5A Boys Playoffs
Here are the Class 5A boys playoff pairings. The first round will be played Friday, Feb. 26:
WEST
At Western Heights
Capitol Hill vs. Duncan
Western Heights vs. Durant
At Ardmore
Lawton MacArthur vs. Deer Creek
Ardmore vs. Altus
At El Reno
Carl Albert vs. Chickasha
El Reno vs. Ada
At Guthrie
Northwest vs. Southeast
Guthrie vs. Noble
EAST
At Tulsa Memorial
Tahlequah vs. McAlester
Tulsa Memorial vs. Siatook
At Claremore
Tulsa Washington vs. Tulsa Hale
Claremore vs. Grove
At Tulsa East Central
Tulsa Kelley vs. Pryor
Tulsa East Central vs. Tulsa Rogers
At Tulsa Edison
Tulsa Central vs. Coweta
Tulsa Edison vs. Collinsville
Signing List 2010
It’s still a work in progress. Know a signing we missed? E-mail me at raber@opubco.com and we’ll get it added. We’ll run the signing list several times over the next few weeks:
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
OKRankings.com Girls Basketball Poll
The OKRankings.com Preseason Girls Basketball Coaches’ poll has been released. These are the rankings that eventually go toward deciding playoff pairings. So here they are (first-place votes in parentheses):
Class 6A
1. Midwest City (18)
2. Tulsa Union (1)
3. Norman
4. Edmond North
5. Edmond Memorial
6. Edmond Santa Fe
7. Lawton
8. Del City (2)
9. Norman North
10. Putnam City North
11. Jenks
12. Broken Arrow
13. Sapulpa
14. Owasso
15. Ponca City
16. Yukon
17. Enid
18. Southmoore
19. Bixby
20. Choctaw
OKRankings.com Boys Basketball poll
The OKRankings.com Preseason Boys Basketball Coaches’ poll has been released. These are the rankings that eventually go toward deciding playoff pairings. So here they are (first-place votes in parentheses):
Class 6A
1. Putnam City (8)
2. Putnam City West (7)
3. Muskogee (4)
4. Southmoore
5. Tulsa Union
6. Jenks
7. Edmond Santa Fe
8. Midwest City
9. Broken Arrow
10. Putnam City North
11. Owasso
12. Edmond Memorial
13. Lawton
14 Enid
15. Choctaw
15. Del City
17. Norman North
18. Edmond North
19. Lawton Eisenhower
20. Norman
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 5A…
By Robert Przybylo
BPrzybylo@opubco.com
Now we’re getting to the big boys. 5A and 6A just have a different feeling about them. It’s tough to explain.
Boys champion: Guthrie, 47-45 vs. Thomas Edison
Girls champion: Booker T., 42-40 vs. Carl Albert
Did not see the girls game live, but I watched it Sunday on Fox Sports Oklahoma (how’s that for a shameless plug?). I gushed about Taleya Mayberry after her outing in last year’s championship vs. Coweta.
A year later and nothing’s changed. She’s a fighter. She makes some plays where you go “yep, she’ll be playing somewhere in college.”
That final sequence was crazy, made me wish I was there live. Mayberry goes for the steal, which leads to Booker T. needing to play help defense.
That leaves Desiree Bradley open in the corner for the championship-winning three. It’s off, Kylie Mayes of CA gets the rebound, put back doesn’t go, and that’s it.
Credit goes to the Titans for pushing Booker T. like no other team and huge kudos go to Booker T. for displaying the heart of a champion. BTW had hardly been tested all season but showed when it was, it could deliver with its second straight title.
The boys was quite a shock with Edison upsetting Booker T. in the semifinals. I didn’t think anyone could stop that three-guard offense of the Hornets.
So then you start thinking Edison is a team of destiny. Steven Hamilton hits the game-winner vs. Carl Albert. Clyde Hill hits the game-winner vs. Booker T. And head coach Michael Parish has some of the coolest reactions of any coach I can remember.
I could watch a whole game and just watch is reactions and emotions. In fact, I have sometimes spent more time watching his reactions.
But Guthrie has Donte’ Foster and Keaton Callins. And since I didn’t see the final, that’s about all I can really say.
Bluejays also showed some heart, coming back for an eight-point deficit in the third quarter. Almost as if the BTW girls and Guthrie boys had mirror image games of each other as each won their second championship in a row.
All that’s left is 6A.
