'Senior-heavy' Stratford to face Morrison
Thirteen-to-five. That’s the high school senior player ratio from Stratford-to-Morrison for the Class A football semi-final this Friday, Dec. 3, at Moore Stadium in Moore, Okla. The two teams will be competing for a chance to play in next week’s state championship game in Stillwater. “We do feel like… being a senior-heavy bunch maybe (is an advantage),” said Michael Blackburn, [...]
The Rich-Waters Sports Show: Episode 006
In this week’s show… The high-points and low-points of Bedlam 2010 This week’s BCS Standings, and AP Top-25 Poll (week 14) Post-season bowl bid forecast for OSU and OU End of an era: OU vs. Nebraska Chris’ prediction for the 2010 BIG XII Championship Garvin County High School Football Playoffs in-review Class A Semi-finals: Stratford vs. [...]
Class A State game could pair district rivals
With eight teams now remaining (out of 57 total) in the 2010 Oklahoma Class A High School Football Playoffs the state championship game is less than one month away. According to the Okla. Secondary School Activities Association, the state title contest will take place on either Friday, Dec. 10, or Saturday, Dec. 11, in Boone Pickens [...]
State fair foods, and two trophies
We went. We ate. We wrestled. Okay, technically I didn’t wrestle, but my wife did. To be clear, I’m talking about state fair food and arm wrestling. I mostly ate, and my wife—Nicci—wrestled; she even won two championship trophies in the process (see the video here). Further, her efforts won her the Oklahoma State Fair women’s open [...]
Local golfer qualifies for nat. championship
It could be said that few people quit a job they love to pursue something they dream about. It could also be said that even fewer people (when pursuing their dreams) turn down any opportunity that could take them closer to the thing they want. Yet, that’s exactly what Brandon Henry did. The former high [...]
Local coach leads team to state championship
Brandon Henry, of Pauls Valley, Okla., recently did the unthinkable with a cast of unlikely characters. The Garvin County-native led a team of supplanted adolescent girls from his community to the Oklahoma 10U Class C State Softball Championship on Sunday, June 20. Henry took over the 10-and-under “Valley Girls” as the volunteer head coach at [...]
Lady Panthers Fall Short of First Regional Softball Title
The following information came from the Pauls Valley Softball Team Web site. The 2009 Pauls Valley Lady Panthers Softball Team fell short of the championship title in this year’s Class 4A Regional Softball Tournament in Garvin County, Okla. The two-day, double-elimination event took place in Wacker Park—a program first—and featured four total teams; they included: [...]
Oreos, Yoda, and the State Fair
This past weekend marked the end of this year’s Oklahoma State Fair, held annually in Oklahoma City, Okla., since the early-1900s. The 2009, 10-day event began Thursday, Sept. 17, and concluded Sunday, Sept. 27. Yesterday served as the day of choice for my wife, Nicci, and I to both attend and experience this year’s event–camera [...]
