit off with some themselves an early advan- 60 consecutive meets. Nunez (14.300) and Ignacio nagging injuries, hasn't quite tage with their performanc- “We didn’t have the night Yockers (15.200) led the way been all the way back. He Great Plains Bank es on the floor exercise and pommel horse. But after out- that we did maybe against Stanford a few weeks ago, but for the Sooners, posting three of the top four scores on the didn’t do his hard vault, but he dida pretty nice p-bar set.” scoring the Sooners on the we certainly did the job and pommel horse. The Sooners The Sooners will be back 2017 W. Third | 1300 S. Main | gpbankok.com rings and parallel bars, No. 5 didn’t open the job to allow posted their highest score of in action next weekend on od Michigan was able to do just Michigan to step through the day on vault, a 71.600, the road to face Ohio State 580-225-2265 enough to stay within strik- that,” OU head coach Mark behind four scores that were and Penn State. ing distance. Williams said. “I was very all over 14.000. Tarik Masri is the interim The Sooners’ first gym- happy overall, it’s an emo- Williams said Guimaraes sports editor for The Tran- oo Lick Teams! nast slipped on the high bar, tional night being senior was injured during the Soon- giving the rest of the line- night for a lot of these guys.” ers’ meet against Nebraska script covering OU athlet- ics and area sports. You can up little room for error. But The Sooners opened up and his status for Saturday's reach him by emailing tarike when the Wolverines made the meet with four seniors on meet was still uncertain early normantranscript.com 1210 S. Main St, Elk City 580-225-0100 www.elksupply.com Trautman’s 10 helps Sooners down No. 2 Florida Tarik Masri, The Norman event for the second time this electric,” OU head coach K.J. Morgan Hurd and Rachel Transcript season, Trautman was confi- Kindler said. “It’s exactly the Baumann stepped out of dent heading into her vault. way we wanted to start this bounds during the floor exer- “When I landed my vault, meet. Went to bars and we cise. Good Luck Area Teams! There was little doubt in Olivia Trautman’s mind after I knew it was going to be a were a little tight on a couple “Obviously this is a huge she stuck her vault inside a 10,” Trautman said. “Actually handstands here and there. win for us,’ Kindler said. stuck four out of six dis- “Florida is an exceptional 1120 W 3rd St. packed Lloyd Noble Center on before I started, I don’t know, We mounts which is good, that’s team, they have an incredi- Friday. Thad a feeling that I was go- always what we're going after, ble coaching staff, several na- Elk City, OK 73644 A few minutes later, the ing to stick my vault and then but misses a couple hand- tional team members on their (580) 225-1160 judges’ score confirmed it — when I landed it was just stands here and there.” the redshirt-senior had nailed amazing.” team. They're an incredible The Sooners were able to team no matter which way Wwww.pizzahut.com a perfect 10 in the Sooners’ opening rotation of the day Coming out of their hold on for the win despite a you cut it. They're going to third-highest vault score of few late mistakes. be hard in your home arena, Carry-out * Hut Lane « Delivery against No. 2 Florida. Com- the season, the Sooners rode that momentum into the sec- Freshman Faith Torrez they're going to be hard in the bined with Danielle Sievers’ ond rotation, starting with a fell off the balance beam, postseason andI don’t believe near-perfect 9.950 to lead 9.925 on the uneven bars. putting the pressure on the they put up their best lineup Oklahoma would go on rest of the Sooners’ lineup to on the floor. We definitely Have Sports News To Share? off the meet, the top-ranked Sooners jumped out to an to beat Florida, 197.950- go mistake-free. The Sooners didn’t get their best look.” early an early 49.600-49.525 197.700, and extend its home closed out with a 49.475 on Oklahoma will have a Send press releases to [email protected] lead heading into the second winning streak to 68 consecu- the beam, but they were able quick turnaround before trav- to keep their lead due to some eling to face No. 4 Michigan rotation. tive matches. to be featured in an upcoming edition! Despite competing in the “The vaults rotation was mistakes by the Gators. on Tuesday at 4:30 p.m.