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December 13, 2023 Sports The Elk City News - 7 Elk City Elks lock down 47-35 victory over Valley By Shonda Little win. ‘T-point scoring rally. Leading the boys in brown and ‘They led 26-15 at the half. ‘The Elk City Elks shined on the white was Damon Jackson, basketball court on Saturday tacking on 16 points for Elk Jackson and Alex Cupp both against Valley. City. knocked out multiple baskets ‘The Elks came out with a 47-35, ‘The Elks started strong with a beyond the 3-point line. Elkettes see high points in loss to West Plains By Shonda Little Abby Brown was the top shooter with 11 points. Brown was not alone, though. Five of her team- mates came out and put baskets through the ‘The Elk City Elkettes took on West Plains, Tex- as, last week. hoops. Although the Elkettes ultimatimately lost 55- Kazlyn Ulrich scored 10 points, Kenedee Wy- 37, the Elk City girls had a strong showing from att scored 8, Campbell Garbarino score 5, Luci the bench. O'Hara scored 2, and Avery Wilson scored 1. Merritt Oilerettes end week with a 3-0 record after two big victories By Shonda Little performance in the 74-41 Oil- sets. erette victory. The Oilerettes squared up The Merritt Oilerettes areStout knocked out 31 points as against the Cheyenne Lady starting the 2023-2024 bas- the top scorer. Bears on Tuesday for their sec- ketball season on a strong note Hallie Smith led rebounds with ond game of the week. with their third consecutive seven. This second game was a win. ‘The game was close at half- nail-biter until the end. The The Merritt girls had two time, however, with Canute Oilerettes came out on top, games last week and won both. only trailing by one. though, with a 63-59 victory. In the first game against Can- Ella Porter led the Oilerettes Marlie Mong led the team with ute, Chole Stout had a strong in assists, making ten vital as- 34 points and 8 rebounds. Sayre Eagles travel to Holiday Classic EC Girls wresling. Basketball Tournament Elk City Wrestling By Shonda Little Sayre High School Head Coach Nick Fowler good job executing parts 1 and 2 of the game plan, part 3 we veered away from. We ended up shooting 2-14 from the 3 point line in the 1st he Elk City Wrestling Coach said, “Good week- Aaliyah Salazar 126lb JH 3rd place gave quotes related to his team’s performances quarter alone, but we adjusted in the second end of wrestling for our girls at the Cache Wres- Lacy McClemore 2 wins in last week's Mooreland Holiday Classic. half and shot only five 3 pointers and roughly tle Like a Girl Tournament. The girls went 15-9, Karisma Yake 2 wins Fowler said, “Mooreland tourney Day 1 — We 25 shots in the paint. Our too scorer on day 2 Aaliyah Salazar won 3rd place and Kylie Leal Kenzie Manning 2 wins played Canute on day 1 of the Mooreland Holi- was Freshman Tate Bawden. He was able to give went 4-0 and won first place!” Boys Junior High and High School Duals day Classic. After coming off of a 20 point loss us 17 points, all of which came from scoring in Coach Jon Greene also reported the following Thursday to them on Tuesday the boys were confident results: JH boys win vs Crossings Cristian 72-6 the paint and hitting free throws when fouled. Wrestle Like a Girl tournament in Cache. HS boys Win vs Crossings Christian 84-0 that they still had a chance to beat them since On Day 3 we were finally able to get over the Friday it seemed like it was a few plays here and there hump and get win number 1 on the year! Every- 16th place out of 46 teams. Junior High boys lost vs Mangum 35-42 that caused the lead to balloon on them Thurs- Kylie Leal 117Ib junior High 1st place one played much better on the last day of the High School boys win vs Mangum 48-24 day. The major difference on Thursday was that tournament. I was really proud of how the boys we shot too many 3 pointers without making bounced back after taking two tough losses, 1 of them. On Tuesday it was a decent game for most which we felt was a win we let slip through our Canute Trojanettes best Sayre of the match because we got down hill and shot layups and jumpers. The biggest bright spot on fingers by simply not executing every phase of the game was that Tynan Gillespie finally found the gameplan. We passed the ball well, executed Lady Eagles, 60-31 his legs offensively and lead our team in scoring our full court press, and more than anything we with 13 pts. attacked the paint. This was a full team effort Following our Day 150 point loss our kids had where everyone got in the scorebook even if By Shonda Little lost it. to dust themselves off and go at it again with it was only 1 or two points by some. We were the tournament host team Mooreland. This was lead in points by Colten Viduarri (19) and Tate Both teams showed a lot of promise with multi- ‘The Canute Trojanettes and Sayre Lady Eagles a very good game that was plagued with bad 3 Bawden (10). We had a shaky 3rd quarter that ple players getting on the board. point shot selection. The game plan was base allowed them to take the lead back, but around met last week. The two schools have a long his- tory of being competitive rivals. ‘The top scorer for Sayre was Emily Easter with on three things, contain their guard play, find the 2:30 mark in the court we were able to take Canute came out with an early lead and never 15 points. Canute’s Jackson led with 25 points. a way to get their 6’8” big man in foul trouble the lead back and the seal the game away with 4 early, and attack the paint. While we did a very straight fastbreak buckets.” st National Bank Good Luck Area Teams! Trust of Elk Cits Together We Dy Great Plains Bank ELK CITY: 2714 W. 3rd St. « 580-225-2580 « hitp/vwcnbecbank SAYRE: 711 NE Highway 66 «580-928-2580 fay 2017 W. Third | 1300 S. Main | gpbankok.com 580-225-2265 eee We hope each of you have a great season! 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