Semifinal sites set
Here’s the semifinal times/dates:
Class 6A
Jenks vs. Southmoore, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Putnam City Stadium
Tulsa Union vs. Broken Arrow, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, University of Tulsa
Class 5A
El Reno vs. Carl Albert, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Putnam City Stadium
Bixby vs. Guthrie, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Stillwater High School
Class 4A
Weatherford vs. Douglass, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Yukon
Star Spencer vs. Sallisaw, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sapulpa
Class 3A
Seq. Claremore vs. Cascia Hall, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Collinsville
Berryhill vs. Dewey, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Skiatook
Class B
Garber vs. Laverne, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Woodward
Ryan vs. Canton, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Norman
Class C
DC-Lamont vs. Timberlake, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Enid
Seiling vs. Forgan, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Woodward
Know of a player signing?
With signing day coming up Wednesday, The Oklahoman is once again compiling a list of players across the state who have signed to play college athletics at any level.
If you have a signing to report, e-mail it to Ryan Aber at raber@opubco.com ro post it on the comments section here (on the main high school blog at http://blog.newsok.com/highschoolsports )
What are the most impressive streaks in state HS sports?
With Shattuck about to break Morrison’s record of 90 consecutive wins, I’m wondering what are the other streaks in the state that are most impressive?
Here’s a few I’ve come up with. Let me know, either through a comment here or an e-mail (raber@opubco.com), if you have any others.
I’m sure there are plenty more I’ve missed but here are a few:
- Morrison and Shattuck’s 90-game winning streaks in football
- Tulsa Union’s and Jenks’ stranglehold on the 6A football title
-Asher and Owasso baseball dominance
-McGuinness girls cross country
-Bethel girls basketball state tournament streak
-Bartlesville boys swimming
-El Reno wrestling
-McGuinness girls tennis
-Cascia Hall boys tennis
Got a question for Ed Sheakley? Ask it here
I’m going to visit with Oklahoma Secondary Schools Activities Association executive director Ed Sheakley early this week. Do you have a question for him? Leave it as a comment here or e-mail me at raber@opubco.com. I’ll pick a few to ask him and we’ll have his answers this week in The Oklahoman.
Wrapping up 3A…
By Robert Przybylo
BPrzybylo@opubco.com
We continue our trip down memory lane. Monday, we looked at Class 2A where Pawnee reigned supreme.
Now let’s look at 3A where each had their own unique story.
Girls champion: Adair, 63-47 vs. Millwood.
Boys champion: Cascia Hall, 67-52 vs. Okemah.
Really thought the girls game was going to be one of those all-time classics. Can Millwood go back-to-back? Or could Kevi Luper go out in style after years of falling short?
It was the latter and by a wide margin. I wasn’t around when Luper was in her sophomore season, so I didn’t get all the hype.’
Last year, of course, she was out with the torn ACL, so she couldn’t do anything there.
But after watching her for two days, must say, I get it. I get why people gush over her talent.
Maybe it’s not the most accurate comparison, but I almost saw her like James Watson of Stringtown. Referees had no idea how to officiate someone of Watson’s skill at the B level.
And in the semifinals and finals, Luper was in ridiculous foul trouble because I don’t think refs knew what to do with her.
Luper made some fantastic moves, especially in the championship. She scored 30 points and thwarted every attempted Millwood comeback.
I never count out Millwood, not with Shea Bowden and JohVonna Mitchell. Kept waiting for that one final push by the Falcons.
But it wasn’t to be. With all the hype about Luper, Chelsey Stricklen shouldn’t be forgotten. The guard was dynamic as well.
For the boys, Okemah may have been a great story, but Cascia Hall was simply better.
And it’s tough to not enjoy the Bryant brothers story. Will and Luke don’t play football, so the last two years haven’t meant as much to them as say someone like Sam Clancy.
But Saturday was their day and Will really impressed me with his “will” (no pun intended) to win.
I was harping like a broken record that Rashad Dunn just needed to keep shooting for Okemah. He had a great game but disappeared at strange times.
He was on the bench at times when I was scratching my head. Think I just would have left Dunn out there all 32 minutes and just let him go out the way a senior should.
Don’t know if it would have mattered as Cascia was too big and too good on that day.
