Our teams went undefeated in opening round of playoffs; could we have a repeat tonight

It was quite a successful opening night of the high school football playoffs last Friday night as all five local teams — the Sallisaw Black Diamonds, Vian Wolverines, Central Tigers, Gore Pirates and Webbers Falls Warriors — all posted opening-round victories.

Could we have a repeat of that feat tonight? We’ll know the answer to that by the end of the night.

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This is just a reminder to our football coaches that if we have any early signings next month or signings on National Letter of Intent Signing Day on Feb. 7, please let me know as I will do my best to make it out for the signing ceremony as I did last week for Roland baseball player Carson Wiggins when he signed his baseball national letter of intent with Arkansas.

All I ask is that you let me know no less than 48 hours in advance as to when and where our signee(s) will be inking their “John Hancock,” and I’ll do my best to be present.

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WEEK 11 INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS

100-YARD RUSHERS

Maddux Shelby, Webbers Falls — 271 yards.

Joseph Lee, Central — 157 yards.

Masyn Wright, Vian — 148 yards.

Coy Blackburn, Central — 127 yards.

Bladin McCartney, Gore — 127 yards.

Cole Stephens, Sallisaw — 119 yards.

Brock Streun, Sallisaw — 112 yards.

100-YARD PASSERS

Brock Streun, Sallisaw — 167 yards.

Tate Brooksher, Gore — 142 yards.

Maddux Shelby, Webbers Falls — 112 yards.

Joseph Lee, Central — 111 yards.

100-YARD RECEIVERS

Hunter McGee, Gore — 121 yards.

SCORING-12 POINTS/MORE

Maddux Shelby, Webbers Falls — 42 points.

Brock Streun, Sallisaw — 12 points.

Masyn Wright, Vian — 12 points.

Bladin McCartney, Gore — 12 points.

DEFENSIVE HONOR ROLL

Maddux Shelby, Webbers Falls — 16 tackles, six solo, with a tackle for loss and a 72-yard fumble recovery for a touchdown.

Easton Girty, Central — 14 tackles.

Coy Blackburn, Central — 12 tackles.

Aiden Turley, Webbers Falls — 12 tackles, eight solo, and an interception.

Kolten Riggs, Sallisaw — 10 tackles, one solo, with a tackle for loss.

Parker Pratt, Sallisaw — Eight tackles, two solo.

Tyler Busch, Central — Eight tackles.

Devon Mannon, Gore — Eight tackles, five solo, and a quarterback sack.

Zane Nolan, Webbers Falls — Eight tackles, five solo.

Cole Stephens, Sallisaw — Seven tackles, five solo, with two tackles for loss.

Ayden Cox, Gore — Seven tackles, one solo, with a QB sack and a pass breakup.

Ryan Cowan, Webbers Falls — Seven tackles, four solo.

Journey Shells, Gore — Six tackles and an INT.

Spencer Thao, Webbers Falls — Six tackles, two solo.

Cole Mayfield, Sallisaw — Five tackles, three solo, with two tackles for loss.

Caden Pollard, Sallisaw — Five tackles, two solo, with a tackle for loss, a QB sack and a fumble recovery.

Hunter McGee, Gore — Five tackles, four solo, with two pass break-ups and two INTs.

Dakota Moore, Webbers Falls — Five tackles, two solo.

Brutus Robinson, Webbers Falls — Five tackles, three solo.

Braxton Lamb, Sallisaw — Four tackles with a tackle for loss and a pass breakup.

Noah Flores, Sallisaw — Four tackles, one solo.

Caden Cowan, Gore — Four tackles, one tackle for loss.

Dylan Young, Webbers Falls — Four tackles, three solo.

Braque Oft, Sallisaw — Three tackles, one solo.

Justin Lindsay, Sallisaw — Three tackles, two solo.

Mikey Maust, Sallisaw — Three tackles, one solo, with a tackle for loss, a QB sack and a caused fumble.

Keeton Rowe, Gore — Three solo tackles and a pass break-up.

Tate Brooksher, Gore — Three tackles.

Bladin McCartney, Gore — Three tackles, one solo, and a pass break-up.

Jagger Moore, Gore — Three tackles with a tackle for loss.

Ben Ward, Webbers Falls — Three tackles, two solo, with two tackles for loss.

Bodie Adams, Sallisaw — Two tackles with a tackle for loss.

Matthew McGrew, Sallisaw — Two tackles and a caused fumble.

Max Stump, Sallisaw — An INT and a tackle.

Connor Green, Central — An INT.

Cooper Cox, Sallisaw — Three pass break-ups and a tackle.

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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 emailed 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.