District play beginning tonight for 11-man football teams
As I call it, the “real season” has now come upon the six 11-man football teams in the county as they will begin their respective district portion of their seasons tonight.
As I call it, the “real season” has now come upon the six 11-man football teams in the county as they will begin their respective district portion of their seasons tonight.
The Sallisaw Black Diamonds will look to win their first District 4A-4 game in almost two years to the day when they travel to meet the Ada Cougars tonight at East Central University in Ada.
In District 3A-3, the Muldrow Bulldogs will look to snap a two-game losing streak and open district play 1-0 when they hit the road tonight to meet the Checotah Wildcats at Checotah’s Ogle Field.
Our local District 2A-5 teams, the Vian Wolverines and the Roland Rangers, will open district play tonight. The Wolverines will entertain the Warner Eagles at St. John Stadium, while the Rangers travel to meet the Keys (Park Hill) Cougars.
The Gore Pirates and the Central Tigers will begin District A-8 play tonight. The Pirates will welcome the Talihina Golden Tigers to K.G. Horn Stadium as the Golden Tigers are returning to varsity football for the first time in two years. The Tigers will travel to meet the Haskell Haymakers.
Our two local 8-man football teams, the Gans Grizzlies and the Webbers Falls Warriors will have to wait until Oct. 6 to begin district play in Districts B-6 and B-5, respectively.
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WEEK 3 INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS
100-YARD RUSHERS
Cole Stephens, Sallisaw — 179 yards.
Brock Streun, Sallisaw — 141 yards.
Caiden Kennedy, Gans — 113 yards.
100-YARD PASSERS
Hunter Walters, Gans — 309 yards.
Maddux Shelby, Webbers Falls — 124 yards.
Reid Sutton, Muldrow — 103 yards.
SCORING-12 POINTS/MORE
Caiden Kennedy, Gans — 24 points (not counting any two-point conversions).
Cole Stephens, Sallisaw — 14 points. Nakota White.
Gans — 12 points (not counting any two-point conversions).
Josh Brunk, Gans — 12 points (not counting any two-point conversions).
Hunter Walters, Gans — 12 points (not counting any two-point conversions).
Gunner Shelby, Webbers Falls — 12 points.
Dakota Moore, Webbers Falls — 12 points.
DEFENSIVE HONOR ROLL
Ashton Peters, Roland —16 tackles.
Easton Girty, Central — 14 tackles. Ashton Foster.
Muldrow — 12 tackles, 10 solo.
Mikko Ariza, Central — 12 tackles and a blocked punt.
Kolton Riggs, Sallisaw — 11 tackles, three solo, one-half quarterback sack, an interception.
Joseph Lee, Central — 11 tackles.
Tyler Busch, Central — 10 tackles.
Josh Marino, Central — Nine tackles.
Cole Stephens, Sallisaw — Eight tackles, four solo, one-half QB sack, a pass breakup and an INT.
Zack Parker, Muldrow — Eight tackles, seven solo, two tackles for loss and a fumble recovery.
Will Stratmann, Muldrow — Seven solo tackles and three tackles for loss.
Dakota Rushing, Muldrow — Seven tackles, five solo, and a tackle for loss.
Parker Pratt, Sallisaw — Four solo tackles, a pass break-up and a 39-yard INT return for a touchdown.
Aiden Sainer, Central — Four tackles and game-winning blocked field goal on final play of game.
Max Stump, Sallisaw — Three solo tackles and a pass break-up.
Noah Flores, Sallisaw — Three tackles, two solo, a caused fumble and a blocked punt.
Mikey Maust, Sallisaw — Three assisted tackles and blocked field goal.
Brutus Robinson, Webbers Falls — An INT and a 25-yard fumble recovery return for TD.
Dakota Moore, Webbers Falls — An INT.
Dylan Young, Webbers Falls — A fumble recovery.
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Coaches, I need to make sure I get your offensive and defensive statistics either put on your MaxPreps website wall or e-mailed to me at davids@cookson.news by no later than 10 a.m. Thursdays to be able to give your player(s) some special recognition from the week before in each week’s Gridiron Notes Column.
David Seeley is sports editor for Your TIMES. He can be reached by telephone at (918) 775-4433, Ext. 139 or by email at davids@cookson.news.
