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SPORTS The Elk City News SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 2025 • 3 E 2nd - Darrell & Debbie Dunn E 1st - Clark & Jennifer Callaway D 2nd - Joe & Kelli Williams D 1st - Rob & Shannell Brott C 2nd - Gabe & Jennifer Edney B 2nd - Jeff& Linda Rule Amateur Sports By Alex Alvarez Festivities for Tumbleweed Cou- ples begin on Friday with an “unof- 30TH ANNUAL TUMBLEWEED ficial” horse race for those couples TWOSOME who come a day earlier and want to Seventy-two couples (one hun- play in a nine-hole competition in dred and forty-four players) took the afternoon. C 1st - Robert & Chanda Shepherd B 1st - Eddie & Mary Jane Repp A 1st - David & Rachel Poole A 2nd - Mike & Jaymi Chambless on Elk City Golf & Country Club’s Thirteen couples played on Fri- fairways to compete in the Annual day afternoon, and the winners were: (131) (*) - Robert & Chanda won a 3. Nick Lenius/Julie Lenius (152) National Championship. And the “Tumbleweed Twosome” last week- “Win”-Ricky & Lisa Nagle; “Place”-Da- (*) - Kaleb & Brooklyne Keith had playoff on #10 4. Greg Barnhill/Ashley Kelley other semifinalist, Brooke Bierman, end in a 36-Hole event. It is one of vid & Rachel Poole; “Show”-Dustin 124, but tournament rules “bumped” (**) - Danny & Sarah Jech (134) (154) from Wildwood, MO, who plays for the most popular couples tourna- Gunkel & Tori Windsor. them after the second round. and Greg & Renae Dodson (139) (*) - Joe Wynn & Mona Alvarez Michigan State University, was tied ments in all of Oklahoma that fills After all scores were in on Satur- “B” were “bumped” due to tournament (145) were “bumped”. for rounds played for MSU and was up real quickly with couples from day, six flights were determined, and 1. Eddie Repp/Mary Jane Repp rules. KUDOS TO: RICKY & LISA top finisher in 7 of 12 events played all of Oklahoma, Texas and even after two days of play, the winners of (132) (*) “D” NAGLE, DAVID POOLE, AARON in 2025. international at times, when former each flight were as follows: 2. Jeff Rule/Linda Rule (132) 1. Rob Brott/Shannell Brott (143) KAUK AND PGA PRO DEREK Both semifinals were won in ex- Oklahoma couples who now live CHAMPIONSHIP 3. Steve Welch/Ashely Under- (*) (**) HAHN FOR AN OUTSTANDING tra holes, but Ganne’s victory did in Central America, come and visit 1. Jason Hulin/Megan Brown wood (133) 2. Joe Williams/Kelli Williams JOB IN THIS ANNUAL EVENT not look like it was going to happen friends (not this year). (117) 4. Juan Lopez/Valerie Lopez (143) PUTTING ELK CITY “ON THE as she was 4 down after 11 holes Sadly and tragically, one couple 2. Cadan Calaway/Kelcee Cala- (133) 3. Kurt Davis/Reba Davis (144) MAP”! in the 18-hole semifinal, however, who never missed this tournament way (121) (*) - Eddie & Mary Jane won a 4. Blake Brewer/Amber Brewer she won 12, 13, 15 & 18 to even the (and many other couples tourna- 3. Dustin Gunkel/Tori Windsor playoff on the second hole with a (144) U.S. WOMEN’S AMATEUR match and won one up on the first ments around the state), Monty & (122) birdie on #18 (*) - Brott & Brott won first play- Winning a national champion- extra hole. Patty Lorenz, from Enid, OK, were 4. Chris Evans/Robin Evans (123) “C” off hole ship is the crown of diamonds to missed as the golfing family of Okla- “A” 1. Robert Shepherd/Chanda (**) - Andy & Erin Davis (142) any athlete, and usually it is not a HIGH SCHOLL SPORTS BEGAN homa lost them in a tragic one-car 1. David Poole/Rachel Poole Shepherd (140) (*) (**) and Dustin & Kristen Smith (142) “lucky” week, as all the participants AUGUST 11. accident two weeks ago in East- (125) (*) 2. Gabe Edney/Jennifer Edney were “bumped”. have some sort of experience in high ern Oklahoma. Monty and Patty 2. Mike Chambless/Jaymi Cham- (140) “E” stakes competition, as it happened KIDS INC were some of the best people to be bless (130) 3. Wes Marshall/Sonja Marshall 1. Clark Calaway/Jennifer Cala- this week at Bandon Dunes, in Or- Don’t forget to call Kid’s Inc at around of and to play with, and they 3. Clint Clark/Carley Haught (141) way (148) (*) egon. The winner, Megah Ganne, 580-374-4332 to enter your young will be missed by all of us who had a (130) 4. Wes Davis/Rebecca Davis 2. Darrell Dunn/Debbie Dunn from Holmdel, NJ had previously ones in any of the kids sports of your chance to meet them. 4. Quint Nichols/Jacy Dyson (141) (150) helped Stanford to a third NCAA preference! Professional Individual Sports By Alex Alvarez Fleetwood two back of the playoff. ipate in the St. Jude FedEx Playoff. 49) and Jt. Poston (from 51 to 50), FEDEX CUP STANDINGS: McNealy 12th Andrew Novak 13th As it is becoming a trait, the num- Both players parred the first play- played well enough to get in the top 1st Scottie Scheffler 2nd Rory Brian Harman 14th Cameron Young FED-EX ST JUDE PLAYOFF ber one ranked player in the world, off hole, they both birdied the sec- 50 for this week’s BMW Champion- McIlroy 3rd J.J. Spaun 4th Justin 15th Patrick Cantlay. The first playoff of the FedEx Cup Scottie Scheffler, did not disappoint, ond playoff hole, and Rose birdied ship, while Aldrich Potgieter (from Rose 5th Sepp Straka 6th Russell was a great show of skill and men- and even with an erratic driver that the third playoff hole while Spaun, 43 to 52) , Jordan Spieth (from 48 Henley 7th Ben Griffin 8th Tommy TENNIS – U.S. OPEN tal fortitude, and the tournament cost him several strokes over the missed just left of the hole. to 54), Jake Knapp (from 47 to 55), Fleetwood 9th Justin Thomas 10th The tournament will be played in ended in a playoff itself. Not only 72 holes, he ended up just one shot Last week’s winner, Cameron Wyndham Clark (from 49 to 56) Harris English 11th Andrew Novak New York from Aug 24 to Sep 7, and were points important for the win- from participating in the sudden Young, solidified his quest for Ry- and Min Woo Lee (from 50 to 57) 12th Cameron Young 13th Ludvig qualifying rounds will begin Aug ners, but in the “bubble” of the top death playoff. der Cup pic by finishing with a six were eliminated and will miss the Aberg 14th Keegan Bradley 15th 19 to fill in the spots of non-seeded 50, which started play in the BMW Here are some similarities be- under par 64 and a 5th place finish last two playoff tournaments. Maverick McNealy players. The biggest question now is Championship this week, was back tween the two players in the play- at 11 under par, while Akshai Bha- Next two playoffs: on whether or not this will be No- and forth to see who would make the off: both have won the U.S. Open as tia, the first round leader with an 8 Top 50 – BMW Championship RYDER CUP STANDINGS: vak Djokovic’s last tournament ever. field. The last nine holes saw three their only major; both lost a playoff under par round, finished next at 10 (Aug 14-17) at Caves Valley Golf 1st Scottie Scheffler, 2nd J.J. Novak has the most single major ti- four players switch leads: Tommy this year in big tournaments, J.J. in under par. Club, Owings Mills, MD Spaun, 3rd Xander Schauffele, 4th tles ever with 24, including four U.S. Fleetwood, J.S. Spaun, Justin Rose the Player’s Championship and Rose On the back end, Kurt Kitayama Top 30 – Tour Championship Russell Henley, 5th Bryson De- Open titles. and Scottie Scheffler, with Spaun lost a playoff in the Masters, and (from 52 to 37), Bud Cauley (from (Aug 21-24) at East Lake Golf Club, Chambeau, 6th Harris English, 7th Sources: ESPN, TV Sports, Wiki- and Rose eventually tying for first both lost playoffs to the same player: 52 to 46), Rickie Fowler (from 64 to Atlanta GA Justin Thomas, 8th Collin Morika- pedia, Golf Channel, CBS Sports, Per- place with Scheffler one back and Rory McIlroy who did not partic- 48), Jhonathan Vegas (from 56 to wa, 9th Ben Griffin, 10th Keegan sonal Golf Library, MSN Sports Bradley (Captain) 11th Maverick Professional Team Sports By Alex Alvarez the Pittsburgh Pirates playing in White Socks 43-75); West: Houston Mets and Colorado Rockies have Angeles Dodgers) 41; Kyle Schwar- the East. Pittsburgh. Leading 9-8 going into Astros 66-52, Seattle Mariners 66- the worst streak at seven losses. ber (Philadelphia) 41; Aaron Judge Playoffs are just about a month MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL the ninth inning, they came up with 53 (Last - Oakland Athletics 53-67) Pitching: Garrett Crochet (Bos- (New York Yankees) 37. away, and the top 8 teams in the No Sign of the Yankees recover- five runs on top of the ninth to seal NATIONAL LEAGUE STAND- ton) 13-4, ERA 2.24; Freddie Per- league, regardless of conference will ing soon. They are in third place in the game. INGS: alta (Milwaukee Brewers) 13-5, WNBA STANDINGS make the playoffs. the American East, and 6 ½ games All division leaders seem to be East: Philadelphia Phillies 68- ERA 3.03; Max Fried (New York Only a dozen games remain in Eastern: New York Liberty 20- behind Toronto, and 4 games be- solidifying their position, as all last 49, New York Mets 63-55, (Last Yankees) 12-5, ERA 2.95, Brandon the regular season of the WNBA 11; Atlanta Dream 20-11; Indiana hind archrivals Boston Red Sox. places can’t see the light at the end – Washington Nationals 47-70); Pfaadt (Arizona Diamondbacks) with Indiana Fever fighting to get in Fever 18-14. Yankees are 3-7 in the last 10 games. of the tunnel. Central: Milwaukee Brewers 73-44, 12-7, ERA 5.03. the top two of the Eastern Confer- Western: Minnesota Lynx 27-5; The Yankees next games are against AMERICAN LEAGUE STAND- Chicago Cubs 67-50 (Last - Pitts- Batting: Aaron Judge (New Yor ence, after Caitlin Clark missing 14 Phoenix Mercury 19-12; Las Vegas Minnesota and then St. Louis. Min- INGS: burgh Pirates 51-68); West: Los An- Yankees) is best so far with a .337, games and the Fever barely having Aces 18-14. nesota is under .500 and St. Louis East: Toronto Blue Jays 69-50; geles Dodgers 68-50, San Diego Pa- Jonathan Aranda (Tampa Bay) .316, one game above .500 during that Note: Seattle Storm lost five in a is barely over at .504 with a 60/59 Boston Red Sox 65-54 (Last - Bal- dres 66-52 (Last - Colorado Rockies Jeremy Pena (Houston) .315 and Ja- period. Meanwhile, the Lynx from row and fell from third place in the record. timore Orioles 53-65); Central: 30-87). cob Wilson (Athletics) .312. Minnesota look as the best team in Western Conference. Elsewhere, the Cincinnati Reds Detroit Tigers 68-51, Cleveland Milwaukee Brewers have the best Home Runs: Cal Raleigh (Seattle the WNBA with only five losses, six Sources: ESPN, MSN Sports, On- survived a 30 hit game 14-8 versus Guardians 61-56 (Last – Chicago winning streak with 9; New York Mariners) 45; Shohei Othani (Los less than NY Liberty, which leads Line media sports. Sports Tidbits By Alex Alvarez barriers in sports. Her debut was Players Championship and Justin ily matters. Did it cost Scheffler a ever going back to that? OTHER during the game between the At- Rose lost a playoff for the Masters needed stroke to make it a trio in Frederick Richard loses points at BASEBALL: lanta Braves and Miami Marlins. title. And who won both of those the playoff ? TENNIS: U.S. Gymnastics Championships Great start in MLB from Luke Congrats! playoffs? Rory McIlroy! In preparing for the U.S. Open to make a point about uniforms. Keaschall for the Minnesota Twins: Yankee’s Cody Bellinger faces Justin Rose, 45, oldest winner NFL later this month, all the stars of What’s wrong with the approved in 10 starts, he has 32 at bats with a ridicule for outfield flub in loss to on Tour since Phil Mickelson, says America’s Team is in the head- men and women are in Cincinna- uniforms? .406 batting average with one home Houston Astros in a string of seven that Phil Mickelson’s success after lines for the wrong reason… again! ti, where Aryna Sabalenka is the Little League Softball World Se- run and 10 RBI’s. He has a .513 On losses in the last nine games! It can’t 45 -and even after 50- has been a Trouble with Micah Parsons and a defending champion and where ries: Tulsa Oklahoma finished 3-2 Base Percentage and five stolen be his fault only, aren’t there other good motivation for him to stay in disappointing loss in the first game Jannik Sinner won his first match and won the “Consolation Game” bases. He has gotten on base every eight players playing at a time? competitive shape, and has an eye against Los Angeles 21-31. When 6-1, 6-1 in less than an hour, and, putting our state “on the map”. game he has played. Nothing like in the 2026 Masters, a tournament will the Cowboys will be “re-born” where Carlos Alcaraz had a melt- Johnstown, PA won the champion- this since Mike Trout in 2012. He GOLF: he lost in a playoff earlier this year. to the loved franchise of the past? down after losing to Gael Monfils ship game against Floyds Knobs, IN was drafted in 2023. Two U.S. Open champions who Whatever works “old man”! There was a time, long ago, when breaking his racket. Carlos, you finishing 5-0 for the tournament. Jen Pawol has made history by lost a playoff earlier this year in Scottie Scheffler’s regular caddy two things were true about the have one more major than Sinner, Little League Baseball World Se- becoming the first woman to um- big tournaments, faced in the first Ted Scott had to leave his boss for preseason: 1. the starters played a do you want to stay ahead? Don’t ries: Starts August 13. pire a Major League Baseball regu- playoff tournament of the FedEx the last round of the St. Jude FedEx lot and 2. the tickets weren’t forced lose your cool! Sources: ESPN, Wikipedia, Per- lar-season game, breaking gender Cup: J.J. Spaun lost a playoff in the Playoff Championship due to fam- upon season-ticket holders. Are we sonal Library, MSN Sports, On-Line media. Have an awesome shot to share? Email the photo to [email protected] with a description and it could be featured in an upcoming edition!