Roland starts Talihina’s Choctaw Tournament Thursday
Roland’s high school basketball teams will begin action in Talihina’s Choctaw Nation Invitational Tournament on Thursday.
Roland’s high school basketball teams will begin action in Talihina’s Choctaw Nation Invitational Tournament on Thursday.
Girls The Lady Rangers (1-1 for the season) take on host Talihina at 7 p.m. Thursday night in their tournament opener.
On Friday the Roland-Talihina winner plays the Howe-Rattan winner in a semifinal game at 7 p.m. and the losers will meet at 1:40 p.m. in a consolation contest.
The top half of the girls’ bracket includes top-seeded Pocola, Atoka, Broken Bow and Hugo.
Championship (7 p.m.), third-place (4:20 p.m.), fifth-place (1:40 p.m.) and seventh-place (11 a.m.) games are scheduled for Saturday.
The Lady Rangers lost to Pocola in last year’s tournament championship game.
Boys The Rangers (2-0), the top-seeded team in the boys’ division, play Talihina at 8:20 p.m. on Thursday in their first tournament game.
On Friday the Roland-Talihina winner plays the Pocola-Rattan winner at 8:20 p.m. in a semifinal contest and the losers meet at 3 p.m. in a consolation game.
The bottom half of the boys’ bracket includes Broken Bow, Atoka, Hugo and Howe.
Championship (8:20 p.m.), third-place (5:40 p.m.), fifth-place (3 p.m.) and seventh-place (12:20 p.m.) contests are slated for Saturday.
The Rangers, the defending tournament champions, defeated Pocola 40-37 in last year’s title game.
